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The Princess Diaries
Comedy
1 hr. 50 min.
Release Date: August 3, 2001
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Produced by: Whitney Houston, Debra Martin Chase, Mario Iscovich
Written by: Gina Wendkos
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
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Comedy
1 hour and 50 minutes
Released date: August 3, 2001
Actor: Anne Hai Servie Julie - Andrews Hackett - Elizondo Heather - Martorazzo
Director: Gary Marshall
Production: Whitney Houston, Debra Martin Chase , Mario Iscovich
Screenwriter: Gina Wendkos
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
Synopsis
Fifteen-year-old Mia discovers that her father is the Prince of Genovia and she is the sole heir to the throne. She must decide, by her sixteenth birthday, whether she will live as a princess and move to Genovia or remain in Manhattan where she lives with her artist mom. She must suffer through the indignity of princess lessons at the hands of her stern grandmother…
Plot summary
Fifteen-year-old Mia learns that her father is Genevieve Prince of Asia, and she became the country's only heir to the throne. On her 16th birthday, she had to make a choice: move to Guinevere and become a princess, or stay in Manhattan and live with her artist mother. Together. At the same time, Mia also had to accept the unbearable princess etiquette lessons given to her by her strict grandmother...
Comments
Julie Andrews has been here before. Back in the '50s, she played Eliza Doolittle in the classic musical "My Fair Lady," making Broadway history as the lower-class lass who passes as an aristocrat after Professor Henry Higgins taught her to talk and walk like a lady.
< p>Decades later, "The Princess Diaries" lets Andrews (see interview) try the Higgins role herself. Here, she plays the queen of Genovia, who has decided Genovia's next ruler should be her granddaughter, Mia, a San Francisco teenager who's never been told that her long-estranged father had royal blood.
Mia knows little about Europe, and nothing about the tricks of running a country, but the queen is willing to mold her manners, coach her diction, dictate her wardrobe, and do anything needed to make her a proper Old World princess. The job carries plenty of perks - a limo is mighty tempting to a girl whose Mustang can barely make it up a hill - but Mia's a shy type who dreads the spotlight a royal perch would bring. Can her well-meaning grandma put her on the road to monarchy? Or do her Californian values ??run so deep that Henry Higgins himself couldn't change them?
"The Princess Diaries" unfolds its story from Mia's point of view, aiming at teen viewers who'll identify with her identity crisis and with the everyday details of adolescent life - quarrels with mom, rivalries, and romances at school - that the movie convincingly paints. A well-chosen cast helps the picture come alive : Andrews as the queen; Anne Hathaway as her undecided granddaughter; Caroline Goodall as Mia's mom; Hector Elizondo as a royal assistant; and Heather Matarazzo in a perfect performance as Mia's closest pal. Only the boys in Mia's life tend to look like generic teenpic characters.
With its leisurely pace and unf
ancy filmmaking, "The Princess Diaries" is a likable throwback to an old tradition of pictures from the Disney studio. While most of today's youth-targeted movies unleash bombardments of visual effects and pop-culture distractions, director Garry Marshall spins this yarn with a quiet dignity that Genovia's staid queen would applaud.
The film isn't backward-looking in its attitudes toward modern society, though. Two or three decades ago, Mia would surely have ended the story by refusing her royal opportunity in the name of American values ??like democracy and individualism. By contrast, the Mia of 2001 decides to grab the job. How else could a middle-class girl get enough influence and power to make the world listen to her ideas?
Comments
This is not the first time that Julie Andrews has appeared in a movie of this type. As early as the 1950s, in the classic musical film "My Fair Lady", she played the role of a low-class Broadway girl. After being trained by Professor Henry Higgins, she became an aristocratic lady with elegant and decent manners.
Today, decades later, "The Princess Diaries" has Andrews playing a Higgins-like role. In the play In the film, she played the role of the Queen of Guinevere, announcing that the next heir would be her granddaughter Mia. But Mia, a teenage San Francisco girl, never imagined that her long-separated father actually had royal blood.
Mia knows nothing about Europe, let alone how to govern a country, but the Queen is very willing to correct her behavior and speech, as well as how to dress appropriately...in order to train her into a real princess in the traditional sense. Of course, there are many advantages to being a princess - just as for a girl who only has a classic car that is difficult to climb uphill, a luxury car is an irresistible temptation; however, Mia is shy by nature and is afraid of the consequences of her high position in the royal family. Spotlight. So, can a well-intentioned grandmother make Mia a successful monarch? Or are the values ??formed in California so deeply ingrained that even Henry Higgins himself cannot change Mia?
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Quite ordinary.
With its leisurely pace and unfancy production, "The Princess Diaries" is more like a traditional old Disney movie. When many movies continue to appeal to young people, they continue to create visual appeal. At a time of shock and popularity, director Garry Marshall told us a story that even the dignified Queen Guinevere applauded and approved.
It is worth mentioning that conceptually speaking, this film Not outdated. Twenty or thirty years ago, Mia would have finally given up the throne because of typical American values ??such as democracy and independence. But on the contrary, Mia in 2001 seized this opportunity. A middle-class girl can have The opportunity to gain such great power and influence, and even make the world listen to her, is there anything better than this?
Word list
heir n. heir stern adj . severe
indignity n. insult, rudeness Broadway n. Broadway
lass n. girl aristocrat n. aristocrat, upper class person
estrange v. isolate...mold v. have an impact on...
limo n. limousine perch n. high position
monarchy n. monarchy adolescent adj. adolescent
throwback n. reverse unleash v. launch
spin v. make up yarn n. story
Mia: me? A princess? Shut up!
Queen: I beg your pardon, shut up? Nevertheless you are the princess. And I am the queen Clarisse Renaldi.
Mia: why on earth would you pick me to be your princess?
Queen: Since your father died, you are the natural heir to the throne of Geneva. That's our law. I'm royal by marriage. You are royal by blood. You can rule.
Mia: Rule? Oh, no! oh, no. no, no no. now you have really got the wrong girl. I never lead anybody, not at brownies, not at camp fire girls. Queen Clarisse my expectation in li
fe is to be invisible and I'm good at it.
Queen: Amelia I have other expectations also. In my wildest dreams, I never expected this to happen. But you are the legal heir, the only heir to the Genovian throne and we'll accept the challenge of helping you become the princess that you are. Oh, I can give you books. You'll study languages, history, art, political science. I can teach you to walk, talk, sit, stand, eat, dress like a princess. And given time, I think you'll find the palace in Genovia a very pleasant place to live.
Mia: live in Genovia?
Queen: it's a wonderful country! Amelia, really!
Mia: whoa, whoa, just. Rewind and Freeze. I'm no princess. I'm still waiting for normal body parts to arrive. I refused to move to and rule a country. And do you want another reason? I don't want to be a princess.