"Yeah, and you don't stop, 'cause it's 1-8-7 on an undercover cop..."
"Deep Cover" by Dr. Dre is one of those songs that you can just sit back in a lounge chair or a car and bop your head to the beat. Introducing Snoop Dogg to the rap music scene, this tune was produced as the theme song for the crime thriller, “Deep Cover” starring actors Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum. The movie is about a uniformed police officer who infiltrates a drug smuggling organization to help the DEA prosecute the criminal network’s main boss and stop cocaine from being imported into their jurisdiction.
The movie plot in “Deep Cover” involves lot of corruption in various areas of the criminal justice system, from cops to lawyers. It got me thinking about the way cops are portrayed in the movies and more often than not, they are presented in a bad light. Our February 2012 King Dong, Denzel Washington played a dirty cop in “Training Day” and Keeanu Reeves was a corrupt police officer who did not play by the rules in “Street Kings.” Hollywood seems to thrive on story lines where cops are of low moral character and it appears to be rare for audiences to find a good cop on the big screen -- regardless of whether they are detectives, street cops or undercover police offers.
Good cops, just like movies with good cops in them, however, are out there -- as depicted in “Miss Congeniality” where Sandra Bullock plays an FBI Special Agent who goes undercover as a beauty pageant contestant to prevent a terrorist attack. So the next time you have a holiday party or other social gathering, try putting a positive masquerade type of spin on the whole undercover cop plot for some lighthearted fun. Host a masquerade party based on Disney's "Tinker Bell" movie, where your female guests are required to dress like Disney fairies.
All of the fairies don't have to be based on a fairy who is in the movie, which provides more flexibility for your guests to choose one based on who they like and/or the costumes that they can easily put together at a moment’s notice. Bess, for example, would be my personal choice despite the fact that she's only in the books since this particular Disney Fairy appears to be the only one whose favorite color matches a party mask that I already own. She and I also seem to have a lot in common -- go figure! She likes to paint. I like to draw. She likes blueberry pie. I like blueberry cobbler. She is messy. I tend to not only be messy but also very unorganized -- have you even seen my non-alphabetized movie collection?! Case closed.
During your party, provide all guests with a pencil and pieces of paper to write down who they think is under the mask during a fun guessing game. The object of this game is to try to figure out which guest is posing as what Fairy. Now, how is THAT for a little no-so-private investigation where the scene is more colorful and no one is at risk of getting shot or arrested?!!
Did you know? - Late actress Brittany Murphy was originally selected to play Tinker Bell in the Disney movie, before the role went to Mae Whitman!
If YOU (or your wife, girlfriend, daughter, etc.) were to attend a party dressed as a Disney Fairy, which one would you pick (or recommend to the female in your life) to go undercover as a masked fairy?
*Disney fairy costume photo by Maryssa.