{"id":3803,"date":"2010-06-11T21:49:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2012-01-26T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T10:18:11","slug":"sex-and-the-city-the-movie-2008-starring-sarah-jessica-parker-cynthia-nixon-kim-catrall-and-kristin-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/sex-and-the-city-the-movie-2008-starring-sarah-jessica-parker-cynthia-nixon-kim-catrall-and-kristin-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex and The City The Movie (2008) starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Catrall and Kristin Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3804\" style=\"width: 363px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/sex-and-the-city-the-movie-2008-starring-sarah-jessica-parker-cynthia-nixon-kim-catrall-and-kristin-davis\/sex-and-the-city-the-movie-poster-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3804\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3804\" title=\"Sex and The City movie starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Catrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sex-and-the-city-the-movie-poster-2.jpg?resize=363%2C512\" alt=\"Sex and The City movie starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Catrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis\" width=\"363\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sex-and-the-city-the-movie-poster-2.jpg?w=354&amp;ssl=1 354w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sex-and-the-city-the-movie-poster-2.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sex and The City movie starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Catrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis. Image: thecia.com.au<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I saw this really bad review on IMDB. I had already seen the movie and enjoyed it so the review realy caught me off guard. Sure, you don\u2019t have to like the movie but this viewer had given it the lowest score possible, called it thrash and named the characters selfish, self-absorbed, superficial and so on. My first question was: Was this viewer a male? While I have some male friends who liked <a title=\"Review of Sex and The City TV Series\" href=\"http:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/sex-and-the-city\/\">Sex and The City as TV series<\/a>, the majority of the show\u2019s audience is female. After all, the show is about 4 girls\u2019 sexapades, friendships and romantic experiences while they hang out at New York\u2019s poshest places and spend a fortune on their clothes. Now, while the show may not be a deep one and can\u2019t relate to all women, it sure as hell appealed to strong, independent career women who were like these 4 or who just wanted to be like them. So I wondered if the viewer had seen this really original and daring show at all.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about a strictly movie perspective, I may not have exactly fallen in love with the movie. 4 characters\u2019 love lives, occasional work trouble and their friendships is not every screenwriter\u2019s dream script. However, I am not just a girl who stumbled on this movie. I am a fan of the show who loved and watched all 6 seasons of the shows and identified at least some characteristics of the characters.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in the back story or trivia, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/sex-and-the-city\/\">visit the show\u2019s profile page<\/a>.\u00a0 Here I will tell where each character ended up:<\/p>\n<p>*Sex and The City is originally a best-selling book written by Candace Bushnell. The show tells the story of Samantha (Kim Catrall)- a totally promiscuous, sexually adventurous man-eater who is also a successful career women running her PR company. She has no limits or reservations. And while she couldn\u2019t have cared less about family, kids and other traditional expectations, she eventually fell in love with young actor Smith (Jason Lewis).<\/p>\n<p>* Charlotte (<a title=\"Movie review of Couples Retreat, starring Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Kristen Bell, Kristin Davis, Malin Akerman and Jason Bateman\" href=\"http:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/couples-retreat\/\">Kristin Davis<\/a>) is every feminist\u2019s and cynic\u2019s nightmare: She dreamed of the big white dress, the fairy-tale wedding and the perfect husband. And while most women could understand her romantic fantasies, even her best friends were amazed as Charlotte left her art career to stay at home and work at a family. They were even more fazed when she changed her religion because the love of her life (Harry- played by Evan Handler) said he couldn\u2019t marry a non-Jew. So she changed it and married Harry. And since they couldn\u2019t have children,they adopted a Chinese baby.<\/p>\n<p>* Successful, and cynical lawyer Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) finally married her on and off boyfriend and the father of her baby\/bartender Steve (David Eigenberg). And even if it killed her to leave Manhattan, she moved to Brooklyn so that her kid could grow up in a nice house with a garden instead of a small apartment.