"She's All That" is a popular 1990s western youth film one (teen film), is one of the few last batch of John Hughes -style film and television work in the most successful one. Youth films reached their peak in the 1980s (known as the "first wave of youth film craze"), producing a series of " Sixteen Candles ", " The Breakfast Club ", " Pink ", and " Ferris Bueller's Day Off ". Popular and well-received works, but after entering the 1990s, the market began to cool down and entered a low period. On the contrary, youth TV dramas (such as " Flying over Beverly ", " Felicity ", "", " Alone in Love ", etc.) began to prevail in the mid to late 1990s. Hollywood has tried to rejuvenate youth movies with the help of the popular TV series, but it was not successful. Only a handful of successful works such as " Clueless " and " Witch Yoo Hee " appeared throughout the 90s. Reproduce the glory of the 80s. Conversely, Box Office shines among the youth audiences, but it is the horror films such as " Scream ", " The Faculty " and " I Know What You Did Last Summer Vacation " series without any youthful flavor .
As a film with a production budget of only US$10 million, "She's All That" recouped its cost with a Box Office of $16,065,430 during its premiere weekend . After that, it earned more than US$63 million in North America and nearly US$40 million overseas. The total Box Office was Over 100 million, it became the most popular (in the true sense) youth movie in movie history at that time. This record was not broken until six months later by the more adult-oriented ( R-rated movies ) " American Pie " Box Office, which was over $200 million. And such a Box Office successfully set a successful precedent in Hollywood that can be used for future generations to learn from. Therefore, taking the beginning of 1999 as a watershed, the following ten years of youth movies began to spring up like mushrooms, including " Beautiful Girls Cheerleading " and " Mean Girls ". " She's the Man " and other excellent works are known as "the second wave of youth film craze." The industry basically recognizes that "She's All That" is the work that caused this craze. This also makes some plots in "She's All That" (such as the famous "Red Dress Slow Down the Stairs" and Prom Qi Dance) often imitated by later movies. The most typical example is the spoof film " Not Another Teen Movie " shot in 2001 , in which more than two-thirds of the plot Bridge Plot is based on "She's All That".
The success of the Box Office of "She's All That" has also served as a springboard to the acting career of one of its actors, especially the two starring actors Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook -this movie is Prinze Jr. It was the first time that I acted as the leading actor, which also established his position as a first-line actor in romantic films in the following years; while Cook became a hot new star in the early 2000s by relying on his outstanding performance in this film. As a supporting role, Anna Helene Paquin became popular after getting the opportunity to perform in " X-Men " the following year , and later relying on ""Got Ballon d'Or ; Paul Walker immediately took on the role of " The Skulls ", and then starred in the " Fast & Furious " series to become an action superstar; black actress Gabrielle Union starred in " 10 Things I Hate About You "," Beautiful Girl Cheerleaders , " Bad Boys 2 " and the TV series " Ugly Betty "; Durr Hill was spotted by the " The West Wing " crew after starring in this film and has been acting for seven seasons before joining " Psych "; Usher Raymond IV , who played the role of Dragon DJ , auditioned for a series of movies, and his already thriving music career was smooth sailing.
Also benefiting from the popularity of "She's All That" is the famous love song " Kiss Me " by the American Sixpence None the Richer band . Although the Sixpence Band has already been awarded the "US Heatseeker" and "Best Contemporary Christian Music in America " by " Billboard " magazine in 1997 with its self-named album "Sixpence None The Richer " ( US Top Contemporary Christian) ranked first, but because the band was only regarded as a Christian music group, it was still not well-known in the mainstream music industry, so at that time Sixpence None the Richer was still looking for any opportunity to promote its work. The single "Kiss Me" was released in August 1998, when the filming of "She's All That" was just beginning. The crew found that the artistic conception of this song matched the theme of pure love in the movie and adopted it as the theme of the movie. song. After the movie’s popularity, the general public, especially the young people, began to recognize and become obsessed with the song, making it once the most frequently ordered song on the radio. As a result, the sixpence band’s popularity skyrocketed in 1999 and won multiple music awards. He was nominated for the Grammy Awards again . Because the fame of this song is inseparable from the film, the title translation of "She's All That" in some non-English speaking countries (such as Italy) is called "Kiss Me". For this reason, Leigh Nash , the lead singer of the Sixpence Band, made a special contribution in the 2000 film " BounceSang her first solo single "Need to Be Next to You" to thank Miramax Films for their contribution to the band's fame.
In addition, British musician Fatboy Slim's famous Big Beat Electronic Music "The Rockafeller Skank" also became famous in North America because it was used as the soundtrack for the Prom dance in the movie.
