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“The Bling Ring” Shows Stealing from the Rich and Famous
Jun 29th
“Stealing from the Rich and Famous”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
The Bling Ring is based on actual events, was directed very nicely by Sofia Coppola, and serves as a many-layered warning to perpetrators, victims, fans, and viewers alike.
Heck, it should also serve as a warning to the police: Appearing in a movie about an actual case you were involved in can hurt not only your career, but also the prosecution of the case itself.
The story is about a group of teenagers who blatantly broke into the homes of Hollywood celebrities and stole whatever they wanted, clothing, jewelry, makeup, and any drugs they could find.
Or, as one of them says as they are about to ransack a home, “Let’s go shopping.”
We meet Marc on his first day at a new school that is for troubled teenagers, he is lonely, he has no friends, and he meets Rebecca when she shows him some kindness and attention.
Rebecca introduces Marc to checking parked cars to see if they are unlocked and taking anything they can from inside them.
One day Rebecca gives Marc a ride after school and asks him if he knows about any families who are out of town. He does, they go to that house, and Rebecca introduces Marc to finding a way inside and stealing items from the house.
When they see on the news that Paris Hilton is hosting a party in Las Vegas, it is easy enough to use the Internet to learn where Paris lives, easy enough to find the key to the front door underneath the welcome mat, and easy enough to be bedazzled by everything that Paris owns and puts on display, again taking whatever they want.
Incidentally, Paris allowed the filmmakers to use her house for filming all the scenes there, and we can also assume that all the clothing and jewelry are hers, too.
The victims have no shame, either.
And then everything gets out of hand. Friends of theirs at school want in on the action. Everyone is obsessed with taking “selfies” of themselves in their stolen swag and posting them on the Internet, but when some of the celebrities’ homes have security cameras, you can guess the rest even if you don’t know what actually happened.
The Bling Ring shows just one of the downsides to our obsession with the lives of the glitterati.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
“Identity Thief” Another Road-Trip Comedy
Mar 3rd
“Another Road-Trip Comedy”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
Identity Thief is a comedy about a serious subject that has even been in the news lately: stealing someone’s identity and using it to the thief’s advantage.
In this case, Melissa McCarthy plays the title character, her name is Diana when she isn’t using someone else’s, and we see right off how she goes about stealing someone’s identity and then making her own credit cards in the sucker’s name.
The sucker is Sandy Patterson, played by Jason Bateman; he lives in Denver; his wife Trish, played by Amanda Peet, is pregnant; they already have two children; and there is a running gag about his first name.
So, we see Diana in a bar buying drinks for everyone using a credit card in Sandy’s name, and the bartender says to her, “People like you don’t have friends.”
Meanwhile, Sandy is disgruntled with his boss, and he and some of his coworkers leave the company to start their own company, but when his credit cards start being declined when he wants to buy something, Sandy’s real troubles begin.
The police have a warrant for his arrest for missing a court date in Florida, and Sandy manages to talk his way into getting a week of grace so he can go to Florida, find the fake Sandy, and bring the thief back to Denver in order to save himself from going to jail.
No problem, right?
And let the laughs begin.
Sandy tracks Diana down, but if he thought he had troubles before, his troubles now are even worse, because Diana doesn’t want to go back to Denver with him.
And the rest of the movie consists of Sandy trying to get Diana from Florida to Denver in order to clear his name.
The laughs come suddenly and unexpectedly, and there are plenty of other characters trying to stop them, including two people with orders from their boss to kill Sandy and a very unusual skip tracer who is on the trail of the fake Sandy and who is trying to capture her and bring her back to justice.
So, Sandy and Diana try to avoid the others, have to change modes of transportation for various reasons, and struggle to make it to Denver all in two pieces.
Identity Thief is another in a long line of road-trip comedies at large.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
