Hairspray is a 1988 American dance comedy film written and directed by John Waters, and starring Ricki Lake, Divine, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono, Jerry Stiller, Leslie Ann Powers, Colleen Fitzpatrick, and Michael St. Gerard. Hairspray is a dramatic departure from Waters's earlier works, with a wider audience. Hairspray ' s PG is the lightest rating received by Waters movies; most of the previous films were rated X by the MPAA. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film revolves around proclaiming itself as a "Truf Turnblad" teenager who loves to proclaim himself as a dancer on local TV shows and demonstrations against racial segregation.
Hairspray only moderate success in its theatrical release, generating gross money of $ 8 million. However, it managed to attract a larger audience on home videos in the early 1990s and became a cult classic. Some critics praised the film, although some were unhappy with the entire camp. The film is ranked # 444 on the 2008 list of Empire magazine's top 500 movies of all time.
In 2002, the film was adapted into a Broadway musical of the same name, which won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical in 2003. The second film version of Hairspray, an adaptation of the musical stage, was also released by New Line Cinema in 2007, which includes many item changes written from the original.
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Plot
In Baltimore, Maryland in 1962, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend Penny Pingleton auditioned for The Corny Collins Show, a popular Baltimore teenage dance performance (based on real life Deane Show >). Penny was too nervous and staggered over the answer, and another girl, Nadine, was cut in black (the show had "Negro Day" on the last Thursday of every month, she was told). However, despite being overweight, Tracy is a dancer strong enough to be regular on the show, annoying the queen ruling the show, Amber Von Tussle, a beautiful, special, and beautiful high school student whose racist, Velma and Franklin parents Von Tussle, owns the Tilted Acres Amusement Park and has banned African Americans from going there. Tracy steals Amber's girlfriend, Larkin Link, and competes against her for the 1963 Miss Auto Show title, fueling Amber's hatred against her.
The growing confidence of Tracy caused her to be employed as a plus-size model for Mr. Hefty Hideaway's clothing store. Pinky. He was also inspired to whiten, tease, and shave his big hair into a popular style in the 1960s. At school, a teacher named her hair with "hair-do" and sent it to the principal's office, from where Tracy was sent to a special education class, where she met some black classmates who had been placed there to arrest them academically.. The students introduced Tracy to Motormouth Maybelle, the owner of the R & amp; B and monthly host "Negro Day" at the The Corny Collins Show . They taught the movements of Tracy, Penny, and Link dance and Penny started an interracial romance with Motormouth's son Maybelle, Seaweed. It's horrible Penny's parents, Prudence and Paddy, who imprison their daughter in her bedroom and try to brainwash her into white boys' courtship and oppose integration with the help of Dr. Frederickson, a quack psychiatrist. Seaweed then helped him out of the house and escaped. It was implied that he would never return, because he was finally free of his parents.
Undeterred, Tracy used her new fame to fight for the cause of racial integration with the help of Motormouth Maybelle, Corny Collins, her assistant Tammy, and her agoraphobia, arrogant, and overweight, Edna's agoraphobia. After race riots in Tilted Acres resulted in Tracy's capture, Von Tussles grew more challenging in their opposition to racial integration. They plan to sabotage the 1963 Miss Auto Show with a bomb hidden in a towering bouffant wig. The plan literally exploded on Velma's face when the bomb went off before the time, and Von Tussles was dragged away by Baltimore police. Tracy, who had won the crown but was disqualified for being in a reform school, the Amber dethrones after the Governor of Maryland forgave her; Tracy then appears in the competition, integrates the show, and encourages everyone to dance.
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Cast
- Ricki Lake as Tracy Turnblad, an optimistic and aspiring teenager who hopes to dance on TV shows and promote desegregation.
- Divine like Edna Turnblad, Tracy's mother, a big mother who is ashamed of her obesity.
- Debbie Harry as Velma Von Tussle, Franklin's wife and Amber's mother.
- Sonny Bono as Franklin Von Tussle, Velma's husband and Amber's father.
- Jerry Stiller as Wilbur Turnblad, Tracy's loving, funny, cheerful father.
- Leslie Ann Powers as Penelope "Penny" Pingleton, Tracy's shy best friend.
- Colleen Fitzpatrick as Amber Von Tussle, the arrogant dancer at The Corny Collins Show.
