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...already a parody of itself. How does one top the Christian Dior newspaper collection designer John Galliano said was inspired by the homeless? Second, the world of fashion is a tight clique - it?s hard to get close enough to the key players to make the parody ring true...
...best parts of Zoolander, though absurd, ring very true indeed. All too often, for example, fashion shows are held in dilapidated buildings or abandoned warehouses. In Zoolander, a show is held underground and the audience must enter by descending stairs under a subway grate. Also, Zoolander lives with three other male models, and in reality models do usually live together. That?s not because they?re gay - male models are no more likely to be gay than non-models - but because agencies set them up in shared flats...
There?s also a ring of truth in the dialogue. During his video for the VH-1 Awards, Zoolander?s foe Hansel says, "Do I know what product I?m selling? No. Do I know what I?m doing here today? No." It?s not that models are dumb, it?s that they seem dumb, like any average American teenager plucked from a rural high school and dumped into the cynical big city...
...savvy shopper could pick up that $34,000 ring at E.B. Horn without worrying about that pesky little $1,700 retail tax; a penny-pinching mom could buy a $25 Tickle-Me-Elmo and put away that $1.25 savings for a rainy...
...charismatic characters with whom everyone can relate? Her witty, brisk dialogue? Her tongue-in-cheek humor? Her vivid descriptions? Her fantastical names and whimsical jargon? Or, more likely, have kids simply exhausted the worlds of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ring Fellowship and even that staple of childhood fantasy, Roald Dahl, welcoming J.K. Rowling’s more approachable—and more marketable—Hogwarts...