Hairspray (2007) [DVD] [2017]

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Relative unknowns Elijah Kelley and Taylor Parks were chosen through similar audition contests to portray siblings Seaweed and Little Inez Stubbs, respectively. However, in June 2010, Shankman told British press that Hairspray 2: White Lipstick was no longer in development. Her favorite episodes aren't the lily-white ones hosted by Corny ( James Marsden) but the "Negro Day" specials hosted by Motormouth Maybelle (a big and blonde Queen Latifah). The Corny Collins Show is based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show, a local dance party program which pre-empted Dick Clark's American Bandstand in the Baltimore area during the 1950s and early 1960s. Edna mans a camera to film Velma revealing her rigging scheme to Amber, resulting in Velma's dismissal.

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We can’t get lazy when things get crazy,” she adds, speaking about the fight for integration and racial equality, which is still applicable today. Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Waters had previously written about The Buddy Deane Show in his 1983 book Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters. As with "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now", a version of "Cooties", performed in a contemporary pop rendition by Aimee Allen, is present during the end credits. In HAIRSPRAY, Tracy Turnblad ( Ricki Lake) is a Baltimore high school student who wants nothing more than to dance on Corny Collins' TV show.Seaweed later helps her break out of the house and run away, and it is implied that her parents have disowned her. The song is heard shortly after " Big, Blonde and Beautiful" until Maybelle announces the cancellation of Negro Day.

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Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)" is played over the film's end credits, as are renditions of two songs from the stage musical which were not included in the film proper: "Cooties" and "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now". There is some fighting; Tracy's boyfriend has his legs broken, and another character gets a concussion. Dixon restructured portions of Hairspray 's book to allow several of the songs to blend more naturally into the plot, in particular "(You're) Timeless to Me" and "I Know Where I've Been". Teen stars Amanda Bynes, and Zac Efron were cast as Tracy's friends Penny and Link, and Brittany Snow was cast as her rival, Amber Von Tussle. Since Hairspray 's plot focuses heavily on dance, choreography became a heavy focus for Shankman, who hired four assistant choreographers, Jamal Sims, Anne Fletcher, and Zach Woodlee, and put both his acting cast and over a hundred and fifty dancers through two months of rehearsals.While no official casting was announced, New Line said that they hoped to "snag much of the original Hairspray cast. Stevens noted that "Despite its wholesomeness, this version stays remarkably true to the spirit of the original, with one size-60 exception: John Travolta as Edna Turnblad," saying "How you feel about Hairspray will depend entirely on your reaction to this performance. Tracy's dance moves earn her a spot as a regular on the show, infuriating the show's reigning queen, Amber Von Tussle, a mean, privileged, thin, beautiful high school classmate whose racist parents, Velma and Franklin Von Tussle, own Tilted Acres Amusement Park which bans African Americans.

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Meanwhile, "I Know Where I've Been", instead of being sung by Maybelle to the kids after being let out of jail, now underscores Maybelle's march on WYZT (which takes place in the stage musical at the end of "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful").Recording sessions for the film's songs and soundtrack took place in San Diego, California in the United States. Tracy is a great female role model, especially for larger teens (though she does lie to her mother on occasion); despite a constant barrage of racism and homophobia from other characters, the teens fight for what's right -- desegregation. Amber becomes Tracy's enemy when she threatens both Amber's chances of winning the "Miss Teenage Hairspray" crown and her relationship with her boyfriend, Link.