She says no I have my own car and without missing a beat he says well you should ditch the geeks and get in with me but we will worry about that later. Little trivia, one of those geeks becomes his best friend in the movie Ed years later.
I had the stupidest smile on my face watching this. This film truly means so much to me. This little documentary has just added another layer of context to such a personally important piece of work. Why do I feel so nostalgic for something I wasn't even a part of?
If you were a teen in the 90s when this came out like me , we were last generation to live like this ... music , cars and parties... no phones no computers just good old fun . Hell I had a 70 Chevelle in high school. We listened to all the music of this era and still do .
Yep. What everyone else said. I graduated H.S. in 1987 but there really wasn't much that changed from the time this movie took place to when I graduated. No internet. No cell phones. Cable TV was probably the only real difference. Same cars even. I drove a 69 Camaro in H.S.
On youtube there is a vid of some deleted scenes. Helped me piece a little of the movie together better. Like how the seniors knew Mitch was pitching that night, etc. Also I liked the scene between Simone and Darla drinking rum and talking about Simones mom. Great flick all around. Ya...too bad it's true, young and best years of your lives. Pink, it is true.
I thought to myself I'm just getting into this movie and then bam it's over. I wanted it to go on forever. They kinda left us hanging but love the movie.
I grew up in Austin and had my FIRST TIME two weeks before school ended on 5-28-76.I have always greatly resonated with this movie! And the girls in it!
Yeah I hear you about the watching it every night I was kind of a lonely kid and it felt like they were hanging out with me while I was getting stoned!!!!!
This movie is incredible... It just makes you feel like you're a fly on the wall and experiencing everything along with the characters. It feels so real and genuine... I can't believe how perfect the casting was... It's an absolute gem.
Really good point, Mark. I think that so much credit needs to go to production and editing people. When the evening shot opens at the baseball field where Wiley is pitching. Tell me you do not feel that warm summer Texas air.
The line “If we’re going to die anyway, shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now? Like right now. I’d like to stop thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. “ Summarizes the point of this movie
every single line in this film points out the whole general idea of the film, still think L.I.V.I.N describes the film the most sincerely! A pure masterpiece
What’s so great about this movie is even though it takes place in the 70s. It still catches the general vibe of being in high school, for every era imo. The sense of being young and unsure about your future. Driving around with your friends, and hanging out with girls. This movie does such a great job of replicating that feeling, I think that’s what makes it so special to so many people.
I hear you Thebe. May 27, 1976 was my last day of high school. Senior cut day, went to the beach, we're all lying there on the sand, the assistant principle comes strolling down the beach, walked right past us like he didn't see us. There were a million things that happened in H.S. that was just like "Dazed." Richard Linklater is the only person to immortalize it in film. So I'm gonna say thank you. In the end I know you did it for "us." It was his love letter to the 70's and our generation.
That is part of the synchronicity that made this the right movie at the right time. With grunge getting going the 90s were rather bringing back the 70s anyway.
Man, it would be amazing if Linklater released a director's cut for the 30th anniversary or something. Would love to have an hour more of Dazed. Actually I'm surprised he hasn't done that already, seeing as he and everyone else holds the movie in such high regard, and he talks about how much more footage they had and so on..
The best thing about this movie was the characters attitudes towards that day. To us they was living their best life but to them it was a boring day with nothing to do
I havent done the math yet on his name or work. I have heard rumors though that the second movie was a lot of talking. Not sure if that is cool or not so basically I need somebody to send me a lazer disk into the future of both movies and then I can figure out which movie waz better. Also please send me a copy of chris Delia's new special I hear he has gotten better at comedy also he is like rapping with the top artists in the future.
Richard Linklater is the most kindhearted intellectual badass, with an uncanny ability to make every character (and every person playing that character) effortlessly shine their unique inner light, no matter what the part. Director or not, that's a rare gift.
Richard’s greatest gift that is he nails people in everyday life, both the good and bad, the fun and mundane. The characters in D & C don’t feel like Hollywood takes on a bunch of mid-1970s teens; they seem real and incredibly believable. You feel like you’ve been transported back to 1976 and are watching one day in the life of actual people. And sadly you’re left wanting more…which shows just how well Linklater brought this film world to life.
My mom, born '60, always told me "if you want to know what life was like for me, watch Dazed and Confused." She says it was to a T and how nostalgic it all seems
Where I lived there wasn’t Jr High in the 70s so the High Schools were huge. Also I remember the personalities were not aggressive but laid back. My best friend reminded me of Kramer but he had blonde hair. Brought Kiss “Rock n Roll Over” to show and tell.
