Alright, Alright, Alright The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused

Melissa Maerz, Brittany Pressley, George Newbern

eAudio - 2020

The definitive oral history of the cult classic Dazed and Confused, featuring behind-the-scenes stories from the cast, crew, and Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater. The production includes an exclusive conversation between Melissa Maerz and Richard Linklater at the end of the audiobook.Dazed and Confused not only heralded the arrival of filmmaker Richard Linklater, it introduced a cast of unknowns who would become the next generation of movie stars. Embraced as a cultural touchstone, the 1993 film would also make Matthew McConaughey's famous phrase—alright, alright, alright—ubiquitous. But it started with a simple idea: Linklater thought people might like to watch a movie about high school kids just hanging out and listenin...g to music on the last day of school in 1976. To some, that might not even sound like a movie. But to a few studio executives, it sounded enough like the... more