Wanna feel old? Dazed & Confused turns 25 today

[AUS-97HORN 11,757]

holy fucking shit.  released Sept 24, 1993

thats 8 years longer than the time difference between when the movie was based vs when it was released.

I was less than 1 month into my freshmen semester at UT.

L I V I N

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/dazed-and-confused-25th-anniversary-728100/

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

I just turned 16 but I didn’t see it until after the fact and it became one of my favorites. I still watch annually, usually in May, to kick off the summer.

Between Slacker and Dazed, it’s always a time warp mind fuck to see how much Austin has changed.

[mdmost 43,001]

That's what I love about those characters in the movie. I get older, they stay the same age. 

[Vito Andolini 9,125]

You’re a pup, I think I’m about the same age as Linklater, which puts us in the same grade as the put upon 9th graders, tormented by assholes like the Affleck character. I’m from Tyler, which was probably a lot like Linklater’s Huntsville in the 70’s.

He really captured that era well, the aimless driving up and down streets, looking for something to do, the townie who stuck around and had to make friends with younger guys because his peers went off to college/started their lives (MM nailed it), the aforementioned living in fear of getting grabbed by an upper classman and having your head shaved, or ass beaten with a paddle.

D&C will always be one of my favorites.

[Sbbruin 21,842]

One of my favorite characters ever.

[RedDirtTexan 209]

Saw it opening night at that movie theater on Riverside by HEB. Great, great crowd. The air was filled with some kind of smoke that I was unfamiliar with. Maybe it was a midnight showing or something. 

One of my all time favorite movie-watching experiences. Pulp was another at the same venue. 

[Parliament 14,255]

Made me wish I had grown up in the 70's.

[smuggs 9,353]

Hey hey hey watch the leather, man!

[RTF Horn 46]

I saw it in Dobie when they ran it every day for what seemed like a year.  I had seen it before, around when it came out, but it was extra cool to see it in the little Dobie theater.  Great movie, still one of my favorites.

Party at the Moontower.

[futureman 22,453]

this place used to be off-limits, man, ‘cause some drunk freshman fell off, and he went right down the middle smackin his head on every beam, man.  I hear it doesn’t hurt after the first couple, though.  autopsy said he had one beer, man.  how many’d you have?

[Macanudo 12,976]

All right, all right, all right.

[RPM 26,318]

19 minutes ago, futureman said:

autopsy said he had one beer, man.  how many’d you have?

Four

[Dutch 4,465]

[Bottlecap 1,523]

This is a pretty good oral history leading up to the film/filming that is like 15 years old, but still a great read

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/the-spirit-of-76-2/

[Errestaurants 2,570]

Reminds me I need to go over to Stiles Switch for lunch.

[futureman 22,453]

29 minutes ago, RPM said:

Four

you’re dead, man, you’re so dead. 

[BurdineBandit 815]

4 minutes ago, Errestaurants said:

Reminds me I need to go over to Stiles Switch for lunch.

I mean Top Notch is down the street. Jalapeno burgers and soggy fries aren't going to eat themselves.

[SuingToGetAMessageBoard? 3,861]

2 minutes ago, BurdineBandit said:

I mean Top Notch is down the street. Jalapeno burgers and soggy fries aren't going to eat themselves.

and they have the framed FAH-Q paddle just inside the door.

[RPM 26,318]

[Native Horn 3,500]

I remember when the shopping center at Brentwood/N Lamar was painted for the Emporium.  And the liquor was actually right across the street (don't forget to eat your vegetables).  

[Native Horn 3,500]

4 minutes ago, RPM said:

Oh I SAW that!  I fucking saw that!!

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Tampering with mail boxes is a felony offense.

[Doc Reeves 6,434]

Got damn I loved that fuckin movie

[Doc Reeves 6,434]

2 hours ago, smuggs said:

Hey hey hey watch the leather, man!

 Without hyperbole, best line ever. 

Channels Faust, Shakespeare and Tolstoy all at the same time

[South Austin 52,463]

3 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

One of my favorite characters ever.

Check you later.

[lateshow 1,304]

Why do you gotta be such a dork?

[Bateshorn 9,927]

csb alert/

I saw a night scene that was later cut being filmed.  A buddy and I were drunk and stumbled on the scene being filmed and were watching them set up.  We chatted up a PA for a while.  We got bored and started fucking around down the block, being loud.  Richard Linklater yelled at us to shut the fuck up.

So, there you go.

Edited September 24, 2018 by Bateshorn

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

csb alert/
I saw a night scene that was later cut being filmed.  A buddy and I were drunk and stumbled on the scene being filmed and were watching them set up.  We chatted up a PA for a while.  We got bored and started fucking around down the block, being loud.  Richard Linklater yelled at us to shut the fuck up.
So, there you go.

Which scene? I just finished watching 25 minutes of deleted scenes because I am bored at work.

