Freshmen are American movies made in 2007. The story is based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, starring Amanda Beans, sara paxton and matt long. After the success of Cinderella's glass mobile phone in 2004, Universal Studios decided to shoot this film. The film was shot in Orlando from February 4, 2007 to April 4, 2007. Shooting locations include university of central florida, Rowling College and high schools attached to universities. This story reflects that three high school boys who are about to graduate decided to visit a local university, ostensibly to make preparations for inspecting the campus in advance, but in fact they hoped that weekender would have a good time. Unexpectedly, just arrived at the campus, a group of people were targeted by several members of the university fraternity. Brothers will go to "greet" them and make fun of them. But these high school students quickly attracted the attention of the beauty of the fraternity, so that the bosses of the fraternity were furious.
Introduction to the plot of "Freshman"
An old fairy tale has been brought into modern life: a college freshman is a naughty and lively girl like a boy, which may be related to her mother's early death and her dependence on her father. Sydney, who just graduated from high school, is about to enter the university to meet a new life. In order to get closer to her mother's life, Sydney decided to leave her quiet hometown and father to study at the South Pacific University in Florida, and attend a sorority there to find all the footprints and memories related to her mother.
However, Sydney found that the so-called sorority here was completely different from her imagination, extremely exclusive, and controlled by a girl named Rachel-she looked like an evil witch in modern universities. Although she doesn't have a magic mirror, she knows how to use the internet to search for the most popular girl in the university ... Sydney sadly found that the current sorority is much worse than when it was blown, because there is really no way to integrate into this arbitrary new life. however
What Sydney can't imagine is that she found her favorite lifestyle among the seven boys who were also excluded, and these seven boys, including Lenny, who is depressed and autistic, and Terrence, who is talented, never thought that a girl who should appear in a popular sorority like Sydney would be willing to make friends with them.
With the help of Taylor Prince, a fraternity member who was attracted by Sydney's special charm, Sydney and seven partners she just met formally challenged the student union, * * * all unreasonable systems. Sydney started from the "ordinary people" around her, and joined most of the forces to fight against a few but dominant sororities, mainly Rachel. Sydney has set off a sensational campus revolution, and has carried out drastic reforms on the sorority system, so that it can serve most students ... Once the rules are changed, they will never come back.
Behind-the-scenes Production of Freshmen's Films
Contemporary fairy tales
With regard to the inspiration of this film, there was a unique beginning: the screenwriter Chad Gomez Creasey was still majoring in television and film at the University of Southern California. Before class, he likes to go to a coffee shop to kill time, and it is there that he suddenly has the idea of recording a story with a pen. Cometz Kreis doubted whether he should break the traditional concept of fairy tales, because he wanted to re-establish the seven most popular story characters in the history of literature under the modern background, and the original fairy tales did put little pen and ink into these seven characters ... Cometz Kreis admitted that it was the beautiful princess and her seven partners who inspired him to write "Freshman in College": "Because of the role of Snow White, I thought about this very carefully. But then I thought of "Seven Dwarfs". Should I dig up some of their unknown personality characteristics? "
The classic fairy tale, which has been circulated for centuries, became the experience of a plumber's daughter in college after it was handed to the talented Chad Cometz. Her name is a freshman, and her mother died when she was very young ... She left home to study at South Atlantic University, because she thought attending a sorority might be the best way to miss her mother. But it was not until she found that joining the sorority had to make a big change, so she made a completely opposite decision and became friends with seven boys who were facing the same troubles. The warmth of friendship greatly inspired Sydney. She wants to wage war on the sisterhood that dominates the school, and she will be the first to take the lead.
With the gradual formation of the script, Chad Comez Chris found that the comedy source of this story can not only rely on Sydney's resistance, but also include the unpopular boys around her ... The character background of these seven boys comes from the classic fairy tale Snow White collected by the Brothers Grimm from the folk, which has only been renovated, extended and excavated. Comez Chris went on to recall: "I was the kind of fool who needed to live in the school dormitory." At that time, with the help of his classmate and girlfriend Della Lesnik Chris Dalla resnick Cresset, he constantly improved the theme and finally finished the script. They got married, and Lesnik Chris was one of the producers of this film.
