Today we venture back into film. I had a wonderful day of cleaning my house and regaining control of my life. Sometimes I let that go and today I had wonderful distraction angels that talked with me while my house when from the start of an episode of Hoarders to normalville with a little bit of dust on it. Could it be cleaner? Yes. Is it clean enough for government work? Heck Yes.
So tonight I have decided to indulge in the American Teen Princess Pageant and Mount Rose, Minnesota world that is featured in Drop Dead Gorgeous starring Kirsten Dunst, Kirstie Alley, Allison Janney, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Brittany Murphy, Amy Adams, Nora Dunn, Mo Gaffney and Mindy Sterling. Well if that star studded comedy team does not convince you to watch this movie, then you just don't know what yer missin'. I wish I could tell you how wonderful this film is but a blog post will not do it. It is just as good as Minnesota nice.
Drop Dead Gorgeous is one of those quality mockumentary films that follows the contestants through Mt. Rose's American Teen Princess as they compete for nationals. The camera crew asks great questions of all the people in town and everyone has a great Minnesotan accents. I can recite too many of these lines and frequently do whenever they pop into my mind. I feel bad for those who know me well as they have had to suffer through those performances of great scenes from this film. I wonder if there were dialect coaches to teach everyone how to use that accent so wonderfully or if it is just something natural that actors can do? I mean I am confident that my over the top Minnesota is very authentic- I am going to go with the hypothesis that everyone can do that accent.
As you can imagine there are shenanigans that these contestants get involved in as well as...gasp...murder! Someone wants to win pretty darn bad and as viewers we have to try and figure out what is going on in this small MN town. It is pretty funny that everyone thinks the camera crew is from Cops. Not to ruin the film for you but later the Cops camera crew shows up. Too funny. Also Amber lives in a trailer park and I just relate to those types of people.
The judges are just hilarious too. There is a conspiracy in town that the Leeman kid has it in the bag- even though Leslie Miller would pick Brett Farve to be president if she could. Why she did not win I will never know. Sorry for that spoiler too. :)
If I were to plan a program with higher ed and this movie I would possibly play along the angle of the beauty pageant, there are lots of different kinds of women that participate in this pageant so you have lots of things to discuss. Maybe you can plan a contest among your floor. Have everyone share their silly human talent or host the contest with an app like Dubsmash where they all vote for the best video. Could be a hoot!
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