Dazed & Confused | Making of

when I'm always asked with your favorite moves I said there's nothing like the first days there's always the beginning the the diving board you know that experience I think spoiled us that that passion you know sort of early on in one's career it's it's like it's a starting point it's a total starting quick as you look back on your past back on something you think about it and it kind of becomes metaphor well it means something else if you're lucky you get that shot in life and I think days in a way was my shot it was his second movie was his first big movie it was all these kids first movie I mean there was a lot of hopes and aspirations riding on this there were so many people in that movie who were not famous who are famous now see me in that movie you don't thank that guy he's going far y'all ready dazed was this weird marriage studio and independent it wasn't always smiles and it wasn't always harmonious okay we didn't get the corporate love you know but how could we ever imagined we could have but what we did get was a film that we all put our hearts into and that this was you know what we did that summer [Music] [Music] in 1991 a film line slacker came out and became kind of an independent success of of that year little $23,000 film from nowhere shot on 16 millimeter kind of becomes a minor cult film Rick had this idea to do an American Graffiti for the seventies I just found myself in this great position of like have kind of cool idea that they might take and studio kind of interested it was that one little window you're occasionally given in this lifetime where things you know hook up and I said we'd like to fly you out to LA and talk about this American Graffiti idea you have but suddenly I'm flying to LA first class I hadn't done that before I didn't even know how to put the seat the tray up for your you know breakfast or whatever I mean it's completely savvy and hugely cool and sophisticated and he was a kid at a drive-in all in the same person I'd had a little lunch with Jim right before and he was talking me I'm looking forward to hearing your pitch pitch he kept hearing saying the word pitch I'm like am I supposed to do something like pitch what is that I remember just thinking like this is that moment where your whole life hangs in a balance so I remember just just talking I didn't like jump up on the desk like something out of the player where you go first shot goes up of I just started talking about the movie and the characters and the tone of it I always saw the movie as we're dropping in on May 28 1976 it's the last day of school we get to know all these people both high school people and junior high people going into high school and we spend one evening with them and what you know happens in this one evening is what the story is and there's there's no one huge dramatic arch but there's a lot of little ones one of the few kind of through-line plot points in the whole movie is these the fear of these hazing initiation rituals that you know the boys would get paddled and the women would just get stuff dumped all over them it's nothing as grandiose as going off to the war or not or moving to another you know the older kids are junior so they're back the next year it's not whether to go to college or not the stakes are low but it's your life so the stakes are actually pretty high it's what we've been looking for all of our lives man I mean you Benny we're gonna be champions together all I'm saying is that if I do play next year it's gonna be on my terms not there I didn't want it to be this fond look at oh what a great era if we can only return to that time like this was a shitty time you know is it it's always a crummy time if you're a teenager it's just a it's tough no matter when and where it's always gonna be difficult so we made a deal you know to do it and and we started talking about the script Wow there's no script pages in the margin Cynthia's line when it's all over no one remembers who won or lost all the best lines of days we're kind of in the margins we worked quite a while we worked five or six months on this script then it got to be this point that we were gonna make the movie of course at that point we got into that whole situation with Universal about whether they really wanted to make the movie or not and they didn't think was funny enough and you know we were gonna get an R rating for language but there wasn't any naked girls or anything like that in it was already not for anything gratuitous not for anything even obvious just because life was r-rated I mean Jim and Shawn did a good job of kind of forcing this film into production that's what what they did very effectively even threatening to take it to another studio if it didn't if Universal didn't do it it was the only movie where we ever actually had to pull out our deal and say listen it's under a certain budget we have the right to make it trust us so I met some some casting directors and they were they'll seem kind of fun and then one day in steps this guy Don Phillips and I'll never forget I met Rick in an at the commissary and I just was so enthusiastic about I'm working with this guy and I just loved him Don Phillips was this kind of crazed fanatical believer in the movie and in the kids that he was bringing in this guy's kind of crazy but I like his energy you know I like his kind of he loved people he loved kind of mixing it up had a lot of things to say was funny and passionate there's times