we as a society don't talk enough about how Nandor says he's been dreaming of having a big wedding since they watched The Wedding Planner – a movie about the wedding planner and the groom falling in love – and then the first thing he sets up for said wedding, before even finding a wife, is for Guillermo to be his best man...
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I have a lot of fondness for clunky Hallmark Christmas romance movies with rock bottom production values, vaguely established and extremely contrived plots, dodgy dialgoue, often questionable line readings, and child actors playing a kid who seems either three years younger or older than themselves. Hallmark have not undermined themselves with glib, self aware irony or attempted to "elevate" the delightful low artform that they excel in. Refreshing, honestly.
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One Dress a Day Challenge
November: Oscar Winners
Bram Stoker's Dracula / Sadie Frost as Lucy Westenra
Year: 1992
Designer: Eiko Ishioka
Since we're coming right off of Halloween, this seems like an appropriate way to start a month of Oscar winners. I've considered featuring this one before for the theme of white and the theme of weddings, and each time I've held off because I find it so bizarre and hideous.
Eiko Ishioka, the designer, said she based the look on the Australian frilled lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii):
But as far as I'm concerned, that raises more questions than it answers. Starting with "What in heaven's name made you look at that creature and say 'wedding dress'?"
Then again, Ishioka apparently also said that this movie would be like an adaptation of Dracula in which everyone had taken LSD. Which honestly explains more, in my opinion.
One point of interest about the dress: we never get a back view that isn't obscured by the super-long trailing veil, but from what we can see through the veil, it appears to have a multi-tiered bustle. There's a good analysis of the costume here; it and this post have some good pictures (some of which I borrowed).
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