She's the Man
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She's the Man is a 2006 film, starring Amanda Bynes and directed by Andy Fickman, that claims it is based on Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will, though it shared substantial similarities to Just One of the Guys.
So called teen flick
The film also stars Channing Tatum and co-stars David Cross.
Directed
by Andy Fickman
Produced by Lauren Shuler Donner
Ewan Leslie
Written
by William Shakespeare (play)
Ewan Leslie (story by and screenplay)
Karen
McCullah Lutz
Kirsten Smith
Starring Amanda Bynes
James Kirk
Julie
Hagerty
Channing Tatum
Laura Ramsey
Robert Hoffman
Alex Breckenridge
Emily
Perkins
Amanda Crew
Jonathan Sadowski
James Snyder
Clifton Murray
David
Cross
Vinnie Jones
Brandon Jay McLaren
Distributed
by - USA -
DreamWorks
- non-USA -
Lakeshore Entertainment
Release
date(s) March 17, 2006
Plot synopsis
Spoiler warning
Viola
Hastings (Amanda Bynes) is a member of a upper class family and plays for her
school's soccer team. But when Cornwall cuts her soccer team because not enough
girls signed up for it, Viola decides to try out for a boys' team. But the coach
of the boys' team refuses to let her try out because she is a girl and Viola's
boyfriend who is also on the team agrees. So Viola breaks up with Justin due to
his sexist attitude (Viola's now ex).
When her twin brother Sebastian, scheduled to attend Illyria Preparatory, instead decides to go to London to play music, Viola resolves to pose as Sebastian so that she can try out for the Illyria boys’ soccer team, even though her mother would rather she be a Debutante. Then, she could play against Cornwall and show her old school that girls can indeed play soccer just as well as the boys or can be better.
To look like a boy, she cross dresses and adopts masculine attributes with the help of her stylist friend Paul Antonio (Jonathan Sadowski). She falls in love with Sebastian's handsome roommate Duke Orsino (Channing Tatum), the captain of the Illyria boys' soccer team, after a débutantes' carnival kissing booth incident when Olivia takes a break and Viola takes over. There at the kissing booth Justin (Viola's ex) sees them kissing but he still thinks that there is something between them and Duke gets into a fight with Justin over Viola. Meanwhile, Duke has a crush on Olivia, the most beautiful girl in school. Duke enlists help of Viola (posing as Sebastian) to help him get a date with Olivia, but in the process of matchmaking, Olivia falls for Viola (as Sebastian) instead. Since Viola (as Sebastian) helps Duke to get a date with Olivia, Duke helps Viola (as Sebastian) to make the first string by the soccer game vs. Cornwall. To make Viola (as Sebastian) notice her, Olivia flirts and dates Duke, to Viola's chagrin. When the 'real' Sebastian unexpectedly returns from London early, Olivia kisses him in front of Duke, setting off confused actions and reactions, including Viola being thrown out of her room and Illyria almost losing the soccer game due to Duke's anger. So Viola (as Sebastian) has to stay with Duke's lab partner. During the game Monique (Sebastian's jealous ex), Malcolm, and Principal Gold stop the game because they think that the 'real' Sebastian is a girl. Sebastian proves to the principal that he is a boy by showing his private part to all the players and fans, which include his parents. Viola decides to come clean during the soccer game and tell everyone who she really is, by lifting her shirt and Flashing everybody her breasts. This causes Monique, Olivia, Duke, and Sebastian to become confused. The film ends with Viola (Amanda Bynes) securing Illyria's win, Duke Orsino (Channing Tatum) and Viola getting together, the real Sebastian Hastings (James Kirk) and Olivia Lennox (Laura Ramsey) getting together, and Justin Drayton (Viola's ex who scorned her for trying out for a boy's team) (Robert Hoffman) and Monique (Alex Breckenridge) getting together, as well as Eunice (Emily Perkins) and Duke's friend Toby (Brandon Jay McLaren), and Paul and Duke's friend Andrew (Clifton Murray).
References
to Twelfth Night
The main or secondary characters in the movie share the exact
names of the original play's characters, such as Olivia, Duke (Orsino), Sebastian,
and Viola.
On the movie poster near the bottom in the production credits,
there is a line that says: Inspired by the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
In the trailer, when Amanda Bynes walks through the school's campus outside,
a billboard can be seen on the left hand side advertising the school's production
of "What You Will". That is the alternate title for Twelfth Night.
The
pizza parlor where the kids hang out is called Cesario's, in reference to the
name Cesario, which is the name Viola used when she posed as a boy in the play
Twelfth Night.
The line "Some are born great, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them," which was spoken by the character
of Duke Orsino in the film, is a direct quotation from the letter read by Malvolio
in Twelfth Night.
Various character names in the film are taken from Twelfth
Night, although the roles in the film bear no similarity to their namesakes in
the play. These character names are: Malvolio (the name of Malcolm's tarantula
in the film), Feste (Malcolm's last name in the film), Valentine (Monique's last
name in the film), Andrew and Toby (Duke's soccer buddies in the film), Maria
(Olivia's friend in the film) and Antonio (Paul's last name).
Stratford Country
Club is a reference to Stratford-upon-Avon, where William Shakespeare grew up.
"Illyria" is the country in which Twelfth Night, or What You Will
is set.
In Twelfth Night, or What You Will, a Duke named Orsino does fall
in love with Olivia, who falls in love with Viola in disguise, as Viola herself,
trapped looking like a man, falls in love with Orsino.
Viola and Sebastian
are twins in both this movie and the play.
In the play, Viola dresses as a
man because she needs to be male in order to get a job and survive, just as Viola
"needs" to disguise herself in order to get on a soccer team in the
movie.
