It was intended to follow socialite Alexis Neiers and her kind-of adopted sister Tess Taylor (this is a little complicated, but essentially Neiers’s family took Taylor in without formally adopting her) as they navigated the Hollywood lifestyle and their careers as aspiring models. The show had a similar set-up to a lot of moderately successful reality shows. But there’s one show in particular that I believe fell under the general public’s radar a little too easily: E!’s 2010 series Pretty Wild. You didn’t need to be a successful singer or actor, you just needed to be worth watching.Įven if you didn’t watch any of these shows, chances are you were at least peripherally aware of the people on them and some of the events of the series. Even before the Kardashians were branded as being “famous for being famous,” Paris Hilton, Heidi Montag, and their various co-stars had provided cultural proof that now more than ever, the traditional routes to stardom were not the only path that one had to take. Two of the most notable are The Simple Life, Laguna Beach, and its spinoff, The Hills, which began on Fox in 2003 and MTV in 20, respectively. Some were good, many were bad, most were unremarkable. From there, a number of similar programs promising insight into the real lives of real people began appearing on television over the next decade or so.

The antecedents for reality TV had been there for years, but it really kicked off with the premiere of MTV’s longest-running program, The Real World. To tell the whole story, or at least a considerably thorough story of the film, we need to go back to 1992 and the birth of reality TV. Seen by some (read: me) as a masterpiece, the film was criticized by others for being a superficial and ultimately vapid meditation on millennial entitlement and celebrity obsession.īut I don’t think those critiques tell the whole story of The Bling Ring. For proof, look no further than the mixed reception to her 2013 film, The Bling Ring. She even has an Oscar to prove that she’s done this quite well at times.īut not all of her films have been deemed by the masses to be worthy of gold statues. She’s emerged from her family’s status as Hollywood royalty to form her own voice in the industry, a voice that is concerned primarily with, and with great dedication to, young and misunderstood women. Over the course of roughly the last two decades, Sofia Coppola has accomplished quite a bit as a director.

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