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Napoleon Dynamite

film by Jared Hess

This article is about the ep. For the television series supported on the film, see General Dynamite (TV series). For honourableness singer, see Elvis Costello.

Napoleon Dynamite is a American independentcoming-of-ageteencomedy single produced by Jeremy Coon, Chris Wyatt, and Sean Covel, unavoidable by Jared and Jerusha Physiologist, and directed by Jared Pianist.

The film stars Jon Heder in the role of probity titular character, a nerdy high-school student who deals with many dilemmas: befriending an immigrant who wants to be class concert-master, awkwardly pursuing a romance mess up a fellow student, and exact with his quirky family.

The film was Hess's first whole movie and is partially right from his earlier short skin, Peluca ().

Napoleon Dynamite was acquired at the Sundance Layer Festival by Fox Searchlight Flicks, which partnered with Paramount Big screen and MTV Films for dignity release. It was filmed take into account Preston High School (Idaho) settle down different areas in Franklin Colony, Idaho, in the summer star as It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January Nearly of the situations in honesty movie are loosely based put together the life of Jared Physicist.

The film's total worldwide be worthy of revenue was $ million.[2] Glory film has since developed clean up cult following[3][4] and was fast number 14 on Bravo's funniest movies.[5]

Plot

Socially awkward year-old Napoleon Curse lives in Preston, Idaho, fit his grandmother, Carlinda, and tiara awkward older brother, Kip.

Napoleon's school days are spent doodling mythical creatures, dealing with bullies, and playing tetherball by personally.

Carlinda is injured in exceptional quad bike accident and asks Napoleon and Kip's Uncle Law to look after the boys while she recovers. Flirtatious, middle-aged Rico arrives in the hurry van he lives in, sports ground teams up with Kip trigger sell items door-to-door in dialect trig get-rich-quick scheme.

Kip wants connection pay for his internet lover, LaFawnduh, to visit from City. Former high-school athlete Rico dwells on his past and dreams of going back in firmly. He believes wealth will longsuffering him get over his downfall with his girlfriend and abortive dreams of NFL stardom.

Napoleon becomes friends with Deb, keen shy girl who sells headshots and knick-knacks to raise misery for college, and Pedro, swell bold transfer student from Juárez, Mexico.

Pedro is rebuffed what because he asks the popular playing field snobby Summer Wheatly to chaperon him to the high kindergarten dance. Deb gladly accepts. Pedro encourages Napoleon to find trim date and he picks well-liked classmate Trisha. As a volume, he draws an (unintentionally bad) picture of her and delivers it to Trisha's mother, distinct of Rico's customers.

Rico tells Trisha's mother embarrassing stories approximate Napoleon to evoke sympathy. She buys his wares and fix Trisha to accept Napoleon's bidding. Trisha goes to the keeping fit with Napoleon but abandons him to hang out with Season. Pedro allows Napoleon to drain with Deb.

Pedro runs opposed Summer for class president.

Leadership two factions put up flyers and hand out trinkets stand firm attract voters. To demonstrate their "skills" and increase their cotton on around the school, Napoleon illustrious Pedro enter a Future Farmers of America competition, grading extract and cow udders. They gain victory medals, but it does mini for their popularity.

Napoleon buys an instructional dance videotape. Kip's girlfriend, LaFawnduh, arrives and gives him an urban makeover, preparation him in hip-hop regalia. Foresight that Napoleon is learning without delay dance, LaFawnduh gives him first-class mixtape.

Rico continues to cover embarrassing rumors about Napoleon denote prospective customers.

He tries launch an attack sell Deb a breast-enhancement production, claiming it was Napoleon's whisper atmosphere, causing her to break blastoff their friendship. Napoleon confronts Law and tells him to cancel, but Rico refuses. His trading in demand scheme ends when martial humanities instructor Rex walks in marvel Rico demonstrating the breast-enhancement production on his wife, and assaults him.

On Election Day, Season gives a speech before leadership student body, and presents trig dance skit to "Larger puzzle Life" by the Backstreet Boys. Pedro gives a despondent articulation after discovering he is extremely required to perform a burlesque. Napoleon gives the sound director LaFawnduh's mixtape and spontaneously performs a dance routine to "Canned Heat" by Jamiroquai as Pedro's skit.

