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Much creepy attention has been lavished on photos doing the rounds of Emma Watson pole dancing (Hermione’s legal!) in ‘The Bling Ring’. But the real story here isn’t the good-girl-goes-bad stunt casting; it’s that Watson can act. Against the odds, the Harry Potter star gives a sharp, knowing smart performance as Nicki, one of a gang of spoiled rich Californian brats robbing the houses of celebs who, like, totally deserve it. Directed by Sofia Coppola (‘Lost in Translation’, ‘Marie Antoinette’), this is a funny, sarky, bang-on portrayal of the freakiness of celeb obsession. The story would sound outrageous – if it wasn’t true.

Between 2008 and 2009 a gang of high-schoolers, who became known by the media as The Bling Ring, stole more than $3m (£1.9m) in clothes, cash, jewellery and art from the homes of Paris Hilton (who makes a brief appearance), Orlando Bloom, Lindsay Lohan and more. Using gossip sites like TMZ, they calculated when their victims would be out of town and googled their addresses. Easy as. Hilton was even so kind as to leave a key under her doormat. Not exactly criminal masterminds, The Bling Ring took selfies of themselves in designer swag and brazenly posted them on Facebook.

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In Coppola’s last film, ‘Somewhere’, she depicted the meaningless of celebrity life. Here she nails the cult of celebrity worship. In a disturbingly funny scene, ringleader Rebecca (Katie Chang) stands in Lindsay Lohan’s bedroom smothering herself with Lilo’s perfume, staring at herself in the mirror in almost drugged-up ecstasy. This isn’t just about nabbing a Hermès Birkin bag (price tag approx $10, 000) for free, it’s about fantasy. ‘I’ve never been an A-lister guy, ’ says the gang’s only boy. By wearing Orlando Bloom’s Rolex, he’s living the dream.

In films like ‘Lost in Translation’ and ‘The Virgin Suicides’, Coppola gave us lost girls, somehow trapped. These girls are lost too. It’s just kind of hard to take them seriously. Here’s Nicki in regulation A-list sunglasses talking to the cameras when the gang is finally busted: ‘I’m a firm believer in karma… I want to lead a country one day.’ Through some kind of meta-weirdness, the gang soon became as famous as the celebs they stole from. This is easily Coppola’s funniest film. Leslie Mann is hilarious as Nicki’s phony spiritual mum. Rebecca wants to take Paris’s dog. ‘You can’t steal her dog!’ ‘But he likes me!’ In 20 years’ time, ‘The Bling Ring’ will surely feel like a time capsule of now.

© 2023 Time Out England Limited and affiliated companies owned by Time Out Group Plc. All rights reserved. Time Out is a registered trademark of Time Out Digital Limited.featuring an semble cast led by Emma Watson, Katie Chang, Israel Broussard, Taissa Farmiga, and Claire Juli. It is based on the 2010 Vanity Fair article The Suspects Wore Louboutins by Nancy Jo Sales, which dealt with a real-life gang known as the Bling Ring. The story follows a group of fame-obsessed teagers who use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to burgle their homes.

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The film was an international co-production by producers in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Japan. Coppola began developing a screplay based on the real-life burglaries in December 2011. Casting took place in early 2012, and principal photography started in March of that same year in Los Angeles, California.

The Bling Ring had its world premiere on May 1, 2013, in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

In the United States, it had a limited theatrical release by A24 on June 14, 2013, before oping wide one week later. It received gerally positive reviews from critics, with many praising the cast and Coppola's stylish direction; Watson in particular received critical acclaim for her performance. However, others criticized the film for its morally ambiguous approach towards the subject matter.

The Bling Ring

The Bling Ring represts the final work of cinematographer Harris Savides, who died of brain cancer while the film was in post-production, to whom the film is dedicated.

Quiet teager Marc Hall arrives as a new studt at Indian Hills High School in Agoura Hills, California. Soon after arriving, he is befrided by fame-obsessed Rebecca Ahn. While at a party at her house, Rebecca persuades Marc to sneak away with her, and the pair check the doors of cars on the street, taking valuables such as cash and credit cards from unlocked vehicles. They begin hanging out after school, and Marc starts to see Rebecca as a sister figure.