Idk about all that but this was a anthem for me and my buds after getting ripped and sneaking back in to watch this lol. This became a master piece when I got high alone for my first time and they ended up playing this randomly on comedy central.
Same here as well. Can think of so many nights/mornings coming home with friends from some heavy/long-hours of drinking and watching this. The part near the end when driving in wooderson's chevelle to get the concert tickets really encapsulates the feeling of a drunken, good, time.
You can really tell in his face how much that hit him but it was important for the other man to include how his mother said his father would have wanted him to return to the movie. think if he hadnt, perhaps his career would have been completely different.
He was truly awesome in this and in Texas Chainsaw Massacre Next Generation. He later did True Detective and Dallas Buyers Club but to me, his early stuff had such amazing passion and energy.
Well, I graduated in 1979 from High school and can tell you Richard Linklater nailed it. The attention to detail of the time, the simple phrases, the music, the cars, the atmosphere is perfect. It takes me back to the "Freaks" of the time and how they dominated all social circles in school. Maybe that generation of "us" just get it and the studios didn't at the time because they were bowing down to John Hughes 80s flicks. If you didn't live in the mid-late 70s, this movie will pretty much show you what it was like. And where Fast Times was good for us to watch, Dazed and Confused was like opening my year book from High school and reliving the time moment by moment. It was based on the truth. Thank you Richard Linklater for telling our story, you did an excellent job. R.L.Turner Graduate 1979- Carrollton TX.
I don't remember it as a shitty time. Going to high school from '76-'78 was awesome to me. I had friends, weed, cheap beer, Aerosmith, Zeppelin, Sabbath, and great cars.
I love this movie. Such an accurate portrayal of a typical summer night, parties, rumors of parties but you still end up driving around most of the night anyhow. There was always that older hangeron that could buy you beer. You were always being chased and harassed by the cops, occasionally caught by them, threatened a bit then let go with a warning and told to go home. It was all so great
Unless you lived with a grandmother who went through your purse while you slept looking for the cigarette stash you'd hidden somewhere else.. but instead she found the bag of weed your "friend" who was driving tossed in your purse the night before when she thought a cop was behind her and had no opportunity to retrieve it without being busted so she just dropped you off ...good times.
Until the 90s the cops actually started arresting everyone for curfew, underage drinking, esp in the suburbs it was the only arrests the pigs could make
Everytime I watch this movie, i reflect and I smile. I graduated in 2008 and it makes me miss my high school buddies, the feeling of change and the excitement for Summer. This movie was cast Perfectly and the tone was incredibly flawless. It's the era my Dad grew up in(he would have been a sophomore after the 76' school year. And from all the stories I've heard, this movie did that era justice. I know when you're a teen, every era sucks but if i could pick an era to grow up, it would have been this one, without a doubt. No cellphones, just a arcade with your buddies, girls and the night.
I'm a big phan of his Phoenix tattoo. I bet he got some time traveller to do it. Probably from a really lame alternate universe but when he came back to this universe timeline thing it turned into a real cool back piece. I did hear that he was a member of the church of scientology. That religion is super ghey in the future they actually have a boat and basically they live in it. I read this also I saw a documentary about it so I'm pretty sure that its factual that basically they led the Gulf of Tonka incident that got us into world war -1. This war was hidden by the Mongols so it's not in our history books. Basically it was pretty bad but everyone chilled out after all was said and done. That's what I'm talking about.
I love that scene where the stoned guys come to the house banging on the door and the dad opens the door they run away it’s a stupid little scene but somehow it’s funny
It was a happy ending though. Floyd went to get the Aerosmith tickets because summer was coming and great times ahead! Senior year was coming too, even more great times!
Every time I watch this movie and get to the end I get this feeling that I would’ve liked to keep on going with them...keep riding, getting the tickets, going to the Aerosmith concert etc. Simply put: this is a masterpiece with PERFECT casting
All time favorite movie. This movie just gives you that feeling of freedom as a teenager and the soundtrack and car lineup is outstanding. Literally just about every character is likable in some fashion. Legendary rating.
we drove up from San Marcos every time someone scored a joint lol it was far too many times. once, we were late so we settled for Bram Stoker's Dracula and we just heckled Keanu the whole time lol
pretty sure "Sabrina" read Where the Wild Things Are at some poetry reading I went to a year or so later... ugh lol if it were anyone else, I would have been stoked lol
Aw man, I was too young for that, but I do remember the Dobie! Had a good friend in high school who worked there and we would bring beer and weed into the theater after hours and have a blast!
