The club scenes paint a pretty grotesque portrait of the younger generation: posting pout-faced selfies of themselves enveloped in designer logos and fanning their faces with dollar bills. The film captures the effervescence of that world brilliantly: bright lights, red carpets, red-bottom shoes, wild nights with bottle service and sparklers, but also drink-driving and copious drug use.
She was so into that world I think she’s an example of how that can be affecting.”
She had a reality TV show and you know, it’s this idea that anybody can be famous and anyone can have a fashion line. I met Alexis once and Nick twice. To me, Alexis is such a product of that part of culture. I had a few interviews with the real kids, so it gave me an idea of their mindset. “They’re so enthusiastic and open to trying things. “It’s fun working with them at that age,” says Coppola. It also brought in the more apologetic voice of Nick Prugo, a shy teen who fell under the hypnotic influence of his media-obsessed best friend, chief bling-ringleader Rachel Lee (Rebecca, played in the film by newcomer Katie Chang).Īside from Watson, the film’s stars are all fresh-faced relative unknowns. Featuring the gang’s first in-depth interviews, it revealed fascinating dialogues with Alexis Neiers, who would become the slippery, self-obsessed Nicki Moore in Coppola’s script (played by Emma Watson). They ultimately got caught because they couldn’t resist bragging about the robberies at college parties and posting endless photos of themselves wearing their stolen goods, and were charged with sentences that ranged from probation to four years in jail.ĭirector Sofia Coppola gravitated to the story when a Vanity Fair article (“The Suspects Wore Louboutins” by Nancy Jo Sales) surfaced in March 2010, just ahead of the court verdicts. Using sites like TMZ, and Twitter, the couture-hungry thieves were able to track the celebrities’ every move (as well as their every home-security camera, thanks to Google Earth). They had burgled $3 million worth of designer clothing, Rolexes, cash and jewellery from the homes of such high-profile icons of excess as Paris Hilton (who was ransacked multiple times for over $2 million of her possessions), Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox, Rachel Bilson, Orlando Bloom and Ashley Tisdale.
At the end of 2009, sirens blared across Indian Hills and Calabasas, California, when the “bling ring” – six young thieves from LA’s affluent suburbs – were arrested for a ten-month robbery spree.
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