Seeing as how this coming week is Spring Break for the universities, it is only appropriate to write about a couple of romantic comedies that occur during Spring Break vacations. While I have never done ANYTHING, let alone anything exciting or adventurous, for Spring Break, I've heard some wild tales and thought up some pretty fantastic and even some outrageous plans. Most movies about Spring Break are horror, based on true stories, or comedies, I have found a few that are considered to be romantic, even if they are documentaries or somewhat of a horror film.
The Real Cancun, made in 2003, was designed to be the first true reality feature film. It stars Brittany Brown-Hart, Benjamin Fletcher, Nicole Frilot, and 13 other American college students all portraying themselves during an adventure of a life time. After being cast from auditions all across the country, these 16 students ventured south to experience first-hand what Spring Break is "all about." They were followed to Cancun, Mexico by 6 camera crews who filmed their exploits as they immersed and indulged themselves in the Spring Break activities.The students were filmed 24-hours a day for a week it shows planned group activities, intimate interviews, and spontaneous individual exploits.
While I've never seen this film, I wouldn't be so quick to judge until viewed. You never know what you might discover...
The next film I found is Girl Happy. Produced in 1965, this is one of the Elvis heart-throb films that, while not known for being wonderful works of cinematic masterpieces, it was a huge box-office hit. Girls lined up around city blocks for hours to get in to see Elvis and his thrusting, gyrating hips, and hear his sweet, serenading voice. Elvis and his band and friends are singing on the beach with throngs of girls all around in their beach attire jumping up and down and swaying off his every word and move. There's also a scene where Elvis and his buddies are in two convertables and they're weaving in and out. Now, the songs may not be memorable, but hey, who doesn't love an Elvis film I mean come on?! He is the King afterall!
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What a good topic to write about for spring break! The Real Cancun was a very funny movie. I thought it was very interesting how the students were filmed 24/7 and all their experiences were filmed. I saw this movie before I ever went to Mexico so when I finally went to Mexico for spring break I was basing all my assumptions on what I saw in the movie! I found that a lot of the craziness was true and happening when I was in Cancun. So this movie wasn’t that good but the concept on how spring break in Mexico is was pretty accurate!
ReplyDeleteThat was a really neat idea to write about! However, sadly, I have never seen either of those two movies. The Elvis one sounds interesting! I'd be willing to see it..it sounds pretty good.
ReplyDeleteThe Real Cancun doesn't exactly sound like my kind of movie but it does sound a bit interesting.
Although, I've never seen a "Spring Break" movie this last week I saw the new movie "He's Just Not That Into You". It wasn't what I thought it would be but it was alright. It was expected to be good because it had an array of A-list actors. What a disappointment. But before you accept my judgement, see it for yourself.