Jodi Kramer. My all time biggest movie crush. All the girls were beautiful. All the guys were cool. I spent my high school years in the mid to late 90’s wishing it was the 70’s. And I was wearing Rebel Grey . Dazed and confused and Stand By Me. My two favorite movies of all time . Thank you to all who created such a classic
My buddy just texted me yesterday; "Alright Alright Alright" This film is still woven into the fabric of my (& my friends & families) life. If you aren't hip to Dazed & Confused, watch it! It'd be a lot cooler if you did.....
They really captured 76’ from the fashion, cars to the gestures & storyline! Truly is a brilliant piece of work with an incredible cast & that goes for each & ever one of them!
I love how free-spirited Richard Linkletter is. I understand production freaking out about him just shooting a random scene, but come on, it’s a hang-out movie.
SERIOUSLY!!! Where most of the cast is now and how they've grown is incredible!! Who ever did the casting here has a gift!! Great movie!! .. .. 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Yes there is just not like this I wish they made more movie like dazed,goonies, breakfast club, fast times movies that made you feel you were there hanging out with them it feels so real they don't make movies like this anymore
So glad they made this little documentary. This film was about my era as a teenager and I could relate on so many levels. I know it wasn’t a big blockbuster at the theaters, but so what, I bet if you ask most of the folks that have seen this film, they will say it is one of their favorites. I think I have seen this film at least 10 times and it never gets old.
One of my favorite movies of all time. This IS high school for me. I ran into a HS friend a few years ago and we discussed the movie. We agreed that it could have been written about our friend group. We could easily match our friends to the movie characters. I'm flooded with memories every time I watch Dazed & Confused, and always a little sad when the movie ends, because I want it to keep going.
Me too brother. Truly. I had friends in every little 'click' but my stoner pothead music friends were the best ones. I graduated in the year 2000. 9/11 didn't happen until well over a year after I graduated. What year did you graduate?
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 1988 here. I had friends in every click, too. Many of the jocks were part of the stoner rocker group at my high school, just like in the movie. Good times...
Fun fact, Wiggins ended up working as an Apple Tech and London called in one day with a problem with his Apple product and Wiggins answered and they reconnected. Synchronicity.. (Story was told in the new Parker Posey memoir..)
Matt Sharpe I noticed that too. I did that the other day talking to my son and mentioned my dad. Didn’t hear a word he said for about thirty minutes after that, lost in thought. We were listening to Little Wing and I told him how that song was one of the ones we played at his funeral. Makes me think about that every time I hear that song, but in a good way. He loved that song.
Everyone has their personal story with this movie. Mine is first hearing about it from a few friends and then seeing it weeks later. This was the mid-90s and the movie had been out for a few years already. My group of friends were young, wannabe-stoners so it watched as a stoner comedy to me for the first 10x I'd seen it. We'd all quote Wooderson or Slater. That was about it. Oddly, when I grew a bit older I developed a strange feeling toward the movie: I'd still enjoy and laugh through most of it but I'd also see it for what it is and no longer a cool but cheap stoner film. More strikingly is a specific moment in the movie that crushes me to the point that I avoid the movie now. The end of the party at the Moon Tower fills my chest and stomach with a sad nostalgia for a time I never lived in. I'm an 80s baby but that scene of everyone filing out before Sunrise to "Tuesday's Gone" breaks my fucking heart. I think it's equal parts nostalgia for *my* youth and the pain in knowing that the characters won't know for years that this actually was the best time of their lives. They all talk of how much it sucks (and it does) but for most of them (us) this is absolutely the happiest they'll ever be. As London said, he imagines that Pink won't grow up to be very successful in life. At the moment he's 17yo and THE guy at his HS, the coolest guy there. He plays QB for his HS in Texas. His life is good. He's the guy everyone is friends with. Yet, he's 17yo and he doesn't know that all that can so easily change in just 5-10 years. If true and Pink is just an ordinary schlub in adulthood, he has no idea of that potential future in the time we see him. That ruins me because it's true for all of us. This isn't a 70s stoner comedy, it's an honest movie about being a teenager. It transcends era. It's a sincere look at the low-stakes highs and lows of being a teen. It's a movie about the years that seem so unimportant but hold the stories we tell when we're 50. So, when I see that scene of the party being over, the Sun coming up to end their fun time and life taking a step forward, it physically hurts and I can't fully explain why. It just hurts. Not for them specifically but in the way that time goes on and the freedom of childhood has to end for us all eventually. It's set in that specific time of life when a guy like Wooderson is considered "the old one" to everyone but her like 22yo 😅. We all knew that guy and when we're 32 we'd kill to be that young again.
