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The Lizzie McGuire Movie 2:

29:05, 2019
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The Lizzie McGuire Movie 2: is an unfaithful recreation of the 2003 Disney film, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, performed by Cornell University architecture students studying abroad in Rome.

Lizzie McGuire (Hillary Duff) is a 13 year-old American who has just graduated from junior high. During a summer school trip to Rome, she meets Paolo, an Italian pop-star. An emotionally manipulative boy, Paolo gaslights Lizzie into pretending to be his ex-girlfriend/singing-partner Isabella (also played by Hillary Duff) in order to save his career. Eventually, Lizzie is rescued by Isabella and her best friend Gordo, and all is well.

For many young adults, the Disney Channel played some part in their cultural upbringing. The Lizzie McGuire Movie is just one of many Disney Channel shows or films, which feature American characters transplanted into wildly inaccurate depictions of locations outside of America, where they find spectacular adventure and a newfound meaning of life. In this case, a Disney-fied Rome becomes the medium through which Lizzie finds adventure and achieves some level of self-actualization.

Rome (and the rest of Italy) remains one of the most popular destinations for American university students to study abroad, and has historically served as a key outpost of American schools and other European national academies. 

With amusedly conflicting feelings about the presence of American college students and institutions (ourselves), and the understandings of Rome presented by these institutions and Disney, UBL hoped to at least entertain its peers by recreating this film and asking them about the personal impacts of studying abroad, and watching the Disney Channel.


Thank you to our performers:

Sooyoung Lee
Aishwarya Sreenivas
Lucas Warfield
Tim Qi
Veronika Varga
Ami Mehta 
Jessie Xiang
Emma Vecchione
Chloe Tong
Kevin Zhang
Jason Xu
Nina Koscica
Alp Demiroglu
Aybuke Altug
Daisy Dai 
Sahir Choudhary
Thaara Shankar
Ryan Jaeger
Natalia Gulick 
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