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- Rather than writing a teen film filled with backstabbing and soap-operatic problems, “I wanted it to be deeper than that, to have real growth that the Jane Austen novels had.” So Heckerling began to draw from Jane Austen ’s Emma to create what she called a “comedy of manners” about wealthy California teens.
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Jul 19, 2020 · When it was released in July of 1995, writer-director Amy Heckerling’s high-school comedy—which was based on Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma —took a classic story about a privileged, matchmaking...
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Now 25 years old, Amy Heckerling’s teen movie is a classic on many levels – including for how it subverts one of cinema’s most enduringly problematic tropes, writes Hanna Flint. If there is...
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Jul 19, 2020 · It’s been 25 years since “Clueless” hit the big screen, so director and writer Amy Heckerling spoke to TheWrap about how the film came together, where she thinks Cher would be now and that...
Jul 6, 2020 · In modernizing the matchmaking antics of Jane Austen’s “Emma,” Amy Heckerling sought not to capture the precise lingua franca of ’90s kids but to create an idiosyncratic ethos that matched...
Oct 19, 2015 · Beyond the comedy, Heckerling’s films have a sly edge that betray her past as a Bronx-born latchkey kid who spent her hours watching James Cagney movies on TV — an outsider looking in.
Jul 19, 2020 · However, when Heckerling submitted her first script – then still a TV pilot – the studio’s notes didn’t exactly gel with her idea of Cher’s world. “The thought was that making a movie just for girls would limit your audience, and they wanted something that would appeal to boys,” she reveals.
Jun 9, 2015 · July 2015 Issue. The Definitive Oral History of How Clueless Became an Iconic 90s Classic. On the 20th anniversary of the film, this excerpt from Jen Chaney’s new book features discussions with the...
