If you’re like me and you literally never missed an episode, even when you swore off some of the directions, you’ve got no problem admitting to being a SITC addict. All of my education, cultural training and anything else that would deem me an unlikely fan go out the window (sort of like when I’m a health nut and I eat a bowl of Laffy Taffy without blinking - brain happily shutting down). Would I like a character that looks like me that’s not the trusty wise old black woman in a young woman’s body (see Jennifer Hudson in the first one - enjoyed it I didn’t think too hard about it)? Of course! But I live in the real world and I can write that story with my eyes closed (in fact, have and do so all the time as I can’t help it).
Women all over the world love these girls as their own best friends because not since the Golden Girls have we perfected the stereotype of the overall female type met with pop culture references that are current and fun. Fun. Not rocket science. There is no making fun of any kind of stereotype. There’s really not much that’s off limits whether embarrassing (in fashion or in thought process). Just like candy! Try it all and don’t judge.
All of the above you can read at any website that tries to break down the SITC phenom. But here’s what you won’t hear in most areas. Candace Bushnell doesn’t have much to do with this franchise. A bunch of you are clutching your Dior and falling out (or your Fior - fake Dior). Listen, if you read the book like I did, you know I’m right. Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha are not the same characters in the page that’s on the screen. Candace’s “Sex in the City” is a foggy Page Six article that focuses on a Carrie Bradshaw that we really don’t relate to like we do when SJP is giving us “Carrie Fever.” Candace’s book is all over the place, dropping character studies with shadows of famous people we should know, instead of giving us situations we should know. Darren Starr was able to do what Candace could not. And here’s my bigger bomb. Patricia Field deserves more credit than Candace Bushnell, without the fashions, we could be potentially watching a painful production of “Lipstick Jungle” - ARGH!
What producers need to understand more than anything is that a production is really EVERYTHING involved - from music, fashion, art - not just the script or the director or the actors. This is about a collaboration in every way. Us women folk leave no detail unturned. We will notice the restaurant where they eat, the flowers Carrie beats Big with down to the damn book she read in bed with him. The reason why the fake SITC sitcoms didn’t work is because we ALREADY HAVE a SITC. Try something else. None of those other shows were any different other than the marital states or the bitchiness. But that’s not changing the story. We’re good thanks. That’s why we sell out the movies when SITC comes out on the big screen.
Anyways, back to Patricia. She elevates her status as a designer by becoming the ultimate character creator. You could have anyone else write the movie (there are tons of fans that are screenwriters and the soaps change writers all the time) but if you change Pat Field, we’re out. Period.
The moral of this rambling: Give us who we are and who we want to be at the same time and SITC will always prosper.
Miss Fierce Kitty Fields:
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