in the business where there was a crop a beautiful crop of flowers that it's just amazing how many people that times show up at the same time and we had our choices at that particular time at that point tink teen films were out out there that ebbs and flows and it was at a low point right there there were no real teen stars I mean if we were to do days today it would be just saturated with WB kind of TV actors getting their first movie and things like that we couldn't have gone with the non names nobody a lot of the people in days were people we just kind of plucked out of obscurity here in Austin the fire was getting gum coming out of a coffee shop just kind of wandering aimlessly down the dragon and just kind of walked up to me would you like to be in a movie sure oh yeah we're looking for you pal do you want to be a movie star that's a silly question I don't know that's why it's so weird oh not the slightest idea what's gonna happen I remember very clearly like meeting everyone in the cast like the first time I met him the first time they walk in the door my first impressions my name is Anthea Rhett a dumb Goldberg Marissa Ribisi hi nice try freshman for being so brave I'll tell you what I'm only gonna give you five legs okay the movie was coming alive during the casket I mean I love the way these things work out and and the film was totally open for this but there's Dawn sitting in a bar later and I I guess he had let the bartender know what he was doing in town and he found out that I had cast Fast Times at Ridgemont High a few minutes later he's sitting there having a conversation with Matthew McConaughey a film student you know as a junior in college who just goes over and starts talking to him and we did not talk at all about movies we didn't talk about anything but golf and girls and and booze anyway we just had at yourselves a good old boys kind of time and all of a sudden it just hit me away hey I said there's this little part I remember even going like this dear little part goal Watterson and you said you ever done any acting yeah I was like I was in the middle I commercial you know how's it going man hey pretty good how's it going with you hey man you got a joint no not on me man it'd be a lot cooler if he did [Music] after the final casting I just wanted to be prepping all the actors for the vibe I mean they were little kids they probably had no not much of a specific memory of the 70s so I wanted to get them into the into the vibe of it I remember making these mixtapes yeah I'll never forget Rick started sending feed for the actors he even came he'd make these little disks these little CDs he sent us a package of how he expected us to be and what he wanted and I thought it was the perfect thing I think every director should do that because he really told each person what he needed and wanted from them I came there just knowing I got this letter from Rick before the movie started I said if the movie if the finished product of the movie is is written it will be a massive underachievement it was my invitation to the party and I sent him that before because I wanted him to come arrive in Austin with this stuff in their head I see paint growing up being somebody who doesn't prom probably doesn't make a lot of money he probably fears his old man what does Judy hate he just thinks about smoking that long they actually knew what beat that word that they had to take you know and and and the old conductor over here had given the right beats listen I give them like who they're listening to their tastes you're Ted Nugent man and ZZ Top you know southern rock with a little heavy metal you know that's where I found my walk you know that walk and a chin forward it ain't hard forward this is forward [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I mean you have to empower the actors to be themselves and I think that's what a director does he sets up an atmosphere they can do their best work and in this case I just needed them to be themselves and bring their own kind of vibe to their character in the movie I never forget the first time parker posey walked in it totally changed my conception of who Darla could be at first I thought Darla would be this kind of tough broad really kind of mean you know that was just my one-dimensional idea but that my ideas mix with Parker took it to some level I could never have imagined like she brought this kind of cheer joy to being a [ __ ] I've been through a lot of stuff in high school and I'm just bad and you know I deserve to be tortured clean and just have fun I mean I always imagined the female and male nemesis is in this movie o'banion Ben Affleck and Darla Parker Posey we look they're bad people they're doing bad things to younger kids they're [ __ ] but you know in both of those characters I thought there was a charm and wit both in Ben and Parker that would kind of rise above I mean I was definitely the the most unappealing character and their movie full of appealing people he's like a classic bad guy who has a certain debonair you know Oh some ruffians about you know he would kind of put a little oh I'm sorry ma'am I was just squirting you're fine young son home from school there's there are some ruffians about tonight oh and Mitch Carl we'll be seeing each other again hey everybody QC pat you on the back your whole life it seems like that's what you have to do you know what if I don't want to do that the way the scripts is structured it kind of centers on pink he's