Sex and the City Movie Interviews & Posters
9 06 2008
Time files! The first season of Sex and the City at HBO is 1998 June. and it’s already 2008 June. It’s 10 years time. For those women who are in their early twenties, like me, it’s already their late twenties. When I was inside AMC and watching the movie, I have a feeling that I travelled back time. I laughed, cried and “wow” with all the audience sat beside me. There is just connection between all of us. Our distant is so closed that I have never experienced it before. We all feel something from this movie/TV series. So, I ant to say that the show is MORE than sex. It is one of the reason why it is successful.
I especially like the Charlie Ross’ interview with Sarah Jessica Parker and Micheal Patrick King’s interview(the 1st video at the bottom). Micheal Patrick King explained that it is a movie about “evolution”, “how a 20 something gal became 40 something women”. That’s also the reason why they bring in Jennifer Hodson, as they need somebody who can bring in again twenties something gal’s point of view. How we grow over time? When we look back? What do we get now?
You can notice that there are scenes show that Carrie did not know how to do SMS/text, how to use iPhone, how to make her website well . The society changes, so the generation changes. When we all get old, being washed out by the complicated world, certian part of us just fossilized. The older we are, the more we know about our world, we are less open for change and uncertainy because we have more burden from the past. We have more than ourselves to think of. And our energy just erased by the increasingly materistic world.
That’s the reason why Louis(Jennifer Hodson) still have dream to pursue and energy and brave to face the challenge in front of her no matter what. It is what we dare to do when we are still young; when money and materials count less at that time; when dreams still have the hope to come true.
For Carrie, who represents a mature women turing to her forties, as Sarah Jessica Parker said it is very hard for Carrie to face disappointment from the unexpected disappear of BIG. Carrie “has to realise the complexity and learn how to forgive people that she has invested for a numerous amount. And understand what she needs to do next”.
No matter “Twenties, Thirties, Fourties, Fifties , enjoy yourself, but be yourself, don’t be anybody else…don’t let the label define you, whether be your clothing or title like bride, or groom, husband or wife.” That’s one of the main theme of this comeback movie as Micheal Patrick King said. Yes, the movie got sponsored for all the top brands, fashions etc. Kinda contradict somehow BUT it also reflected modern women’s sensation and obsession towards clothes, shoes and their shapes which in fact comes from the society’s value. Vivian Westwood and Louis Vuitton’s names did repeat three times or more.
As a woman, I absolutely agreed what Sarah said, “it’s just about love, and friendship, and wanting to be yourself and how do you figure out what it is and how do you make mistakes that you can look and say that’s perfectly alright I made that mistake.” Especially, in the Chinese soceity, I means in certain apsect, not all, we are trained to play safe, to keep status quo, not taking challenge because taking risk to take something new means a possibility of having mistakes and failure. However, the best training in our life is to learn a lesson from our “mistakes”. Have you counted how many “I am sorry” in the movie? To learn how to forgive people is also coming from “mistakes”.
Charlie Ross asked a very insteresting question: “Does this movie reinforce people’s fairy tales aspiration?” It’s an happy ending movie. But most of the time, it is not true in the real world.
Micheal Patrick King anwered “No, it’s not. I would be happy if you said that this movie is happy ever after for yourself.” He knew that people queried “Is that man’s problem or woman’s problem?” For him, “it’s the society as a villain” He is right, even nowadays, in a very modern society, ”Smart Smart Smart Successful woman still somewhere inside them feel a little bit bad because either their divorce, some , I am not speaking general term, or they never get married, or they adopt their child verus giving birth naturally, or they are never married, or they are suddenly alone and they are fifty, so the reality is none of this exist, if the society doesn’t say what is supposed to be happened that a man meets a woman at the certain age, they get married and live, they have children, and then they live together forever.”
So, Sarah JP, as one of the producer, commented that “this movie said the contentment must be defined by yourself. (It can be traditional), what is my idea of contentment doesn’t have to be yours, doesn’t have to be here, doesn’t have to be anybody else. That is a great place that you arrive at at this particular age of woman. They all arrive there in their own way. It’s not an accident, it’s life. It’s we all hope that we are keep going.” All of the 4 women arrived at their own place. What about you? Have you arrive your place? What about myself?
Another question which most of us want know is “why most women can identify themselves from the 4 characters”? I like what Kim Cattrall answered at the chuckthemovieguy interview.
“4 single/seperate women who all together made up one complete woman, so when any situation, when any time of the day or year, part of the year, you could look at these characters and you can say why, I understand that because they are part of a complete woman, so you can have a morning like Charlotte, and the afternoon like Miranda, and an evening like Samantha, you can relate all of these women and how they deal.”
I seldome wrote long post, anyway should end here. Below are two more movie posters from the movies, I love the very top one the most, Below are lots of interviews about the movie. Enjoy watching!
I also linked 2 critics which are A, A-, C, and D which are quite interesting:
San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle (Average Grade A)
Chicago Tribune, Jessica Reaves (Average Grade A-)
Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert (Average Grade C)
New York Times, Manohla Dargis (Average Grade D)
P.S. By the way, I watched all the interivew, and suddenly found that Kristin Davis(Charlotte) represented Oxfam visiting Afarica to help people. David letterman asked her “what Oxfam means?” and she can answer it immediately. I got friend working at Oxfam…just found this piece of news quite attract my attention.
Charlie Rose - Sarach Jessica Parker & Michael Patrick King interview (1st 40mins)
Producer Michael Patrick King interview @ chuckthemovieguy
Sex and the City, The Fashion Behind the Movie
Kim Cattrall interview @ chuckthemovieguy
Cynthia Nixon interview @ chuckthemovieguy
Sarah Jessica Parker interview @ chuckthemovieguy
Kristen Davis interview @ chuckthemovieguy
Marie Claire TV: Kim Cattrall interview
Marie Claire TV: Cynthia Nixon interview
Marie Claire TV: Kristin Davis interview
Marie Claire TV: Sarah Jessica Parker
Kristin Davis on Letterman May 22 part 1/2
Kristin Davis on Letterman May 22 part 2/2
Sarah Jessica Parker on Letterman May 22 part 1/2
Sarah Jessica Parker on Letterman May 22 part 2/2
Kristin Davis/Sex & the City Movie Premiere - Today Show
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