- Michael St. Gerard as Lincoln "Link" Larkin, a teen lover and ex-boyfriend of Amber.
- Clayton Prince as Seaweed J. Stubbs, Motormouth Maybelle's dancing son. Seaweed is Penny's main love flower.
- Cyrkle Milbourne as L'il Inez Stubbs, Seaweed's sister.
- Ruth Brown as Motormouth Maybelle Stubbs, a friendly and strong-willed African American and mother of Seaweed and L'il Inez.
- Shawn Thompson as Corny Collins, the eccentric host of The Corny Collins Show.
- Mink Stole as Tammy, an employee and personal assistant to Corny Collins.
- Joann Havrilla as Prudence Pingleton, Paddy's wife and Penny retired controlling mother who disagrees with Penny on a date with Seaweed.
- Doug Roberts as Patrick "Paddy" Pingleton, Prudence's husband and Penny is not a nonsense daddy who wants to protect Penny from Seaweed.
- Alan J. Wendl as Mr. Pinky, owner of the Hefty Hideaway clothing store.
- Divine like Arvin Hodgepile, owner of a TV station opposed to racial integration for his studio.
- Toussaint McCall as himself (Despite appearing as a man in his 50s, rather than in his 20s, as it did in 1962)
- John Waters as Dr. Fredrickson, a psychiatrist who helps Prudence and Paddy try to brainwash Penny just by dating a white man.
- Board member
- Josh Charles as Iggy
- Jason Downs as Bobby
- Holter Graham as I.Q.
- And Griffith as Brad
- Regina Hammond as Pam
- Bridget Kimsey as Consuella
- Frankie Maldon as Dash
- Brooke Stacy Mills as Lou Ann
- John Orofino as Fender
- Kim Webb as Carmelita
- Debra Wirth as Shelly
- Custom appearance
- Ric Ocasek as Beatnik cat
- Pia Zadora as Beatnik girl
Production
John Waters wrote a scenario under the White Lipstick title, with a loose story based on real events. The Corny Collins Show is based on the real life Buddy Deane Show , a local dance party program that preceded Dick Clark American Bandstand in the Baltimore area during the 1950s and early 1960s. Waters previously wrote about The Buddy Deane Show in his book 1983 Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters.
The main photography took place in and around the Baltimore area during the summer of 1987. The school scene was filmed at Perry Hall High School with a designated location including a library, an English class on the first floor, and a principal's office. In a scene set in the principal's office, Harry Dorsey Gough (see Perry Hall Mansion) the emblem that once hung in the main lobby can be seen through the door. The scene set in the Tilted Acres amusement park was filmed at Dorney Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
This film is the last Divine film; he died three weeks after the release of the film. Hairspray is the only film with Waters where he does not play a major role. Initially, the Divine was thought to play Tracy Turnblad and her mother, Edna. Executives from New Line Cinema, the film's distributor, rejected this concept, and were eventually canceled. Instead, God played Edna Turnblad and Arvin Hodgepile, the owner of a racist TV station.
Deleted scene
A number of scenes are cut during postproduction, some of which describe certain elements seen in the film.
The first scene occurred before Tracy and Penny went to Parkville VFW record record. Tracy needed to start her first shift working at Hardy-Har Joke Shop. But after successfully scaring all his customers, he is forgiven for going to hop. The joke shop customer is still listed in the final credits of the last snippet.
The others involved Tracy skipping school, stealing shoes from the Etta Gown Shop, and getting into Von Tussles's house, using Amber's hair bleach to whiten her hair in Amber's sink, thus explaining Tracy's hair color change later in the movie.
Another deleted scene involves live roaches crawling out of Tracy's hair in Tilted Acres. The actual scene scene of a cockroach crawling out of Tracy's hair is cut off, but it still includes Amber's frightening reaction. However, he is considered joking and/or lying. When discussing his decision to finally interrupt the scene, Waters explains "Bob Shaye, head of New Line, may be right, saying, 'It does not work.What is this, the movie Buà ± uel?' [...] And he may be right. "
The scene is further cut off seeing Penny and Seaweed try to take refuge at Nadine's house after Penny escapes.
The last scene that was removed was a musical number involving teenagers performing a 1960s dance called "The Stupidity" at a car show shortly before Tracy was expelled from reform school, but once again, Waters finally decided it was not right, stating, " [B] coolly, I think, you know, you do not want your main man to look stupid in the big end. "
Reception
Critical reception
Hairspray received three stars from critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.