sort of the through guy which is a really tough part you know I've said it before I don't think Jason gets enough credit for holding the whole movie together and he's not the guy with all the Jazz all the business but if you don't care about him if you don't have a feel for him you really got nothing you know coach I gotta get going me and my loser friends you know we got to go get Aerosmith Tickets top priority of the summer Oh coach I've got I might play ball but I will never sign that maybe pink doesn't stand out as the funny guy but people love Randall pink floyd-- - you know and in that way of like they want to be my buddy they don't want to go get stoned with me they want to be my friend you know and with Rory I'm sure the guys had so many people want to get just high as a kite with him or whatever since then you know who's by this afternoon my own business we know what I'm talking about so that's what you're taggin that's what I'm talking about remember people in the seventies always saying that no matter what you said they're like that's what I'm talking about they just say anything and they go that's what I'm talking about you get a beer that's what I'm talking about was just this weird thing everyone was always saying and so I was thinking I got to get a character to say that more like maybe get just I want to permeate the film with that a little more my first conversation with Rory he's like two minutes off the plane practically he's like hey Rick I was thinking for my character Matt what anybody says I'm gonna say that's what I'm talking about was just like okay we're off and running here and she was real cool - she'd harvest the crops man that's what I'm talking about she put in the in the bushels and stuff and sell it you know because they had to you know make ends meet and stuff I mean what did you ever look at a dollar bill man there's some spooky stuff going on on a dollar bill man I mean and it's green - today's confused was the first time ever that I'd experienced the kind of collaboration that we had on that film Anthony was a professional at that point he had been in theater he had been in other movies he was a little more experienced than the rest it was very confident as a performer like he was one of the only ones who came and like knew all his lines I was like you don't need to know all your lines man they were gonna change those anyway Rick would sit down with us at rehearsal we'd read through the scene and then he said what do you think usually the actor is like the last person on the totem pole in a way in a film certainly not the first - for the writer director to say what do you think gonna play in college but a Brecht play and one of the lines was wipe that face off your head but it was just a bad translation for Myka I mean that's what he translated into from different as I can't say that it's like so Cola he was so open to little things that that everyone was adding he was interested in the instincts of the actors even some of these kids were really young and just was their first movie now there's part of a producer which goes wait a second you're listening who are you listening to what are you changing things around for I remember every day at lunch I would have often a little huddle up with if Jim Jack's was around and would go through what work remained in the day but every day it was like okay so we have to drop this this this like how can we hang onto the story but not shoot all this other stuff you have in mind the problem is is we didn't have a lot of rehearsal time before we started the movie so he was doing that every morning every day on the set and it would eat up a huge amount of the shoot day and we would often get to lunch and not have one set up there was so much to be done in so little time I really needed about 42 to 45 days to make the film and okay you can have 36 you know everything I needed I got about 80% of what do you hear that after the Little League game where they're all telling each other good game good game good game it's just this little bit that every kid who ever played Little League ball did and I always thought it was funny and I just always had it in my head I had to shoot this but at lunch that day it's like well we don't need that it really got you know sometimes to the point that I just said well then we're gonna have to cut this scene he said well we can't cut this scene no to me that's what the scenes all about it doesn't make sense on page but that's to me the essence of that scene I said why I agree with that but then you've got to shoot faster because we don't have the extra day it's well you got to get me the extra day I said I can't I got you the movie and so my script supervisor could say oh but if we don't get that it won't cut it won't cut with this and so like okay I guess we can film it it wasn't enough for me to say I want it cuz it's my movie and that's how I see it that wasn't to be trusted I work and God is stressed out on every movie the way I did on days confused I have a heart I would have had a heart attack years ago okay this first leg I'm going up to Ben Affleck and sync know what are we gonna call like Karl burns mom I mean it's like [ __ ] but is that so we did a series of takes and we let's do one let's I was just starting to amp him up more and it got to where he said you know this little [ __ ] mom and it sounded good coming out Ben's mouth Joey this little [ __ ] mom pulled a shotgun on me this afternoon [ __ ] [ __ ] we