<\/p>\n<p>*And the show\u2019s leading character\/narrator\/writer of her own newspaper column Sex and The City\/author of bestselling books\/ shoe-addict Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) finally married the love of her live John, a.k.a Big (Chris Noth). After a very turbulent love affair that took many levels and forms, trials of friendships and break-ups, Carrie and Big finally got together for good.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carrie and Big decide to move in together and buy the dream house. They even decide to take it to the next level and get married. Her career is also on the rise as she is working on her third book. It is time to say good-bye to her flat and plan a wedding. As Charlotte \u201clends\u201d Carrie her friend\/wedding planner, Carrie get carried away with all the glamorous ideas. And to Big\u2019s concern, she wants him as involved and excited as she is. However Big is older than Carrie\u2019s 40 years and he has been married twice before. And nothing would make him happier than just to go to the city hall to get married.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Samantha has moved in with Smith (Jason Lewis). He has finally got the fame and the career he craved for so Samantha has moved to Los Angeles with him, also working as his PR manager. And while Smith is gorgeous, thoughtful and nice, his primary concern is to make his career successful and permanent. And Samantha is homesick. Big time. She misses New York, her regular hang-outs with her three best-friends and she is missing the good old days when she wasn\u2019t in a relationship. It doesn\u2019t help that Smith is away a lot and her next-door neighbor is a hunk whose sex life sees as much action as Samantha\u2019s used to have.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Charlotte is still blissfully happy with her husband, adopted daughter Lily\u00a0 and beautiful little dogs. In fact she is so happy and her life is so perfect, it\u2019s scaring her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Miranda\u2019s world comes crashing down when Steve admits that he has cheated on Miranda. She doesn\u2019t care that it has happened only once. She doesn\u2019t forgive Steve and taking their kid Brady, she moves back to New York.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Carrie\u2019s life comes chrashing down when Big leaves her alone right before the altar. Even though he tries to make up for it, this disappointment is too much for Carrie. So the story follows as the girls try to balance their lives with trying to get Carrie back to life. Can she handle being without Big? Can Big survive without Carrie? Can Miranda ever forgive Steve? Can Samantha ever get used to living in L.A?<\/p>\n<p>As I said, if you look at the screenplay alone and not the TV show, the story might seem like plain and ordinary that happens to be set in glorious settings. However, for a lot of fans of the show, the movie gives more time with the characters that we never wanted to say goodbye to in the first place. We wanted to see if\u00a0 a-happily-ever after was possible for Carrie and Big. It was fun watching Samantha as she turned into a ticking bomb, trying to keep her sexual appetite under control. It also took years for Steve to make Miranda to believe in love, them as a couple and in him as an individual. Miranda screwed up many more times than Steve did during the course of the show. For the first time, Steve screwed up big time.\u00a0 And Charlotte still is as tuned to her friends\u2019 lives and problems as always.<\/p>\n<p>The magic of the show lied in New York, Carrie\u2019s wardrobe, her weekly columns, the adventures of tall\/dark\/handsome charm of Big, the perfect one-liners and much more. Sure, Carrie spends more money on shoes than any woman should (I mean $500\/a pair? Seriously!) and she probably loves Loui Vitton or Manola Blahnik as much she loves Big\u2026Charlotte is way too traditional and family-oriented. And Samantha? As much as girls do tend to talk about their sex lives in detail, I am not sure how many women go as explicit and vulgar as Samantha.<\/p>\n<p>But these characters worked.\u00a0 The chemistry was good, the jokes were good. The situations were all too familiar among most modern single women, not just New Yorkers. The supporting cast did a marvelous job and the shown was like a really cool fashion statement. I am a week away from seeing the second installment. And I am looking forward to it. Remember,Sex and City has three lead roles: The 4 girls,sex and New York. And we love that combination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001DDBCUA?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pinartarhanco-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001DDBCUA\"><strong>Buy Sex and The City on Amazon.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this really bad review on IMDB. I had already seen the movie and enjoyed it so the review realy caught me off guard. 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