#Molly's game

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his side profile means everything to me.

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Molly's Game (2017) dir. Aaron Sorkin

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JOE KEERY as COLE  MOLLY'S GAME (2017) • DIR. AARON SORKIN

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Joe Keery as Cole in "Molly's Game" (2017)

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One Dress a Day Challenge

October: Silver Redux

Molly's Game / Jessica Chastain as Molly Bloom

This silver minidress appears in a brief scene where Molly is talking to one of the players her poker game. It's only seen from the waist up, which is a shame because it misses out on the interesting contouring of the body and hemline. We do see a bit of the "barred" effect on the sleeves and back.

A close-up of the label reveals that the dress is by Hervé Léger.

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There's a saying in my business. Don't break the law when you're breaking the law.

Molly’s Game (2017) dir. Aaron Sorkin

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The only way I'm gonna learn how to play poker is if they make an anime of it

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joe keery masterlist

All of my works are 18+ Minors DNI. All are posted on AO3 under the username fairyysoup. (s = smut, a = angst, f = fluff, m = mature, d = dark)

Drabbles

Goth!Reader x Steddie | Part One | Part Two

Steve Thoughts Tag

Series

Sever the Blight | werewolf!Steve Harrington - Stranger Things | s, a, d(ish)

Matters Of Taste | Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington - Stranger Things | s, f, a

General Works

I Can See You | Steve Harrington - Stranger Things | s, f, a

Maraschino | Steve Harrington - Stranger Things | s

You Are In Love | Steve Harrington - Stranger Things | f

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the prettiest hazel eyes

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i love when a movie adapted from a book is really narration heavy. over-doing it with the narrating, some might say. that's the ticket

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Molly's Game

Genre –

Memoir

Who is Molly Bloom? –

Molly, also known as the “Poker Princess of Hollywood”, moves from Colorado to Los Angeles during her year off from college and accepts the job of a waitress at a club to make ends meet. She is soon asked to handle poker games played between some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, famous athletes, business tycoons and degenerate kids of very rich folks and conducted by her super-rich, foul-mouthed boss.

She took insults, humiliation and crap work in her stride with the single-minded goal of making it big in this world. Molly worked entire nights, learnt the game of poker mainly through observing the players, and most importantly, held her own, being the only woman in a male dominated area. She stood her ground against Hollywood giants like Toby Maguire, learnt from everyone around her and outwitted her competition.

Though her line of work is neither inspirational nor commendable, her guts, grit and determination surely teach one a lot.

Right from her childhood, Molly displays a resilient, fighting spirit. After a spine surgery following a freak accident at the age of 12, her doctor had asked her never to ski again, but she became a national level skiing champion and an Olympic games contender fighting against all odds.

She is lured by money and power and the jet-setting lifestyle of the players. From wearing shabby sweatpants and flip flops to Armani suits and Dior bags, from unable to afford her house rent to renting out mansions in the Hamptons and living in the best part of Manhattan, from waitressing in high end clubs to having a personal chef and an assistant look after her mundane tasks and to hiring private jets to go for cash collections in Miami, she saw it all, did it all and lived a full life shifting from LA to New York after she lost all her games in one blow. She enjoyed the ride, loved taking risks, had sleepless nights either working, feeling anxious or partying, was fearless and picked herself up every single time she fell.

She is adventurous, super ambitious and risked her all to reach where she wanted to. In the process her family ties suffered, she lost many friends, and her love life was compromised.

Her life is a potboiler filled with Hollywood legends, millions of dollars, private jets, 5-star hotels, ultra-expensive vacations, rich boyfriends, gambler friends, betrayals by business partners, threats from mafia dons, bankruptcy and finally the arrest by FBI.

At the end of the book she states she has simply no regrets and if given a choice, she would live her life the same way and make the same decisions that led her to where she is today.

The book does seem very one-sided on many fronts and gives a feeling that many details are omitted for various reasons.

She was convicted in the year 2014, and in the same year this memoir was published. Yet another sign, she didn’t accept defeat easily. She not only wrote this book but even approached writer and director Aaron Sorkin asking him if he can make a movie based on her novel.

Life thus came a full circle for Molly who had begun by conducting games for Hollywood actors and directors to her own life story being adapted into a Hollywood movie titled Molly’s Game that turned out to be a hit and bagged an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay.

Though the path chosen by her in her young and reckless days isn’t advisable, nor her ultimate ambition of a flashy lifestyle a true measure of success and happiness… the message we can take from her life is never, ever to give up. Never ever to give up fighting, never to stop standing up for yourself, your goals, your beliefs and never to let go of family and friends who were there for you when you had nothing and were a nobody.

Show up for yourself every single day, every moment, no matter what. And if you learn to do that, life will reward you. In the darkest of hours, if you try to help yourself, you will surely find the light of the day. Don’t ever resign yourself to your fate, but create it. With dreams, determination and drive.

Early on in her life her mother says, “Molly you can have anything you set your mind to” and she lives that line every day of her life.

Molly considers the world her playground and plays her game with her rules.

Recommendation –

DO READ.  The book seems implausible on many levels but the fact that it is based on real life events is exactly what keeps you flicking through its pages. It is a rags-to-riches-to-rags story teaching you many “to-do things” as well as many “not to-do things”. It becomes bit repetitive with respect to the poker games, but the high stakes involved, the powerful men, power shift dynamics and Molly’s resilience will keep you going.

Rating – 3.5/5

Ambience – 4

Language – 3

Characterization – 3.5

Plot – 3.5

Pace – 3.5

Entertaining – 4

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