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04-29-2011, 04:31 PM
I didn't know how much I loved prom until I went to five of them this year," jokes Joe Nussbaum, who is director of his own Prom Yellow &Gold Prom Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/yellow-gold-prom-dresses-c-4_41.html), Disney's coming-of-age comedy opening Friday. "It's such an amazingly good feeling.
"We walked into a lot of high schools to scout locations, and it can make you feel unnerved. You remember it all: the stress, you see kids arguing, or someone walking down the hall looking lonely. And that all comes rushing back. It's not pleasant visiting high school as an adult, and I thought prom would be the same sort of thing. But it wasn't."
Though the movie will be a lighthearted story, complete with standard high school character archetypes of geeks, preps and jocks Mother��s Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/mothers-dresses-c-2_17.html), Nussbaum wanted to capture the intensity of emotion that comes from one of the most memorable (or notorious) nights in adolescent life.
Aimee Teegarden (TV's Friday Night Lights) stars as the know-it-all good girl who runs the prom committee and finds herself drawn to a guy who couldn't care less about it (newcomer Thomas McDonell).
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"It's set in your head when you're a little kid �� prom is that defining moment, when you get to look back on your school career and have a moment just for yourself," she says.
But nothing seemed that magical during a visit to the set last year, where it was 106 degrees at the vast high school track field in California's San Fernando Valley.
Getty Images
Just the right suit: Director Joe Nussbaum arrives at the premiere of his coming-of-age comedy at the El Capitan theater in Los Angeles.
The scene being shot takes place at a storage shed A-Line dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com), where the planning committee has just finished creating decorations for the dance's "Starry Night" theme. Soon after in the film, the shed is accidentally set on fire, destroying everything.
Right now, it feels as if it might just spontaneously combust on its own.
Real school is out for the summer, but costumed lacrosse players, cheerleaders and a ragtag group of school-dance planners are scattered across the field.
It's supposed to be springtime, but the actors are in hell. A broiling sun roasts the production alive. Nussbaum is with producer Justin Springer in the shaded tent watching the scene play out on video. They look like they're in a sauna.
Joe Adler, playing a dim and peculiar student named Rolo, has his legs wrapped entirely in ACE bandages. A quirk of the character? No Bridesmaid Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/bridesmaid-dresses-c-2_15.html), the actor is just extremely fair-skinned. "This is simply to keep me from getting too red," he says with a laugh.
Rolo is one of an ensemble of familiar though slightly skewed characters in the high school story. He's not quite a nerd, definitely not a jock Strapless Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/strapless-dresses-c-3_22.html), but not an outsider, either. The cute girls he's working with on the prom committee don't believe his story about a girlfriend from Canada.
No separation of cliques
"He's a good guy. He's not a loser," Adler says. "He's just not there all the time."
One thing the movie tries to do differently is show the mingling among cliques. They aren't as separate as some teen films would suggest.
"What I like about this movie is it's a little more real in that sense Purple Prom Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/purple-prom-dresses-c-4_37.html)," Adler says. "The offbeat character sometimes is friends with the straight-A people."
Teegarden is definitely one of the latter, playing teacher's pet Nova Prescott, who finds herself stuck working with bitter outsider Jesse Richter (McDonell) after he gets blamed for the fire.
"Nova is the person you all knew would be a politician when she grows up, or run a Fortune 500 company," Teegarden says.
In other words, she's not someone very open to the unexpected.
There's a darker side to such expectations, which the movie will attempt to explore �� though there are more adult territories that a Disney film can't go into.
McDonell, meanwhile, seems as cynical about it all as his jaded character. "The problem is not whether (the movie) actually includes things like drugs or ######," he says. "The problem would be to not feel the freedom to talk about real life. But we've managed to be free, though there are some constraints there."
There are elements of growing up fast that have nothing to do with an R rating. Most people remember that couple from high school who seemed like a middle-aged husband and wife even though they weren't old enough to vote.
"We're that very cute couple that makes you want to vomit Graduation Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/graduation-dresses-c-2_19.html)," jokes Jared Kusnitz, who plays half of that relationship in Prom.
Yin Chang is the other half, and the two refer to their characters by their own names, making it easy to mistake the actors for actually dating.
