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re: Dazed and Confused deleted scenes reveal previously unknown plot/character details
Posted on 5/9/21 at 12:13 am to Jack Ruby
Posted on 5/9/21 at 12:13 am to Jack Ruby
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9th graders had no business being around 16, 17, and 18 yr olds. They were just too young.
Ha. We were on the high school campus at 12. Some of us were 11 for the first few months.
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Posted on 5/9/21 at 7:53 am to Fewer Kilometers
Meanwhile at my school, seniors dating the freshman girls was almost like a rite of passage 
the seniors dated our class of girls when we were freshman and a lot of my friends returned the favor to the freshman class when we were that age
the seniors dated our class of girls when we were freshman and a lot of my friends returned the favor to the freshman class when we were that age 
Posted on 5/9/21 at 8:23 am to Jack Ruby
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If a 9th grader ever did show up at a high school party, he was either with a big sister/brother
Mitch's sister was there.
Most of the crew we see are Juniors, not Seniors, who would be seeing Mitch and Sabrina the next year anyway. Is there any doubt that Mitch and Pink will both be on the varsity baseball team in this universe? It's also the last day of school, effectively making Mitch and Sabrina sophomores.
And I don't know about everyone else's school, but a few freshman girls were always picked to be included in the party scene.
It actually goes out of the way to break the Hollywood tropes of focusing on the younger kids as a group (Pink and company don't give a shite about the other freshmen and they aren't included in shenanigans), of pairing up the "lead" boy and girl (Mitch and Sabrina both end up with other, older partners and have only the bare minimum of interaction with each other), and of sitting in judgment on age gap relationships (only the audience is asked to moralize Tony hanging out with Sabrina, the movie doesn't comment).
Posted on 5/9/21 at 8:46 am to GetCocky11
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but the one thing I found completely unrealistic in that movie was seniors hanging out with freshmen.
Even worse. It’s Juniors hanging out with junior high kids. The whole senior and freshman thing keeps being said over and over but they aren’t. They have a summer to get through.
Makes the kiss with the “freshman “ girl creepy. Even by 70’s standards. A 17 year old dude making out with a 13 year old girl.
Posted on 5/9/21 at 9:20 am to LSU alum wannabe
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Makes the kiss with the “freshman “ girl creepy. Even by 70’s standards. A 17 year old dude making out with a 13 year old girl.
Almost half of those incoming Freshmen would’ve been 14. I was 16 at the end of my Junior year. There isn’t a firm four year gap between the ages of those classes.
Posted on 5/9/21 at 10:47 am to Muthsera
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Clean up those bangs and she's in the Hall of Fame.
That’s why she’s so much hotter as Connie....
Conehead.
Posted on 5/9/21 at 11:06 am to Muthsera
For Mitch, Carl, Hirshfelder, Sabrina it was the last day of 8th grade. For Dawson, Mel, Randall, Benny it was the last day of 11th grade. Obannion was in 12th grade but he flunked.
There’s just no way that after the upcoming senior class hazes the upcoming freshman class that they’d all party together afterwards. Just didn’t happen in real life. A guy like Mitch would never be allowed to tag along with a bunch of would be seniors.
I think Linklater molded that story in tho because Mitch is ultimately the main protagonist in the story. If all his story encompassed was getting paddled, then getting Obannion back, but not be intertwined in the rest of the story it wouldn’t have been as good of movie.
In my HS, we did have lot of seniors date Sophs. Rarely senior with freshman. And never 8th grade graduates partying with 11th/12th graders.
There’s just no way that after the upcoming senior class hazes the upcoming freshman class that they’d all party together afterwards. Just didn’t happen in real life. A guy like Mitch would never be allowed to tag along with a bunch of would be seniors.
I think Linklater molded that story in tho because Mitch is ultimately the main protagonist in the story. If all his story encompassed was getting paddled, then getting Obannion back, but not be intertwined in the rest of the story it wouldn’t have been as good of movie.
In my HS, we did have lot of seniors date Sophs. Rarely senior with freshman. And never 8th grade graduates partying with 11th/12th graders.
Posted on 5/9/21 at 1:06 pm to Boaz
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There’s just no way that after the upcoming senior class hazes the upcoming freshman class that they’d all party together afterwards. Just didn’t happen in real life.
in the setting of the movie the incoming seniors knew who the incoming freshmen were...ie they knew their names and what they looked like. Once you get past that the day/night makes sense. I will admit that that scenario is more likely in a rural town than in Austin but it’s not that odd where it takes you out of the movie
Posted on 5/9/21 at 2:18 pm to Boaz
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There’s just no way that after the upcoming senior class hazes the upcoming freshman class that they’d all party together afterwards. Just didn’t happen in real life.
I’m guessing you were never severely hazed. Buying a Freshman/pledge a drink after you’ve royally fricked him over is par for the course.
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