“ she deserves credit for guiding Ben’s direction,” he wrote. “Not trying to grab credit for myself, I just like to point out that women can have a ‘visual’ and cinematic sensibility, which we seldom get our due for.” In an email sent after this story was published, Shamberg admitted that he had forgotten Childress staged the scene in her script. “I’ve heard a lot of different people get and give credit for that shot but it was written in the script,” she wrote via email. GAS STATION-FOOD MART … They are seen THROUGH THE WINDOWS, everyone except Troy dancing around the food mart as stars pepper the night sky above … FADE OUT. Childress sent me a snapshot of the script to show that she had written it exactly as it was filmed: EXT. Take the gas-station scene, which Shamberg credited entirely to Stiller. But she isn’t always remembered as the woman behind the film-Childress hadn’t even heard about the Tribeca reunion when I mentioned it to her (after this piece came out, the festival added her to the roster)-and she knows it.
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“It was going to be a studio film.” And while Lelaina struggles with the idea of selling out, Childress was so excited that TriStar had hired her to write a movie based on her own life that she produced the first draft in about six weeks. “There was nothing we could do,” Childress told me when we spoke recently. “This is the movie that has been both praised as the last word on X-ers and damned as Hollywood’s slickest effort yet to exploit them,” Frank Rich of The New York Times declared upon the film’s release.ĭefine irony: It’s when you try to sell a Hollywood movie to a DIY generation. That particular quandary was styled as a hallmark of Generation X, and Reality Bites was perhaps the most polished of a bunch of mainstream attempts to portray the ambivalent cohort. As if that weren’t work enough, Lelaina is also attempting to choose between two men who represent her divergent prospects: to sell out or not to sell out. She drew from her own life to create the story of Lelaina Pierce, a disaffected college grad (played by Hollywood’s grunge icon, Winona Ryder), who is herself producing a documentary about her equally disaffected friends. Just as the 1994 movie was the first feature-length film Stiller ever directed, it was the first that the writer Helen Childress had ever scripted. “Ben” is Ben Stiller, the director and co-star of Reality Bites, which marks its 25th anniversary this year with a reunion event at the Tribeca Film Festival. “The Ed Ruscha gas station where they’re dancing under the stars,” he told The New Yorker in 2012, “that’s all Ben.” But the movie’s producer, Michael Shamberg, compared it to pop art. The tableau is reminiscent of an Edward Hopper painting, at once desolate and bright. Cut to exterior: The trio dance in the glowing light of the Food Mart, their car abandoned at the pump to the left, the astral darkness reaching over it all. Four 20-something friends with uncertain futures are bearing armfuls of chips, soda, and cigarettes as The Knack’s “My Sharona” starts up on the radio three of them immediately drop everything to bop along to the song. We do not guarantee any submission will be published in the print or digital platforms of the San Diego Community Newspaper Group.If Reality Bites has a defining moment, it’s got to be that scene at the gas station. The views expressed in letters to the editor and editorials are not necessarily the views of this newspaper group, nor those of the staff. We reserve the right to exclude any letter to the editor, or to edit its contents for length and prevention of libel, or for other reasons as seen fit by the editor. For photos, attach a high resolution image file to the email, include text in the email explaining who is in the photo, and what the photo is about.įor letters to the editor, include a name and phone number for verification.
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