I noticed that this film was shot in San Clemente and they even referred to T Street in the movie, but I've never heard anyone in San Clemente talk with this slang and I've been there a bunch of times. Does anyone know if the slang is realistic?
shareThe movie is actually a modern version of 1930/1940-era detective films in which they did talk like that.
shareNo, they use out-dated slang. A lot of people complain about this, but I enjoyed it personally.
sharedid people used to talk like that?? back in the film noir days, were they still stylized creativity, or was it based on a real vernacular??
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pretty sure it was just in the movies.
shareSome of the language came from the streets--in the 20s, 30s and 40s--some of it was devised by the writers of film noir and hard-boiled fiction, and some of that filtered back to the streets, people picking up phrases they liked from movies and print and using them in daily life. Art imitates life, but life also imitates art.
shareNo, except in movies and in Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett novels, and that's the point. This movie isn't meant to be realistic, it's meant to take an amazing genre (the noir film) and transpose it over a John Hughes high school film.
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This comment makes a lot of sense and helps me understand the movie. To be honest, the dialog nearly ruined the experience for me. Too pretentious...now I get what they were shooting for, but still, I'd have to say it didn't work for me. If something pulls you out of the medium instead of into it, it is failing at nearly every level of storytelling.
shareI think the language was symbolic representing the drug world and teen world and others not understanding it; or not knowing anything about it. Somewhat pointed out in most thinking that "The Pin' was a myth, and its a hot topic about parents not knowing what their kids do at school
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