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  1. Dazed and Confused received positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , it has a 93% approval rating based on 67 reviews, with a weighted average score of 8.00/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Featuring an excellent ensemble cast, a precise feel for the 1970s, and a killer soundtrack, Dazed and Confused is a funny, affectionate, and clear-eyed look at high ...

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    • Richard Linklater based Mitch and Pink on himself. In "Alright, Alright, Alright," Linklater tells writer Melissa Maerz, "Whenever Pink talks to Mitch, that's me talking to my younger self."
    • The hazings were based Linklater's high school experiences. According to Keith Pickford, one of Linklater's high school classmates, the principal gave you "licks" with a paddle.
    • Alright, alright, alright came from Jim Morrison. Matthew McConaughey had never acted in a real movie before "Dazed and Confused," which is surprising, given how much of a mark he makes on the film and how iconic his role would become.
    • The film's budget was spent primarily on music. The "Dazed and Confused" soundtrack likely contributed to the success of the film. It was so popular that they issued two CDs when the film was released, which makes the huge expenditure on music seem considerably more justified than it did when "Dazed and Confused" was actually shooting.
  2. Sep 26, 2024 · Richard Linklater wanted his first studio film, Dazed and Confused, to be an “anti-nostalgia” movie. After all, it was all about being a high school kid in the ’70s—which obviously sucked ...

  3. Summaries. The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976. It's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.

  4. Sep 23, 2018 · Dazed and Confused (1993) In jettisoning the ‘pregnancies and car crashes’, Linklater gave his actors room to breathe as regular kids in regular situations. It’s in the ordinary, and not in the heightened drama that movies typically locate characters in, that Dazed and Confused finds its real people. The film’s kinda-sequel, the less ...

  5. Dazed and Confused: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Jason London, Joey Lauren Adams, Milla Jovovich, Shawn Andrews. The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.

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  7. Nov 19, 2020 · November 19, 2020. Richard Linklater and Matthew McConaughey on the set of "Dazed and Confused" Courtesy of Richard Linklater. The summer of 1993: there’s a new movie out called Dazed and ...