Brief Synopsis:
Boy meets girl who's already met all sorts of boys and girls in this teen-slanted comedy. Matthew Kidman is a straight-laced and highly ambitious high school student who plans to study at Georgetown University and dreams of a career in politics. While most of his classmates are in the throes of an epidemic of senioritis, Matthew is obsessed with schoolwork and has a hard time relaxing and having fun. But he finds himself a bit less focused on his future career when Danielle, a beautiful 19-year-old blonde, moves in next door. Danielle is playful, spontaneous, and doesn't always remember to draw her shades, and before long Matthew is head over heels in love. Danielle soon finds herself taken with Matthew as well, but their relationship takes an unusual turn when he discovers that, before she moved to town, Danielle had a successful career as a porn actress. Matthew is able to convince Danielle that she's cut out for better things in life than appearing in porn videos, but his advice doesn't especially please Timothy Olyphant or Hugo two porn moguls who figure Matthew owes them big-time after convincing their leading lady to drop out of the adult industry.
Boy meets girl who's already met all sorts of boys and girls in this teen-slanted comedy. Matthew Kidman is a straight-laced and highly ambitious high school student who plans to study at Georgetown University and dreams of a career in politics. While most of his classmates are in the throes of an epidemic of senioritis, Matthew is obsessed with schoolwork and has a hard time relaxing and having fun. But he finds himself a bit less focused on his future career when Danielle, a beautiful 19-year-old blonde, moves in next door. Danielle is playful, spontaneous, and doesn't always remember to draw her shades, and before long Matthew is head over heels in love. Danielle soon finds herself taken with Matthew as well, but their relationship takes an unusual turn when he discovers that, before she moved to town, Danielle had a successful career as a porn actress. Matthew is able to convince Danielle that she's cut out for better things in life than appearing in porn videos, but his advice doesn't especially please Timothy Olyphant or Hugo two porn moguls who figure Matthew owes them big-time after convincing their leading lady to drop out of the adult industry.
Analysis of opening minutes:
The film starts with a voice over of a girl saying ‘How do you want me?’ and a man replying ‘Oh yeah that’s good, just get comfortable’. As we see an extreme close up of someone putting red lipstick on. This builds the film up to be very sexy although we don’t know what is going on yet. The scenes flick between extreme close ups, the next one is of an aperture being set on a camera which really confuses the audience what is going on. The scene then changes to a small tracking shot, showing a girl having her photograph taken and her friends talking to her beside her. This lets the audience in more on what’s happening and sets the scene of a high school. Although the beginning was very deceiving with the sexual gestures, it makes the audience think that this was setting you up for the genre of the film which could be categorized as a comedy, a romance or a rom-com. There is then a voice over of the girl who’s having her photograph taken saying ‘I will always remember...’. This sets the time that they are leaving college and looking back at their best memories of high school. As we meet different characters from the school they’re all of the same age range which indicates that the target audience is young people. Having been introduced to three or four characters there is then an establishing shot going around the whole of the college showing different groups of friends. The groups are shown very stereotypically of an American college including the jockeys, the pretty girls, the geeks, the cheerleaders etc. The last character we meet is the main character, and as the song starts to end the lyrics ‘under pressure’ repeat numerous times. This makes us question if it relates to the character we just met. I think the opening minutes of this film are really good because although we don’t know the characters in detail yet we are familiar with them and we know what is going on around the high school.
The film starts with a voice over of a girl saying ‘How do you want me?’ and a man replying ‘Oh yeah that’s good, just get comfortable’. As we see an extreme close up of someone putting red lipstick on. This builds the film up to be very sexy although we don’t know what is going on yet. The scenes flick between extreme close ups, the next one is of an aperture being set on a camera which really confuses the audience what is going on. The scene then changes to a small tracking shot, showing a girl having her photograph taken and her friends talking to her beside her. This lets the audience in more on what’s happening and sets the scene of a high school. Although the beginning was very deceiving with the sexual gestures, it makes the audience think that this was setting you up for the genre of the film which could be categorized as a comedy, a romance or a rom-com. There is then a voice over of the girl who’s having her photograph taken saying ‘I will always remember...’. This sets the time that they are leaving college and looking back at their best memories of high school. As we meet different characters from the school they’re all of the same age range which indicates that the target audience is young people. Having been introduced to three or four characters there is then an establishing shot going around the whole of the college showing different groups of friends. The groups are shown very stereotypically of an American college including the jockeys, the pretty girls, the geeks, the cheerleaders etc. The last character we meet is the main character, and as the song starts to end the lyrics ‘under pressure’ repeat numerous times. This makes us question if it relates to the character we just met. I think the opening minutes of this film are really good because although we don’t know the characters in detail yet we are familiar with them and we know what is going on around the high school.
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