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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...
...help the film appeal to a non-fashion crowd. "Do you want to see the real world of male modeling, the one they don?t show you in glossy magazines or on the E! channel?" Zoolander asks a reporter from Time. He then takes her to watch him and Hansel compete in runway tricks. "Cut me! Cut me!" Hansel says to his "trainer" as things get tough. The trainer trims his hair to get it out of his eyes. Stiller was criticized for taking the twin towers out of shots of New York. He responded by saying "What?s right...
That's pure Spielberg: the story of a stranded or abandoned child searching for signposts to home, for the reunion of the nuclear family. This Hansel-and-Gretel motif has been playing from his first feature, The Sugarland Express (two young marrieds struggle to rescue their child from foster parents), through half a dozen other films he has directed or produced (Poltergeist, Back to the Future, The Goonies, Empire of the Sun, Hook, Saving Private Ryan). That's a pretty full gallery of lost boys and girls. And what is that little parchment-pated E.T. but a precocious kid, light...
...That's pure Spielberg: the story of a stranded or abandoned child searching for signposts to home, for the reunion of the nuclear family. This Hansel-and-Gretel motif has been playing from his first feature, The Sugarland Express (two young marrieds struggle to rescue their child from foster parents), through half a dozen other films he has directed or produced (Poltergeist, Back to the Future, The Goonies, Empire of the Sun, Hook, Saving Private Ryan). That's a pretty full gallery of lost boys and girls. And what is that little parchment-pated E.T. but a precocious kid, light...
...needle of my own verdict is stuck somewhere between 1) and 2). I am a man who finds even presidential hand-holding (those Hansel-and-Gretel moments with Bill and Hillary and Al and Tipper skipping across the White House lawn as if they were children on a trip to the zoo) to be ridiculous. But the Gores' kiss was so over the top as to command a new kind of attention. If the kiss was manipulative, it was daringly so. I search my memory for historical precedents.... Dick and Pat Nixon in Miami Beach in 1972? Bess and Harry...