went and saw dailies and it was the scene where they pour paint over Ben's head [Applause] and just two days before I talked to Bennis to keep please tone down the language and he said I would I don't like gyms talking to you when it the hotel where is he telling you not to cuz you know who is my co-director my invisible co-director going behind my back telling the actors not to cuss I go on the set now Ben's a big guy I grab Ben I push him against a pole I said don't you [ __ ] listen when you can't say [ __ ] you can't say [ __ ] and he goes like and he goes like woody tell him I said I just watched a lizard [ __ ] this coccyx that said will you talk to Rick I mean Rick you know this is what we thought it I and I was too in a promote I think it's you know I think it's good he's like I can't believe you would do that I'm like what are you talking about you used the word [ __ ] I said so I mean it's like that's worse than [ __ ] I'm like it is [ __ ] I thought [ __ ] was the worst word not [ __ ] he said no [ __ ] much worse you can't you know he's just ah I had the power on the set not Rick it was our movie now it was his vision and we were there to help him but if we really had a problem with it Rick would have been gone I knew he was a wrestler kind of burly you know wrestler guy but I was quick you know I had him on speed so I was already planning like if he makes him move to me I'm gonna back up and start jabbing I was ready for him that way cuz if he could get his bear hug around me and a wrestler I would be doomed so I was ready to do my float like a butterfly and just start I was ready I was ready it didn't get to that Jim calls me from his cell phone on the street in Austin says just slam my fist into a phone pull my knuckles are bleeding I blew open one knuckle and I still have the scar on it and I remember I said Jim it's better than hitting Rick I felt the way mitch was being initiated by this brutal force that was me making the movie being initiated into like how you get a film made with someone else's money you know at a studio level I felt I was being you know the one paddled and kind of running for my life but yet trying to fit in you know somewhat and get long my two-week assessment basically Altona this is two weeks in the production machine I'm making responsible choice I'm like sticking up for myself because I'm under such a tag I don't think we ever really doubted Rick I may have certainly made him feel that way sometimes this is a memo to Jim I guess this is an okay movie or a great movie your job is to enable me room to make a great movie two weeks in I'm making a compromise piece of [ __ ] followed by an incredible cinematic underachievement nobody likes to be pushed but sometimes that makes you better you know looking back I'm much more grateful for that opportunity than I was at the time I was just kind of you know I thought I should have had more of everything but I was lucky I had what I had and all you know takes a lot to step back and go I'm just lucky now I went to make a film every day I kind of tell myself I'm just lucky I'm getting to do this security fascist comes up to me and you know okay that's it you're outta here you're out of here you're gonna be a victim I said you can't affect me I'm riding in the service elevator he comes right up to my face and he says he goes don't you tell me what I can or cannot do do you understand me I run this hotel you're just a punk we just went insane and just just wrought havoc on that hotel yes I really needed to bite him I really needed a turtle ashtray I had to have it take back to LA it's horrible I bought this shot I bought these pants for $2 I was aware while I was in my world of production that they were all having a great time I think they had a fun summer camp but I would hear stories like oh we floated down the river yesterday or we did else on their days off and I could get a sense they were having a good time which was great I was glad someone was having a good time we're going to smoke our morning crack yeah Parker and Joey you know had bonded so much personally that they're like well where's our scene what's what's up and I'm like you know you're together at all these things but yeah you're right and they said well we're gonna ride a scene so we wanted to do scene and we wanted to do a scene that that wasn't about boys our nail polish or you know the things that were serious bonding we wanted like a hangout really matched conversation like girls you know really have conversations believe it or not they they came back with oh we got a scene I'm like okay we're gonna shoot that scene you know we just kind of went over it I didn't you know it was their scene and that drives a production crazy it's like what are you a scene that's not even in the script we're gonna spend time shooting so we had to kind of sneak it into the production and it was in the movie for the longest time it survived many cuts but the movie because it had this sort of loose style it was too long to begin with so I had like a two hour and 45 minute like first cut we have it was painful it was really painful to drop that scene from the movie so they asked me if I'd ever played baseball before I'm like yeah sure yeah totally never like so never touched a baseball in my entire life yeah I thought how bad could it be you know like every American boy has played baseball at some point you know so Ricci like kind of tried in vain to like throw a ball at me a couple of times