{"id":10693,"date":"2020-05-14T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10693"},"modified":"2020-05-17T20:17:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T03:17:05","slug":"valley-girl-fer-shur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/14\/valley-girl-fer-shur\/","title":{"rendered":"VALLEY GIRL Fer Shur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/11\/movies\/valley-girl.html?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When \u2018Valley Girl\u2019 (and Nicolas Cage) Shook Up Hollywood<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>With no money or clout, what started as a cheap exploitation film managed to, like, totally click with a generation \u2014 and produce an unconventional superstar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0Ashley Spencer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Valley Girl (1983)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5E4JAXK1BAg?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Four shots of nude breasts. That\u2019s what the producers of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1983\/04\/29\/movies\/valley-girl-a-coast-comedy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cValley Girl\u201d<\/a>\u00a0demanded of their potential director, Martha Coolidge. If she wanted the gig \u2014 overseeing what was set to be a low-budget, exploitative high-school romp that could lure teen boys like \u201cPorky\u2019s\u201d did \u2014 she\u2019d need to make sure the requisite skin appeared onscreen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coolidge agreed and quickly found a loophole: \u201cThey didn\u2019t say how long the shots had to be. Not smart of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nudity appears in the 1983 film for mere seconds, presented frankly and lacking any titillation. In fact, Coolidge transformed \u201cValley Girl\u201d from its superficial beginnings into a teen classic full of heart and a\u00a0<em>trippin\u2019-dicular<\/em>\u00a0new wave soundtrack. The movie is making a comeback of sorts \u2014 it was recently made available for digital download for the first time, and on May 8,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B2jWfMJsitk\" target=\"_blank\">a musical remake<\/a>\u00a0arrives on-demand starring Jessica Rothe, Josh Whitehouse and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/02\/business\/media\/logan-paul-youtube.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">controversial YouTube star<\/a>\u00a0Logan Paul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The films\u2019 roots go back to Southern California\u2019s valley girl culture, which became a national phenomenon in the early 1980s thanks to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/saturday-night-live\/video\/godfather-therapy\/n8624\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recurring \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d character Sherry<\/a>&nbsp;and the hit song \u201cValley Girl,\u201d by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Zappa and his daughter, Moon Unit<\/a>. The tune scorned the ditzy middle-class teens who spoke in uptalk and spent their free time at the mall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eager to capitalize on the fad, the indie production company Atlantic Entertainment Group greenlit the original movie, batting away Zappa\u2019s trademark-infringement suit. The budget was just $350,000. To compare, fellow 1983 coming-of-age comedy \u201cRisky Business\u201d cost $6.2 million. Coolidge took a mere $5,000 directing fee and many of the crew members were volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI borrowed money from my mother to eat,\u201d Coolidge said. \u201cBut I was making a real movie and that was what was important.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/11\/movies\/valley-girl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times When \u2018Valley Girl\u2019 (and Nicolas Cage) Shook Up Hollywood With no money or clout, what started as a cheap exploitation film managed to, like, totally click with a generation \u2014 and produce an unconventional superstar. By\u00a0Ashley Spencer Four shots of nude breasts. That\u2019s what the producers of\u00a0\u201cValley Girl\u201d\u00a0demanded of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}