Life Lessons from the House Bunny

Who knows that the House Bunny has given me something to talk about in my blog? :P

I wanted to see the movie because I just need a no-brainer film, something quick, fun, nice to see and sugary sweet. I do love watching these types of movies. I don’t know, its just that every thing is nice in these types of movies. And there are lots of pink, usually.

I think what makes the House Bunny shines is the lead actress, Anna Faris. She is just so adorable, sweet and she can definitely get away with murder. Anna Faris’ character, Shelley Darlington, is an orphan and all her life there is nothing more she wanted than to belong to a family. She was an ugly duckling that turned into a swan, and she finally found a family in the Playboy Mansion. When she approached her 27th birthday, she was kicked out of the mansion (there are more to this but you can watch it yourself hahah) and she has no other place to go. She wanders the street and heard a few girls talking about houses and of all places she ended up at the sorority houses. One particular house, the unpopular Zeta is on the verge of being risk of losing their house because they are so unpopular, need to find ways to make people attracted to them. Then came along this really skimpy cute creature and offered herself to become the “house mother”.

Zeta sorority members are basically the outcasts – the geeks, the weirdos, the ugly so to speak. These are the ones that has always been teased by people. People who didn’t have their mommy or daddy to make their life in college easier, people that didn’t have connection. Guys laughed at them, girls made jokes out of them. Shelly’s mission is to turn these girls into super hot girls, and they succeeded. Zeta house became popular and became the envy of the leading sorority house (couldn’t remember the name). During her mission to turn Zeta into hot girls, she met a normal, smart guy played by Colin Hanks (son of Tom Hanks). She found out that her normal flirting ways doesn’t work with him. To get him, she got help from her Zeta sisters and learn a lot of things to make herself more “intellectual”. At the end, even that doesn’t work.

Why am I telling this and thinks that this is worth mentioning?

What I want to say is that, Shelly Darlington, is someone innocent, naïve in so many ways. She doesn’t know much about the world except in sexual stuff and how to attract guys and how to make herself attractive. But, saying that, that doesn’t mean that she is less human, ya know? This is what I want to say here.

Yes, the movie is definitely a no-brainer. But ya know what, I am glad I did watch it. I had fun, I laughed and it made me smile. I won’t say that you miss much if you didn’t get to see the movie but I just want to use this movie as an example.

This movie is just an example of how people sometimes judge people on their looks. Shelly Darlington is a playboy girl. Her ultimate dream is to be the November centerfold. Underneath all that, she is this sweet girl, that doesn’t judge people and always think the best of people. Why? I think maybe of her “naiveness” about the world. She didn’t know that outside her Playboy “fairytale castle”, people who seem nice are actually not nice at all. Friends stabbed each other to be popular, people dissed other people because they are different from them. I see a lot of typical human attitude in the movie, the stereotypes in colleges i.e. the popular vs the geeks etc. I know the movie is a bit over the top but actually, these things does happen in real life.

One thing from the movie is that it reminded us that we shouldn’t make fun or look down on others just because we think we are better than them. You may think that you are better, but actually you are not. They are always other people better than you. Don’t be a snob. Treat people nicely. Like Shelly, she may not know about calculus or theory of rocket science, but she has a good heart. She always thinks good things about people and if there are a lot of people with hearts like her, I think the world would be a better and nicer place. Another thing is that you need to be yourself, you may need someone to encourage you to bring the best out of you (your looks, your talents whatever) but ultimately you have to choose for your own. You have to be comfortable in your own skin.

Hehehe. That being said, go have fun watching the movie. It’s cute really. :P