and you know it's like hitting me in the head and stuff I would throw the well here catch me he couldn't catch it from three feet away we like put out his glove and hit it like okay well he has no reference here none so when we get out there they have to use a stunt double for the the behind shot where I actually throw and Rick's like okay all you have to do is just do the wind up and you know look like you mean it looked like you know what you're doing and everything will be cool so I'm like concentrating really hard on trying to not come off as a total idiot so don't worry this is gonna be a humiliating evening in a way but I assure you at the end you're gonna look like Roger Clemens so I'm throwing in the balls just like flying off and these like crazy directions and there's this whole little league team of extras that are all just brutally mocking me I was like hey Wiley it's on the look just I need your eyes I need you to look like you're a killer you know sports focus just give me that if you give me that we'll be fine that's the thing I'm most proud of on that movie like I don't know if I can act my way out of a paper bag but like I managed to keep a straight face and not start crying for the scene when all the Little League kids were making fun of me well I told Rick and and you know if God had meant me to play baseball he would have given me a glove I sucked out there so you're a freshman right yeah I'm so tell me man how's the shooters cropper freshmen chicks that's what I love about these high school girls man I get older they stay the same I could tell the crew was like laughing and there were little looks and you know when Matthew showed up something special was definitely going on Matthew was Widdowson it was just it was the cooler the wetter s'en really only had a couple lines and a couple scenes it really was a small part I just think what he did with that part the people don't know you know on page on the paper wasn't much of anything and things got rewritten and things got staged around him and it was the night where you drive this Chevelle through the top now things are starting to happen in town you know and you didn't really have any lines that night we filmed you driving and it was like well let's you know come up with some stuff here right all right [Music] very good cool and we did that all spontaneously that night out it was like we got to get some information delivered because it's like you know as you have this big ensemble you look at the script it's like oh how did they how did the nerds in the car Tony Mike Cynthia know about the rear bust at all you heard about the party being busted right there's a new Fiesta in the making as we speak it's out at the moon town full kegs everybody's gonna be there gotta go okay okay okay so the only thing we have to do you have to give them information but while we're doing that how and why what can we do with that okay so Watterson you know it's been with the you know all the the girls in the high school that he wanted to be and he's been with the good-looking brunette two good-looking blonde everything's action the redheaded intellectual yeah when we did the scene you see it in the scene but we're like locked eyes and like we're right there and no one else knew what we talked about her what was going on it was a really sort of special scene say you need a ride no I got my own car thing yeah we'll listen you oughta just to geeks in the car with now and get in with us but that's alright we'll worry about that later I will see you there the parts getting big it was just like this unfolding expanding character Matthew's father died in in the middle of shooting and he went back for this for the funeral and I think it was your mom who said your dad would have liked you to come back and go back to work so Rick said I'll never forget as long as that Rick said when we come back a few more things for him to do and and he came back and it ended all the way to the very end well one of them was the scene on the football field I thought the movie was buildings in some kind of Apex but it wasn't in the script like well what happens on the football field they talk [ __ ] but that's not what the movies really about what's what's the core what can you tell pink or you know like if his kind of what's going on in his mind that night man it's the same [ __ ] they tried to pull in my day you know if it ain't that piece of paper some other choice are gonna try and make for you you got to do it Randall Pink Floyd wants to do man let me tell you this older you do get more rules are gonna try to get you to follow you just gotta keep living man Li VI n I think that's just a great moment on the field when you said empower him but you know I didn't know this but Matthew just said of it an hour ago what inspired that law I read was mrs. father mm-hmm you know just keep on he's up there but he's just keep him on living - verb this is my final shot of the film how do you feel fulfilled going back after a production like this you just go back to your life whatever it was some kids are going back to high school you know like wiling Kristin's you know their situations other kids or you know Matthew go back and finish the senior college you know other actors are going back looking for work it's gonna be weird to not be able to like get up and go to the lobby and see your friends or call your friends I was like protective like a parent would be like I hope the world is nice to them you know