Everybody Wants Some !!
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| German title | Everybody Wants Some !! |
| Original title | Everybody Wants Some !! |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Richard Linklater |
| script | Richard Linklater |
| production | Richard Linklater, Megan Ellison , Ginger Sledge |
| camera | Shane F. Kelly |
| cut | Sandra Adair |
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Everybody Wants Some !! is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Richard Linklater .
action
A Texas University in 1980: Jake comes again from the high school to the baseball team of the University, where he was a pitcher to play. He shares a house with the other members of the team, where alcohol and women have been officially banned by their coach - but nobody really obeys the rule. On the first day, the boys tried unsuccessfully to pick up two girls in the campus parking lot. One girl, the acting student Beverly, thinks Jake, who is shy at first, is cute, whereupon she gives him her apartment number. In the evening they throw a wild party in their house, then they go to the local discotheque, but they are thrown out of it after an argument with the bartender. Without further ado , the boys change clothes and go to another bar with a western theme.
The next day, the house is temporarily quiet and Willoughby, a philosophizing marijuana user, lets the other boys in on his philosophy of life and explains why Pink Floyd is better than Van Halen . In the afternoon, Jake meets his old classmate Justin, who is now part of the punk scene . Although Jake and his fellow players don't know what to do with punk, they still attend a punk concert with Justin dressed up differently. Meanwhile, Jake leaves flowers and a message for her in front of Beverly's apartment before he and his fellow players have a big party in the team house.
Beverly calls Jake the next morning and explains that she would like to meet him. In the afternoon, Jake and his teammates have to complete their first training session. Willoughby is surprisingly expelled from the field by the coach and does not come back. It later emerges that Willoughby is already 30 years old and repeatedly enrolled at new universities under false names because he could not say goodbye to the relaxed student life. Jake was invited by Beverly to Oz , the drama students' party, and while the baseball players don't really fit into a more artistic atmosphere, they make the most of it and pounce on the girls. The particularly creative player Finnegan even tries to win over acting students with his alleged knowledge of astrology . Beverly and Jake eventually get close, spend the rest of the night together, and then go to their apartment.
Classes at the university begin the next morning. Jake and his teammate Plummer have their first class together. But when the professor writes the sentence “ Frontiers are where you find them ” on the board, the two are already falling asleep after the events of the turbulent weekend.
background
Everybody Wants Some !! was described as the unofficial sequel to his 1993 film Confusion - Summer of the Freaky , which was the last day of a high school clique in 1976. Linklater already had the first draft for Everybody Wants Some !! written in 2005, but found no funding for his film project for a long time. The shooting took place mainly in Austin, Texas between October and December 2014.
Theatrical release
With a film budget of around ten million US dollars, it only grossed around 3.4 million dollars at the US box office. Despite further income from abroad, the film was a commercial flop .
Reviews
Everybody Wants Some !! received a positive reception from the majority of US film critics, with Rotten Tomatoes it received a positive critic rating of 86% from a total of 201 reviews. The average rating was 7.6 out of ten points. Critical consensus was formulated: “Nostalgic in the best sense of the word, Everybody Wants Some !! Richard Linklater strolling through the past with a talented cast, an adorable meandering story, and a murderous soundtrack of classic rock. "
Marietta Steinhart in Die Zeit , on the other hand, was rather critical: “Richard Linklater is perhaps the greatest producer of small films in American cinema. All the more frustrating is the narrow, panting gaze of his new film. It's shameless hedonism. At some point there is a montage in which the boys are having sex and Linklater lingers a bit too long with the camera on a girl's bare ass. ”The film feels like“ a boys' night on which all of them are tight, only you are the bubbly. ”Nevertheless, the characters are a“ pretty lovable bunch, played by a remarkable, largely unknown ensemble. ”In addition, the film offers innocent 1980s nostalgia.
Tilman Spreckelsen wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , in Everybody Wants Some !! "At first glance it is only about nothing". The film stands in the tradition of American college films, but differs from them, in which “the film focuses on individual moments that are intended to illustrate the group's attitude towards life.” Above all, Linklater “leaves his protagonist in a strange mixture of receptiveness and inner resistance through a whole panorama of different influences ”. Spreckelsen came to the conclusion: “It is the suspended time that Linklater celebrates, the moment suspended in amber, and of course it is only special because Jake's life will go on. The film also shows what that means. Because one of the protagonists is quickly and almost casually expelled from the paradise into which he had stolen even though he had long outgrown him. "
Web links
- Everybody Wants Some !! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Everybody Wants Some !! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Interview with Richard Linklater in Variety
- ↑ Everybody Wants Some !! at Box-Office-Mojo, accessed April 27, 2017
- ↑ Everybody Wants Some !! at Rotten Tomatoes, accessed April 27, 2016
- ↑ Marietta Steinhart on the film in Die Zeit , accessed on April 27, 2016
- ^ Tilman Spreckelsen on the film in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .