RW419 - Bonus - Not Another Teen Movie

 

In this weeks episode, Cory and Nathan make the bet that they can be podcast kings and  discuss "Not Another Teen Movie"

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Feature film debut of Chris Evans.

Chris Evans had trouble shooting his scenes with Mia Kirshner, particularly having to reject her pleas for sex as she was grinding on him, as he was apparently very turned on.

Chyler Leigh has admitted to being under the influence of cocaine throughout the majority of this movie.

The filmmakers couldn't get the rights to use footage from She's All That (1999) so they shot the scene with two different people and made the TV blurry so you couldn't tell.

Cerina Vincent shot more nude scenes, but they ended up on the editing room floor. She said in an interview that one of the kids in the movie was underage, and you can't have a nude actress on the same set as a minor.

The studio was unhappy with the original ending of the film, prompting the makers of the film to seek Molly Ringwald's help.

Good Charlotte is the house band at the prom.

Ron Lester's character, Reggie Ray, is a spoof of Billy Bob in Varsity Blues (1999), who was also portrayed by Lester.

Actor Paul Gleason, the Principal in the detention scene, is the same actor who played the role of the Principal from The Breakfast Club (1985) which they're spoofing.

Lacey Chabert's character is a parody of the character played by Jennifer Love Hewitt in Can't Hardly Wait (1998). The two starred together in Party of Five (1994).

Buildings in the movie are named for makers of the movies that are being parodied. For example, John Hughes High School, Anthony Michael Dining Hall, and Harry Dean Stadium.

In Spain and Greece, the movie was released under the title "This is Not Another Dumb American Movie".

In Russia, the film is entitled "Not a Children's Movie".

Parodies

Grease (1978)

Airplane! (1980)

My Bodyguard (1980)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Porky's (1982)

Risky Business (1983)

The Karate Kid (1984)

Sixteen Candles (1984)

Better Off Dead (1985)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

Just One of the Guys (1985)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

Lucas (1986)

Pretty in Pink (1986)

Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

Three O'Clock High (1987)

License to Drive (1988)

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

Heathers (1989)

Dazed and Confused (1993)

Rudy (1993)

Clueless (1995)

Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

The Faculty (1998)

Pleasantville (1998)

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

American Beauty (1999)

American Pie (1999)

Cruel Intentions (1999)

Detroit Rock City (1999)

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)

Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

Election (1999)

Jawbreaker (1999)

Never Been Kissed (1999)

She's All That (1999)

Varsity Blues (1999)

Almost Famous (2000)

Bring It On (2000)

Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)

Road Trip (2000)

Unbreakable (2000)

Save the Last Dance (2001)

What's Up Next?

Nathan and Cory are crossing into the TV realm to discuss all 6 episodes of the short lived "Police Squad" series

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RW418 - MCU Rewatch - The Avengers

 

In this episode of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Rewatch, Cory and Nathan assemble once more to discuss "The Avengers"

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Jon Favreau was at one point attached to direct, and stayed on as executive producer.

By April 2010, Joss Whedon was close to completing a deal to direct the film and to rework the script, and was officially announced in July 2010. On the hiring, Avi Arad stated: "My personal opinion is that Joss will do a fantastic job. He loves these characters and is a fantastic writer [...] It's part of his life so you know he is going to protect it [...] I expect someone like him is going to make the script even better". Feige added, "I've known Joss for many years. We were looking for the right thing and he came in and met on it [...] we want[ed] to find a director that’s on the verge of doing something great, as we think Joss is."

The first Marvel Cinematic Universe film to earn $1 billion. It surpassed The Dark Knight (2008)'s record of $1,001,921,825 to become the highest-grossing comic book film of all time. It is also the first film to gross $200 million in its first three days in the U.S.