I hope things work out and you know it it can't in all cases and but so you just sort of but you kind of love them all equally I was shooting last night until do you think that's like maybe one or two I don't really remember and Thursday is my last day Saturday was officially my last day but we're doing pickups right now and I'm gonna have to go to school and then like work I don't know how this is all gonna work out it's nice summer camp you know you don't and you say oh I'm gonna call you I'm gonna write you I wish I could this is the best summer I've ever had in my entire life and it's over think about it he's leaving he and I were were you know in the hotel lobbying we're talking about it and we were saying yeah man you know and we'll never I'm never never gonna do another episode of television again you know and that's pretty much all I had done was you know that's how it's you know it started to kind of make my living as an actor at the time you know I was like you know we're never gonna do another [ __ ] sitcom and you know we're never gonna do another [ __ ] TV show bah blah and I don't think it was more than three weeks later where he and I bumped into each other at an audition for sitcom and we were like both like dressed up for the part you know and you know we just sort of spied each other we're like hey so that's that huh I remember watching that you know two hour and 20 minute assembly cut that Sandra and my editor had just kind of put together independently of me and just looking at it and we have a meeting after I was just sitting there going okay so what do most directors feel at this moment when they watch it and Santa just put a gun to her head went when I said okay good so we've got a lot of work to do I was in Pasadena one day and somebody said was handing out one of those tickets to the those like you know free screenings which is which is narrow it was like a test screening I had never gone through this before but the torturous test screenings were they this is the Hollywood invented this I think where you show it to an impartial audience recruited audience and they just watch the movie and fill out cards after and 20 people stay and answer questions like what didn't you understand and so this guy said you want to see this movie and I said what is it and he and the guy littered it was like um you know it's like this movie about I said well who's in it he was like nobody I said what is it he's like I can't we can't get anybody go sit with some dumb movie about like you know kids having sex in the back of cars or whatever and I felt like I said well what what's it called he's dazed and confused and I was like wow the fact is that the distributor did not get behind it in the way that would have sold a whole lot of tickets that's the studio's job is to infuse an enthusiasm you know all the way down the line that permeates the process we did not win the battle of getting dazed the wide wide release it should have had there were there was an audience for this movie in every city you go through all that in a studio level and then you get an independent film release basically it felt like you know why remember even writing a letter to the cast I was like you know they kind of never got behind the film it's not gonna be some huge hit but you know the film will live in some form or fashion and we should all feel good about what we did went off and did a movie time-to-kill which was all of a sudden sort of overnight from Friday to Monday became a movie star sort of you know celebrity overnight a movie star kind of thing that was a big change a big hinge as far as the way life went from anonymity on Friday to walking around being an observer and to Monday being the one observed after today's I did a lot of I did like a whole series of off-broadway plays after dating confuse I made good on hunting I'm a chasing amy Amistad contact before sunrise Tracey Ullman twister rage carried to rent my two dads How to Lose a Guy in 10 days 13 conversations suburbia Saving Private Ryan Shakespeare in Love safe passage with Susan Sarandon waking life waking life I bought my mother a house beautiful mind a beautiful mind School of Rock I got engaged briefly they say have you ever seen that movie Dazed & Confused I mean I was particularly concerned about you know Kristin and Wiley two young high school kids that you know this was they were really just pulled out of obscurity to be in this movie I would felt protective to and kind of you know what can I do to help you know I didn't want to screw up your life you know I was very conscious of this could be a negative been pinching myself since ever this since ever since this started so weirdest summer I've ever had my entire life they were kids from Austin and this movie comes into town and you know I know it was really exciting I finished high school but I finished high school a year early so that I could move out to LA Mickey cat talked me into moving to LA I think it really messed me up being out there going to LA was hard you really have to play the game I really do I was never able to do anything in depth as dating fees and I almost think it just wasn't quite good enough I didn't work for the whole the whole year I was there I finally um I was living I had got an apartment in downtown Los Angeles on rampart which is a really crappy area and I got a job way out in Encino doing tidal effects for HBO soft porn I realized that my greatest skips don't lie lion acting I'm it's