30
years ago Amblin released a couple of nice films, that
were successful on very different levels. Since the years has only
just begun, we won't dig into all the titles just yet, but today we
kick of with the 30th anniversary of Fandango.
Fandango
has some similarities with Road Trip, a comedy that was
released by DreamWorks years later. Both films deal
with a bunch of students who embark on a road trip through the US,
but whereas the reason in Road trip is to retrieve a
videotape, in Fandango the friends want to find out what life
has to offer them, before facing up to uncertain futures in Vietnam
(the film is placed around 1971) and otherwise.
Both
the director, Kevin Reynolds, and two of it's main stars, Kevin
Costner and Judd Hirsch, were fairly unknown when Fandango was
filmed.
Reynolds
was chosen by Steven Spielberg himself, when he had seen a short
student film, based on a real life sky-dive, Reynolds had directed
while on USC film school.
Until
then he mostly known for working on a script for the actioner Red
Dawn (a feat he repeated for the remake in 2012), made his debut
as a director for feature films with Fandango and went on with
big budget actioners as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and
Waterworld, both starring the aforementioned Kevin Costner.
Costner
broadened his horizon even tried directing (Dances with Wolves),
but mostly starred in high profile films such as The Untouchables,
The Bodyguard and Wyatt Earp.
Judd
Nelson hit it big in 1985 with box office hits like The Breakfast
Club and St. Elmo's Fire.
Fandango
also marks the first time Alan Silvestri composed music for an Amblin
Entertainment production.
When
Spielberg saw the the finished film however, he felt disappointed, so much that he
decided to take his name of the poster, so instead of a Steven Spielberg
presents, Fandango entered the world (merely) as an
Amblin presentation.
Ronny.
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