Dazed and Confused at 20

I can't even imagine what growing up with the Internet must be like... I remember what a big deal it was to your hands on an issue of Playboy 20+ years ago...

 

Kids today have it so easy.
When I was young, we had to walk through the snow to look at porn. We had to walk up hill, both ways. We had to fight off grizzly bears with our boners.

 

Hand. The other one was busy.

 

But they don't know any different, so it's probably not as big of a deal.

The Internet has taken a lot of wonderment out of life, including that rite of passage peek of a Playboy you had as a kid.

 

Linklater says that he film a "spiritual sequel" to Dazed (set in college) this fall...


http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2013/05/richard-linklater-is-still-planning-to-make-a-dazed-and-confused-sequel-this-year?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+uproxx%2Ffilmdrunk+%28Film+Drunk%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

 

Can't see how this is going to fly.

The original cast of course is all 20 years older, in their late 30s or 40s, so none of them can even appear in a movie set in college.

You could recast characters, "Hi Wooderson," "what's up Mitch," etc etc., but you'd have to spend half the movie explaining which new actor was supposed to correspond to the old character.

The phrase 'spiritual sequel' makes it sound like the 'Major League' sequels in which they talked about guys from the first movie but you never saw them, except for some random cameos.

If Linklater did an actual age-appropriate sequel, the characters would be picking up in the mid-1990s, about the time the actual movie came out.

I suppose a funny story could be told about the original "D&C" characters all being tracked down and signed up by a slick Hollywood producer to serve as consultants on a movie about stoner teens in the 1970s.

Make Wooderson a Baptist preacher now, going nuts about his depiction as a poon hound. "That guy doesn't even look like me!!"

 

I thought the straight to video Stoned Age was much funnier and closer to the "truth" than Dazed ever was.

 

Linklater doesn't seem like the type to do Dazed and Confused: Back to the Minors. When he says "spiritual sequal" my guess is he means another movie that is very much out of his own experiences, but set in college a few years later, but not the same characters. I wouldn't think this is going to be a "let's see what happened to Wooderson & Pink" kind of film. Part of the genius of Dazed was that so many of us knew those characters, were those characters that we already know what happens to all of them, revisiting them could ruin it.

 

Good God, Mr. Linklater, don't ever attempt a Dazed and Confused sequel. One of my favorites. I think it's easily the most accurate cinematic depiction of high school/high school kids. Not to threadjack, but which kid were you in H.S.? I was Mike, by a mile, ... not nearly as intelligent. (Though I would've avoided getting my ass handed to me by Clint). I was an angry teenager, dissing the popular kids behind their backs while wanting their acceptance. 'I wanna dance.'