much better at working in social service and being a leader in that field I'm Christine host I'm the project coordinator for eyes wide open I believe as this is our world and this is our people and our country and our government and my life is very different now from when it was when I was acting I'm married and I've got a home so I'm doing pretty good [Music] the film came out in September and then I was in New York I saw Parker and she said she was at a Halloween party and people were someone was playing her Darla was that a ha you know people were dressed up as her like it had already sort of grabbed certain people's you know imagination and I knew that would grow over time thank God for video and and cable because it became you know a cultural icon despite you know despite their you know universals somewhat shaky attempts to market it I started to hear things about midnight screenings or at playing oh it had been playing in some town for a year or two at midnight for weekends just that it built up this this kind of audiences I love it watch it once a month the Alamo Drafthouse had this idea to do an outdoor screening like it's not kind of like a drive-in movie and that sort of appealed to me out at the moon tower the original location it sounded just weird enough that I was like yeah it could be cool I mean what the heck you know I [Music] really didn't know what to expect from the event it was really weird walking up and like oh we're driving and then these cars and these people walking with like me you know picnic baskets and bed rolls and you know things like what's going on out here where are these people going and we probably realized oh they're going to the dazed event what do all these people looks like they're going to Woodstock or something these people walking from far away traffic everywhere I'm like what is this really gonna be that big a deal what's going on here what's up man [Music] people had traveled far just to kind of watch this movie with in with a lot of the cast around so it turned out to be much more like I guess special or unique than I would have thought what was most cool about the reunion it wasn't economically motivated it wasn't for the release of a DVD or anything like that it had nothing to do with anything other than hey let's have a party you know let's all hang out so it's kind of the spirit of the movie it was kind of like the same spirit that the kids on the last day of school would go hey let's kegger in the woods you know let's get something going here it was that same spirit that kind of brought us all back together again like you remember there being water here when we shot [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it was a gigantic springboard it was the thing that enabled me to take the risk that I later took I was wasn't mature enough at the time to appreciate the simple value of the experience and now in retrospect it's like one of the most important experiences certainly when the most important experience of my professional life if not the most important in a lot of ways having now had several other experiences it was probably the least miserable of all my experiences it's like that was seemed like the start everybody's lives those involved in that project like it was just such an a beginning for everybody everything seems so totally positive like it was such a score for everybody that's really great to have been a part of it it's there are all these obligatory moments that you have to go through rites of passage little signposts but the process is really everything so I think I'm most happy that everyone involved in days ultimately love the process of its making and that result that really mattered you know we didn't have some we never talked about its results it was so processed wrong we weren't like oh we're making a movie that's gonna be a hit we're making a movie that's gonna be this or that it was just there was into their characters into the moment you know which is what the film was so that was the perfect place everything else was kind of not not the big picture don't you ever feel like everything we do and everything we've been taught is just to service the future I know it's like it's all preparation right but what are we preparing ourselves for it's only now I think as you get older you can say well this was it you know and if you can look back and go well that film wasn't just there so I could make other films that was its own thing that was that was it you know and hopefully you can catch that early enough in life that you go oh no this is it [Music] you

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Length: 45min 36sec (2736 seconds)

Published: Mon May 14 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/CatOnProzac]

The soundtrack to this film is so fun. Such great tunes. And those cars are amazing.

[u/Paul_Wall_]

Pretty much anything Dazed & Confused gets an upvote from me.

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Classic

[u/indiefylm]

This rules

[u/BouquetofDicks]

That was a great watch!

Thanks for sharing.

[u/vancovid-19]

SLOW RIDE

[u/BulletTooth_Tony1]

I had never seen this doc before and I really really enjoyed it. This movie meant a lot to me as a teenager, and it still does. Even more so now that I'm older and have gone through some things. OP thank you for posting this, I appreciate it.

[u/ace101boss]

I literally watched this movie yesterday for the first time, and it was actually really enjoyable.