R. Castillo
Intro to Film
October 15, 2017
Film Analysis: Superbad High school seniors Evan and Seth have been best friends since they were kids, Seth the leader who is all talk and no action type of guy, Evan who is the most faithful and smart follower of Seth. Both best friends are a part of the out crowd in high school, meaning that they have had few other students who were kind of their friends and a few people who are in the popular crowd. Seth and Evan have been doing everything together since they were children, but their plan to be roommates at college falls apart when Seth is not accepted to their school of choice, Dartmouth. Evan on the other hand still decides to attend Dartmouth and room in instead with their other …show more content…
Seth and Evan’s initial plans to hang out together by themselves for graduation takes quite a drastic turn when two weeks before their high school graduation, the popular, beautiful, stunning Jules invites Seth, and by association Evan, to her house party that evening. Seth knowingly knew that Fogell was getting a fake ID made at lunch, Seth, with Jules' money, offers to purchase all the alcohol for the party. Now Seth believes that the alcohol that he offered to buy is his and Evan's ticket to losing their virginities that evening at the party. Seth was hoping to be with Jules, and Evan hopes the same with Becca, but whose advances has been a fail due to the fact that Evan is filled with shyness and insecurity. But the road to purchasing the alcohol and being the kings of Jules' party takes a very rough path for the trio. Based on the fact that Fogell who obtained his fake ID, has failed to fully know what the capabilities of having a fake ID were, running into two very unlawful officers whose belief as cops was to just be cool and truly finding out Seth and Evans real attitudes of how …show more content…
With every great movie there has to be a story to how a wonderful story was developed. As I glanced over the internet I read about of how they developed a very comedic story of high school senior’s road to their virginities being taken away and discovering what the meaning of true friendship is. The writers of the film were Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg. Do both of those first names sound quite very familiar? Yes both the writers’ names used their first names in the film to portray the two high school best friends that go on a very wild adventure. Now both writers Evan and Seth wrote about this story through experiences they have seen during their very own high school experience during the 1990’s. In the film Seth’s main character (Seth) was supposed to be played by Seth Rogan himself, but due to the fact his body size, looks and age was not quite to standards of passing as a high school, they willingly decided to cast Jonah Hill to play the main character role as Seth. So with Seth Rogan not being able to play as his main character, he instead played the role of one of the characters seen many times around the movie as the goofy, cool officers, Officer Michael. The production of the film took a long while well over seven years to be fully completed from scripting the movie in the early two thousands and filming in two thousand six and seven. During the films production Christopher Mintz-Plasse who plays as the