The parties end, the decorations are dismantled and the pounds remain to be disposed of. The ball of many for the month of January seems to be only one: lose weight, get back into shape after the Christmas and New Year binges, where every whim is forgiven. Beyond the classic tips to lose weight, from a good hydration to the expensive old gym membership that last month was there, on the bedside table to get dust, perhaps to heartened by the daily efforts can come to the rescue some of the most iconic characters of the cinema, who, too, have faced the delicate phase of the diet, but with a degree of desperation much deeper than we could ever have.

Not even at the cinema is easy to lose weight

There are those who have put it all, but just did not make it. At least not without help. Let's talk about the Professor Sherman Klump that, in order to lose weight and conquer the heart of Miss Purty interpreted by Jada Pinkett Smith, she thought before giving us inside with the aerobics (yes, in the Nineties it was called that) and the jogging, and then with a chemical formula in able to reduce body mass with a simple administration. The film was The crazy professor, a small cult with Eddie Murphy, but, perhaps, it is a bit too imaginative to be considered an option.

Better body fatigue, perennial nervousness and healthy exercise. A bit like Bridget Jones which, thanks to the break with the handsome Daniel Cleaver, chooses exhausting sessions of exercise bikes up to burst – not metaphorically – of fatigue. Who said that the pains of love are not good for the line? Another small example, but here we speak, rather than a need, a whim, is the tender Olive of Little Miss Sunshine, which will have only seven years, but also the dream of becoming, one day, Miss America. To do this, think well to give up some pleasure, like an ice cream for breakfast. The father is from his own, but the rest of the family just can not see her with a pout and dry mouth and that's why Olive will end up with the yield and immediately hold the spoon: on the other hand the diet at seven years, even if dreams of become an angel of Victoria's Secret, remains an abomination of which it is impossible to be proud.

More terrible, until it reaches madness, it is the Nina Sayers which earned the Oscar to Natalie Portman in 2010 for The black Swan. There, so there was the desire to remain lean, not so much for an ideal, but for the need to be perfect, the ethereal nymph weighing like a feather and that the audience applauds with noise since the last row. In the film there is a scene that explains well the obsession of Nina and the intolerance (yet this mica so stable) of the mother: to celebrate his engagement as Cigno Bianco / Cigno Nero of the show Swan Lake set up by Vincent Cassel, Mrs. Sayers thinks well to celebrate the news with a beautiful cream and strawberries cake. Temptation to which Nina strives not to give in, reproving her mother for a too large slice poured on the plate. The scene borders on madness, the lady does to throw the whole cake in the trash can and only then Nina gives a taste of that cake that is her favorite. And did you think you had some diet problems?