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Angelina Jolie

Author of Notes from My Travels

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Includes the names: A Jolie, Angelina Jolie

Image credit: Cropped from a photo of Jolie with U.S. Senator Dick Lugar.

Works by Angelina Jolie

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Kung Fu Panda [2008 film] (2008) — Voice — 697 copies
Mr. & Mrs. Smith [2005 film] (2005) — Actor — 619 copies
Maleficent [2014 film] (2014) — Actor — 539 copies
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider [2001 film] (2001) — Actor — 533 copies
Wanted [2008 film] (2008) — Actor — 359 copies
Shark Tale [2004 film] (2005) — Actor — 354 copies
Salt [2010 film] (2010) 346 copies
Beowulf [2007 film] (2007) — Actor — 287 copies
Kung Fu Panda 2 [2011 film] (2011) — Actor — 282 copies
The Bone Collector [1999 film] (1999) — Actor — 227 copies
Changeling [2008 film] (2008) — Actor — 211 copies
Girl, Interrupted [2000 film] (2000) — Actor — 204 copies
The Tourist [2010 film] (2010) 184 copies
Hackers [1995 film] (1998) 140 copies
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil [2019 film] (2019) — Actor — 137 copies
Taking Lives [2004 film] (2004) — Actor — 101 copies
Eternals [2021 film] (2022) — Actor — 93 copies
Original Sin [2001 film] (2001) 69 copies
Pushing Tin [1999 film] (1999) — Actor — 56 copies
Beyond Borders [videorecording] (2003) — Actor — 52 copies
A Mighty Heart [2007 film] (2007) — Actor — 37 copies
Foxfire [1996 film] (2000) — Actor — 30 copies
True Women [1997 TV mini series] (1997) — Actor — 24 copies
Those Who Wish Me Dead [2021 Film] (2021) — Actor — 19 copies
Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow [1993 film] (2001) — Actor — 13 copies
Zodiac / Taking Lives (2009) — Actor — 12 copies
Without Evidence [1995 film] (2008) — Actor — 8 copies
Alexander [The Ultimate Cut] [2004 Film] (2004) — Actor — 7 copies
Jane's Journey [2010 film] (2011) — Narrator — 4 copies
The One and Only Ivan [2020 film] — Actor — 3 copies

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I'm really not sure what I expect here... but it was interesting. Felt like an informative paper from high school. A bit of an info dump with some personal perspecitve. It felt rather strange that it was narrated by someone else though.
 
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MiserableFlower | 9 other reviews | Sep 14, 2023 |
 
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.cris | Nov 6, 2017 |
My lord, was this horrific! I somehow confused myself into thinking it was taken from some very literary novella, but no -- written from a standing start by AJ herself, and not only bad but more than a bit irresponsible, presenting the oddball stance that barrenness makes one pathetic and useless.
 
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lulaa | Dec 17, 2015 |
Disclaimer - I like Angelina Jolie. I think that she's an amazing woman, a great actress and classier than certain people who feel the need to name-drop her in every other interview. That's partly why I read this and the other was that it gave me a significant push into Asia that I needed for my challenge.

Anyway, before Brangelina and all the kids Angelina Jolie was recruited as a UN Goodwill Ambassador for Refugees and as part of her duties she went travelling around the world to different areas to talk to displaced people. This book is her diaries during those trips and her thoughts and experiences. Almost from the start you warm to her, even if you didn't like her. The book is written such as we would write - chronicling little things and snippets of conversation as she discovers how different life is. There are little points, barely mentioned, where she realises that a boy she had spoken to was killed, or where she watches children pick litter in the street to earn money, or sees children being sold into the sex trade at the age of 5 or 6 because they can't afford not to or where she's told how gangs would come in and make family members amputate each others limbs, or sees children carrying guns where you can feel how it affects her. It's not done in a gratuitous 'oh woe is me' way, but in a way where, no matter how brief the image is, it sticks with you.

At one point in Cambodia she mentions how she and her friend went to a museum and in it they show pictures of some of the atrocities committed and she lists some of them and explains how she had to leave such was the effect it had on her.

In another account she went to Pakistan to speak with Afghan refugees. This is before 9/11 and she says that afterwards she donated money to the Afgahn refugees and as a result she received death-threats because people couldn't differentiate between Afghanistan and the Taliban. That stuck with me because even now I still think that some people fail to make those distinctions.

I know a lot of people don't like her, but I think reading this you can understand her stance on life and why she adopted the kids that she did. I just think it's something people should think about.
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