Freshmen in college is an American film that was filmed in 27. The story is based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, starring Amanda Bijns, sara paxton and matt long. Universal Studios decided to make the film after the success of Cinderella's glass mobile phone in 24. The film was filmed in Orlando from February 14th, 27 to April 4th, 27. Shooting locations include university of central florida, Rowling College and high schools attached to universities. The story reflects that three high school boys who are about to graduate decided to visit a local university, ostensibly to make preparations in advance to inspect the campus, but in fact they expected weekender to have fun. Unexpectedly, just arrived at the campus, a group of people were targeted by several members of the university fraternity. The brotherhood is going to "greet" them and make fun of them. But these high school students quickly attracted the attention of the beautiful women in the sorority, so that the big brothers of the fraternity were angry enough.
Introduction to the film story of freshmen
An old fairy tale has been brought into modern life: Sydney White is a naughty and lively girl like a boy, which may be related to her mother's early death and living with her father. Sydney, who just graduated from high school, is about to enter the university to meet a new life. In order to be closer to the life her mother once had, 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 is totally different from what she thought, extremely exclusive, and controlled by a girl named Rachel-she is the appearance of an evil witch in a modern university. Although she doesn't have a magic mirror, she knows how to search for the most popular girl in the university through the Internet ... Sydney sadly found that the sorority is much worse than it was when it was blown up, because there is really no way to integrate into this solitude. However,
To Sydney's surprise, she found a favorite lifestyle here among seven boys who were also excluded, and these seven boys, including melancholy and autistic Lenny and talented Terrence, never thought that a girl like Sydney who should appear in a popular sorority 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 the seven partners she just met formally challenged the student union, * * * all unreasonable systems. Sydney started from the "ordinary people" around her, United with most forces, and fought against the 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 change back.
Behind-the-scenes production of college freshmen's movies
Contemporary fairy tales
About the creative inspiration of movies, there is a unique beginning: the screenwriter Chad Gomez Creasey was still majoring in TV and film at the University of Southern California at that time. Before class, he liked to kill time in coffee shops, and it was there that he suddenly had the idea of recording a story with a pen. Cometz Kreis is wondering whether he should break the traditional concept of fairy tales, because he wants to re-establish the seven most popular story characters in the history of literature in the modern background, and the original fairy tales really put little pen and ink into these seven characters ... Cometz Kreis admits that it was the beautiful princess and her seven partners who inspired him to write Freshmen in College: "I have thought about this fairy tale very carefully because of the role of Snow White. But then I thought of the' Seven Dwarfs'. Should I dig up some of their unknown personality characteristics? "
That classic fairy tale, which has been circulated for centuries, became the experience of a plumber's daughter in college when she was in the hands of the talented Chad Cometz Chris. Her name was Sydney White, 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 wasn't until she found out that she had to make great changes to join the sorority, so she made a completely opposite decision and became friends with seven boys who were facing the same troubles. The warmth of friendship has greatly encouraged Sydney. She wants to wage war against the sisterhood that dominates the school, and she will be the first to take the lead.
With the gradual formation of the script, Chad Cometz Chris found that the source of comedy in this story could not only rely on Sydney's resistance, but also included the unpopular boys around her ... The personality background of these seven boys came from the classic fairy tale Snow White collected by the Brothers Grimm from the folk, only after renovation, extension and excavation. Cometz Chris continued to recall: "I am that kind. At that time, with the help of his classmate and girlfriend, Della Lesnik Kris Dara Resnik Creasey, he constantly perfected the theme and finally finished the script. They are married, and Lesnik Chris is one of the producers of this film.
Della Lesnik Chris still remembers how much she liked this story idea at that time, so she took the finished script and began to raise money for the filming ... After graduation, Lesnik Chris just got a job for Cinderella's Glass Phone starring Hilary Duff. On the set, She happened to meet Clifford Werber, the producer, and was appreciated and recruited to his production company. Lesnik Chris said, "One day, Wober walked out of his office and said,' I have a good idea about the sequel to Cinderella's Glass Phone, which is called 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 have just the script you need.' After he read it, he liked the story very much. Almost a month later, we found the funding for filming.
youth+comedy+fairy tale+university
Clifford Warburg brought the script to Morgan Crick Film Production Company. CEO James G.Robinson and another producer, David Robinson David Robinson, showed great interest in this new version of fairy tale, because they felt the comedy impact and youthful vigor contained in the script, as well as diversity such as love, tolerance and rejection. So they began to look for the right director for the film. James G Robinson and Wobbe both set their eyes on the talented new director joe nussbaum. In 1999, he became famous at the Deauville Film Festival with the short film "Lucas Love" which took many years to make, and in the following time, he almost completely melted himself into the world of youth comedy-so it was really perfect to let nussbaum direct this film.
In p>24, the youth comedy "Totally Revelry" and "American Pie 5: Naked Running", which directly entered the home theater in 26, became one of the best-selling DVDs of that year. These all drew a heavy stroke on joe nussbaum's resume, so the producers intuitively didn't choose the wrong person, and James G Robinson even praised this excellent director: "We all know that nussbaum can completely.
When talking about why he was interested in this film, joe nussbaum said, "It's true that I always seem to be working with young actors. The first film I directed took place in high school, and the second one was about a high school student visiting a university. Now, the background of Freshman is changed to a university campus ... It seems that I am growing up slowly."
In Chad Cometz's script, joe nussbaum sees great comedy potential. In the big environment of university campus, the dominant fraternity and the oppressed student class fought. nussbaum roughly summarized the reason why the story happened: "From the micro world, only a few fraternity students control most social activities ..." Where there is oppression, there will be resistance, and the growing resistance is the most important thing in the film.
joe nussbaum, the director, likes the idea of describing another world in the university in the script best, which is the part that the sorority refuses to admit and deliberately ignores, but Sydney likes this world. When members of the sorority are arrogant in school, they seem to forget what is the real power that supports them behind-that is, people like seven boys around Sydney.
Of course, joe nussbaum's arrival has brought some changes to the film. First of all, he moved the background of the story from California to Florida ... Della Lesnik Chris is supportive of this change: "We trusted nussbaum, so we gave him full authority for this story. He helped us to define each character in the film in more detail and make them more distinctive. I believe everyone who watches the film can find one from it.
joe nussbaum agrees with Della Lesnik Chris that the audience will have a * * * sound for the "dwarfs" in the film. He thinks carefully: "I think if it is any other fairy tale, it may just start with a girl who just went to college, and then it will have a happy ending like a princess and a prince, but this idea is really meaningless. The appearance of seven unpopular boys, with their quirks and inarticulate words-only such stories can attract me, because they are all my favorite character types. " The script, producer and director are all in their places. Who can be qualified for the role of Sydney White has become the next problem to be solved. At this time, a young actress with rich performance experience appeared, and she is amanda bynes. Since her first appearance in TV series at the age of 1, Bijns has been constantly appearing in TV series and movies. Sometimes, in order to make some funny performances, she amused the audience and even completely ignored the image of a lady ... When Bijns was 16 years old, Entertainment Week gave this young performer a very high evaluation, saying that her "ability to create farce and funny atmosphere reminds people of lucille ball".