The film deals with a reality that many long-term teen couples face: graduation and life at separate colleges.
"They start off very steady, but real life intervenes. It's your future, what do you want? That's when you're weighing the options �� boyfriend/girlfriend or future?" Chang says.
Finally, there's The Gossip, a busybody so preoccupied with everyone else's life that she doesn't have one of her own. In this film, she's Ali Gomez (played by Janelle Ortiz).
"We have one more night to be a group before we all disperse, and we might never see each other again," Ortiz says. "But when you hang out together that one night, that's why it's so important."
It's almost impossible to live up to the expectations of a prom, Teegarden says. But everyone tries.
At the real proms, "kids were like Wedding Guest Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/wedding-guest-dresses-c-2_13.html), 'Hey Sweetheart Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/sweetheart-dresses-c-3_30.html)! You look great! Omigod!' They're all dressed up, and they're hugging," Nussbaum says. "And it's because they're almost done."
By "almost done," what he means is that most adults forget prom is really a goodbye party. Graduating seniors will soon be going their separate ways, perhaps never to reunite, and never with the same closeness.
"High school elevates all the highs and lows in life," Nussbaum says. "Everything is a big deal. It's supercharged emotionally."
With this prom dress ...
"It's kind of like a wedding day," Teegarden adds.
Nussbaum agrees: "You put 'wedding' in front of any other word and it takes on a much different meaning. Prom is the same way. There's a dress, and then there's your prom dress, and you're supposed to go shopping for it four times, and pick it out with your mom and friends, and you'll remember it forever."
Though it's a Disney movie, it's not all sunshine and cheer.
Nussbaum says he wants to explore the pressures of being that age, too. It's what separates a kiddie high school movie from something that touches even with those who aren't kids anymore.
He witnessed that stress firsthand on his five excursions to study local proms. "I was walking by a table where this girl was just bawling her eyes out," Nussbaum says, though he had no idea what had gone wrong.
"She was like, 'I planned for this for soooo loooong!' She really did. And that's what gives it so much importance, and hopefully that's what will make the movie resonate."Topics related articles:
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"We walked into a lot of high schools to scout locations, and it can make you feel unnerved. You remember it all: the stress, you see kids arguing, or someone walking down the hall looking lonely. And that all comes rushing back. It's not pleasant visiting high school as an adult, and I thought prom would be the same sort of thing. But it wasn't."
Though the movie will be a lighthearted story, complete with standard high school character archetypes of geeks, preps and jocks Mother��s Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/mothers-dresses-c-2_17.html), Nussbaum wanted to capture the intensity of emotion that comes from one of the most memorable (or notorious) nights in adolescent life.
Aimee Teegarden (TV's Friday Night Lights) stars as the know-it-all good girl who runs the prom committee and finds herself drawn to a guy who couldn't care less about it (newcomer Thomas McDonell).
*
##############: Meet your 'Prom' dates
"It's set in your head when you're a little kid �� prom is that defining moment, when you get to look back on your school career and have a moment just for yourself," she says.
But nothing seemed that magical during a visit to the set last year, where it was 106 degrees at the vast high school track field in California's San Fernando Valley.
Getty Images
Just the right suit: Director Joe Nussbaum arrives at the premiere of his coming-of-age comedy at the El Capitan theater in Los Angeles.
The scene being shot takes place at a storage shed A-Line dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com), where the planning committee has just finished creating decorations for the dance's "Starry Night" theme. Soon after in the film, the shed is accidentally set on fire, destroying everything.
Right now, it feels as if it might just spontaneously combust on its own.
Real school is out for the summer, but costumed lacrosse players, cheerleaders and a ragtag group of school-dance planners are scattered across the field.
It's supposed to be springtime, but the actors are in hell. A broiling sun roasts the production alive. Nussbaum is with producer Justin Springer in the shaded tent watching the scene play out on video. They look like they're in a sauna.
Joe Adler, playing a dim and peculiar student named Rolo, has his legs wrapped entirely in ACE bandages. A quirk of the character? No Bridesmaid Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/bridesmaid-dresses-c-2_15.html), the actor is just extremely fair-skinned. "This is simply to keep me from getting too red," he says with a laugh.
