‘Everybody Wants Some’ in this Linklater Movie

‘Everybody Wants Some’ in this Linklater Movie

Award-winning filmmaker Richard Linklater looks back at college in the 1980s in his new humorous film, “Everybody Wants Some.”

The new movie is not a sequel to “Boyhood.” That 2014 Linklater film followed 12 years of a boy’s life as he grew to adulthood¹. “Everybody Wants Some” is a much lighter² look at young adults.  

"Two rules: No booze in this house. Number two, no girls upstairs in those bedrooms."

"Everybody Wants Some" takes place over one weekend at a college in Texas. The year is 1980. A group of athletes, or jocks, gather at the school before classes start. They are there to attend baseball practice, and to party.

Blake Jenner stars as Jake, a new player on the team.

Quinton Johnson as Dale to Jake: "You have not earned teammate status yet."

Another Jock: "Who are you?

Blake Jenner as Jake: Oh, Jake...Bradford"

Quinton Johnson as Dale: "Until you do, you are a nobody."

Richard Linklater said this college comedy was based on his own college experience.

"This is such a unique time in your life, you know. You're away from home, all the freedom you're confronted⁴ with, to try to figure out who you are in the world." 

Quinton Johnson plays a teammate named Dale. He said the young actors had to put themselves into a different time.

"We're a bit more disconnected as college students today. We have Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, there is Bumble now, I don't even know what Bumble is, there is Tinder. You know? All these things that substitute for real human interaction."

Actor  Wyatt Russell also plays one of the athletes in the film. He described how they made the time and the relationships seem real.

"We did the wardrobe, we've listened to the music. And then you just kind of play with your friends."

But some things do not change, says actor Glen Powell, who plays Finnegan. In the 1980s, like today, college students were testing the limits of a new freedom. 

"It's about a bunch of guys who think they know who they are and don't, but they are confident in whatever version that is that they are choosing at the moment."

Richard Linklater’s film representation⁵ of the American college experience is a happy one.

"You got to hang out with some fun, eccentric⁶, kind of cool people, who seemed like your friends and it was just a good time. You kind of absorbed their energy and spirit and it was a good place to be."

Words in This Story

booze - n. alcohol

jock - n. athlete

practice - n. a regular occasion at which you practice something?

unique - adj. very special or unusual?

confront³ - v. to deal with (something, such as a problem or danger)?

wardrobe - n. the clothes worn by actors in films, plays, etc.?

confident - adj. certain that something will happen or that something is true?

eccentric - adj. strange or unusual?

1 adulthood   

n.成年，成人期

参考例句：

• Some infantile actions survive into adulthood.某些婴儿期的行为一直保持到成年期。
• Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。

2 lighter   

n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级

参考例句：

• The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
• The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。

3 confront   

vt.遭遇，勇敢地面对，正视，使对质

参考例句：

• A soldier has to confront danger.士兵须面对危险。
• We must confront future with optimism.我们必须乐观地面对未来。

4 confronted   

面对( confront的过去式和过去分词 )； 使面对； 使对质； 处理

参考例句：

• When we confronted him, he denied everything. 我们与他当面对质时，他什么都不承认。
• The writer confronted his pile of work with determination. 那作家下决心面对成堆的工作。

5 representation   

n.表现某人（或某事物）的东西，图画，雕塑

参考例句：

• The painting is a representation of a storm at sea.这幅画描绘的是海上的暴风雨。
• All parties won representation in the national assembly.所有政党在国民大会中都赢得了代表资格。

6 eccentric   

adj.古怪的，怪癖的，异乎寻常的；n.古怪的人

参考例句：

• His actions since that morning have been eccentric and unpredictable.自从那天早晨，他的行动一直是反常而不可捉摸。
• He had the name of an eccentric.他有怪人之称。