Yes, this is about the movie. I can never decide if I like Reese Witherspoon and I am definitely not a Twilight crazed Pattinson fan but I love period movies (um, aren’t all movies period films?) and who doesn’t like elephants, so I’m looking forward to seeing this.
The movie is based on a novel by Sara Gruen (which I just discovered resides in my house but I am not allowed to so much as breathe on it until I am done with the looking Western Civ final on Thursday). I don’t know too much about the storyline except that there’s obviously a love story between Witherspoon and Pattinson (she is intentionally cast as older then he which makes their relationship even more scandalous I guess).
The story happens during the Great Depression and I have to confess to kind of really liking movies set in the 1920′s/around then. Besides all the crazy political/economical/social stuff happening, you can’t beat the fashion! Think Angelina Jolie in The Changeling and Julia Roberts in Mona Lisa Smile…I think this time period is appealing because culture was a little bit “higher” then, meaning that what you wear/appearance in general was more important than it is now. Guys always wore hats and women would never leave the house without a pair of stockings and made up face. Kind of radical considering my definition of put-together usually just means mascara and a cloud of hairspray. But I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing Spongebob pajamas to WalMart. Let’s have a little class, no? Oops, babbling…
Lastly: I just love suspenders. They were totally everyday wear back in the early 1900′s and now the only time we see them is at wedding receptions when guys shed their tux coats and are awkwardly dancing to Shakira. I think they are the height of dapper menswear; stylish but not frilly; and look both casual and put together at the same time. Note: colored suspenders: never ok.
Water for Elephants. Probably playing in a theater near you.
