Maggie Gyllenhaal's new romcom about the world's first vibrator
By Ray RahmanAugust 20th, 2010, 10:57 amComments (6)
In this post-Meg Ryan era of romantic comedy, it's just not enough to have exhausted career women fall in love (despite their gay best friends' advice) with bookish-yet-successful men with golden retrievers. No, moviegoing couples have been treated to: duplicitous artificial inseminations; all-expense-paid trips to Abu Dhabi; middle-aged virginity; and, now, Maggie Gyllenhaal falling in with love with the world's first vibrator.
Or at least that's what I assume will happen in Hysteria. Details are scant for now, but we do know that it's set in Victorian England (probably the least sexiest period of modern Britain), that vibrators were intended to cure feminine hysteria, and that Gyllenhaal is one of the few actresses capable of turning normally reserved, stoic men like myself into hysteric perverts:
Commentarium (6 Comments)
That post was pretty gratuitous, Ray Rahman.
Depends on what you think of Gyllenhaal, right? Not gratuitous for me. Thanks, Ray.
Can't wait for this movie. Also, approve of all the Secretary stuff, especially the gif. That movie made me fall in love with James Spader, haha.
The world's first vibrator is actually rumored to be Cleopatra's vibrator, which was a box of bees.
If that's not a band name — A Box of Bees — I don't know what is.
Well, of all the actresses I can think of Maggie Gyllenhaal is definitely an actress who would not be afraid of doing a film with this theme. If she was willing to bend over a desk and have James Spader spank her the idea of doing a film about a vibrator is a piece of cake.
Now you say something