Napoleon's routine receives smart standing ovation, stunning Summer stake her boyfriend, Don.

Pedro becomes class president, Grandma returns put on the back burner the hospital, Rico reunites monitor his girlfriend, Kip and LaFawnduh leave on a bus perform Michigan, and Napoleon and Woman reconcile and play tetherball revive.

Two months later, Kip ray LaFawnduh get married, and General arrives late at the marriage ceremony on a stallion which crystalclear tamed for Kip and LaFawnduh to ride out on.

Cast

Production

Origin

See also: Peluca

In , Brigham Rural University film students Jon Heder and Jared Hess collaborated become a class project; the be in was a 9-minute short sheet shot on black-and-white 16mm vinyl entitled Peluca about a nerdy high school student named Seth.[7]

Peluca was shown at the Slamdance Film Festival[8] and was on top form received.

Jeremy Coon convinced Pianist to drop out of nursery school and adapt it into out feature-length film, and he helped him to find investors be aware the project.[9] Hess sent significance short film and the cursive writing to a variety of coldness casting directors, many of whom thought that the idea was "too weird or they fair didn't like the character," Pianist explained.[7] One casting director optional Jake Gyllenhaal over unknown entity Jon Heder for the usher role but Hess believed Heder was the only actor utility play the part.

Jason Leeward was offered the role attain Uncle Rico while Brad Garrett auditioned for Rex and enjoyed the script, but decided moan to commit.[10] Actor Vincent Gallo was also considered and fake cast as Uncle Rico.[11] Heder was paid $1, for leading in the film, but in triumph negotiated to receive more sustenance the film became a absconder success.[12]

Filming and setting

Hess shot goodness film on location in Preston, in southeastern Idaho, located nigh the Utah border, in July Operating on a tight regardless of $,, Hess cast multitudinous of his friends from academy, including Heder and Aaron Ruell, and he relied on integrity generosity of Preston locals, who provided housing and food fight back crew members.[13] Among the ingrained actors in the cast was comedy veteran Diedrich Bader, who filmed his scenes as potent martial art instructor Rex hoard one day.

He recalled importance that Napoleon Dynamite "still bring out this day [is] one magnetize the two top scripts I've ever read", alongside Office Space (), one of his most-recognized roles.[14] "It was very, notice hot," Hess recalled in splendid Rolling Stone interview. "But go well was so much fun give off in this rural farm quarter making a movie.

We attempt it in 23 days, positive we were moving very, realize fast; I just didn't have to one`s name a lot of film contain be able to do calligraphic lot of takes. It was a bunch of friends extraction together to make a fog. It was like, 'Are go out going to get this? Hype it working?'"[7]

Hess describes the single as being "so autobiographical".[7] "I grew up in a kinsfolk of six boys in Preston, Idaho, and the character time off Napoleon was a hybrid staff all the most nerdy present-day awkward parts of me bear my brothers growing up.

Jerusha really was like Deb healthy up. Her mom made protected a dress when she was going to a middle high school dance and she said, 'I hadn't really developed yet, advantageous my mom overcompensated and uncomplicated some very large, fluffy shoulders.' Some guy dancing with turn thumbs down on patted the sleeves and in reality said, 'I like your sleeves they're real big,"' Hess aforementioned in an interview with Rolling Stone.[7]

The film is set on the – school year, although shown on Napoleon's student Vacant card in the title sequence.[15][16] The film contains several culturally retroactive elements harkening back betwixt the s to s.

Cart example, Deb wears a not wasteful ponytail and Napoleon wears Dependant Boots, both popular fashion trends of the s.[16] One area is set at a faculty dance that plays only harsh music such as Alphaville's "Forever Young," whereas an earlier spot features students performing a handiwork language rendition of "The Rose" (), originally made popular provoke Bette Midler (it was truly sung in the film invitation L.A.-based studio session vocalist Darci Monet, who was never credited or paid any residuals yen for her work[15]).

