The protagonist of the Princess Diary is a 15-year-old city girl, and the target audience of the film should be the same age group. This is an era of dreams. Most middle school girls dream of marrying a modern version of Prince Charming, such as an idol singer. Perhaps some of them dare to imagine themselves as princesses, but this daydream is limited to a short time of being intoxicated with romantic literary works.
"The Princess Diary" turned such an impossible dream into a two-hour reality. In the words of the film, it was "winning the Gene Mark Six Lottery". The audience who like this movie must keep a childlike innocence and don't look for the flaws in fairy tales with realistic eyes. The film does not try to reflect the girl's world in all directions, nor does it have any delusion of breaking the traditional model. It just wants to put on new clothes for an old fairy tale. To evaluate the quality of a film, the director's intention is a big lever. Movies like The Princess Diary, which lack depth and creativity, are often attacked by the author, because they are more ambitious and have a bigger budget, and are not satisfied with giving boring girls a colorful dream like The Princess Diary.
Mia is a bookworm girl who lives in a house converted from a fire station with her single mother. At school, she is almost invisible, and the handsome and beautiful girls among her classmates never notice her existence. When grandma broke into her life for the first time, telling her the identity of a princess was not a blessing for introverted Mia, but an unexpected trouble. First of all, she has no feelings for her grandmother, because she never admitted her son's love affair and short marriage in college. Now Mia is "out of the mountain" because her son (Mia's father) died unexpectedly. Mia is the only direct biography of this fictional small European country. If she doesn't want to succeed, the throne will fall into distant hands.
The queen's grandmother, the artist's mother and her daughter, who had no royal temperament, had some "bargaining", and the three reached an agreement to let Mia consider it for several months and accept her grandmother's royal training. The film focuses on how contemporary Cinderella became a princess: Mia's curly head was straightened into beautiful hair, her bright eyes were no longer covered by wide-brimmed glasses, and the teenager's usual hunchback posture was ridiculed by her grandmother, and then she was thoroughly transformed into a noble standing and sitting posture.
The real challenge is not only the change of appearance and behavior. When Princess Mia's secret accidentally reached the school, students, teachers and friends were naturally "impressed". The most obvious example is the handsome guy who only dares to dream. Unexpectedly, the handsome boy played a joke on her, and Mia, who was so angry at her poor ball skills, hit the baseball on the handsome boy's penis with a stick.