I ran around to everybody that was trying to go up and correct her pronunciation and. When Silverstone mispronounces “Haitians” in her debate speech, that isn’t acting.ĪH: The first day, we started with Alicia’s Haitians speech. The 10 ‘Clueless’ catchphrases you’ll never forget Like when they’re talking about virginity and Cher says, “You see how picky I am about my shoes, and they only go on my feet!” Or someone is “hymenally challenged.” I used to say Amy was the female Woody Allen, but he’s getting so much flack, I can’t anymore. Cab Calloway published a jive talk dictionary I used.Īctress Twink Caplan: Amy’s dialogue should be anthologized. For Christian, there had been a resurgence of 1950s Rat Pack stuff, clubs with swing dancing. I put in some Yiddish: When Dionne is happy that boys were responding to Tai, she says she’s kvelling. The screenplay’s sassy slang came from a wide range of sources.ĪH: There was a professor at UCLA who would get together linguistics students and compile a list of slang. Now, that’s - the $5,000 purse with ripped jeans. There wasn’t a lot of money, so I was taking the high fashion and pairing it with something from the mall. What Amy wanted to do was not only have high fashion be almost a character in the film, but that it be transformed through the eyes of the girls. MM: was all grunge then, and kids looked horrible. He was very into women getting an education.Ĭostume designer Mona May wasn’t a fan of the fashions of the film’s era. I found out his middle name was Alcott! He was named for Bronson Alcott, who was Louisa May Alcott’s father - one of those free-thinkers. Alamy Stock PhotoĬher’s high school is named for Louisa May Alcott’s dad.ĪH: I was named after Amy in “Little Women.” And I was seeing Bronson Pinchot at the time. Brittany Murphy, Alicia Silverstone and Stacey Dash. The high school we shot in, Grant HS, had just had a shooting a few weeks before. When somebody comes in from the outside, they take her under their wing and dress her up. In Heckerling’s utopian Beverly Hills, there was “no racism.”ĪH: It was always my desire to create an alternate universe where there’s no racism, everybody is having fun, everybody has money to buy things. That meant that you would have a smaller audience and less of a budget.
The screenplay initially faced pushback for having a female lead.ĭirector Amy Heckerling: was originally in development at another studio, and there was a lot of resistance to having a main character being a female. Amy Heckerling ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection In honor of the film’s 25th anniversary, Heckerling, Caplan and May share their favorite “Clueless” trivia. “Even though Cher had flaws and was self-centered, her actions come from trying to improve the world as she’s improving herself.”
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“Girls and women all over the world respond to the movie to this day because the characters have this sense of themselves,” says costume designer Mona May. Stacey Dash and the 'Clueless' cast: Where are they now? Released on July 19, 1995, the movie kicked off a glut of Austen adaptations and gave us quotable quips (“You’re a virgin who can’t drive!”) that made the film a timeless classic. “She would have loved that this movie was so big,” Caplan says. It still doesn’t.” Twink Caplan, an associate producer on the film who also played the delighfully daffy teacher Miss Geist, says everyone on set adored Murphy. “It just breaks my heart - I can’t make heads or tails of it,” Heckerling says of Murphy’s death. Murphy, who mysteriously died of pneumonia complications and drug intoxication in 2009 at 32, played a key role in “Clueless” as newcomer Tai. Co-stars Stacey Dash, Donald Faison, the late Brittany Murphy and Breckin Meyer were all key players, as was a then-unknown love interest by the name of Paul Rudd. Twenty-five years ago this July, the film world was forever changed by two little words: As if!Īmy Heckerling’s “Clueless,” a riff on the Jane Austen novel “ Emma,” starred 18-year-old Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz, a Beverly Hills teenager who ruled her high school with equal parts charm and obliviousness - and a whole new lingo. Millennials are flipping out for ‘Clueless’ brunches and ‘Friends’ musicals
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