And behind this event. "Iron Jawed Angels" stars two Academy Award winners, Hilary Swank (as Alice Paul) and Anjelica Huston (Carrie Chapman Catt). There are women behind and in front of the camera. Walsh argued that if they created that committee, Congress would be buckling to "the nagging of the iron-jawed angels."
He protested the women's suffrage committee with his colorful phrasing. It comes from Joseph Walsh, a representative from Massachusetts, in 1917. So what's an "iron-jawed angel" exactly? The title is actually part of a quote. The duo revamped the movement using a variety of nonviolent tactics to establish the Nineteenth Amendment. If you liked last year's "Suffragette," you'll love "Iron Jawed Angels." This 2004 historical drama tells the story of women's suffrage leaders Alice Paul and Lucy Burns in their early 20th century mission to grant women the right to vote in this country. Here's a closer look at the film, the players and the point. With the screening of a 12-year-old movie set 100 years ago.Īnd on the eve of an already historic election, the story is more relevant than ever.Ĭincinnati World Cinema will screen "Iron Jawed Angels" Sept. I was like Tom Cruise on ‘Oprah.So a 15-year-old Cincinnati film tradition returns this month. “By the time the fight scene came around, I was standing on my couch screaming. “I sat in my apartment and watched it on my computer,” she said. But Gilpin saw the final cut for the first time only a few weeks ago. It’s now set for rental online starting Friday. The release of “The Hunt” was delayed last year over controversies about its plot and its gun violence, then rescheduled for March 13, just as theaters were starting to close over the coronavirus. We wanted it to be just as wild and terrifying as if two men were fighting.” “We didn’t want to be two tiny women poking forks at each other. “We would run back to the monitor and watch the playback to see if the punches were landing and what we needed to work on.”ĭespite the scene’s almost-cartoonish quality, the intention was to “make it look really scary and cool,” Gilpin said. “We were laughing the whole time,” Gilpin said. “We knew we were going to have our bodies and safety in each other’s hands, so there was no time for stumbling small talk.”īut the actors still had fun.
“I’m a superfan of her work, so I tried to remain as professional as I could without sobbing in her face when I met her,” Gilpin said. It’s the only scene Gilpin and Swank share in the film. Because we’ve got people crashing through walls and getting stuff broken over their heads, and we all need to be respectful of that.” “For the first couple of hours, everybody’s into it, but a big part of my job is playing cheerleader and making sure everybody keeps their enthusiasm up.
“It was invaluable because we knew what the farcical tone of the movie was by then and how far we could go,” Zobel said.ĭuring those grueling days, “the hardest part was to keep up the intensity,” Amos said. The sequence was shot over five 12-hours days last year at the very end of production last year, a rare instance of a finale filmed late in the schedule. “That’s my favorite cringe moment in the fight,” Amos said. “In my mind, these big sculptural pieces felt like they would be in Athena’s house,” Zobel said.īoth Zobel and Amos were particularly amused when Swank breaks open a shotgun to reload it, then closes the weapon on Gilpin’s arm. When Gilpin swings from a rope sculpture, the move used the macramé work of Zobel’s friend, the Brooklyn artist Maeve Pacheco.
“I thought, ‘Oh, that could be useful for a fight scene.’” Hence, Gilpin throws Swank through such a furnace. “When I was location scouting for the film, we went to a place with a pass-through fireplace,” he said. “We used Betty and Hilary for a major portion of the fight.”Ĭertain elements came from Zobel. The stunt doubles Sarah Irwin (for Swank) and Caitlin Dechelle (for Gilpin) “were only put in for stuff that would require them to take some hard hits or crash through something,” Amos said.