Director Amy Heckerling Reveals the Memento She Kept
“Clueless” author and director Amy Heckerling didn’t hold a lot from the set of the movie that’s celebrating its 25th anniversary this week — however she did hold the Doc Martens Brittany Murphy’s character Tai wore within the film.
“I have the silver Doc Martens that Brittany [Murphy] was wearing — not to wear them, but to keep them as a remembrance,” Heckerling instructed TheWrap.
Murphy, who handed away in 2009 of pneumonia, wore the silver footwear to the dance within the 1995 coming-of-age teen comedy. The movie stars Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Paul Rudd and Donald Faison, and was written and directed by Heckerling.
It’s been extensively reported that Silverstone, who performed the enduring Cher character, took her costumes after capturing wrapped, however later gave them away. To Bustle, she mentioned, “I didn’t do a very good job at saving any of them. I was stupid about the whole thing. I think I gave them all away.” In an interview with the New York Times, Silverstone mentioned she saved Cher’s Mary Janes. Back then, she mentioned, she had “no style” off-camera and wore the identical inexperienced T-shirt and denims each day.
“Clueless” hit theaters in 1995 and grossed $56.1 million within the United States. Since then, it has developed a cult following and has been adopted by a spin-off TV sitcom, a musical and a sequence of books.
Read Heckerling’s full Q&A with TheWrap right here.
19 Moments From ‘Clueless’ That Wouldn’t Happen in 2015 (Photos)
In honor of a really particular birthday on July 19, here is a take a look at the moments that would not have occurred in L.A. right now
Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) narrates her personal ideas and calls her associates to speak.
If she had social media, she’d be capable of tweet her emotions and submit on Facebook rather more effectively.
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Cher fails miserably on her driver’s check.
Nowadays, youngsters clock in hours of obligatory driving college.
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Cher and her associates gown in brief skirts to high school.
Well, this nonetheless occurs — however you may get dress-coded for it. The applicable size in lots of L.A. colleges is previous the fingertip plus an inch.
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Cher tries and fails to get Christian Stovitz’s (Justin Walker) consideration — and later finds out he is homosexual.
Perhaps if she had added him on Facebook and snooped by means of his web page, Cher would’ve realized the new man was a “cake boy.” Maybe he would’ve checked off “Men” within the “Interested In” part on his profile?
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Cher and Dionne Davenport (Stacey Dash) gripe about getting in bother with their dad and mom over their report playing cards.
These days, it is easy for even technologically challenged dad and mom to entry your grades on-line.
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Whenever Cher and her associates say “as if,” “groovy,” “audi,” “stems,” “Baldwins,” “Bettys” and “buggin.'”
Two many years later, not all the film’s lingo has survived. “Whatever,” “like” and “totally” are nonetheless in our vocabulary — utilizing “Baldwin” and “Betty” to explain a lovely man and lady usually are not.
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Travis Birkenstock (Breckin Meyer) takes delight in having probably the most tardies within the class.
Sure, you is perhaps ecstatic to have probably the most of something, however you would not get simply an announcement — too many tardies and you would be suspended.