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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 439083" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">Drop Dead Gorgeous</span></strong> (1999)</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic0.moviewebimages.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F05%2Fdrop-dead-gorgeous-movie-poster.jpg%3Fq%3D49%26fit%3Dcontain%26w%3D480%26dpr%3D2&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=43ea258a87455f0c93a055f3be96200364d1f9aaef3d60baf886441c3c20f533" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 649px" /></p><p></p><p>Tonally, this film could only possibly have been released in 1999, matching up perfectly with the likes of<em> Election </em>and<em> Jawbreaker</em>, both from the same year and featuring similar themes. It resembles <em>Election</em> more heavily thanks to its premise taking an All-American rite of passage and exposing the ruthlessness, hypocrisy and ugliness that drives those involved, but there's no denying that its cold and nasty young women are very much in the style of <em>Jawbreaker</em> (which itself draws upon the likes of earlier films such as <em>Heathers</em>).</p><p></p><p>Cementing its similarity with <em>Election</em> in my mind, the <em>DDG</em> soundtrack came to my attention some years ago thanks to seeking out a track from the same artist as the one that brought the <em>Election</em> soundtrack onto my radar. I've yet to find a reasonable copy of <em>Election</em>, but have been enjoying Mandy Barnett's gorgeous version of <em>Beautiful Dreamer </em>on the <em>DDG</em> soundtrack for a few years now. It's good to hear it in context, playing over a key scene towards the film's end. The rest of the soundtrack is mostly immaterial to me, and is the usual era mix of a few clips of dialogue peppered in between one "classic" track (Elton John's<em> Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting</em>) and a number of heavy rock tracks including a couple of covers. Most notable of these for meHad I not watched the film a couple of years ago I would not have understood the relevance of Joan Jett's rendition of<em> Love Is All Around. </em>Fortunately, having watched <em>The Mary Tyler Moore Show</em> recently, I can appreciate how perfect this is for the Minneapolis setting, the wide-eyed optimism of its lead character and her journalistic ambitions (even if this is not a version I'd care to play for pleasure).</p><p></p><p>The cast is full of faces who were everywhere at the time. Smirky Denise Richards - fresh from being a Bond girl - reprises her smirky ambitious beauty queen who will do anything to win from <em>Melrose Place</em> a few years earlier. Here as there she has a pushy enabling mother, and this time it's Kirstie Alley who is scarily convincing as the passive-aggressive jingoistic "god-fearing" conservative, whose fixed smile and dead eyes hide a seething cauldron of hypocrisy, festering resentment and potential violence. Brittany Murphy reprises Tai from Clueless, giggling a lot and being part-sweet, part-outspoken. Kirsten Dunst is effectively the film's protagonist and carries it well.</p><p></p><p>This is one of those films that's probably a one-time only thing, and that's fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 439083, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Drop Dead Gorgeous[/SIZE][/B] (1999) [IMG width="649px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic0.moviewebimages.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F05%2Fdrop-dead-gorgeous-movie-poster.jpg%3Fq%3D49%26fit%3Dcontain%26w%3D480%26dpr%3D2&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=43ea258a87455f0c93a055f3be96200364d1f9aaef3d60baf886441c3c20f533[/IMG][/CENTER] Tonally, this film could only possibly have been released in 1999, matching up perfectly with the likes of[I] Election [/I]and[I] Jawbreaker[/I], both from the same year and featuring similar themes. It resembles [I]Election[/I] more heavily thanks to its premise taking an All-American rite of passage and exposing the ruthlessness, hypocrisy and ugliness that drives those involved, but there's no denying that its cold and nasty young women are very much in the style of [I]Jawbreaker[/I] (which itself draws upon the likes of earlier films such as [I]Heathers[/I]). Cementing its similarity with [I]Election[/I] in my mind, the [I]DDG[/I] soundtrack came to my attention some years ago thanks to seeking out a track from the same artist as the one that brought the [I]Election[/I] soundtrack onto my radar. I've yet to find a reasonable copy of [I]Election[/I], but have been enjoying Mandy Barnett's gorgeous version of [I]Beautiful Dreamer [/I]on the [I]DDG[/I] soundtrack for a few years now. It's good to hear it in context, playing over a key scene towards the film's end. The rest of the soundtrack is mostly immaterial to me, and is the usual era mix of a few clips of dialogue peppered in between one "classic" track (Elton John's[I] Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting[/I]) and a number of heavy rock tracks including a couple of covers. Most notable of these for meHad I not watched the film a couple of years ago I would not have understood the relevance of Joan Jett's rendition of[I] Love Is All Around. [/I]Fortunately, having watched [I]The Mary Tyler Moore Show[/I] recently, I can appreciate how perfect this is for the Minneapolis setting, the wide-eyed optimism of its lead character and her journalistic ambitions (even if this is not a version I'd care to play for pleasure). The cast is full of faces who were everywhere at the time. Smirky Denise Richards - fresh from being a Bond girl - reprises her smirky ambitious beauty queen who will do anything to win from [I]Melrose Place[/I] a few years earlier. Here as there she has a pushy enabling mother, and this time it's Kirstie Alley who is scarily convincing as the passive-aggressive jingoistic "god-fearing" conservative, whose fixed smile and dead eyes hide a seething cauldron of hypocrisy, festering resentment and potential violence. Brittany Murphy reprises Tai from Clueless, giggling a lot and being part-sweet, part-outspoken. Kirsten Dunst is effectively the film's protagonist and carries it well. This is one of those films that's probably a one-time only thing, and that's fine. [/QUOTE]
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