Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989 film) = Finished
Added 2018-11-04 05:09:45 +0000 UTCI have no idea how this got made.
What was the pitch meeting like? Who said, "That movie about the two totally bodacious teens going through history and kidnapping historical figures to do an utterly radical history report? Let's give that a ten million dollar budget." I'm glad it exists but I am completely lost as to how.
Napoleon gets a "Zyggie Piggie" pin for eating a frankly irresponsible amount of ice cream. Joan of Arc leads an aerobic class. Socrates and Billy the Kid hit on bodacious babes at a Southern California mall. Every moment of Bill & Ted rides by on this joyful exuberance, that also functions as one of the best examples of naivete I've seen in film.
Being naive doesn't mean that someone is dumb - though someone very mean and cruel could attach that label to Bill and Ted. We wouldn't be friends anymore, but they could.
Naivete is a fundamental altering of perspective. Seeing the wonder and frank playfulness in every aspect of life, where a more mature, cynical mind would lock out possibilities based on bitter experience. Whether butchering Star Wars scenes when presented with plate mail, or repairing a sci-fi antenna with wads of gum and pudding cans, it's looking at everything around you and going I could use that to do something really cool right now.
Ted and Bill (doesn't it feel wrong reversing it?) have got some serious stuff going on in their lives. Bill knows what an Oedipal Complex is. Ted's father is aching to get rid of him. And yet, they continue. Spreading joy, and diseases from far in the past, with every historical figure they bring back into our all too static present.
