This past weekend my lady let me pick some movies to watch and thankfully they didn't stink. We started with Kinky Boots. I somehow had never seen this movie but have seen the live stage show multiple times and wanna see it again. I will admit it was odd seeing a story I knew but without them singing about what was happening. I will say though that the story is pretty much the same except for one change that was not major in any way and the meaning had the same impact.
This kid Charlie Price is being told about the importance of shoes by his father. He runs Price & Sons and they have been making shoes I would never wear for over one hundred years. Charlie grows up and moves away with his fiancĂ© Nicola. The day they move his father dies which is a bummer. He goes back and is kinda forced to take over the business. Nicola don't want none of that life and being there. She fawns over these expensive shoes and I would have been like “You know what business I run, woman?!” So wasteful. Charlie sees that his fathers business had been doing very bad and was keeping it open pretty much so folks could have jobs. After trying to hawk some shoes Charlie stumbles upon a woman being harassed by a group of men. Side note.
Does this ever work? Like a group of dudes yelling and pulling on a woman? I bet it worked one time like whistling and most women have been paying for it ever since.
Charlie goes to defend this woman and ends up getting bonked by her big ass heels. He wakes up in her club and discovers it is Lola. Lola is a drag performer. Charlie says he can help make better shoes for Lola because the ones she wears could not support a man. In the beginning of the movie we got a little glimpse into Lola's past where as a young boy (mixing all my pronouns up) his father caught him gallivanting around in heels.
Lola shows up at the shop to help design shoes after the ones Charlie made looked like complete ass. Charlie knows how his people are and didn't want Lola showing up looking like, well, Lola. One of the guys wants a slice until he realizes Lola is packing the same accessories as him. Back home Nicola tries to get Charlie to sale the factory because she found out his father planned on doing the same. Charlie had already laid off fifteen people and felt like ass because of it. After being made fun of Lola shows up dressed like a dude and using his name, Simon.
I am being far too wordy with this. I be doing recaps instead of reviews.
Charlie becomes an ass to everyone after agreeing to do a huge show in Milan. Overworking and being rude to everyone. He even tries to shame Lola at one point to where she doesn't appear when its time for the show. Charlie takes it upon himself to wear the shoes himself and makes an ass out of the product. That is until Lola and her crew show up and dazzle everyone saving the business. I did like this movie but after seeing the live show so many times I really did miss hearing the songs I'm familiar with and wish they would do another one. The casting in this was good and so was the story. It was just begging to be made into a musical.
Joel Edgerton as Charlie Price
Sebastian Hurst-Palmer as Young Charlie Price
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Lola/Simon
Courtney Phillips as Young Lola/Simon
Sarah-Jane Potts as Lauren
Jemima Rooper as Nicola Marsden
Nick Frost as Don Burton
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