Where is dazed and confused take place

Linklater was a student at the University of Texas and a founding member of the Austin Film Society in The movie is loosely based on experiences from his graduating class at Huntsville High School, and Linklater partly named some characters after people he went to school with at Huntsville via The Washington Post. The film featured many then-unknown actors who became big stars later in their careers.

But she does a lot more than just weave the oral history behind a famous movie. She makes it feel like the story of a generation—not the s one, but the s one. None of this was supposed to happen. Linklater was a brash Texas longhair whose only well-known movie was his freewheeling indie Austin story, Slacker.

But it was the anything-goes Nineties, a time when indie film seemed to be on the verge of taking over from the Hollywood dinosaurs, just like punk bands and gangsta rappers and riot grrrls were rewriting the music-biz rules. Linklater was telling a Seventies story, but without treating it like a camp joke—it was a movie made by and for young Americans, about our lives. And as the book reveals, the young Americans in the cast spent the summer all over each other—except the only one on the set nobody wanted to hook up with.

Gen X went to see the movie, then sat in the parking lot outside the theater arguing over it, then got on our land-lines the next morning to tell our friends they had to see it. It became a word-of-mouth phenomenon. 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. Christine Harnos Kaye as Kaye. Mark Vandermeulen Tommy as Tommy. Esteban Powell Carl as Carl. Jeremy Fox Hirschfelder as Hirschfelder.

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