Due to UK copyright issues over the name, Marvel had to release the film in the UK under the name "Avengers Assemble", as there had already been an unrelated film with Sir Sean Connery and Ralph Fiennes released by Warner Brothers, The Avengers (1998). That movie was based on The Avengers (1961), which starred Patrick Macnee. As Warner Brothers UK owned the copyrighted name, and objected to Marvel using it, Marvel were forced to change the name to "Avengers Assemble" for its UK theatrical and home video release. As film prints and marketing for the Republic of Ireland were handled by Disney UK. They decided to stick with the name change for that territory too, for cost effectiveness reasons.

Robert Downey Jr. kept food hidden all over the lab set, and apparently nobody could find where it was, so they just let him continue doing it. In the movie, that's his actual food he's offering, and when he was eating, it wasn't scripted, he was just hungry.

There were very few times that everyone was in town at once, but on one night when they were, Chris Evans sent them all a text message reading "Assemble" (the tagline to the movie), prompting a night out on the town. Clark Gregg has stated that this is his favorite text message that he has ever received.

In the final end credit scene, Captain America is the only one not eating. That is because Chris Evans got a buzz cut, and grew out his beard after this movie was done filming. He was called in later to do this extra scene, and couldn't shave off his beard, due to filming Snowpiercer (2013) at the time, so they gave him a prosthetic jaw. He holds his hand over his face because the prosthetic made him look like he'd been attacked by a hive of angry bees. He also is unable to eat or talk with the prosthetic on.

To prepare for the role of Agent Clint Barton (Hawkeye), Jeremy Renner was trained by Olympic archers.

Edward Norton was originally set to reprise his role from The Incredible Hulk (2008), but negotiations between him and Marvel Studios broke down. Norton was replaced with Mark Ruffalo, who had also been considered for the role in the prior movie.

Stan lee Cameo: interviewed about the Avengers saving Manhattan. Lee's character responds, "Superheroes in New York? Give me a break"

What's Up Next?

Next episode, we'll be taking a break from the MCU and discussing an early Chris Evans performance in "Not Another Teen Movie"

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RW417 - MCU Rewatch - Captain America: The First Avenger

 

In this episode of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Rewatch, Cory and Nathan have an enhanced opinion of "Captain America: The First Avenger."

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On April 1997, Marvel was in negotiations with Mark Gordon and Gary Levinsohn to produce Captain America, and Larry Wilson and Leslie Bohem were set to write a script. In May 2000, Marvel teamed with Artisan Entertainment to help finance the film. However, a lawsuit arose between Marvel Comics and Joe Simon over the ownership of Captain America copyrights, disrupting the development process of the film. The lawsuit was eventually settled in September 2003. Following the settlement, Marvel was preparing to license the film rights to Warner Bros. until producer David Maisel suggested that the company produce the film themselves. In 2005, Marvel received a $525 million investment from Merrill Lynch, allowing them to independently produce ten films, including Captain America. Paramount Pictures agreed to distribute the film. Originally, the film would stand alone; producer Kevin Feige said "about half" the movie would be set during World War II before moving into the modern day. Producer Avi Arad said, "The biggest opportunity with Captain America is as a man 'out of time', coming back today, looking at our world through the eyes of someone who thought the perfect world was small-town United States. Sixty years go by, and who are we today? Are we better?" He cited the Back to the Future trilogy as an influence, and claimed he had "someone in mind to be the star, and definitely someone in mind to be the director". In February 2006, Arad hoped to have a summer 2008 theatrical release date. Jon Favreau approached Arad to direct the film as a comedy, but he chose to make Iron Man instead. In April 2006, David Self was hired to write the script. He explained that Captain America was his favorite superhero as a child because "my dad told me I could one day be Captain America". Joe Johnston met with Marvel to discuss directing the film.