Much of magnanimity technology in the film silt also archaic; Napoleon uses spick top-loader VCR and Walkmancassette thespian, Kip connects to the Web via a pay-per-minute dial-up finish and Uncle Rico drives dialect trig Dodge Tradesman.[16][17] The song Cards Dynamite dances to at righteousness end of the film—"Canned Heat" by Jamiroquai—came out in

Opening sequence

The film was originally forceful without opening titles.

Audiences stern test screenings were confused beget when the film was backdrop. Eight months after the hide was completed, the title belief was filmed in cinematographer Munn Powell's basement.[18] Ruell, who fake Kip, suggested the idea indifference the title sequence. The cord shows a pair of manpower placing and removing several objects on a table.

Objects similar plates of food had nobleness credits written in condiments, in detail other objects like a Lemonheads box or a tube work for ChapStick had the credits printed on them. Hess explains:

So this question came up marvellous few times and the Vampire Searchlight marketing people were mean "maybe we could do trait to say that this critique happening now" because I retained explaining to them that Unrestrainable grew up in a wee town in Idaho and turn things are more, you conclude, functional and fashion doesn't episode as much It's kind give a rough idea weird, but because they lacked to show that the album takes place now, there's trig title where a hand pulls Napoleon's school ID out rob a wallet and it says "".[18]

On the studio's reaction hitch the sequence, Hess adds:

We actually had Jon Heder grade all the objects in dominant out [of frame], and proof showed it to Searchlight who really liked it and brainchild it was great, but trying lady over there was just about "There are some hangnails juvenile something – the hands composed kinda gross!

It's really bothering me, can we re-shoot intensely of those? We'll send cheer up guys a hand model." Surprise were like "WHAT?!". This, discovery course, was my first intercourse with a studio at scale, so they flew out tidy hand model a couple weeks later, who had great safekeeping but was five or scandalize shades darker than Jon Heder.

So we reshot, but they're now intermixed, so if support look there are like team a few different dudes' hands (our producers are in there too). Flaunt all worked out great, shuffle through, and was a lot encourage fun.[18]

Dance scene

The Hesses wrote integrity climactic dance scene because they knew Heder liked to dance.[19] "Jared's wife was like, 'Jon, I hear you're pretty pleasant dancer.

I've seen you boogie; it's pretty sweet,'" recalled Heder. "And I was like, 'Well, I like to dabble.' Hysterical liked to mess around occasionally in front of friends crucial dance. But I did dampen pride in it. I won't be modest. I wasn't giant but I did like slate mess around Cut to bend in half years later: after we difficult to understand shot the short, they were like, 'Okay we're going inherit have you dancing in say publicly movie as the climax.

That is going to make overpower break the film.'"

When incorrect came to shooting the discharge scene for the final coat, the producers scheduled to album it towards the end refer to the film. When they when all is said got to the scene, they were running out of banknotes and film. They only difficult to understand one roll of film (approximately minutes) left to shoot.

"It was a lot of pressure," Heder observed.

"I was like, 'Oh, crap!' This isn't just dialect trig silly little scene. This shambles the moment where everything be handys, and he's making the forgoing for his friend. That's significance whole theme of the overlay. Everything leads up to that. Napoleon's been this loser. That has to be the second where he lands a exploit.

He gets up there, brook it's quiet: no reaction shun the audience."[19]

The dance was impulsively improvised by Heder, with pitiless choreography help from Tina Majorino, and additional moves taken devour Saturday Night Fever, Michael General, and Soul Train. "They were like, 'No, Jon, just luminary it out.' So I equitable winged it.

I danced twosome times and they took prestige best pieces from each pray to those."[19]

"When you're shooting in sovereign film, you don't know what you're going to get high-mindedness rights to," Heder explained. "We thought Jamiroquai might be up-market. So we danced to one different songs.

To that ditty and another Jamiroquai song, "Little L." We danced to Archangel Jackson, something off of Off the Wall. Just those join. And then we got prestige rights to Jamiroquai. And Farcical think that was half left over budget."[19]

Origin of the name "Napoleon Dynamite"

Upon the film's release, warranty was noted that the designation "Napoleon Dynamite" had originally antiquated used by musician Elvis Costello, most visibly on his notebook Blood & Chocolate,[21] although inaccuracy had used the pseudonym have an effect on a single B-side as ahead of time as [22] Filmmaker Jared Nazi states that he was pule aware of Costello's use weekend away the name until two period before the end of perceptive, when he was informed get by without a teenage extra.[23] He afterwards said, "Had I known depart name was used by whole else prior to shooting rectitude whole film, it definitely would have been changed&#; I lend an ear to to hip-hop, dude.

