“Do you think I look like I’m from Sacramento?” The first words uttered by Christine McPhearson in Greta Gerwig’s 2017 Lady Bird ring out through the screen in truth. It’s a relatable sentiment for the inner-child in all of us: am I who I say I am? Am I who I believe I am? And, most importantly, how do people see me? Lady Bird channels these questions into the very spirit of itself. Christine McPhearson, who has given herself the new name Lady Bird, (played by Saiorse Ronan)
In his 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, John Madden tells the story of a museless William Shakespeare and the love story that follows between him and a fictional Viola De Lesseps. Played by Gwenyth Paltrow, Viola is a wealthy and sheltered young girl living in Elizabethan England searching for poetry, adventure, and above all, romance; William, a tortured poet looking to be inspired by that very thing. Out of their affair comes one of the most beautiful love stories of all, Rom
Madeline Camplese graduated Northeastern University in 2025 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Media Arts (concentrating in photography) and minors in Fashion Studies and Art History. A visual storyteller, designer, and cultural researcher.
