THE PRINCESS DIARIES (2001) ** Julie Andrews is typecast as The Queen, which raises some interesting possibilities. I mean, first off, when the queen is Julie Andrews it's a good thing, so maybe the monarchy should be maintained after all. So, how do you do it? Well, we could elect her, that way we wouldn't end up with the same sort of dreary ones that have plagued the kingdom for these past centuries. Then you think about democracy in action and realize how superior Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford's portrayals of presidents have been to the actual thing. So maybe casting directors should appoint queens, except that it would have to be a good casting director--so maybe a bifurcated process whereby the casting director's guild puts forth a nomination and it has to be approved by popular referendum. Something like that would probably be best. Most commoners will view this film without being moved to such pathologies, and instead concentrate on the plight of the teenage girl. Stuck in a San Francisco school whose uniform doesn't include a single tie-dyed item she then gets stuck being princess of a mythological european nation. The good news is that she doesn't have to do it, the bad news is that if she doesn't she has to go back to class. Her goal, not surprisingly, is to be invisible.
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