On the 25th anniversary of the film's release, we encourage you to find the nearest paddle, toss on some Foghat, and enjoy these 21 Dazed and Confused facts you might not have known. The soundtrack also eventually went double platinum back when soundtracks did that kind of thing. Before he was an Oscar winner, Matthew McConaughey was just another University of Texas graduate with a film degree aspiring to be a director, with small roles in a beer commercial and a music video on his acting resume.
He landed the role of David Wooderson after a drunken chance meeting with casting director Don Phillips, which ended with the two getting kicked out of an Austin bar. He then nabbed the role following a now-infamous audition. One of the reasons why Dazed and Confused has become near-mythic is in the amount of future Generation X acting successes it caught in its crosshairs.
That's her in the blue and red striped tank top in the clip above; she walks by at the mark. McConaughey's now-signature character was originally only supposed to have a few lines, but Wooderson got more screen time when one of the hired actors had some trouble fitting in with the rest of the cast.
The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May Wooderson : All right, all right, all right.
Sign In. Play trailer Director Richard Linklater. Richard Linklater. Top credits Director Richard Linklater. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Dazed and Confused. Video Photos Top cast Edit. Jason London Pink as Pink. Wiley Wiggins Mitch as Mitch. Matthew McConaughey Wooderson as Wooderson. Rory Cochrane Slater as Slater. Joey Lauren Adams Simone as Simone. Milla Jovovich Michelle as Michelle.
Shawn Andrews Pickford as Pickford. Adam Goldberg Mike as Mike. Anthony Rapp Tony as Tony. Sasha Jenson Don as Don. Marissa Ribisi Cynthia as Cynthia. Deena Martin Shavonne as Shavonne. Michelle Burke Jodi as Jodi. Cole Hauser Benny as Benny. The idea of teenagers in a car being shot at for wrecking a mailbox seemed ridiculous. It was entertaining, and I appreciated the fact that the word man was said times in casual conversation, but I had waited a year for this.
The movie inside my brain was still better. Obviously, I have watched Dazed and Confused many, many times since that first afternoon, and it has improved with almost every viewing. It now seems like a completely different film.
Dazed and Confused is not a movie about how things were; Dazed and Confused is a movie about how things are remembered. No film has ever combined those three realities as adroitly as Dazed and Confused. Mythology requires repetition. I interviewed Linklater in , and we talked about how we all create our own nostalgia, usually without effort or intent. People always want to return to something they recall being pure. The morals were better.
There was no teenage pregnancy. But if you can tell the difference between how things were and how things feel, you are the only one, man.
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