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Titolo originale: The Half of It
Regia: Alice Wu |
Anno: 2020
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Romance Dramma
Tag: high school | small town | romcom | coming of age | east asian lead | lgbt | lgbt teen | washington state | chinese american | generation z | teenage protagonist | lesbian | asian american | teenager |
Cast: Leah Lewis | Daniel Diemer | Alexxis Lemire | Enrique Murciano | Wolfgang Novogratz | Catherine Curtin | Becky Ann Baker | Collin Chou | MacIntyre Dixon | Alec Tincher | Bonnie Flannery | Tyler Crozier | Spencer Wawak | Patrick T. Johnson | Gabi Samels | Haley Murphy | Patrick Noonan | Dean Tierney | Cronin Cullen | Kathryn Ainsley Grant | Billy Thomas Myott | Matt Meinsen | Joe Lanza | Emma Diner | Alexandre Bagot | Logan Riley Bruner | Abigail Donaghy | Lucas Kane | Joan Jaffe |

La timida studentessa Ellie aiuta il tenero atleta Paul a conquistare una compagna, ma la loro strana amicizia si complica quando lei s'innamora della stessa ragazza.

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Alice Wu is *not* a fan of emojis. D
Alice Wu offers some good advice to hopeful writers regarding connecting scenes through emotion. Ell [...] D
The opening monologue is the story told by Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium. Aristophanes was a com [...] D
The knitted scarves worn by the blonde clique were meant to be garish, but people seemed to actually [...] D
Wings of Desire doesn't have a triangle, but Wu sees a connection between an angel invisible to the [...] D
The teens saying "Chugga chugga chu chu" to Ellie is based on Alice Wu's own experience. "I did grow [...] D
The film is set in Western Washington state, but it was filmed in Upstate New York. D
The opening animation, in addition to being beautifully crafted, is filled with references to the fi [...] D
They had to create the caterpillar in glasses emoji as there wasn't one anywhere. D
Alice Wu's second feature film after sixteen years. D
Is a modernized and loose adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac. D
The script originally had the woman on the train ask Ellie if Paul was her boyfriend, to which she w [...] D
The text in the title and heads of departments in the credits are all cut in half. D
The end credits include a thank you to Mrs. Jeanne Geselschap who was Alice Wu's high school English [...] D
Aster's text handle is Diega Rivero (a play on the name of Mexican artist Diego Rivera), alluding to [...] D
Alice Wu confirms that Paul's comment about Ellie's sexuality being a sin isn't said in anger or jud [...] D
The search for a film featuring a man running after a woman as her train leaves the station was more [...] D
Despite playing teenagers, Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer and Alexxis Lemire were all born in 1996 and th [...] D
Title of the movie comes from a story in Plato's Symposium. D
According to director Alice Wu, Ellie's ghost messenger handle SmithCorona "is just a reference to t [...] D
.This is for viewers with Atmos sound systems only, but Wu and her sound design team added subtle cr [...] D
It was suggested that they cut the "mudding" scene featuring the teens having a blast trying to driv [...] D
The film ends with all three of the main characters on their own, sans romantic partner. Alice Wu pr [...] D
Alice Wu told Leah Lewis to think of that engineer booth as her safety zone. In there she's safe, an [...] D
Alexxis Lemire's debut. D
The film isn't targeted against close-minded whites as Alice Wu adds that she grew up in a conservat [...] D
All of Alice Wu's suggestions for a messenger app name were rejected by the legal department, all ex [...] D
Ellie and her father being stuck at a train station is symbolic of their feeling of stagnation as im [...] D
Marya reads the slap as meaning that Aster is more angry with Paul than with Ellie, but Alice Wu say [...] D
The conversation between Ellie and Paul (Daniel Diemer) in the car moves from edited beats to a long [...] D
Trig's performance at the talent show is an obvious tribute to Bruce Springsteen's 1980s style, betw [...] D
There are several film references here, and Wu chose them in part for the similar character dynamics [...] D
Alice Wu acknowledges that this film could have been shaped towards a more general audience as a mor [...] D
Alice Wu intentionally keeps Ellie's (Leah Lewis) face hidden through the opening montage as we inst [...] D
Alice Wu's creative touchstones are authenticity and timelessness. D
The author of Quel che resta del giorno (1993), Kazuo Ishiguro, is a Japanese Brit, keeping with the [...] D
The movie that Ellie and Paul watch while drinking Yakult is a Hindi movie called Ek Villain (2014) [...] D
Ellie's song is written by Joe Pernice from the Scud Mountain Boys. D
Lewis doesn't actually speak Mandarin, but Alice Wu recorded the eight lines for her so she could pr [...] D
Paul's invention of a taco sausage is an allusion to his love for Aster as it mixes a traditional di [...] D
Alice Wu was told she couldn't mention Venmo, so she invented Hushmo instead. Only after they had sh [...] D
Ellie composes her song (and later performs it on a Spanish guitar). This is a further hint at her l [...] D
A photo of Ellie's deceased mother is shown twice in the film. This is in fact a picture of actress [...] D

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