Rolo is one of an ensemble of familiar though slightly skewed characters in the high school story. He's not quite a nerd, definitely not a jock Strapless Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/strapless-dresses-c-3_22.html), but not an outsider, either. The cute girls he's working with on the prom committee don't believe his story about a girlfriend from Canada.
No separation of cliques
"He's a good guy. He's not a loser," Adler says. "He's just not there all the time."
One thing the movie tries to do differently is show the mingling among cliques. They aren't as separate as some teen films would suggest.
"What I like about this movie is it's a little more real in that sense Purple Prom Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/purple-prom-dresses-c-4_37.html)," Adler says. "The offbeat character sometimes is friends with the straight-A people."
Teegarden is definitely one of the latter, playing teacher's pet Nova Prescott, who finds herself stuck working with bitter outsider Jesse Richter (McDonell) after he gets blamed for the fire.
"Nova is the person you all knew would be a politician when she grows up, or run a Fortune 500 company," Teegarden says.
In other words, she's not someone very open to the unexpected.
There's a darker side to such expectations, which the movie will attempt to explore �� though there are more adult territories that a Disney film can't go into.
McDonell, meanwhile, seems as cynical about it all as his jaded character. "The problem is not whether (the movie) actually includes things like drugs or ######," he says. "The problem would be to not feel the freedom to talk about real life. But we've managed to be free, though there are some constraints there."
There are elements of growing up fast that have nothing to do with an R rating. Most people remember that couple from high school who seemed like a middle-aged husband and wife even though they weren't old enough to vote.
"We're that very cute couple that makes you want to vomit Graduation Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/graduation-dresses-c-2_19.html)," jokes Jared Kusnitz, who plays half of that relationship in Prom.
Yin Chang is the other half, and the two refer to their characters by their own names, making it easy to mistake the actors for actually dating.
The film deals with a reality that many long-term teen couples face: graduation and life at separate colleges.
"They start off very steady, but real life intervenes. It's your future, what do you want? That's when you're weighing the options �� boyfriend/girlfriend or future?" Chang says.
Finally, there's The Gossip, a busybody so preoccupied with everyone else's life that she doesn't have one of her own. In this film, she's Ali Gomez (played by Janelle Ortiz).
"We have one more night to be a group before we all disperse, and we might never see each other again," Ortiz says. "But when you hang out together that one night, that's why it's so important."
It's almost impossible to live up to the expectations of a prom, Teegarden says. But everyone tries.
At the real proms, "kids were like Wedding Guest Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/wedding-guest-dresses-c-2_13.html), 'Hey Sweetheart Dresses (http://www.fashion7days.com/sweetheart-dresses-c-3_30.html)! You look great! Omigod!' They're all dressed up, and they're hugging," Nussbaum says. "And it's because they're almost done."
By "almost done," what he means is that most adults forget prom is really a goodbye party. Graduating seniors will soon be going their separate ways, perhaps never to reunite, and never with the same closeness.
"High school elevates all the highs and lows in life," Nussbaum says. "Everything is a big deal. It's supercharged emotionally."
With this prom dress ...
"It's kind of like a wedding day," Teegarden adds.
Nussbaum agrees: "You put 'wedding' in front of any other word and it takes on a much different meaning. Prom is the same way. There's a dress, and then there's your prom dress, and you're supposed to go shopping for it four times, and pick it out with your mom and friends, and you'll remember it forever."
Though it's a Disney movie, it's not all sunshine and cheer.
Nussbaum says he wants to explore the pressures of being that age, too. It's what separates a kiddie high school movie from something that touches even with those who aren't kids anymore.
He witnessed that stress firsthand on his five excursions to study local proms. "I was walking by a table where this girl was just bawling her eyes out," Nussbaum says, though he had no idea what had gone wrong.
"She was like, 'I planned for this for soooo loooong!' She really did. And that's what gives it so much importance, and hopefully that's what will make the movie resonate."Topics related articles:
http://www.acuraforums.com/forum/showthread.php?p=13082#post13082
http://alesana.net/##############/displayimage.php?pos=-204
http://www.morocolandia.com/foros/showthread.php?p=291479#post291479
http://www.mybaby123.com/shenglong/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=11757&extra=page%3D1
http://www.7pws.tk/read.php?tid=29761