It Ends with *Bad Costume Design* | Proof that Costume Design in Film Matters
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It Ends with Bad Costume Design | Proof that Costume Design in Fi...
Costume design can make or break a film or tv show–and if that wasn't clear enough before, "It Ends with Us", starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, certainly proved the point.
In this video, we dive deep into fashion psychology, the importance of storytelling through costume design, and examine the failure of wardrobe in "It Ends with Us."
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(meta comment: I think this puts more crit on Lively than Baldoni for the problem, given how much we know about the latter being a dickhead now, but the core thesis is about the costuming rather than the people who made it)
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i mean i agree tho
like without watching yet, because i will when i’m at home, i absolutely agree that fumbling costuming will fumble the project
the mean girls remake suffered from missing the point in the design of the plastics’ wardrobes - it was all clothes so far removed from what high schoolers would normally wear because the plastics adhere to the barbie-style picturesque femme look. the point was that they were so pretty and so (visibly) mature and so fake, so the remake dressing the cast off of insta/tik tok shopping brands kind of missed the whole ass point
feel like the narrator in this show is hyping up "it ends with us" a little too much.
"in the book, lily bloom didn't have her clothes described much to indicate that she was a natural beauty who didn't care about clothes" -> I really just think colleen hoover isn't a very good writer so that's part of it
"adaptations should not remake characters" -> I disagree with this
then she spends some time criticizing blake lively's decision to step into a more directorial role which doesn't have anything to do with the actual movie/costume design.
at the same time I do think blake lively's costume design choices were not good for the story, and that she's untalented, but this is well trodden ground
P.S. you can skip the first 5 minutes if you know anything about costume design, it is a very basic rundown