The confusion caused when Olivia kisses the real Sebastian in the movie
directly parallels the confusion Sebastian feels in Twelfth Night, or What You
Will when Olivia expresses her love for him and proposes marriage.
When Duke
has the disguised Viola help him get Olivia's attention in the movie, he is doing
exactly what the Duke Orsino had his servant Cesario (Viola in disguise) do in
the play.
Malcolm's role in the movie is somewhat reminiscent of Malvolio's
in the play.
Eunice's name resembles a eunuch, which is a man who is castrated
to resemble a girl. Viola was supposedly "castrated" in the play.
The film uses Vinnie Jones a former football player who has a chequred privsate life. Many were disspaointed that so called teen movie would employ such a individual.
North America
As of July 1, 2006, She's the Man has grossed a total
of just under $33.7 million in North America.
Europe
Netherlands
The film entered the box office Top 10 at number eight, grossing €96.460
in its first week. As of July 14, 2006, the film has grossed €121.250.
Trivia
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Writer/producer Ewan Leslie got
the idea for the movie after seeing Sam Mendes' production of Twelfth Night at
the Donmar Warehouse in London starring Emily Watson as Viola. After writing the
script, he attached Amanda Bynes to star before sending it to studios.
Amanda
Bynes did not play soccer at the start of filming. She learned for the movie,
and played in many of the scenes herself. Bynes' double for some of her soccer
scenes was Shannon McDonald, a native of Richmond, British Columbia. McDonald's
husband was also a double for Tatum.
The lyrics of Sebastian's song in the
film are the opening lines of "Let Go" by Dave Lichens.
During the
double date scene at the pizza restaurant, just as Viola and Eunice are sitting
down at the booth, Viola says "Lady pterodactyl". This is a reference
to the 1994 cult classic Pterodactyl Woman From Beverly Hills.
The final film
to be distributed by DreamWorks themselves, as Paramount Pictures purchased the
company in 2005. It was made before the purchase, and released afterwards. The
first DreamWorks film to be distributed by Paramount is Over the Hedge. Paramount,
however, did release She's the Man on DVD, though under the DreamWorks label.
She's the Man was filmed in Vancouver, Canada. (However the film itself was
set in an upper crust suburb of Chicago.)
Brandon Jay McLaren actually has
played competitive soccer and had a scholarship to play in college.
In the
Spanish-dubbed version of the film, the voice actress of Viola also did the voice
for Amanda in the syndicated version of The Amanda Show.
During the scene
where Paul is making Viola into a boy, Jonathan Sadowski accidentally spits in
Amanda Bynes's eye while filming.
The fight between Paul and Viola when Viola
first arrives at Illyria is completely improvised.
This is the first PG-13
film Amanda Bynes stars in.
This is one of the other movies that have storylines
similar to Shakespeare plays like, 10 Things I Hate About You is to "The
Taming of the Shrew", O to Othello and Get Over It to "A Midsummer Night's
Dream".
As Duke and Olivia are beginning their date at the pizza parlor,
listen carefully. "Sebastian's" lyrics are in the song playing in the
background at the pizza parlor.
The names of many of the Illyria players are
the last names of the crew members, like Fickman and Donner.
Two posters of
the band Of a Revolution or O.A.R. can be seen on Sebastian's wall. Later in the
movie, the song "Love and Memories" by OAR is played.
Duke has a
Sum 41 poster on his wall for their 2004 album Chuck.
James Kirk (who plays
Sebastian) and Lynda Boyd are both in this film as they were in Final Destination
2. Amanda Crew, who starred in Final Destination 3, also starred in this film.
Continuity Errors
In the scene where Viola (as Sebastian) is in the
science lab with Olivia, Viola pours too much of a chemical into a tube and the
liquid spills out of the tube. Viola looks at Duke, then Duke looks at Viola,
and when it shows Viola (as Sebastian) next to Olivia, the chemical that was spilled
is no longer there.
In the second scene, students are seen playing basketball
in the background. Once there is talk about the girls team being cut, the basketball
players are gone.
In the scene where Viola (as Sebastian) is walking down
the hallway to her room, you can see the same boy three times in different places
(he is wearing a red cap backwards).
When Viola is changing in the tilt-a-whirl
at the debutante charity fair, you can see, several times, that she is alone in
the seat. However, it is shown that there was a small child there the whole entire
time.
During the fight scene at the carnival, you can see Robert Hoffman is
wearing white underwear, but you can see his stunt double is wearing black underwear.
In the scene when Viola (as Sebastian) is in the Headmasters office, and when
the Headmaster asks if she is inspired by the school colors, she retracts her
hand twice after he says to her that she can’t touch it.
In the scene
where Viola (as Sebastian) sits down with Duke, Toby and Andrew in the cafeteria
and a Pepsi bottle falls off her tray, there is a juice bottle in front of Toby
when she sits down, but when the camera angle changes the juice bottle and the
soda are right next to each other. Throughout the scene, the juice bottle is farther
and closer to the Pepsi bottle depending on the camera angle.
In the cafeteria
scene, when Viola (as Sebastian) sits at the table with Duke, Toby and Andrew,
she has a Pepsi bottle and it falls next to a bottle of juice. Although, when
Duke, Toby, and Andrew flee from the table, Toby grabs Viola’s Pepsi and
leaves his juice.
Also, in the movie, when Viola is posing as Sebastian, there
is one scene where she's talking on the phone with her mother and she mentions
to her mother "No, I will not wear heels!"; however, in the poster advertising
the film and in some of the scenes, if you look closely enough, she's wearing
heels.
In the first laboratory scene when Duke, Toby, Andrew, Viola are picking
lab partner names, Duke picks out three pieces of paper and hands them to Andrew
and Toby. Viola then picks two pieces of paper and hands one out to Andrew.
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