Briton Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) wants to be cool yellow journalist specializing in the life of stars. Well, you know, the shark pen, ergonomic keyboard jackal, hyena Apple computer and desman Nikon camera with a long lens. To achieve their dreams, . Sydney embarking on any tricks: trick breaks on the secular parties and celebrations, . then propesochivaet celebrities drachovym fine sandpaper and a file in a journal his Post Modern Review, . whose circulation of all time explosively growing at two to three subscribers per month. Once in Sydney Post Modern Review to make fun of the chief editor of the American glam magazine Sharps Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges), . which in addition was put on the cover in the nude with the inscription "New clothes Glavred",
. Harding then personally telephoned Sydney, and when he have understood, with whom he was talking, rushed to preventive attack, Glavred not suddenly become a scandal, and suggested Yanggu work in his journal. Well, he says, he liked the one insolence and aggressiveness, which operates Sydney, so get ready, boy, and fly to New York - glamor needs you! Of course, Sydney did not refuse. Go to work in one of the most famous and prestigious journals glamorous world - nobody in their right mind will not give up on this! So Young immediately flew to New York, . takes little room in the boarding house of Mrs. Kowalski (Miriam Morgulis), . the first evening unsuccessfully trying to lift American heifer, . the morning runs into a huge office Sharps, . wearing a shirt with the inscription retarded - to heighten the outrageous. Clayton Harding met him quite cold,
. Sydney must understand that he has - not a shark pen, but rather - fine priglamurennaya mouse. He even had still not a journalist - well, sort of errand boy. However, Young has a chance to rise in the Sharp, if he managed to learn the rules of the game, explained Clayton. His coach is head of the Lawrence Maddox (Danny Huston) - polished secular journalist with a very arrogant manners. Well all, Sydney, said Harding. Come Work. I work in the Yang Sharp had no luck at first quite. He was accustomed to the world of yellow journalism - as he himself understands it - suffocating in the world of glamor, the paid advertising articles and the general atmosphere of sheer hypocrisy. But he has nowhere to go - in the Sharp just such rules of the game, son. And if fate suddenly tosses you the chance to make a series of promotional articles about clients of the famous star agent Eleanor Johnson (Gillian Anderson), - means, . need to grasp at this chance and do not fool anybody's head. Meanwhile, Sydney at the chance not enough, . and only thinks about, . how to fuck a client of Johnson - actress Sophie Mays (Megan Fox),
. For all those watching his colleague quiet girl Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst). Young at first she did not like the sharp, but then she commended his desire to not break under the pressure of glamor, so it is quite possible that between them slip through some kind of spark. And something somewhere will explode. *** Name of the film plays with the famous book king hypocrisy Dale Carnegie "How to win friends and influence people". Inserted it in the second book of a Toby Young, . which constituted a sort of memoir: that Toby Young, . is the prototype of Sidney Young, . worked in the most famous glamorous magazine Vanity Fair, . got it all to the impossibility of its pridurochnoy manners and common touch of idiocy on his bald head with, . but some obscure ways managed to hold on in the magazine five years, . then ousted him with a bang, . accompanying most humiliating farewell. What characterizes, . Young also managed to get it all on the set (probably, . trying to adjust and so noticeably polished and ennobled own image), . after which it was struck out and there,
. Sam Young dreamed, . that it played some sort of romantic handsome Orlando Bloom, . but the producers decided, . that the image of a silly loser more appropriate for я?п?п©п°пІя? Simon Pegg, . - They, . certainly, . were right. Most of the critics say, . that this film - sort of answer picture "The Devil Wears Prada", . therefore, the reviews consistently draw parallels between these two works,
. But to admit that my criminal disregard for the world glamorous gloss meant that the film "The Devil Wears Prada" I still have not looked at it, so let me not to make any parallels. Let's talk just about what constitutes a film by Robert Wide. I will say right away - I'm disappointed. The title was promising, . start was promising, . plot canvas was a promising, . and casting was even more promising (really like Simon Pegg, . admire Jeff Bridges, . quite well after a few films feel about Kirsten Dunst),
