Classmates Sue Over 'Dazed and Confused' - Page 2

DenverChief · 10-09-2004, 10:45 PM

I had no idea these were real guys

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SANTA FE, N.M. - Three former high school classmates of "Dazed and Confused" director Richard Linklater have filed a lawsuit claiming they have suffered embarrassment and ridicule because of characters based on them in the movie.

The men — Bobby Wooderson, Andy Slater and Richard "Pink" Floyd — say Linklater did not get their permission before creating three characters in the 1993 cult classic sharing their surnames and likenesses. The suit was filed Thursday in Santa Fe against Universal Studios, which released the film.

The movie follows the drug- and alcohol-fueled hijinks of teenagers on the last day of school in May 1976. The men said the negative characterizations in the film have made their lives miserable and caused their neighbors to think poorly of them.

"We had fun in high school, but there is nothing true about that movie. Yet, I am having to deal with it all the time," said Floyd, who works at a car dealership in Huntsville, Texas, where the men went to high school.

Ernest Freeman, one of the plaintiffs' attorneys, said Slater has also had problems because people make assumptions that he takes illegal drugs.

Slater runs a construction and remodeling company and Wooderson works in the technology sector. Both men also still live in Huntsville. Linklater's agent did not immediately return a message Saturday seeking comment.

The suit was filed in New Mexico because it has a longer statute of limitations than other states for claims of defamation and false light, attorneys said.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...nfused_lawsuit

Fairplay · 10-10-2004, 02:32 AM

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Hopefully New Mexico will throw them out on their tails. Knowing our legal system, though - they'll probably all become millionares.

Has it really been that long since D&C was released?

1993.

Ultra Peanut · 10-10-2004, 02:42 AM

The timing of this is almost as reeruned as NWA being successfully sued last month for using a two-second Funkadelic sample in a song made back in 1990.

**alpha_omega** · 10-10-2004, 07:21 AM

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Ernest Freeman, one of the plaintiffs' attorneys, said Slater has also had problems because people make assumptions that he takes illegal drugs.

"He'd be alot cooler if he did"

**gblowfish** · 10-10-2004, 07:26 AM

If they win they'll probably spend the money on drugs, alcohol and teenaged girls.

**CosmicPal** · 10-10-2004, 07:51 AM

Let's see, you're embarrassed by the local exposure- so much so- that even after 11 years, you feel it warrants NATIONAL exposure which only results in further depth of the wounds?

BS!

You're after the money. Fuggin asshats.

What really ticks me off- is that Dazed & Confused is a classic film...IMHO- one of the best. It certainly has its' share of great one-liners.

**CosmicPal** · 10-10-2004, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by alpha_omega

"He'd be alot cooler if he did"

Every time I hear that line, I just crack up...you get a rep!

Slayer Diablo · 10-10-2004, 08:08 AM

It probably started out with one guy who noticed his name in the movie and he said, "Ya know, once I find the two other 'real' guys from this movie, we can file a lawsuit"....what a jackass.

**CosmicPal** · 10-10-2004, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by St. Loser Diablo

It probably started out with one guy who noticed his name in the movie and he said, "Ya know, once I find the two other 'real' guys from this movie, we can file a lawsuit"....what a jackass.

I very much doubt that....

I'm sure that sometime during the developmental stages of the script or when the rights to the screenplay was purchased by a movie studio- Richard approached his old high school chums and stated he'd been writing a movie about their high school days.

Response from one of the guys: "It'd be cool if you did."

I bet you anything, these guys knew before the movie ever hit the theaters and that they were going to be immortalized on the screen...I'm sure they must have thought it was the kewlest thing then.

And, I'm sure Richard got them to sign a waiver of some sort to release their true names. No writer in this world would ever attempt to use another's real identity without coming up a psuedo moniker in order to save face.

**Baby Lee** · 10-10-2004, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by CosmicPal

I very much doubt that....

I'm sure that sometime during the developmental stages of the script or when the rights to the screenplay was purchased by a movie studio- Richard approached his old high school chums and stated he'd been writing a movie about their high school days.

Response from one of the guys: "It'd be cool if you did."

I bet you anything, these guys knew before the movie ever hit the theaters and that they were going to be immortalized on the screen...I'm sure they must have thought it was the kewlest thing then.

And, I'm sure Richard got them to sign a waiver of some sort to release their true names. No writer in this world would ever attempt to use another's real identity without coming up a psuedo moniker in order to save face.

Geez, you throw in some of Cosmic's stellar supposition, and the case really goes to shit!

Why I bet they signed a blood oath with the future director when they were kids to "never ever sue. . . especially never ever in New Mexico."

Seems just as probable that Linklater hated these guys in HS and meant to caricature them in the movie, then forgot to change their names to something fictional.

Fairplay · 10-10-2004, 09:26 AM

I thought that kid who played Mitch Kramer did an horrendous job of acting.

Hes the kid in the middle.

**CosmicPal** · 10-10-2004, 09:28 AM

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Seems just as probable that Linklater hated these guys in HS and meant to caricature them in the movie, then forgot to change their names to something fictional.

Yea, I'm sure that's what happened.

Slayer Diablo · 10-10-2004, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Fairplay

I thought that kid who played Mitch Kramer did an horrendous job of acting.

Hes the kid in the middle.

He wasn't that bad of an actor...

Brock · 10-10-2004, 10:06 AM

Wow, those guys were pretty cool in the movie. I guess it truly was fictional.

**Baby Lee** · 10-10-2004, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by CosmicPal

Yea, I'm sure that's what happened.

What makes you sure you have any idea WHAT happened? I'm just talking likelihoods here.

You say no director would make a movie without getting a release for the names used. OTOH, that holds as much truth as 'nobody' would sue if they had signed a release.

The case is stupid enough on the facts, why the need to suppose all this other crap?

Braincase · 10-10-2004, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Fairplay

I thought that kid who played Mitch Kramer did an horrendous job of acting.

Hes the kid in the middle.

I must've done too many drugs. I see two kids in the middle.

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