Amelia (film)
Amelia is a 2009 biographical film about the life of Amelia Earhart. The film was directed by Mira Nair and starred Hilary Swank as Earhart and Richard Gere as her husband, George Putnam. The cast list also included Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGregor. Most of the story is told in flashbacks before ending with Earhart's disappearance. The film was written by Ronald Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan, using research from sources including East to the Dawn by Susan Butler and The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell. The film has garnered predominantly negative reviews.
Plot
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) and her navigator, Fred Noonan (Christopher Eccleston), are on the last leg of an around-the-world flight. Moving in vignettes from her early years when Earhart was captivated by the sight of an aircraft flying overhead on the Kansas prairie where she grew up, her life over the preceding decade gradually unfolds. As a young woman, she is recruited by publishing tycoon and eventual husband, George Putnam (Richard Gere) to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean, albeit as a passenger. Taking command of the flight results in a success and she is thrust into the limelight as the most famous woman pilot of her time. Putnam helps Earhart write a book chronicling the flight, much like his earlier triumph with Charles Lindbergh's We. Earhart gradually falls in love with Putnam and they eventually marry, although she enacts a "cruel" pledge as her wedding contract.
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by: Matthew Perryman JonesSad like a melody sung by a symphony
striking a chord.
Standing here looking blind,
stumble around to find my way thru your door.
Do you wanna know why?
Do you wanna know why?
Hungry as starving fire killing to feed desire.
What do you do?
We’re born into vanity, bones feeling everything.
Are we alone?
Do you wanna know why?
Cuz I wanna know why
Say it, Amelia
Say it’s true,
that life’s worth all the dying we do.
Oh, Amelia
Say it, Amelia
Say it’s true,
that life’s worth all the dying we do.
Oh, Amelia
A beautiful melody sung by a symphony,
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