Legally Blonde Bend and Snap Clip

To end the scene, Luketic enlisted John Cantwell to play Maurice, a salon employee who sees everyone dancing. “Oh my God, the `folding and snapping`! Works every time! ” he says, before the camera shows two dogs barking approvingly. “As an openly gay comedian and actor, there were a lot of one-liners,” he laughs about the Legally Blonde era. And although the artist (now a drag queen) didn`t get a chance to show his own turn, he enjoyed it a bit. “It just tells you – gay hairdressers, we know everything.” The phrase fold and engage began with a few mojitos. Under the direction of director Robert Luketic, the spontaneous two-part seduction eventually became a musical number in its own right, words bending and catching in pop culture history books. The scene takes place in the middle of Legally Blonde, when Elle (Reese Witherspoon) wants to give Paulette (Coolidge) a boost of confidence after an unpleasant encounter with her delivery crush (Bruce Thomas). She shares a lesson from her mother, explaining the basics of “bending and slamming,” a maneuver that has a “98% success rate at getting a man`s attention.” (And, not to mention “when used correctly, an 83% return on a dinner invitation.”) Soon, she begins teaching the entire living room how to move, with a dance session (full of all sorts of curves and snapshots) bursting into a joyful celebration. In a matter of minutes, Legally Blonde transforms into a surreal panorama covered in candy. Uninhibited by the rum-based cocktails she had drunk, Smith suddenly jumped out of her seat and began to make an attention-grabbing move. She stretched out her leg, bent down as if to grab something, and then quickly straightened up. “I laughed so hard I almost fell off the bar stool,” McCullah says.

“The bartender probably stopped talking to us because he didn`t know what we were doing.” Soon after, the two were in Platt`s office and showed him their idea. “I don`t mind making a fool of myself,” says Smith, who recalls Platt making fun of her. “I really felt like a dancer or a very rotten waver, and it was burping somewhere in my psyche.” Grande and Davis decided that a nail salon would be an ideal backdrop for parts of the video`s Legally Blonde tribute, and quickly built an identical set with the same hair dryers, trash cans, and paints. “In the end, we used trans light outside the windows to look like a street,” Davis says. “It took another time to watch the film and study the scene, and it was so much fun to go back and see it with new eyes.” With a variety of background dancers, Coolidge eventually joined the set — Grande had formed a relationship with her after Grande`s impression of the actress went viral — and suddenly, the “Bend and Snap” (renamed “Thank n Next”) got a new life. “[Paulette] took what she already had and applied it in a whole new way,” Davis says of aligning the scene with Grande`s lyrics. “That hasn`t changed; She just made a better version of who she was. Shortly after Platt approved of the turn and snap scene, Luketic began to think musically. The director had just finished his 1997 short Titsiana Booberini, a musical that debuted at the Telluride Film Festival, and was eager to incorporate Smith`s movement into a dance sequence. Luketic hired Toni Basil – the veteran dancer responsible for “Hey Mickey” – to choreograph the short scene.

However, before she could start, McCullah and Smith Basil had to show off her move, so they visited her dance studio to perform the basic mechanics. “[Toni] had other dancers there, and she said, `Okay, can you do it again? Watch! No more chicken wings at the top!` Smith recalls. “I thought, `What`s going on? It`s so crazy. The film, released 20 years ago, remains a relevant feminist portrait of ditzy stagecoaching, but “bend and slam” it lives as a parallel phenomenon. Although it leads to a hurtful reward in the story (Paulette breaks her nose but gets her husband), it presents itself as a stupid and participative punchline in itself, which has been repurposed and revived for theater shows, music videos, and even Italian gay nightclubs. To those involved in the scene, including a high-profile choreographer and several young actors and dancers, his creation feels just as magical, requiring weeks of rehearsals and filming to reflect McCullah and Smith`s unique vision. Of course, there remains a possibility that the “bend and snap” will return in Legally Blonde 3, which Smith and McCullah say is still in development after writing an early draft. But even they admit that it would be almost impossible to live up to the alchemy of the original, an 11th century idea. An hour that continues to prove timeless. “It got to the bottom of it,” Smith says. “Thank God for the mojitos.” Эта политика действует в отношении всех, кто использует наши Сервисы, независимо от их местоположения. Решение об ознакомлении с такими ограничениями остается за вами. Для защиты нашего сообщества и торговой площадки Etsy предпринимает меры для соблюдения режимов санкций.

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At that point, as we continued to do it, I could see that they were really recording this. Dancers like Brigham were accomplished professionals, but Basil feared that actors like Witherspoon would have trouble remembering the choreography, given the gap between rehearsals and stage shooting. “She had to remember what we did during our pre-production period,” says Basil. Thankfully, the scene — filmed in a real living room in Monrovia, California, and on James Brown`s “Sex Machine” (later replaced by a remixed version of Mya`s song) — went so well, Witherspoon and all, that Luketic brought each dancer back for shots and took extra shots during another week of shooting. “They shot it a lot of times from different angles, and the dancers never lacked energy,” McCullah recalls. Наконец, участникам Etsy следует иметь в виду, что сторонние платежные системы, например PayPal, могут самостоятельно отслеживать транзакции на предмет соблюдения санкционных требований и могут блокировать транзакции в рамках собственных программ, обеспечивающих соблюдение требований. Etsy не имеет власти или контроля над процедурами независимого принятия решения в таких системах. When Ariana Grande started coming up with ideas for her music video “Thank you, next” in 2019, she was initially drawn to Mean Girls and wanted to turn the film`s “brand book” into a “book of gratitude.” When she discussed the idea with director Hannah Lux Davis, the two began listing their other favorite films of the time — Bring It On, 13 Going on 30 and Legally Blonde — and couldn`t resist bringing them all together in one video.