Like Marie Antoinette its trailer wholly surpasses the actual movie, but the lush masquerade scene is making me rethink aquariums as a decorating device. I'm also really digging lowriders, cholo culture, and Catholic altar imagery. I'll just keep synthesizing until this all counts as a moment. Witness once-lanky Leo in a garden of crosses
And reconsider Anna Wintour's first Vogue cover:
Chic again! But the real cost of looking good is fewer hours in the VIP room with those "Pretty Wild" monsters. Now if I asked nicely do you think these guys
Would take me on an Escapade?
(Note to Gaga: this is how it's done.) Wig caps as face-lifting do rags?
I'm down. After all Madeleine Castaing held her chin up with a rubber band:
Finally I see Claire Danes on her deathbed and think two things:
1. A merciful end to that hideous melting face she makes when crying and 2. Tony Duquette sure did design some gorgeous jewelry back in the day!
I'll stop myself here. Parting is such sweet sorrow, but nothing compared to what my neighbors endure when I belt out this life-affirming little ditty at the top of my lungs all afternoon.
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Ah, one of my all time favorite movies of my pre-teens. I learned everything I know about love and life from that movie, and Clueless.
ReplyDeleteGenius post! I think you sir are the only one who could include all these subjects and come to a logical end...I especially love the Castaing reference!
ReplyDeleteBravo!
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Great observations! This cracked me up...but 9th grade?! You're making me feel OLD!!!
ReplyDeleteMy students got the biggest thrill out of getting to watch this version of the movie after we read R&J. This movie was one of those things that required a lot of "open-mindedness" from this very traditional, structured English teacher. But my teaching wasn't about me; it was about my students! So there we sat watching the "new" movie.
ReplyDeleteLove this.... I used to love this movie in high school too.
ReplyDeleteJust saw your apt in LONNY... Honey, that shit is HOT!!! LOVE IT! congrats!
Oh, now this is what blogs are for, isn't it? Suffering post-Spring Break exhaustion this morning, I pulled myself out of bed, made a three bag cup of tea and I hopped on the computer looking for a bit of fantasy and inspiration. And lucky girl, I discovered your delicious little blog. Bless you for weaving "Pretty Wild," Tony Duquette, and Madeleine Castaing into a lovely cloak of inspiration. I'll wear it happily today while I do some oil painting. As soon as I finish the kids' breakfast and laundry ;-)
ReplyDeleteI would rewind and replay, rewind and replay the fish tank scene over and over and over.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely loved this movie, it came out when I was 13 and I'd just read Romeo and Juliet for the first time...
ReplyDeleteAh screw it, the fish tank scene, the elevator scene, I still love it!
P.S. My favorite "life-affirming" song to belt out from the soundtrack is still Local God ;)
1. r&j is my favorite movie of all time. luhrman and zifirelli.
ReplyDelete2. i love claire danes crying face. she is the best cryer.
3. you were so much fun to listen to at the atlanta SCAD style lecture. you and miss rita rock my socks off.
love,
a long-time fan.
i luv bazzzzzzz!!! that des'ree song was ma jammm
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I never had to read the books in school. I think I missed out.
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