Talk:Hairspray (2007 film)

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[edit] plot

strictly opinion: I think the hairstylist needs her own section, given the title of the movie. Furthermore, parallels need to be drawn between black people, white people, fat people, skinny people regarding interpersonal communications and other various interactions within modern culture and society. In addition, the director is a homosexual, so comparisons and contrasts may also need to be made between gay and straight individuals. 71.238.71.180 17:35, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redundant casting

The article mentions most of the cast in the opening sections, then there's a cast list, then there's a production and casting section that lists them all over again without giving much new information.VatoFirme 20:25, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible "wink" to The Sound of Music

The "Shankman's inspirations" section of the article says that he included "a lot of winks" to films that influenced him, with The Sound of Music being one of the films listed. In the "You Can't Stop the Beat" scene, the dress Penny is wearing is supposed to have been made out of the drapes in her bedroom, which can be seen during "Without Love", which I think may have been another so-called "wink" to the part of The Sound of Music where Maria made play clothes for the children out of the old drapes. While I know including this in the article at the moment would probably fall under speculation or original research, I thought I would bring it up in case anyone had come across a source out there that made mention of this. If there is one and I'm not just reading too much into this, this could probably be included in the article as well. —Mears man 04:26, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Okay, when I watched through the movie with commentary by Nikki Blonsky and Adam Shankman, Shankman did say that Penny's dress was meant to be a "wink" to The Sound of Music. Does anyone know who/if this could be cited and incorporated into the article? —Mears man (talk) 00:53, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question about song title

Currently, the article lists the second version of "The Nicest Kids in Town" as "The Nicest Kids in Town (Reprise)". Normally, I wouldn't even stop to think that there might be a problem with this, seeing as the song is a reprise of "The Nicest Kids in Town". While watching the DVD (2 disc edition), however, I noticed that, under the "Jump To A Song" feature, the song is named "The Nicest Kids In Town (With Tracy)". Seeing as the song wasn't on the soundtrack, this is the only place (that I can think of) where the song has been mentioned by name, which makes me wonder if "(With Tracy)" is the true name of the song instead of "(Reprise)". I personally don't have anything against "(Reprise)" (in fact I think I actually kind of like it better), but I believe that this article needs to be as accurate as possible, so I'm asking to see what others think. —Mears man 04:42, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I just thought to watch the credits of the film to see how the song was listed there, and the credits list it as "The Nicest Kids In Town (Reprise)". Considering this, I'd say that this really is the true name of the song (it certainly sounds better than "With Tracy" to me), and I'd guess that somebody who was working with the DVD simply gave it the wrong name. Sorry for asking a question just to answer it myself, but I'm going to leave it as "(Reprise)" unless anyone has any thoughts or objections. —Mears man 04:50, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] John Waters template

Is the John Waters template at the end of the article really appropriate for an article such as this? I mean, yes, he did write the original Hairspray, and he did make a cameo in this film, but besides that he didn't have much to do with what this article's about. To me it seems like it would make more sense that, if we're going to have a template there, to have a template of someone more directly associated with this film, like Adam Shankman for example. What does everyone else think? Should we leave the template, change it, or remove it entirely? —Mears man (talk) 14:14, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bye Bye Birdie

I came across this site, where Adam Shankman says "One of the really fun things is that Ricki Lake is cameo-ing into this as of one the William Morris agents. We did a little research and what we thought would be funny is if they were coming to cast “Bye, Bye, Birdie,” which was made the following year after HAIRSPRAY supposedly takes place, which is 1963. I think that’s right, anyway. But I thought it would be really funny if the William Morris agents were coming to scout for who would play “Kim.” I’m sure nobody on the planet will understand this, but it makes me laugh." I really thought this was interesting and would like to see it added to the article, but I'm not sure where it would be best to include it. Does anyone have any suggestions? —Mears man (talk) 14:42, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Awards

There's been some concern over the long list of awards present in this article, so I've removed the following awards from the article:

Wins
Nominations
  • 2007 MTV Movie Awards
    • Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet
  • 2007 Satellite Awards
    • Best Art Direction & Production Design — Dennis Davenport and David Gropman
    • Best Costume Design — Rita Ryack
    • Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
    • Best Original Song — Marc Shaiman for the song "Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)"
  • 14th Screen Actors Guild Awards
    • Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
  • 2008 People's Choice Awards

If you disagree, feel free to say why you feel it should stay in the article, or even put it back yourself. I'll be the first to admit I don't know too much about most awards, so something I find to be non-notable could in fact be quite important. If there's something that I left in the article that you feel should be taken out, please mention that as well. If you think what I've done is fine, I'd love to hear that too. It's nice to get some feedback every now and then. :-) —MearsMan talk 00:43, 7 May 2008 (UTC)