So, haven’t you always wanted to know who they are? You know the ones who make the decisions about what’s art and what’s not. What is fashion and what’s not? And what’s music and what’s not? Who are these people who dictate how we view colors, lights, and sound? How we look at a painting on the wall and how different it appears when we see it in a well-known gallery or when it is hanging in the home of a celebrity. Actor Neve Campbell has regained her throne as the intense, underestimated, and strategic vixen in Scream 7. In theaters February 27th. In every movie, particularly in Wild Things, wherein she played a high school seductress whose partner was a kid sister of sorts and equally seductive, played by Denise Richards. These two made the entire movie sizzle because they had the audacity as young thangs to be wild with the professor played by Matt Dillon and private detective Kevin Bacon involved in a web of sex, lies, deceit, and manipulation; the result was murder. Her first name, Neve, is an attention-grabber as well. In Irish and Gaelic, unlike Neve’s character, it is a version of the name Niamh (pronounced Neev). It means bright. or radiant. Just shows Campbell in control in any scene, usually illuminating the truth of who’s really holding the horse by the reins. Campbell is a rare type of actress. She is seductive without trying to be. It’s a natural seduction that’s innocent yet forceful and ensnaring. In the past, she held out on an offer from the Scream franchise because of a salary dispute. Unless there has been an unknown change, Neve doesn’t strike me as the kind to hold back from a role requiring her to be 100% of herself. Such is the world of art thrillers from the supernatural, Zawe Ashton’s ambitious moves to provide prompt access to success and a clout climber in Velvet Buzzsaw, or the organic, cynical lens tucked safely in the eyes of Natalie Portman and written on the face of Jenny Ortega in the Sundance-acclaimed The Gallerist. The story is the same: the art world is a contact sport that creates arousal when beauty can be measured with pay, using intelligence as a weapon hidden from all but the chosen. Its strategy, intuition, and staging, and what you see on the surface, are in no way comparable to what may lie beneath the lights, glitz, and glamour. Catch the full replay of “The Osiris Munir Show” from Thursday right here. Stay connected; follow me for more art, philosophy, and cinematic deep dives. We talk music and all things well, IG [osiris_munir_thepainter].