One day, Rebecca asks Marc if he knows anyone who is out of town, and he mtions that a wealthy acquaintance is in Jamaica. She convinces Marc to join her in breaking into the empty house, where she steals a handbag similar to one that her idol Lindsay Lohan has, cash, and the keys to a Porsche, which the pair use to flee the sce. They go on a shopping spree with the money, buying themselves luxury items like the ones they have previously admired in magazines.

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Marc visits a nightclub with Rebecca and her frids (who include Nicki Moore, Nicki's adoptive sister Sam, and Chloe Tainer), where they ogle celebrities Kirst Dunst and Paris Hilton. Later, while researching Hilton on the internet, Marc and Rebecca realize she is out of town. They find her address, go to her house, and, upon finding a key under the doormat, break in. They go through Hilton's belongings and take some jewelry with them, including a bracelet that Rebecca later flaunts to Nicki, Sam, and Chloe at a party.

At Nicki's request, Rebecca and Marc take her, Sam, and Chloe back to Hilton's house. The group marvels at the excess of Hilton's lifestyle and steals shoes, bags, dresses, cash, and jewelry. A drunk Chloe gets into an accidt while driving away; she is arrested and stced to community service.

Marc and Rebecca return to rob Hilton's house on a third occasion and are nearly discovered by security. They th rob the home of Audrina Patridge, using the internet to determine wh she will not be home. The group sells unwanted bags and other items at an outdoor market.

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The tire group burgles the home of Megan Fox, wherein Nicki's younger sister Emily squeezes through a pet door to gain access to the house. Nicki discovers a handgun inside, and Sam playfully threats Marc with it before taking it to her boyfrid Rob's home. Wh he grabs her, the gun goes off, though no one is injured.

The group ters the home of Orlando Bloom and his girlfrid, Miranda Kerr. The girls steal various items and Marc finds a case filled with sev of Bloom's Rolex watches and a roll of cash. Chloe helps Marc sell the watches to her frid Ricky, a night club manager. The tes later return to Hilton's house with Rob, who finds and steals large amounts of jewelry.

A news report containing security footage from the robbery at Patridge's home concerns Marc, but Rebecca is undeterred. She instigates a burglary at the home of Rachel Bilson, and the group ultimately breaks into Lohan's house and robs it. Shortly thereafter, Rebecca moves to Las Vegas with her father, ostsibly due to troubles at home, leaving some of her stol items with Marc.

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Media coverage of the Hollywood Hills burglaries intsifies, and the group acquires the label The Bling Ring. Authorities ultimately idtify the group using security footage from several robberies, statemts from members of the group's social circle who heard its members brag about their exploits at drug-fueled parties, and photographs of the stol items posted by the group on social media sites. Marc, Nicki, Chloe, Rebecca, Rob, and Ricky are arrested; Sam was not caught on camera and is able to avoid suspicion.

A remorseful Marc cooperates with the police, informing them of details of the burglaries, much to the chagrin of Rebecca, whom he idtifies as the ringleader. A Vanity Fair journalist interviews Marc, still appartly exhibiting regret for his actions, but amazed at how much atttion he has gott, and Nicki, who claims the others were at fault and she is a religious humanitarian. Wh the group is prosecuted, they receive varying amounts of jail time and are ordered to pay millions of dollars in restitution for the stol items. Marc is transported to prison, alone among various older criminals.

In the final sce, Nicki recounts her 30 days in jail on a talk show and reveals that Lohan was in the same facility at the same time. She th turns to the camera and promotes her website, where people can learn everything about her journey.

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In December 2011, it was reported that Sofia Coppola was developing a screplay for a film based on the Bling Ring burglaries, to be directed and produced by herself. Her father, Francis Ford Coppola, executive produced the project through his American Zoetrope production company.

In April 2012,