To hear Julie tell it in the Valley Girl remake, her story begins with an entire shopping mall full of strangers coming together for an impromptu song-and-dance performance of “We Got the Beat” in 1983.
Her daughter, in the present day, is not buying it. “Nope. Stop,” she groans. “You were singing and dancing on a fountain?”
Julie shrugs. “That’s how I remember it. That’s what it felt like.”
With that line, Valley Girl reveals its hand. Though its main storyline is set in the ’80s, this film isn’t a faithful recreation of the era, and it’s not trying to be.
“We certainly want it to feel like you’re in the ’80s, but our own curated version of the ’80s,” director Rachel Lee Golenberg tells Mashable on the phone. “Some of it is historically accurate, but having the movie resonate emotionally and visually was more important than being perfectly historically accurate to us.” Read more…
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