In The New Guy, check out the slow-motion, loud-n-groovy music scene of Spalls brushing past three girls and striding 'manfully' towards the camera for several steps, turning around, glancing at them for a moment, and then walking off the camera right. Starting about the middle passage of the scene, the centrally placed black girl wearing black pants and pink-orange top waves her hand suggestively and yells 'Beat, beat, beat you wanker'! She is partially and increasingly obscured by Spalls's body and jacket. She finishes by the time Spalls leaves the middle and walks off right, so that the lasting image is merely three girls looking innocently at the place where Spalls strode off camera. The air is practically flaming after the well-delivered insult, however.
What the girl does is not obvious to everyone, but even those who aren't deaf can definitely read her lips.
Thoughts:
Just how unpopular is Spalls? Was the set of the New Guy particularly bitchy or spiteful? Has that girl ever heard of professionalism? Why on earth did the director keep that scene?
It's also almost paradoxical that a teen comedy about the horrors of high school gives such an insight into horrors behind the scenes of the New Guy. Perhaps, this is not the only American film with concealed pourings of scorn on unpopular actors? What other similar scenes have there been?
What the girl does is not obvious to everyone, but even those who aren't deaf can definitely read her lips.
Thoughts:
Just how unpopular is Spalls? Was the set of the New Guy particularly bitchy or spiteful? Has that girl ever heard of professionalism? Why on earth did the director keep that scene?
It's also almost paradoxical that a teen comedy about the horrors of high school gives such an insight into horrors behind the scenes of the New Guy. Perhaps, this is not the only American film with concealed pourings of scorn on unpopular actors? What other similar scenes have there been?





Yep, the movie's 2 years old (2002 release). Funny thing is the closing credits were full of production boards stating a 2000 production year. The movie was crummy enough to be sat on for two years it seems.