“She’s skinny Amber, not deaf.”
Who knew a movie about a Minnesota high school beauty pageant could be so irreverent and hilarious? Drop Dead Gorgeous is one of my all time favorite movies because it not-so-subtly lampoons Minnesota and the cultural rituals that we take for granted as native Midwesterners.
The talented cast exaggerate the common “Ya sure you betcha” accent that some of us have. To be honest, I have a slight Minnesotan/Norweigan twang on some of my words with long “O” sounds and I add “You know” to the end of sentences when it clearly serves no purpose grammatically.
I bring up the movie because while I was at work last week, my friend Kia and I were chatting about a really good idea she had and she quoted the movie. She said, “People ask me where I get this stuff. I don’t know, maybe it’s a gift from God or somethin’.” And I said, “You think they’d have the parking lot of America to go with the Mall of America.” We giggled, a lot.
Everyone else in the room wanted to know what we were talking about, and surprisingly all but one of my fellow Student Ambassadors had seen the movie (fellow blogger Preeti Sam). (I usually find that few people have heard of the movie let alone, seen it.) In my book, not seeing this movie is a serious offense and we had to fix this! So we had a movie night and spoke with very strong Minnesotan accents for the whole evening; it was glorious!