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The bats have sonar-they won’t run into you. As the sun is setting, a million bats fly out and people go down and lay on the banks of the river. Jason London (Pink): Right when it’s time for the bats to wake the fuck up and eat, they all fly out at the exact same time. Peter Millius (former boyfriend of cast member Deena Martin): Our hotel was by the Congress Avenue Bridge, and that was the bridge where the bats would come out at dusk every night. We’d work all night and then hang out all day. We all got a little darker during that period, because we turned into vampires. Sasha Jenson (Don): When we transitioned from day shoots into night shoots, that’s when it shifted gears for us, too. Dazed was mostly shot in sequential order, and when the cast started working at night, they felt the vibe changing, too.Ĭlockwise from top left: Ben Affleck, Sasha Jenson, Cole Hauser, and Rory Cochrane, swimming in Austin. But once the sun goes down, the freshman boys get paddled, Mike (Adam Goldberg) gets into an ill-advised fistfight with Clint (Nicky Katt), and a total stranger points a gun at Pickford (Shawn Andrews). The daytime part mostly focuses on kids hanging out and chasing one another around, with some mild humiliations along the way. There’s a marked difference between the breezy, “school’s out for summer” tone of the beginning and the more manic tone of the rest of the movie. But it was summer camp with alcohol, weed, and locked doors.īut about 30 minutes into Dazed and Confused, the film switches from daytime to nighttime. Long before he became an actor, a 22-year-old Jason Lee - future star of Almost Famous and My Name Is Earl - agreed to be the legal guardian of his 17-year-old girlfriend, actress Marissa Ribisi, and he ended up partying even harder than she did.

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Dazed was about ’70s kids coming of age at a time when adult supervision was sporadic, and behind the scenes, these kids were unleashed.

When they weren’t shooting, they were swimming, boating, running around barefoot, and getting into trouble. Many of them still describe making Dazed as “summer camp,” whether they consciously remember Linklater’s words or not. When Cole Hauser left his audition for Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater called after him: “It’s gonna be like summer camp in Austin!” With those words, the director shaped how the cast viewed their experience making the movie, and what the vibe would be behind the scenes. The quote is one of many in Melissa Maerz’s new oral history of the film, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT. “There’s no more weed! I gave you all we had!” Jason London recalls telling a co-star.

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