Madonna in “Shanghai Surprise”Weighing this and other flops like "Who’s That Girl?", Madonna biographer Andrew Morton wrote that her big-screen disasters “do not seem to have caused much soul-searching in Madonna. It may be that she suffers a lack of critical faculty when it comes to judging her own acting performances, something suggested by her almost invariable preference for first takes of her scenes.” It’s tough to pick a Madonna movie that ...
more Madonna in “Shanghai Surprise”Weighing this and other flops like "Who’s That Girl?", Madonna biographer Andrew Morton wrote that her big-screen disasters “do not seem to have caused much soul-searching in Madonna. It may be that she suffers a lack of critical faculty when it comes to judging her own acting performances, something suggested by her almost invariable preference for first takes of her scenes.” It’s tough to pick a Madonna movie that is hardest to sit through, when "Body of Evidence" and "Swept Away" are also in the running. But this one seems to hold a special, painful place in people’s hearts, partly because she played a virginal missionary. But its specialness lies mostly in the fact that it was one of the few times Madonna allowed herself to be paired with an equally iconic lead, Sean Penn. And rather than rooting for the bickering couple to finally realize their love for one another, rom-com-style, you spend the entire movie rooting for the real-life couple to divorce.
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