Billie (greasy girl) - Totally Awesome (2008) Discussion

[–] HalfBloodPrincess1967 17 years ago

She's based on Mary Stuart Masterson's character in Some Kind of Wonderful ---- which is a -- sort of -- rip off of Pretty in Pink.

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[–] brit1975 17 years ago

awesome, thanks!

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[–] rickamortis 17 years ago

How can Some Kind of Wonderful be a rip off of Pretty in Pink?

They were both directed by John Hughes!

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[–] rickamortis 15 years ago

Oh ok, I had always assumed that he wrote AND directed both. But he did write all three scripts... so my point stands.

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[–] rickamortis 15 years ago

hahaha yeah, I pretty much monitor my incoming e-mails all day. LOL

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[–] rickamortis 15 years ago

Wait I take back that he wrote all "three" scripts (lol). For some crazy reason I thought this was the Sixteen Candles board haha. I totally forgot about this Totally Awesome movie.

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[–] kissxitxgoodbyex 17 years ago

funny how everyone thinks her character was based off someone else. the whole chauffeur part totally gave that role away.

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[–] anonymouse007 17 years ago

She's not bad looking.

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[–] elchamber88 17 years ago

Don't forget teenwolf.

Maybe in your next life, you'll believe the Zodiac when it tells you to cut the red wire.

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[–] Illdoitsoon 17 years ago

She's based off the plain looking female friend of the male protagonist character who the male protagonist doesn't find love with until the end in the 80's movies like Better Off Dead..., etc.

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[–] elchamber88 17 years ago

The difference between the 80s to the 90s is that that most teen dramas have your recycled story or the base of either the ugly duckling that turns into a swan or the Cinderella story.

Maybe in your next life, you'll believe the Zodiac when it tells you to cut the red wire.

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[–] guesswhoworks 17 years ago

I think she is supposed to be based on Lori Loughlins character Toni from "Secret Admirer" :o)

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[–] misspiggie 17 years ago

Her face really WAS greasy.

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[–] JJLipton 17 years ago

I thought she was actually much more attractive than the popular girl who was supposed to be beautiful. This is one of my gripes about this movie, or all teen movies.

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[–] TheSilentCrow 17 years ago

I think that was the implied irony to it. Hey, I'll see that and go one further. The popular girl must have had a butt double in the beginning of the movie when she's in the girl's locker room staring at herself in the mirror. And if I right, that had to be a homage to Haviland Morris' shower scene in Sixteen Candles.

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[–] JaggerDepp 17 years ago

Yes, that is what I assumed to about shower scene girl in Sixteen Candles.

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[–] mgrusin 17 years ago

She's also awesome in BSG, I hope we see more of her on the small and big screens.

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[–] rubixgirl 17 years ago

Alot of the characters were supposed to mixes of 80's types,w/ a specific primary character up front.

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[–] hobbit_mania 17 years ago

That motherfrakker! He should appreciate Billie! She could probably also repair the car for him too.

I watched this just to see which role she had.

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[–] Verdoux-1 16 years ago

The popular girl must have had a butt double in the beginning of the movie when she's in the girl's locker room staring at herself in the mirror.

Brittany Daniel has a great butt. I don't think she needs a butt double.

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[–] lexi_gurl1616 16 years ago

why does everyone think shes based on only one character? i started crackin up when i heard him call her an embarassment to. its only a movie

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[–] josephnatescott 9 years ago

"The popular girl must have had a butt double" No, according to the director that was Brittany Daniel's butt.

Hiring a woman as pretty as Nicki Clyne to play an "underdog" girl was presumably poking fun at the casting of Ringwald in Pretty In Pink and Masterson in Some Kind Of Wonderful.

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[–] matrix_1004 17 years ago

Funny how she's suppose to be ugly, but on her film credit for John Tucker Must Die she's billed as "Beautiful Girl #2".

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[–] hobbit_mania 17 years ago

She was still cute in this.

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[–] RedGuitar82 17 years ago

"Get it together Billie, you're an embarrassment"

Very cruel but also very hilarious for that school DJ to say something like that. LOL

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[–] jevicci 14 years ago

By far the best-looking girl in the film. So pretty.

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[–] hanna_house 14 years ago

I think she is based off a mix of characters, the obvious being Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson) in Some Kind Of Wonderful and Monique (Diane Franklin) in Better Off Dead. But I also think they were making reference to Andie (Molly Ringwald) in Pretty In Pink as well, mostly because she was an outcast for being poor and making her own clothes.

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[–] Grunchy 11 years ago

Obviously, Billie is meant to resemble Andie from Pretty in Pink. They are both girls with boy's names spelled with "ie" at the end.
By the way, what sort of astringent are you supposed to put on your face if it's greasy?

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