Posted by SaraD at spider-wo061.proxy.aol.com on June 28, 2001 at 17:27:28:
Dear Mr. Smith,
I'll try to keep this short, but we English majors tend to ramble, due to all that B.S.ing we have to do to write a 15 page term paper about a subject that couldn't fill a thimble...anyway....
I was wondering about some of the characters in Dazed & Confused and their strange resemblance to characters from Mallrats..I hope this wasn't brought up and I just missed it in the summaries. I'm sure it's all coincidental, but the J. London's character in D&C ends up dating the character of Joey Lauren Adams in the end, and when they are sitting in the car at the very end of the movie, she is sort of flirting with the stoner dude, Slater(who reminds me of a young silent Bob, although I'm sure that is really reaching). In Mallrats, Joey Lauren Adam's character says she used to date J. London's character in high school, but then Brodie says something like, "Oh, you mean before you became a slut?" which seemed to be insenuated in D&C. Another thing was Ben Affleck's characters. In D&C he played that jerk who wanted to paddle all the incoming freshman...he had a butt-fetish, if you will. And again in Mallrats, he plays the Fashionable Male jerk with a sort-of different butt-fetish. The time-line isn't right at all, since D&C was 1976, and the characters would have had to be way older in Mallrats.
Anyway, that's what I've been pondering,just thought I'd share. I apologize for my long-windedness, and probably spelling, too. I am just beginning to enjoy the ViewAskew world, and hope it can keep it's head as the money keeps trying to seduce. Sincerely, Sara D.