The behind-the-scenes tidbits of my elegant girl.

1 william henry harrison high school has three schools with the same name in the United States, in addition to eight Harrison high schools and a dozen middle schools with the same name, but none of them are in California. The school in the movie is actually torrance High School, which was built in the southwest of Los Angeles, 19 17, and was registered as a historical and cultural heritage by the National Register of Historical Places. This school is a very popular shooting place in Hollywood. There are many hit TV series, such as Flying over Beverly Hills and its rumor 902 10, Buffy the vampire hunter and psychic agents, the movie Wild Life 1984, Passion below zero 1987 and so on.

2. According to director Robert Iscove, the original production budget of the crew was only 6 million dollars, but after filming, it was found that the cost overrun reached 8 million dollars, and the total cost barely reached 6,543,800+million, including the post-publicity and advertising expenses of Milla Max's film. This is still a very low-cost film.

3. The heroine's name in the play comes from the characters in Winona Laura Horowitz's two films-Lena Laney Pierce in Pain in Reality (also known as Four Graduates) and Kim Boggs in Edward Scissorhands. It is said that the screenwriter found that the heroine rachael leigh cook looks quite similar to Ryder.

4. In the future interview, rachael leigh cook revealed that her role in the film was mainly based on the popular animated drama Beavis and the butt of cigarettes and its derivative drama Dalia, an eccentric girl who was unsociable, dressed in rustic clothes and liked to spit.

5. The names of many characters in the play come from Hansen, who was popular at that time. Among them, the protagonist Zach and the heroine Taylor are the names of two of the band's three brothers, while the two supporting roles Jesse and Mackenzie are the names of two other non-band members of the Hansen family.

6. john owen's best-selling book The Rules of the Cider House can be seen in the bedroom of Simon, the heroine's younger brother, and kieran culkin, Simon's actor, later appeared in a film adapted from this book.

Anna paquin has just immigrated to the United States for a few years, and his New Zealand accent is still very strong. For this reason, the crew specially arranged a full-time pronunciation coach for her to help her correct the Southern California accent.

8. kevin pollak, who plays the heroine's father, likes the quiz show Danger Edge! However, the bridge that didn't answer a question correctly was actually an internal joke, which came from his role in 1997 film Truth and Result.

9. Matthew Lillard's role prototype is said to be david parker Rainey, who is the most notorious roommate in the third season of the famous reality show series "The Real World of MTV Music Television". Like this man, the characters in the play are vulgar, selfish and lack of public morality, all of which were driven out of the program group halfway because they didn't get along well with others. The name of the character "Brock Hudson" in the play comes from a classmate of screenwriter Fleming when he was studying at his alma mater, St. John's School in Houston, Texas. "What's Brock Hudson's name?" That was a buzzword in school that year.

10, the father of Tim Ma Xisen, who constantly urged the leading actor to apply for Dartmouth College, alluded to the film Animal House (1978) of the National Satire Society of the United States-the plot of the film originated from his screenwriter chris miller's experience of studying at Dartmouth when he was young. At the end of Animal House, mattson's Playboy moved to California and became an obstetrician-just like Zach's father in My Fair Lady.

1 1. The dance floor is actually the entrance hall of the famous Ronald Cerritos Performing Arts Center in the eastern suburb of Los Angeles. At that time, the crew just isolated the hall area with advertising banners and started shooting.

12. Several main actors (including the hero and heroine) in the film are very nervous when shooting the dance part, because they have been involved in the entertainment circle for a long time, have no normal middle school experience, have not attended the graduation dance, and are not good at dancing.

13, the famous party group dance was not intended to be written in the original script, but was temporarily added by the crew to meet the requirement of adding a few minutes to the cinema.

14, Nate Shamalan, an unknown screenwriter at that time, helped the cast of My Fair Lady revise the script. The scene where the hero loses a bet and wants to run naked comes from something he saw in high school.

15, the hero and heroine Freddie Prinze Jr and rachael leigh cook have a very good personal relationship, but the first film requires that their relationship be indifferent or even mutually exclusive. In order to help them get into the play, the crew tried their best not to let them meet.

16. The basement of the heroine's house is actually set in the studio. Because Southern California is an earthquake-prone area (more than 10,000 times a year), there is a great risk of basement collapse, so there are basically no houses with basements in Los Angeles and San Diego.

17. The scene of the heroine's vacation in Daytona Beach, Florida is actually taken from the mansion in Malibu Beach in the western suburbs of Los Angeles. Because there is an instant switch between dialogue and memory in the movie, the crew specially set up a fake scene next to the swimming pool of the mansion to imitate the campus layout to help shoot.

18, Freddie Prinze Jr, the leading actor, actually played sandbags badly, so most of the stage performances were performed by professional body double, but his mistakes in real shooting were much less than body double's.

19, the rapper Lillian dressed sweetly and quietly during the audition, just like a pure middle school girl (in fact, she left home at a young age and grew up in the street). Director Iskov didn't know her bold image in the music industry until Lillian presented her own album after the movie. Later, Iskov recalled that it was a good thing I didn't know before, otherwise I was afraid that my preconceived impression would not choose her.

20.Usher was busy recording an album and couldn't leave for Los Angeles, so all his performances in the film were filmed in Chicago, except the last dance part.

2 1. At that time, alexis arquette was bent on winning the role of "underwear man" in the performing arts, so he went to the door more than ten times and asked director Iskov to let him play.

22. Several boys on campus sang a script without lines, which was entirely improvised by actors.

23. At the graduation ceremony, except for a few main actors in the cast, all of them were real students of torrance High School, and all of them used their real names when they took the stage to call the roll.

24. At that time, sarah michelle gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr (who later became her husband) had just begun to fall in love. Because her TV series Buffy the Vampire Hunter was also filmed in the same school, she often stays on the set with her boyfriend in her spare time. Director Iskov liked Gaila's performance in the TV series very much, so he asked Gaila if she would like to make a guest appearance through Plinz. Gaila replied that as long as she didn't have to recite her lines, so the crew gave her the role of a restaurant blonde without lines.

25. Later, milo ventimiglia, who became famous for his works such as gilmore girls, Loki 6 and Hero, played the role of a substitute football player in this film and helped clean the heroine's house. This film is his first appearance on the mainstream screen.