Monday, January 17, 2005

Silly stuff

I've just finished watching Zoolander for the umpteenth time; it's the best thing to do when trying to avoid doing any study. Choice picks for scenes to distract the mind are:
1. Derek and his male model flatmates having fun at the petrol station - a major piss-take of every Coke ad you ever seen in which hordes of beautiful young people have incredible fun (with added the explosion)
3. Derek after a hard day's work at the coal mine where his father and two brothers work, and the huge mound of used cotton pads after he's done cleaning the coal off his face
4. The walk-off between rival Derek and Hansel - the darker side of male modelling
5. Derek at the secret day spa, where he gets an unusually enjoyable massage from a strangely shaped woman
6. Derek and Hansel using their makeup know-how to disguise themselves as an intense yound black man and a cross-eyed Indian gentleman (I think) respectively

And as though life couldn't imitate art, there are sillier things in the US military it seems. Some of the strategies brain-stormed within the walls of the Pentagon include inventing an aphrodisiac to turn the enemy soldiers into raving homosexuals...

4 comments:

Jon said...

Raving homosexuals??? I want one!

As for Zoolander, you forgot the scene where he's about to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia at the fashion show, and the PM makes some sort of almost racist but too funny to really be racist Asian sounding grunt. Hilarious!

Onanymous said...

What happened to 2? :)

I really liked the '2001: A Space Odyssey' reference.

Violet said...

Jon: so many wonderful scenes, so little space in my brain to remember them all....

Onanymous: that was a littly typo. I kept inserting scenes in the order of appearance and my re-numbering went off.

nichole said...

#1 is my favorite too! Man, I have to watch that movie again.