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Here's a feature about how this poster for American Teen, a documentary about five Indiana high school kids, "isn't just just clever marketing." The image is a cute homage to John Hughes' perennial favorite The Breakfast Club, and American Teen "examines a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse, but then delves deeper, revealing these real kids to be far more than superficial stereotypes." But the part that I care about is that it's been done before.
To far greater effect. [EW]
12:12 PM on Sat Mar 22 2008
By ian spiegelman
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I tip my hat to you, sir.
Gosh, you're a productive new weekend person, Mr. Spiegelman. Three new posts within minutes of each other! Keep em coming....
That poster is truly brilliant....
Ah, but will anything ever top "Thirteen?"
You mean there are no new ideas? I'm shocked....shocked.
@NinaHagen: You smarty documentarian...
Why are all of those kids sexy twenty-six-year-olds?
I guess this doesn't take place in Gary, Ind
@sarahchirp: It's the HD problem. They are actually 12.
@riskybusiness: T'anks.
What I really want to know is whether or not the guy in the back actually wears those fingerless driving gloves, or was it a stylist's decision to make him look more like John Bender.
@Kakapo: I wish I could. There's not a lot out there today.
@Ian Spiegelman:
You're doing a great job nonetheless.
@mickeyitaliano: Shermer, Illinois
@karion: Thank you, babycakes!
Demented and sad, but social.
ah yes, another high school documentary featuring all white kids in a suburban setting. america indeed.
Not only has the poster already been done before, the documentary has too.
This movie : British "Up" films" :: "She's the Man" : "Twelfth Night"
Didn't a commenter say being on Gawker was like being back in high school? We're so cant and derivative...
@drugman: Sorry, I meant we make all so much derivative cant, on second thought.
I'm sorry to visit this upon all readers, but sufferers of hangovers from really bad coke can commiserate with such poor uses of time on a Saturday.
Similarly, I figure you can imagine how hard it is to dig up avatars appropriate for Andy on this site.
@drugman: Brilliant, if a little ham-fisted. (Geddit? An Easter joke!!!)
@Hez: Did he make Nick Bender?
@Ian Spiegelman: I was thinking the same thing. Wouldn't they all be either "Brian the geek" or "Allison the freak" anyway? (SAID WITH LOVE, I SWEAR!)
PS: You're really doing an awesome job, Spiegs. Best guest evs!
@drugman: Ohhh that is fabulous! Eat My Shorts will make a comeback, comeback now!
As for me, I've decided to play Simple Minds on repeat.
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