Captain America was put on hold during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. However, in January 2008, Marvel Entertainment reached an interim comprehensive agreement with the Writers Guild of America that would put writers immediately back to work on various projects that were under the company's development. On May 5, 2008 (after the success of Iron Man), Marvel announced the film The First Avenger: Captain America (the working title) for release on May 6, 2011 (before being pushed back to July 22)

When asked whether anti-US sentiments would affect the film's box office, Feige said, "Marvel is perceived pretty well around the world right now, and I think putting another uber-Marvel hero into the worldwide box office would be a good thing. ... We have to deal with much the same way that Captain America, when thawed from the Arctic ice, entered a world that he didn't recognize," similar to the way Stan Lee and Jack Kirby reintroduced the character in the 1960s

In March 2010, it was reported that Chris Evans was cast as Captain America and Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull; Marvel Studios confirmed the latter in May. Ryan Phillippe and John Krasinski were also considered for the role of Captain America. In April 2010, Sebastian Stan, who had been mentioned in media accounts as a possibility for the title role, was cast as Bucky Barnes. Stan was contracted for multiple films. Also in April, Marvel announced that Hayley Atwell had been cast as Peggy Carter, and that the film's name had been changed from The First Avenger: Captain America to Captain America: The First Avenger. The next day it was reported that Joss Whedon would be rewriting the script as part of his negotiation to write and direct The Avengers.

Chris Evans declined the role three times before accepting the part. Not out of dislike for the role, but because he feared what the effects of the sudden increase of fame would be on his private life. Then Robert Downey Jr. convinced him to take the part, and thus gain the freedom to sign on any other role he'd want afterwards. After that, he had a meeting with director Joe Johnston and the producers, who convinced him to take the role.

Most of the shots were done by a Los Angeles company called LOLA, that specializes in digital "plastic surgery". The technique involved shrinking Chris Evans in all dimensions. They shot each "skinny Steve" scene at least four times. Once like a normal scene with Evans and his fellow actors and actresses in the scene, once with Evans alone in front of a greenscreen, so his element could be reduced digitally, again with everyone in the scene but with Evans absent, so that the shrunken Steve could be re-inserted into the scene, and finally, with a body double mimicking Evans' actions in case the second technique was required. When Evans had to interact with other characters in the scene, they had to either lower him or raise the other actors on apple boxes, or elevated walkways to make "skinny Steve" shorter in comparison. For close-ups, Evans' fellow actors had to look at marks on his chin that represented where his eyes would be after the shrinking process, and Evans had to look at marks on the tops of the actor's head to represent their eyes. The second technique involved grafting Evans' head onto the body double. This technique was used mostly when Evans was sitting or lying down, or when a minimum of physical acting was required.

(at around 37 mins) Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter) surprisingly touching Chris Evans' chest, as he emerged from the pod upon turning into Captain America, was very much improvised, and the surprise on her face is genuine, as she admitted in interviews she was very taken by Chris' physique and nearly broke character and ruined the take that made it into the film as a result.

This is Chris Evans' sixth comic book movie after Fantastic Four (2005), Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Push (2009), The Losers (2010), and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). He voiced Casey Jones in TMNT (2007), also based on a comic book.

Hugo Weaving based the Red Skull's accent on renowned German filmmaker Werner Herzog and Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.

In the beginning of the movie, Johann Schmidt, while gazing at the tesseract, says "...And the Führer digs for trinkets in the desert." This is reference to another Paramount Pictures movie, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Director Joe Johnston was part of the Academy Award winning visual effects team from Industrial Light & Magic on that film.

(at around 50 mins) Laura Haddock played an autograph seeker. She played Peter "Star-Lord" Quill's mother Meredith Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017). The character has been retconned to be Peter Quill's grandmother.

Stan Lee made a cameo appearance as a General. The officer sitting next to him was played by Reb Brown, who played the title character in Captain America (1979) and Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979). Lee had nothing to do with the basic creation of the title character. However, Lee began his writing career in the character's original series where he created the idea of Captain America using his shield as a throwing weapon. Furthermore, he was responsible for reviving the character in the Silver Age of Comic Books and co-wrote most of the character's stories in The Avengers and his solo stories in that period.

What's Up Next?

Next episode, we discuss "The Avengers"

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