{"id":117250,"date":"2020-11-21T19:14:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-dazed-and-confused-launched-matthew-mcconaugheys-career\/"},"modified":"2020-11-21T19:14:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:14:32","slug":"how-dazed-and-confused-launched-matthew-mcconaugheys-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-dazed-and-confused-launched-matthew-mcconaugheys-career\/","title":{"rendered":"#How ‘Dazed and Confused’ launched Matthew McConaughey’s career"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How ‘Dazed and Confused’ launched Matthew McConaughey’s career<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n It was the moment Matthew McConaughey became Matthew McConaughey<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The actor, playing chilled-out high-school grad Wooderson, leans against a wall with drink in hand. He asks a current student how the latest crop of freshman girls are looking, then app<\/a>lies his Texas drawl to deliver a soon-to-be immortal line: \u201cThat\u2019s what I love about these high-school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watching from the sidelines, the film\u2019s editor turned to the producer and said, \u201cThis<\/em> is a movie star.\u201d<\/p>\n

The movie was 1993\u2019s \u201cDazed and Confused\u201d and the proclamation was especially bold because McConaughey didn\u2019t have a particularly big role. It was just his first film. But \u201cDazed and Confused\u201d provided much of the foundation for who he would ultimately become in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis movie is his origin story,\u201d says Melissa Maerz, author of \u201cAlright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater\u2019s Dazed and Confused<\/a>\u201d (Harper), out now.<\/p>\n

In 1992, McConaughey was a University of Texas film student who\u2019d been in a few commercials when \u201cDazed and Confused\u201d came to Austin. The movie, directed by Richard Linklater, would follow a group of high-school students as they party, smoke pot and hang out on the last day of school in 1976.<\/p>\n

Casting director Don Phillips was having a drink at his hotel one night when the bartender phoned his friend McConaughey to say he should come down and meet the Hollywood player. He did, and won a role by chatting about golf and sharing a joint with Phillips.<\/p>\n

McConaughey based his character of Wooderson, a 20-year-old weirdo still hanging around with the high-school kids, on his older brother, Pat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was 11, his Z28 broke down, so Mama was gonna pick him up from high school, and I\u2019m in the back of the car,\u201d McConaughey says in the book. \u201cWe\u2019re drivin\u2019 around, lookin\u2019 for him, and I look out the back window, and I see this iconic silhouette of this guy leanin\u2019 against the wall, knee kicked up, in the shade, smokin\u2019 a cigarette.\u201d<\/p>\n

McConaughey loved Ted Nugent, so a costume designer took Nugent\u2019s album \u201cTooth, Fang & Claw\u201d to a local Kinko\u2019s and had a T-shirt transfer made of the cover image.<\/p>\n

\"Matthew
McConaughey came up with the catchphrase \u201cAlright, alright, alright\u201d for his character, who used it when cruising for girls.<\/span>Gramercy Pictures (2)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

McConaughey also spawned the movie\u2019s eternal catchphrase, \u201cAlright, alright, alright,\u201d which Wooderson uses while cruising for girls.<\/p>\n

The actor remembered a Doors live album on which Jim Morrison barks four \u201calrights\u201d before a song. McConaughey borrowed it, reasoning that each \u201calright\u201d would represent one of the four things that made Wooderson tick: his car, weed, rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, and chicks. (McConaughey only delivered three because Wooderson hadn\u2019t yet scored a chick for the night.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe minute he said that \u2018alright, alright, alright\u2019 thing, I just went, \u2018Oh, my god, for the rest of time, people are going to be saying everything this motherf\u2013ker says,\u2019\u2009\u201d set decorator Deb Pastor said in the book.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

McConaughey also sparked the famous line during the film\u2019s climax, where Wooderson tells Pink (played by Jason London), \u201cYou just gotta keep livin\u2019, man.\u201d<\/p>\n

The line was inspired by the death of McConaughey\u2019s father midway through production. He took a walk with Linklater, talking about mourning, and landed on what\u2019s become known as the \u201cjkl\u201d philosophy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a \u2018just keep living\u2019 decision with every single thing that I do,\u201d McConaughey says. \u201cI could also argue that every character I play is a \u2018just keep living\u2019 character.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a mantra that\u2019s served him well. During the last week of the film\u2019s production, McConaughey decided to move to Los Angeles and pursue a film career. He carved the phrase into his car and had it as his outgoing answering-machine message for a while. Twenty-seven years after \u201cDazed and Confused,\u201d he is now an Oscar-winning icon, with a production company and charitable foundation both named Just Keep Living.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

For forums sites go to Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

If you want to read more News<\/a> articles, you can visit our News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“#How ‘Dazed and Confused’ launched Matthew McConaughey’s career” It was the moment Matthew McConaughey became Matthew McConaughey. The actor, playing chilled-out high-school grad Wooderson, leans against a wall with drink in hand. He asks a current student how the latest crop of freshman girls are looking, then applies his Texas drawl to deliver a soon-to-be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/matthew-mcconaughey.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[17209,71064,39942,80969],"class_list":["post-117250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-books","tag-matthew-mcconaughey","tag-richard-linklater","tag-stoners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}