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re: Dazed and Confused
Posted on 2/19/16 at 8:52 am to SoFla Tideroller
Posted on 2/19/16 at 8:52 am to SoFla Tideroller
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70s (disco, polyester, etc)
this was me. bell bottoms and all. angel flights on staurday nights
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Posted on 2/19/16 at 8:53 am to Scruffy
Without a doubt the most overrated movie on this board.
How is the story "great"? The story is the weakest aspect of the whole production.
How is the story "great"? The story is the weakest aspect of the whole production.
This post was edited on 2/19/16 at 8:55 am
Posted on 2/19/16 at 9:08 am to Scruffy
My Dazed and Confused Manifesto...
D&C captures being a teen in the rural South in the 70's better than any other movie. I was in the class behind the Senior class in Dazed in Confused. The kegs in the park, the drive in burger joint, the pool hall arcade, all were spot-on perfect. When Wooderson appeared for the first time I could've sworn that I'd known him in the 70's. There were like four or five guys like that in high school and college. The shot of him entering the pool hall in slow motion, it was like going back in a time machine.
The entire smart kids vs jocks vs stoners thing had been done before, but D&C seemed to do it better than most. We's also seen the "one crazy night" storyline before. Dazed and Confused did it almost as well as American Graffiti. The entire movie was just perfect.
D&C captures being a teen in the rural South in the 70's better than any other movie. I was in the class behind the Senior class in Dazed in Confused. The kegs in the park, the drive in burger joint, the pool hall arcade, all were spot-on perfect. When Wooderson appeared for the first time I could've sworn that I'd known him in the 70's. There were like four or five guys like that in high school and college. The shot of him entering the pool hall in slow motion, it was like going back in a time machine.
The entire smart kids vs jocks vs stoners thing had been done before, but D&C seemed to do it better than most. We's also seen the "one crazy night" storyline before. Dazed and Confused did it almost as well as American Graffiti. The entire movie was just perfect.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 9:12 am to Scruffy
quote:It is just an extremely accurate portrayal of high school. The in class parts maybe not so much, but the rest of the movie extremely so for me. And I graduated high school in 06, but I still think it resonates with my class
There aren't many movies out there that combine music and a great story essentially about nothing but high school quite like this movie.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 9:27 am to MorbidTheClown
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ove this movie.. outside of the paddling part, that's exactly how my high school years were.
My FIL grew up in the 60s and said hazing like that went on for incoming Freshman.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 9:28 am to ManBearTiger
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How is the story "great"?
It's not. What's great about it is its not-great-ness. It's just one night in the high-school lives of a bunch of late '70s southern kids. The reason people like it so much is that it's uncanny how accurate they got it. Not only the look and feel, but the way everyone acts and what they say. It's like you are there, and THERE really happened for a lot of people. As another poster so accurately stated, it's the most American film ever made.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 9:34 am to LSUDAN1
quote:Hell, Catholic High all the way to the 90s had big brother/little brother groups for the Seniors/Freshman. Brother Xavier said they use to haze the shite out of them. Said eventually a kid got hurt and that was the end of that
My FIL grew up in the 60s and said hazing like that went on for incoming Freshman.
This post was edited on 2/19/16 at 9:35 am
Posted on 2/19/16 at 9:34 am to Cooter Davenport
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How is the story "great"?
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It's not. What's great about it is its not-great-ness. It's just one night in the high-school lives of a bunch of late '70s southern kids. The reason people like it so much is that it's uncanny how accurate they got it. Not only the look and feel, but the way everyone acts and what they say. It's like you are there, and THERE really happened for a lot of people. As another poster so accurately stated, it's the most American film ever made.
Exactly. Compare it to Superbad or Can't Hardly Wait. Fun movies, but not in the same league as D&C.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 9:36 am to Scruffy
Posted on 2/19/16 at 9:36 am to lsupride87
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outside of the paddling part, that's exactly how my high school years were.
We had high school fraternities and sororities and as sophomore pledges we got paddled at the weekly pledge meetings. It sucked and there was always one @sshole who really let into us. But the older guys would take us out on the weekends so it evened out. The sophomore pledge girls had to dress as rats when they went out on Friday and Saturday nights. There were air raids at lot parties where they had to hit the ground and roll around (there were several Parker Poseys who enjoyed the shite out of this) and the girls had to carry boxes of cigs, gum and mints for the older girls. Hazing in college was nothing compared to high school
Dazed and Confused pretty much fit my high school experience to a T.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 9:39 am to Fewer Kilometers
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The entire smart kids vs jocks vs stoners thing had been done before, but D&C seemed to do it better than most.
It did it better than most because it portrayed reality instead of some trumped-up "us vs. them" fake level of hostility that other movies make up. In reality there's a lot of intermingling between groups. Like a Vinn diagram, they overlap. There's some hostility as shown in one part of the Moon Tower party scene, but other films act like everyone just fits into these neat groupings of stoners or jocks or nerds, which is not true. In real life, you'd have a jock like Pink who also hangs with stoners and gets high, and a burned-out former jock who chases high school girls, like Wooderson, who is cool to the nerds and hollers at their lady. And they'd all end up at the same party, which is also accurate.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 9:44 am to Palmetto08
quote:You go to high school in Chattanooga?
We had high school fraternities and sororities
Posted on 2/19/16 at 10:01 am to LSU alum wannabe
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Anybody else shave heads? That was our school thing. New seniors would shave the 10th graders heads. It was a tradition for all of my school years.
For obvious reasons I think the movie rings more true for people who grew up in Texas. A lot of that stuff has carried over, in lesser fashion, but still there in pieces.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 10:10 am to Pettifogger
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Anybody else shave heads?
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For obvious reasons I think the movie rings more true for people who grew up in Texas. A lot of that stuff has carried over, in lesser fashion, but still there in pieces.
Again I ask about head shaving? Was it just my school? There was no paddling really or any other form of hazing except for athletes. But the head shaving was across the board. New seniors shaved sophomores. Meaning 11th graders toward end of the year shaved freshman. It was there becoming a senior "luxury" and rite of passage for becoming an upper classmen.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 10:13 am to LSU alum wannabe
i had hair past my shoulders in high school. no way i would let any one shave it off.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 10:32 am to Cooter Davenport
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Dazed and Confused was based on their town and really earnestly believe it.
Dazed and Confused really is based on my town.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 10:53 am to Jack Ruby
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I think if you didn't watch this as a teenager (especially a teenager who partied), it's very hard to get how fun/sentimental this movie was. Every character was someone you partied with, someone you were friends with.
That is a very good point. This movie was basically on a continuous loop when I was in late high school. I could (and still can) point out everyone in the movie and correlate within someone I grew up with.
What is amazing to is that those that you grew up with never really change, even as that generation of high schoolers that watched this movie in high school make the turn towards their 40s.
Posted on 2/19/16 at 11:04 am to Scruffy
Favorite movie of all time.
It never gets old
It never gets old
Posted on 2/19/16 at 11:15 am to Palmetto08
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We had high school fraternities and sororities
Weird
Posted on 2/19/16 at 11:21 am to Jack Ruby
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I think if you didn't watch this as a teenager (especially a teenager who partied), it's very hard to get how fun/sentimental this movie was.
That's your point of view. My point of view is as someone who was in that age group during the 70's. You see it as the nostalgia of a movie that you saw in your teen years. I see it as nostalgia of a movie that WAS my teen years.
I had your point of view when it came to American Graffiti. It came out when I was a young teen, and we saw it as speaking to our teen years as well. Those closing in on their thirties saw it as a look back at their high school years.
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