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‘Clueless’ Was Amy Heckerling’s Masterpiece. Is She Done With It? As If.
‘Clueless’ Was Amy Heckerling’s Masterpiece. Is She Done With It? As If.
Amy Heckerling thought “Clueless” should be a musical, right from the beginning. “Even when we were shooting the movie,” she said, “it felt like, at any point, it should burst out in song.”
Back then, in 1994, people around her agreed that it had the heart of one. She would watch Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd as Cher and Josh, tiptoeing around each other as they fought and flirted, and wonder why they couldn’t just burst into song. “Two people falling in love, well, they got to sing,” she said. But the people who usually fund these ventures did not agree. A musical was considered too expensive, and not worth it. People wouldn’t see it, they told her and blah, blah, blah.
She’d always wanted to make a musical. She had in mind a black version of “Bye Bye Birdie,” with Richard Pryor, Prince and a very young Will Smith. “I was told you can have a black actor with a white actor, but you can’t have more than that
‘Clueless’ Was Amy Heckerling’s Masterpiece. Is She Done With It? As If.
‘Clueless’ Was Amy Heckerling’s Masterpiece. Is She Done With It? As If.