The film currently holds a "fresh" 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 41 reviews with an average rating of 7.8/10. This is the second highest ranked film in Waters (behind Multiple Maniacs ) on the website. The critical consensus states that "Hairspray is probably the most accessible film by John Waters, and thus, this is a very subversive piece of retro hilarity." John Waters writes that his all-time favorite hairspray commentary is David Edelstein at Rolling Stone: "Bradys and Mansons family movies can adore".
box office
Hairspray opened on February 26, 1988 in 79 North American cinemas, where it scooped up US $ 577,287 on its opening weekend. On March 11, it expanded to 227 theaters, where it grossed $ 966,672 from March 11-13. This ended his theater trip with $ 8,271,108. Awards
The film was nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards, and Grand Jury Prizes at the Sundance Film Festival.
Other works
Broadway Musical
In mid 2002, Margo Lion teamed up with writers Marc Shaiman and Thomas Meehan to turn Hairspray into Broadway music production. The show opened on August 15, 2002, starring Marissa Jaret Winokur as Tracy and Harvey Fierstein as Edna. The event continued by winning eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, in 2003. The show closed on January 4, 2009.
movie adaptation 2007
In 2006, New Line Cinema joins Adam Shankman to adapt Broadway shows into musical. The film was released July 20, 2007, starring John Travolta as Edna, Michelle Pfeiffer as Velma, Christopher Walken as Wilbur, Amanda Bynes as Penny Pingleton, Brittany Snow as Amber Von Tussle, Queen Latifah as Motormouth Maybelle, James Marsden as Corny, Zac Efron as Link, and newcomer Nikki Blonsky as Tracy. The film has a $ 75 million budget and generates over $ 200 million worldwide.
2016 live television adaptation
NBC aired a special television show from the famous musicals on December 7, 2016, starring Harvey Fierstein as Edna, Ariana Grande as Penny Pingleton, Kristin Chenoweth as Velma, Martin Short as Wilbur, Dove Cameron as Amber Von Tussle, Jennifer Hudson as Motormouth Maybelle, Derek Hough as Corny, Garrett Clayton as Link, and newcomer Maddie Baillio as Tracy. It was well received by critics and seen by 9.05 million viewers, with a 2.3 share in the demographic of 18-49, and a household rating of 5.9 overnight.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was released in 1988 by MCA Records. The album featured one original song by Rachel Sweet and eleven other songs mostly from the early 1960s by Gene Pitney, Toussaint McCall and The Ikettes, among others. Two songs, "You Do not Own Me" and "Mama Did not Lie", came out in 1964 and 1963 respectively.
- Additional songs
Other songs appear in the movie, but not on the soundtrack, due to licensing restrictions, as many of the songs are listed on Cameo Parkway Records, a record label owned by Allen Klein.
- "Limbo Rock" - Chubby Checker
- "Let's Twist Again" - Chubby Checker
- "Day-O" - Pia Zadora
- "Duke of Earl" - Gene Chandler
- "Train to Nowhere" - The Champs
- "Dancin 'Party" - Chubby Checker
- "The Fly" - Chubby Checker
- "The Bird" - The Dutones (not to be confused with The Five Du-Tones, also featured on the soundtrack)
- "Pony Time" - Chubby Checker
- "Hide and Go Seek" - Bunker Hill
- "Mashed Potato Time" - Dee Dee Sharp
- "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)" - Dee Dee Sharp
- "Waddle, Waddle" - The Bracelet
- "Do a New Continental" - The Dovells
- "You Do not Own Me" - Lesley Gore
- "Life Too Short" - The Lafayettes
Home media
Hairspray was first released in VHS and LaserDisc in 1989 by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video. New Line republished the film on VHS in 1996.
The film was released on DVD by New Line in 2002. The disc included audio commentary by John Waters and Ricki Lake and the theater trailer. It was released on Blu-ray on March 4, 2014.
See also
- Cross use in movies and television
- Racial integration
- African-American Civil Rights Movement in popular culture
- Multiculturalism
References
External links
- Hairspray on IMDb
- Hairspray in Mojo Box Office
- Hairspray at Rotten Tomatoes
- Hairspray in Metacritic
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