Saturday, July 11, 2009

Radical Yells: Natural Movie Teens


CARRIE WHITE
Played by Sissy Spacek in Carrie (1976)

the same parts campy and creepy, the disgust of high school has never been captured more perfectly than in the image of Carrie, covered in pig's blood, exacting her supernatural revenge on the bullies who beset her for being different. Spacek even got an Oscar nod for her role, an uncommon feat for both a teen movie and a disgust movie.

TRACY FREELAND
Played by Evan Rachel Wood in Thirteen (2003)

Thirteen's good girl-turned-wild child is every parent's worst nightmare. The scariest part? Wood's out-of-control role was co-written by her 15-year-old co-star Nikki Reed, based on her own life experiences.

WADE WALKER
Played by Johnny Depp in Cry-Baby (1990)

Dubbed ''Cry-Baby'' for his facility to shed a single tear, the motorcycle-riding spawn of Elvis (Depp) falls for a girl from a rival group known as the ''squares'' (she's clean-cut and preppy; he's greasy and wears leather) and will stop at nothing — counting breaking out in a doo-wop number while in jive — to be through her.

VANESSA LUTZ
Played by Reese Witherspoon in Freeway (1996)

Reese Witherspoon is closely the sort of performer you could imagine playing a naïve, sweet Little Red Riding Hood. Only in this thriller — based loosely on the classic fairytale — Reese plays against type as an illiterate, trailer-trash Red Riding Hood who hitches a ride from a big bad serial killer (Kiefer Sutherland) in an attempt to get away from community workers.

REBECCA AND ENID
Played by Scarlett Johanssen (left) & Thora Birch in Ghost World (2001)

being before Juno hit the girl-snark jackpot, Ghost World's Rebecca and Enid had already mastered the arts of talking trash, rocking vintage duds, and normally continuing their eyes at the world.

JUNO MacGUFF
Played by Ellen Page in Juno (2007)
what time wisecracking, rebel Juno makes a spur-of-the-moment choice to sleep with her nerdy best bud, she ends up knocked up. In turn, the teen makes a series of daring, against-the-grain choices, and won't bend to anyone's will in the course.
JULIET HULME
Played by Kate Winslet in Heavenly Creatures (1994)

The real-life Hulme became a national feeling in her native New Zealand after she murdered her mother with the aid of her best friend. The movie report of her story — directed by a pre-Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson — shocked with its unsettling violence, but Winslet's performance was nil short of lovely.

IVY
Played by Drew Barrymore in Poison Ivy (1992)


through her nose ring, trampy outfits, and an ivy-wrapped crucifix tattooed on her thigh, Ivy is every morsel the radical teenage temptress who drives men wild. Only this vixen isn't out for just a man. She wants to take over an entire family, and she'll stop at nothing (including seducing mom, dad, and daughter) to get her mode.

JIM STARK
Played by James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Adolescent angst, Hollywood-style found one of its earliest and most enduring voices in Rebel's antihero, played with raw intensity — and more than a little sex appeal — by a 24-year-old James Dean.

KATHRYN MERTEUIL
Played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions (1999)

''I'm the Marcia f---ding Brady of he Upper East Side,'' revels Kathryn of her location in polite society Manhattan. Ironically, though, the snide private-school student is quite the opposite of the oldest Brady girl: She takes cocaine from her crucifix necklace, she maliciously seeks revenge on an ex-boyfriend who screwed her over, and she makes a bet with her step-brother that if he can bed their headmaster's virgin daughter, then his container beds

WILMA DEAN LOOMIS
Played by Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass (1961)
forest was already a teen-rebel icon (thanks to her role in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause) when she earned her second Oscar nomination as Wilma Dean ''Deanie'' Loomis, a small-town girl who literally drives herself insane pining for Warren Beatty. Can you really

JULIE
Played by Ludivine Sagnier in Swimming Pool (2003)
journalist Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) has escaped to her publisher's house in the French scenery for some much needed inspiration when in walks the smoldering, self-indulgent daughter of her publisher, Julie, for an surprising visit. Julie's loose ways (strutting around naked, bedding plentiful men, and boozing all night long) serve to distract and then intrigue the author who has a hard time individual between reality and her thoughts

TV Watch 'So You Think You Can Dance' Recap: The Top 10 Emerge


You've got to hand it to Nigel Lythgoe. He may be an uncouth cad for that dig at Mary's Botox use, and he's definitely property a petty grudge against that piddle little Russian folk dance habit, but the man is one wily fox at getting his way. First, he takes to the public airwaves to bemoan the fact that a mania recording conglomerate won't release the rights to Michael Jackson's music for a tribute to the man's contributions to the world of dance. (Which is to say, if we're not seeing the moonwalk on the So You Think You Can Dance stage by the end of the season, I'll be quite surprised.) And Nigel even managed to dismiss the Cubeb while also swiftly hiring him back for the impending tour. Nigel just had to admit that the Cheep was never going to come within a country mile of catching up to the rest of the Top 10, and to keep him any longer on the show would undercut SYTYCD's precious dance world integrity, which he's so fond of touting to any who will listen. But we all know those ''producers'' of the SYTYCD tour had a ''talk'' with Nigel and, well, this is most likely how it went