directed by and starring Ben Stiller
. The film contains elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather
and Stiller for the VH1
Fashion Awards television specials in 1996 and 1997. The short films and the movie feature Derek Elijah Zoolander, a dimwitted male model
played by Ben Stiller. The film involves Zoolander becoming a pawn in a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister of Malaysia
by corrupt fashion executives.
The dim-witted but good-natured Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller
) is ousted as the top male fashion model by the rising star, Hansel (Owen Wilson
), and his reputation is further tarnished by a critical article from journalist Matilda Jeffries (Christine Taylor
).
Do you understand that the world does not revolve around you and your "do whatever it takes, ruin as many people's lives, so long as you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose or people you leave dead and bloodied along the way, just so long so you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose or people you leave dead and bloodied and dying along the way"?
At the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too, we teach you that there's more to life than being really, really ridiculously good-looking.
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game.
Let me show you Derelicte. It is a fashion, a way of life inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores that make this wonderful city so unique.