While I was in SF, I saw Public Enemies and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, both were good movies, but that's beside the point. They ran a preview before both movies that made me particularly excited: Amelia. At long last, someone is making a movie about Amelia Earhart. Growing up, she was one of the women I studied in school and read about. I was obsessed with knowing about her life. And I couldn't understand how nobody could know what had happened to her. I felt a special affinity for her in part because she was from Kansas (the state where I grew up), Atchison to be exact.
Amelia Earhart was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean as well as setting many other records and establishing an association for female pilots before she disappeared over the Pacific ocean while attempting to circumnavigate the world in 1937. This is a movie I will definitely be going to see. And I'm almost glad they waited so long to finally make a movie about her, because I think Hilary Swank is the perfect actress to portray her.
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