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The other thing that's really great about it is that the foundation for the narrative in the movie is Emma, which is a novel that was first published in 1815. I think that because there's some of those details in there, for a kid who watches it now or anybody who watches it now who has never seen it, it still feels very, very current. I mean, that is a fashion app 20 years before fashion apps were around. I think kids who watch it now think that seems completely normal, in a similar way to Cher's computer and the way that she's using a touch screen to choose what clothes to wear in the morning. The way that everybody's using their phones, it's so prevalent. I also think that Amy Heckerling was incredibly prescient in terms of some of the details in the movie, like the cellphone usage at that time-not very many people had cell phones-definitely not many kids. I think that a lot of people hold it very dear for that reason.
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I think that when you're young and you find a movie that's your movie and you come home from school every day and you watch that movie, it sort of gets intertwined with your own memories and experience of high school in real life. Even though in many ways I think it is a timeless movie, obviously it came out in 1995 and there are many things in it that are rooted in that era-just references to Ren and Stimpy, Marky Mark and all that kind of stuff.
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JC: For people who saw it when they were pre-teen and in their teen years, I think there's sort of a built-in nostalgia around it. HB: What makes the film so relevant today? Why do we care about Clueless? I felt like at that time we hadn't had a movie that was as funny and engaging about the teenage experience, but also with so much intelligence behind it. But when I saw Clueless, first of all, I loved it, and it also took me back to those other movies. In terms of the coming-of-age movies, the teen movies that were really formative when I was a teenager, those were more like the John Hughes movies for me. When it came out I was a little over a year out of college. JC: I was a little bit older than the target demographic when Clueless came out. HB: What was your interest level in Clueless before you started the book? So that's when I ran with writing a book proposal and things started to happen from there. I had always been interested in doing an oral history, but had never settled on what a good subject matter would be. She had read some of my other work too, but she was struck by that and said, I feel like you can do a whole book in a similar way, looking at the entire movie as opposed to just one scene. So I wrote that and a few months later an agent reached out to me. I saw the Val party on the list and I said oh, I want to do that. John Sellers who was one of my editors there at the time, he had sent me a list and said, take a look at this and see if anything jumps out at you. A couple years ago, Vulture did something called micro oral history week, where every day they were publishing a very-almost absurdly focused-oral history. Harper's BAZAAR: You mentioned in the book that your journey with Clueless started with an oral history for Vulture. You'd be totally buggin' if you even considered skipping it. The result? As If: An Oral History of Clueless, an exhaustive guide to everything and anything you'd ever want to know about the movie.īefore the book's release ( available in stores and online today), BAZAAR sat down with Chaney to discuss Clueless's cultural impact, its influence on Mean Girls and why we still love the movie as much as we did in 1995. But for the 20th anniversary of Amy Heckerling's iconic 1995 film Clueless, pop culture journalist Jen Chaney set out to compile an oral history of the film-from life-changing decisions at the casting table to in-depth analyses of the movie's most iconic scenes-with comprehensive interviews with the cast and crew.
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Most iconic films celebrate a milestone anniversary with reruns on TV and a couple of clever listicles-maybe a group interview with the cast if everyone's willing to participate.