Della Lesnik Chris still remembers how much she liked the idea of this story, so she took the finished script and began to raise money for the filming ... After graduation, Lesnik Chris got a chance to work for Cinderella's Glass Phone starring Hilary Duff. On the set, she happened to meet the producer Clifford Warburg. Lesnik Chris said, "One day, Wober walked out of his office and said,' I have a good idea about the sequel of Cinderella's glass mobile phone. I call it Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but the background of the times should be changed to the present university campus. "So I took Chad Cometz Chris's script to the company, put it on his desk and said,' I just have the script you need.' After reading it, he liked the story very much. Almost a month later, we found the money to shoot. "
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Clifford Warber took the script to Morgan Crick Film Production Company. CEO James G.Robinson and another producer, david robinson david robinson, have shown great interest in this new version of fairy tales, because they feel the comedy impact and youthful vitality contained in the script, as well as the diversified themes such as love, tolerance and rejection, which are the favorite of young audiences. So they began to look for the right director for this film. Both James G Robinson and Wobbe turned their attention to the talented new director joe nussbaum. 1999, he became famous at the Deauville Film Festival with his short film "LucasLove" which took many years to make, and in the following time, he almost completely melted himself into the world of youth comedy-so he was able to let nussbaum direct this film.
In 2004, the youth comedy "Complete Revelry" and the movie "American Pie 5: streaking" which directly entered the home theater in 2006-the latter became one of the best-selling DVDs of that year, both of which made a heavy contribution on joe nussbaum's resume, and the producers intuitively didn't choose the wrong person. James G Robinson even praised the excellent director: "We all know that nussbaum can fully support this film.
When talking about why he was interested in this film, joe nussbaum said, "Indeed, I always seem to work with young actors. The first film I directed took place in high school, and the second film was about a high school student visiting a university. Now, the background of my freshman year has changed to a university campus ... it seems that I am growing up slowly. "
In Chad Comez's plays, joe nussbaum saw great comedy potential. In the university campus environment, the dominant fraternity and the oppressed student class fought. Nussbaum roughly summed up the reason for the story: "From the micro-world, only a few students of the Brotherhood control most social activities ..." Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and the growing resistance is the main source of the film's jokes.
Director joe nussbaum likes to describe the idea of another world in the university best, which is the part that the sorority refuses to admit and deliberately ignores, but Sydney likes this world. When the members of the sorority are domineering in school, they seem to forget what is the real power behind them-that is, people like seven boys around Sydney.
Of course, the arrival of joe nussbaum has brought some changes to the film. First, he moved the background of the story from California to Florida ... Della Lesnik Chris supported this change: "We trusted nussbaum, so we put him in charge of the story. He helps us to define each character in the film in more detail and make them more distinctive. I believe that everyone who watches movies can find a role similar to himself.
Joe nussbaum agrees with Della Lesnik Chris that the audience will resonate with the "dwarfs" in the film. He thought carefully: "I think if it is any other fairy tale, it may just start with a girl who just went to college, and then there will be a happy ending like a princess and a prince, but this idea is really meaningless." The appearance of seven unpopular boys, plus their quirks and inarticulate words-only such stories can attract me, because they are all my favorite personality types. " The script, producer and director are all in their positions. Who can be a freshman has become the next problem to be solved. At this moment, a young actress with rich performance experience appeared. She is amanda bynes. Bijns has been appearing in TV series and movies since he first appeared in TV series at the age of 65,438+00. Sometimes, in order to make some funny performances, she amused the audience, even completely ignoring the image of a lady ... In Bijns, a 6-year-old at/kloc-0, Entertainment Weekly gave this young performer a high evaluation, saying that she "created a farce and a funny atmosphere."