. But output has turned out not so much zilch, but the film is very mediocre. First, in the film, contrary to expectations, did not mention how to become so steep bison glossy journalism, all you hating. This covers only the very beginning of the movie, . with a very primitive (s, . disguised as a waiter and made his way to a closed party), and with all sorts of cliches (Sydney unclear, . with a hangover brought with him to the hotel pig, . - Probably, . only for the sake of, . that it smashed the room). Second, . glamorous world of glossy magazine shows a picture of an incredibly sketchy,
. Do not even believe that it is all delivered on the book of a man who in this journal worked for five years! And with logic is the very sort of explicit messy. Why do we Harding invited Sydney to work? Because, he says, he saw it myself - young and toothy. So Yang invited him to toothed on the full program - pesochil all these celebrities in the tail and mane, gabanu them in pole. Instead, nothing toothed he's not allowed, and forced to write glamorous stories about how wonderful he won a fashion director or won is the fashionable actress. Can you imagine a glamorous magazine he is forced to write articles glamorous - oh, what a high flying plot! While Sidney refuses - he completely glamorous ass. When it comes to the conclusion that with the glamor of living - in glamor howl, he begins to write the desired article and then turns into full glamorous chocolate. And then suddenly - oh, what a surprise twist! - Understand, in some glamorous shit he lives, against all this, and removed to nowhere to connect with the poor but honest girl. Ugh! So what is it? Neanderthal! Tutorial "Work in glamorous magazine for idiots. Part One, it is the last. Why the latter? Yes, because you're an idiot! ". The main problem lies in the fact that Sydney, with all efforts, Peggy, did not show a fighter with the system. It shows a clown at the exit, trusty. Judging by the reviews of people who knew the real Yang personally, it was such a trusty Toby Young and has been. Everybody hated, . well tolerated in the journal, . can be expected, . because, . that too one complete moron in the publication have to be: first, . as a lightning rod, . secondly, . all other, . looking at him, . understand, . how not to behave, . and got better and better ... But, . need to add a spoonful of honey in this barrel scenario nevnyatitsy,
. Actors in this movie are very good, and they tend to squeeze out of a weak material, all that is possible, and even that can not. Simon Pegg was harder for all - not as solid a character class, and the stupid idiot should play so that it still felt sorry. Pegg succeeded in this - it is really a good actor. And if not Pegg, . then the film could be immediately buried. Jeff Bridges as Clayton Harding - just great! Several strange to call the King episode actor, . that in the lead roles and looks great (it is enough to recall the masterpiece "The Big Lebowski"), . but that in "Iron Man", . that in the movie Bridges of episodic roles in shows such a high class, . that picture is already possible to watch only because of one them. The second half tablespoons of honey - some landmark episodes,
. In the film, they are many, and they are somewhat smoothed out the overall stupidity script. Which episodes? Institution Kebab Palace in London and New York; noted by subtle differences in relation to the glossy magazines in the UK and the U.S. (in London celebrity journalists shun, . New York journalists to suck up, . just to get into the story); dancing character Peggy in particular - kryshesnosyaschy dance dirty pigs; Harding's speech about the "rooms", . which move people in publishing; satirical moments, . associated with actress Sophie Mays (the scene with a swimming pool at a reception and a film about Mother Teresa),
. Oh, and a separate gift to fans of a brilliant British series The IT Crowd - actors Chris O'Dowd and Katherine Parkinson (characters Ray and Jen in the show) in small episodic roles. What is in the body? Surprisingly weak - with such a fertile topic - and goofy script, . good actors, . some nice scenes,
. Watch absolutely not necessary, but if you can still - because of Pegg, Bridges and a few moments. P. S. Incidentally, the official announcement for this movie - an unusually retarded (although we've seen a lot of things). And the movie he has not the slightest relation at all. Quote: The True Story of America's most famous loser! The whole truth about this gentleman, who tried to conquer New York. For five years he kicked out all the glossy magazines ... He became persona nongrata in all bars and clubs ... With it refused to meet all more or less well-known model and starlet.. He even kicked out of Alcoholics Anonymous! For what? Over the inimitable English humor! What sort of jokes he had managed to recover against him rich and famous inhabitants of New York?