Damn, I haven't seen the film in years and the documentary got me nostalgic for it. Now I read this and I'm bummed out at the thought of it, lol! Seriously though, I think you just put the finger on something I never seemed quite able to grasp about the movie. I graduated high school in '93 and D&C was often watched that summer during parties. It was a good time but I always felt a bit empty at the end.... I guess now I know why.
DannyWilliamH, I read your review, but I can’t relate to anything you say. I grew up in the 90s, and I have awesome memories of growing up during that time. Each decade has its pros & cons, but life is moves on, and, to me, life has gotten better and richer with each passing year. I’ve never looked at the 70s with any sense of wonderment or nostalgia; I’ve always considered it to be a shitty decade. I think about all of the bad ass times that I enjoyed as a kid/teen, and I continue to enjoy life to this day. I have a little nostalgia about a couple of early girlfriends, but the girls I plan on meeting (someday) easily destroy any sort of nostalgia. Fucking life’s short brother; no time for prolonged regrets...
I agree with you. I had a friend in high school (around 1997) keep telling me to watch it. I finally did and it was more like a stoner comedy to me. I didn't relate because I wasn't a stoner and he was. He ended up dying in high school when he and a girl crashed into a bus during the middle of school. Now every time I think about this movie I think about him and how much he liked it and quoted it, that's my personal story. I can't say I've ever reached the same level of admiration for the movie that he had, nor do I feel the need to, but he did appreciate it for what it meant to him at the time. I now teach high school and it's sad to me to see that most kids think high school sucks. They just want to get out of there the way I did. I understand why because they want to be adults and make all of their own decisions, but they don't understand what responsibiilties come with the freedom of being on your own. In the movie Wooderson is portrayed as a badass, but one or two more years and the whole town, high school students included, will think he's just a dumbass if he keeps it up. I guess maybe part of the movie is a message about being present in the time you are alive, don't wish to be out of high school when you're in it, and don't wish to be back in high school when you're out.
What an iconic movie! Excellent job to everyone who worked in this masterpiece! It is so wild how this was set for 1976, yet it was basically just like my Generation(X). I graduated in '92, and my life almost mirrored this film. Hot rods, beer and 420, hanging out in different parking lots that we would cruise around, and keg parties way out in the country! The most wonderful time to be alive, and it never crossed our minds that it would come to an end one day. You just lived day to day enjoying the awesome gift of life. The current state of our society resembles more of a distopian existence, compared to the endless possibilities and freedom we had back then. I wish the past 2 Generations could have experienced what it was like to be alive during this time. It really does seem like it was all just a dream, but thanks to movies like this, we get to be reassured that it was as real as it could possibly be. Thank you all again for capturing a wonderful moment in time! Cheers
After watchin this, "I'm fixin to be a lot better Man." Pure cinematic magic. The planets aligned for this film in so many ways. Classic. Love it. That's what I'm talkin about.
What a classic, one of the most important and memorable films of my life. I was in between high school and college, having fun with my friends and this movie was perfect for that time. I will always love Dazed!
He tells a great story about him on The Graham Norton Show. I'll try to find the link. Here it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Gxo8WO26QBQ.html
The music, the cars, the acting, the people... and yes, the weed. All of it is just fantastic. This one never gets old. Awesome movie and I really enjoyed this documentary. Adds quite a bit to the experience.
I lived this movie. My older brothers had the sweet beefy hot rods. I was the baby sister with the Addidas shirt. They had keggers when my parents went out of town for the weekend. The best of times the worst of times . As time goes by, those times get better. And, as I 'shelter in place' from a kind of storm like Ive never known. Im grateful for the simple slow vibe of those times. Thanks to the cast and crew for this beautifully rendered slice of my adolescence. Well done.
Just one of those movies that captured that magic. I remember seeing it when it came out and not thinking much of it but then I got these cravings to watch it two decades later and it resonates so much with me and my teen years growing up. One of those movies you don't want to end.
It's just so awesome. Even coming here and talking about how it made us all feel on these comments makes me happy. It felt like everyone came together for the big party and everyone watching the film was invited.
I was a kid when this movie came out and the GTO in the opening of the movie was my dream car. Happy to say I own a 70 GTO that I was able to buy on my b-day 12 yrs ago
My senior year of high school (1996) and into my college years...my friends and I would all watch this together on a Thursday night as a precursor to the weekend. 25 years later and we still quote this movie all the time...
