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[|Dazed and Confused Movie Trailer]

“It was the last day of school in 1976, a time they'd never forget... if only they could remember.” It’s the last day of school in Austin Texas. All the seniors have been looking forward to this day for one reason, to haze the incoming freshman. Senior boys will hunt down freshman boys for paddling, while senior girls round up all the freshman girls in the school parking lot to cover them in condiments and make them propose to senior boys. Throughout the movie titled //[|Dazed and Confused]//, directed by Richard Linklater in 1993, is the survival of incoming freshman, seniors enjoying the last year they have together and the interesting things that happen when both sides interact. In this movie, you have the typical groups of teenagers in high school. You have the group of stoners, fraternal jocks, and snobby sorority girls and of course you have their typical activities of drugs, alcohol, and music. During this movie you have the combination on the younger classes in the high school and the upper classes. With the main character Pink played by [|Jason London] just hangs around with his friends as the last day of school comes around waiting for the initiation of freshman by paddling them. All the senior boys are out to get one freshman in particular, Mitch Kramer played by [|Wiley Wiggins]. Because he is the younger sibling of soon to be senior [|Jodi Kramer], all the senior boys plan to go extra rough on Mitch. Mitch spends some of the movie trying to run from the senior boys but eventually they catch up with him after his baseball game. After being paddled intensely, Pink decides to drive Mitch home. Pink invites him out with him and his friends, to make up for the pain. The rest of this movie takes place in the Moon towers in Texas where everyone decides to throw a party. Not only was the movie on of the best teenage, high school related movies but it was a launching pad for actors who are very well known today such as O'Bannion played by [|Ben Affleck], and Wooderson played by [|Matthew McConaughey]. These characters have been in other features before but because of the success of this movie, it launched an even bigger career for them both. //Dazed and Confused// happens to be my favorite movie. I love watching and relating to each character as they overcome new adventures in their high school career. This movie makes you feel like you are going back in time and are having your last day of high school. Also I like this movie because there have been so many movies like this and they aren’t as good but this movie has a good story line and happens to be very funny in some not so funny situations.