[Bateshorn 9,927]

The PA said something about a girl in the movie being from a poor background or something and not wanting a dude she was seeing she lived in a trailer.  I didn't see a sub plot about one of the kids being poor so I don't think it made it in.

It was in a residential neighborhood. Maybe it didn't even clear dailies.

Edited September 24, 2018 by Bateshorn

[Bottlecap 1,523]

didn't realize it until 4 or 5 years ago that the gas n go where they do their 'beer run' is the Shell station right by Draught House

[CooterBrown 18,006]

1 hour ago, BurdineBandit said:

I mean Top Notch is down the street. Jalapeno burgers and soggy fries aren't going to eat themselves.

Longhorn Special FTW.

 

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

didn't realize it until 4 or 5 years ago that the gas n go where they do their 'beer run' is the Shell station right by Draught House

Back in 2003 or so, my younger brother and I tried to find all the major filming locations. Obviously, this was before all of them were easily found online. That shell station was one of the first we found. We didn’t find the baseball field (which is allandale, close to the baseball fields we originally suspected) nor the car wash where they clean off the girls after hazing. I think it was torn down.

[Mez2 4,023]

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/9/24/17894542/dazed-and-confused-linklater-music-soundtrack

[Errestaurants 2,570]

14 minutes ago, Mez2 said:

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/9/24/17894542/dazed-and-confused-linklater-music-soundtrack

 

[PittsburghTiger 6,178]

Richard Linklater: But at that time, teen movies were John Hughes movies. There was so much drama. Maybe I’m an undramatic guy, but I remember a complete lack of anything big going on in high school. The essence of being a teen to me was a whole lot of energy and music but nothing much technically happening. On any given night there wasn’t a car wreck. There was no one impregnated, no huge love story from the wrong side of the tracks. 

--------------------

 

I think he pretty much describes in this paragraph why it is such an appealing film. 

[Sbbruin 21,842]

Mitch was a little annoying piece of shit though.  He was kinda like the "Maggie from Caddyshack" of this movie.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8,817]

Yyyyyep. Inconvenience indeed. Wrong mr. Pickford resdience all together.

[Huckleberry 32,851]

My wife is "in the movie" (she's in the background of the school dance scene). She claims she would have been one of the child extras with more screen time if she hadn't had a family vacation that screwed it up. And since I know the rules:

imgur

She was 15 you pervs.

[futureman 22,453]

would not bang

[Parliament 14,255]

Is she the one who got felt up?

 

Also:

 

Edited September 24, 2018 by Parliament

[kopp0e 1,135]

Well, alright/ alright/ alright/ alright..!

 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8,817]

My wife is "in the movie" (she's in the background of the school dance scene). She claims she would have been one of the child extras with more screen time if she hadn't had a family vacation that screwed it up. And since I know the rules:

imgur>

She was 15 you pervs.
Pointy elbows, box jaw. Out.

[Deej 76,759]

3 hours ago, Bottlecap said:

didn't realize it until 4 or 5 years ago that the gas n go where they do their 'beer run' is the Shell station right by Draught House

Was Ballard's grocery back then. Went to school with one of the Ballard kids. You can just see the Draught House on the left as they peel off down the street.

Edited September 24, 2018 by Deej

[RPM 26,318]

[Stunns38 3,460]

A few of my middle school/high school buddies from the Austin part of the Pville ISD were extras in that movie during the dance and baseball game. Damn, that’s a long time ago.

[phdhorn 6,224]

I wanted her. Badly.

[wood 11,225]

3 hours ago, phdhorn said:

I wanted her. Badly.

Holy shit. Yep. Same here. 

[wood 11,225]

14 hours ago, mdmost said:

That's what I love about those characters in the movie. I get older, they stay the same age. 

Yeah and the sleeping shop teacher in one of the High School (Bedichek) scenes was Mr. McFarland, my Bedichek shop teacher 15 years before the film was released, in 1978. Talk about making me feel old...   Furk.

Edited September 25, 2018 by wood

[Native Horn 3,500]

9 hours ago, phdhorn said:

I wanted her. Badly.

"Are you in, or out?"

"In"

[1978horn 892]

13 hours ago, Deej said:

Was Ballard's grocery back then. Went to school with one of the Ballard kids. You can just see the Draught House on the left as they peel off down the street.

Great family.  i grew up with the youngest one.  They owned a number of stores around the Austin area.  Just ran into the mom last weekend.  I knew a number of people in the movie as extras.

Played baseball on that field growing up.  A lot of those scenes were filmed in Allandale where I grew up.  The front yard that they cut through in the chase scene was lived in by a kid at my elementary schools house.  There is an old cemetery right behind it.  The were some scenes also shot Northwest rec center on Allandale/Koenig lane.

The hazing scenes were shot at a old movie theater on Hancock close to Burnet.