“If we’re going to die anyway, shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now? Like right now. I’d like to stop thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. “ A very powerful line/message was hidden in this "stoner" movie.
When I say “alright alright alright “it’s like a compatibility test for whomever I’m with. ☺️ If they have no idea that’s it’s a movie reference then I’m SO disappointed! Not compatible!
I was 18 in the summer of '76. This movie was MY life. It is so dead on it was a little weird the first time I saw it. Thx! I was Slater, by the way. lol...
Bentley Milnes the only thing they had was a path to not fail, less judgement as existing post 60’s most things were more acceptable. Drinking age was earlier in most every state. A lot more cigarettes. Interiors of homes and buildings were ugly. Lol. The 90’s had the coolest music convergence and radio play.
@1manuscriptman I think the music diversified into different sounds or "genres" whereas the 90's took off with popularity of subgenres adding a diverse radio music scape akin to micro brew snobbery. Where people were digging into corners to find people who were the next hit makers.
1manuscriptman those people in HS grew up and made a ton of shitty laws for their kids to grow up under. It’s like each generation, when they become parents, want to keep their kids from doing the shit they enjoyed when they were in school... because it is dangerous to be young, drunk, and driving anywhere. But now that many places have uber and it’s easier to be safe regarding getting to a destination, I think we should take a bit of authoritarian dictatorship off the table... especially, since we see we can’t trust the police to handle anything in a cool or calm manner. Cops riding up on a teen party today is scarier to me than the kids getting drunk or high. Even in the late 90’s when I was in HS, cops just showed up, busted people, most scattered, some were caught, breathalyzed, and if they blew, had a citation and parents called. Today, they might get their heads busted in or shot at.
Probably the best high school film ever:) A film that still resonates creating an overwhelming nostalgia inducing melancholy. Still in love with these great characters.
I lived in Texas and was in HS during this exact era. I can tell everyone, that watcing this movie made me feel like I was going back in a time machine. The attention to detail is impeccable. The clothes, the sayings, the mannerisms. They nailed it. And BTW!!.... SHOTGUN!!!!!!!!
This was my favorite movie for so many years. Still in my top 5. The number of times I've watched it has got to be in the hundreds by now. And now my son is on his 4th or 5th. Awesome soundtrack too. Sat in the cassette player in my car for months at a time.
Dazed and Confused came on cable in the Spring of 94 and I just happened to catch it one night and BOOM! I was floored. I loved the movie so much I must have watched it 50 times that year.
I considered making a quote from this film my senior quote: “If I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life...remind me to kill myself.”
@@eriklarson9137 It's not necessarily whether or not you do good in life or not...You could be a successful adult with everything you could possibly want and need in life yet still consider your high school years/youth as the best times of your life simply because of that youthful,carefree time when things were simpler, adulthood seemed like something that wouldn't happen for a long, long time and you had your whole life ahead of you. Of course not everyone's childhood years were good and not everyone feels this way but I can honestly say that despite being a happy, successful adult with everything I need and a life that I love and am pretty fulfilled with nothing can quite compare to being a kid /teenager. I wasn't some popular, homecoming queen with a ton of friends or anything like that,but I miss the days of carefree innocence, rebellion and just a different less cynical outlook on life that is much harder to feel as life goes on.
This movie resonated with me in that it reminded me of my own school. Each character was represented here. Great times and memories it invoked.. Will watch it again and again!.
Me&my friends were in middle school when they were filming it, here in austin texas.we had no idea what was going on.On the Friday announcements they said to" clean out ur lockers because they were doing remodeling".we got back& the whole wing was painted.That was our 8th grade wing.Are shop teacher was in the movie as a shop teacher who was a sleep&what he actually did😂.It was pretty awesome such great memories 😁
That's a sweet memory you'll mention to grandkids that will spur them to watch the movie when in turn passes this classic down to another generation all starting with your story so don't forget to tell everyone lol
I've watched this movie too many times to count. One of the most quote worthy movie ever made! Besides the characters and the jokes and quotes, I think this movie is great because it captures a place in time perfectly. It transports you to the summer of '76, in the suburbs of Austin, Texas and you spend a hilarious 90 plus minutes there. Killer cars and trucks, " we're talking some serious fuckin' muscle", and a great sound track too! Party at the moon tower!!
I was fortunate enough to be a junior in high school when this movie came out, and my friends and I were smoking a lot of weed at the time. A lot of this movie was a lot of what we were feeling at the time, where is life going after this? After we graduate next year? This movie will always be an important part, a special moment in our lives