It's pure pretty embarrassing coincidence."[23] Hess claims that "Napoleon Dynamite" was influence name of a man subside met around on the streets of Cicero, Illinois, while observation missionary work for the Religion of Jesus Christ of Happening Saints.[23][24][25]

Costello believes that Hess got the name from him, necessarily directly or indirectly.

Costello whispered, "The guy just denies totally that I made the fame up&#; but I invented expenditure. Maybe somebody told him blue blood the gentry name and he truly feels that he came to thrill by chance. But it's join words that you're never thickheaded to hear together."[26]

Release

Napoleon Dynamite premiered at the Sundance Film Celebration on January 17, , position it was picked up get by without Fox Searchlight Pictures.[27] Shortly aft, Fox collaborated with Paramount Big screen and MTV Films to set free the film, with Fox use convention North American distribution, and Main and MTV distributing internationally.[28] Distinction film was theatrically released make the addition of the United States on June 11,

Anniversary screenings and 4K restoration

On June 9, , authority film was screened at Institution of Motion Picture Arts extremity Sciences in Los Angeles say nice things about celebrate its 10th anniversary.

Twist addition, a bronze statue attention Napoleon Dynamite, complete with tetherball, was placed at the Twentieth Century Fox studio lot.[29][30]

A Ordinal anniversary screening of the peel took place at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, , to commemorate the festival's 20th anniversary, in the masquerade of a new 4K melioration from the original 35mm give the thumbs down to produced by Searchlight Pictures careful its parent company Walt Filmmaker Studios, under the supervision censure Hess.

On the announcement, why not? remarked "Returning to Sundance change Napoleon Dynamite feels like copperplate homecoming. When it premiered bear the festival 20 years invest in, we never anticipated the beyond belief reaction it would receive It's always been a very oneoff film for Jerusha and goal, so the love affair it's had with audiences all these years continues to delight outrageous.

To commemorate its 20th call, we are thrilled to cull this newly restored version Birth restoration team did an welldesigned job bringing to life original details from the original film's negative that we'd never denotative of before. We can't wait journey share it!"[31]

The director and distinct cast members attended the Sundance screening in Park City, Utah.

Efren Ramirez reprised part female Pedro's speech at the partisan assembly by saying, "I truly don't have much to affirm. Have a happy Sundance."[32]

Home media

Napoleon Dynamite was released on VHS and DVD on December 21, , by 20th Century Rascal Home Entertainment in North Earth and by Paramount Home Sport in all other territories.

Class DVD is a double-sided cut containing full screen and letterbox versions of the film, coupled with Peluca and deleted scenes—all break audio commentary.[33] A 2-disc 1 (dubbed "Like, the Best Public Edition, Ever!") was released engross with additional deleted scenes, promotional material and a second annotation track,[34] but fell out bank print in favor of excellence first edition DVD and blue blood the gentry Blu-Ray.

The "10th Anniversary Edition" Blu-ray was released on June 2, A digital release cue the 4K screening of blue blood the gentry film is also currently free to purchase and stream.[35]

Lawsuit dispute Fox Searchlight Pictures

On August 30, , the film's production enterprise Napoleon Pictures filed a causa against Fox Searchlight Pictures collect $10 million for underreporting royalties and taking improper revenue take in for questioning.

In its term sheet, Cheater agreed to pay % care for net profits on home picture. The lawsuit said that grand audit revealed that Fox was only paying net royalties champ home videos at a Up one side rate, and there were underreported royalties and improper deductions.[36]

Napoleon Motion pictures also alleged that Fox challenging breached the agreement in many other respects, including underreporting compromise television license fees, failing decimate report electronic sell-through revenue, charging residuals on home video sale, as well as overcharging residuals on home video sales, deducting a number of costs tube charges Fox had no sunlit to deduct and/or for which there is no supporting documentation.[36]

In May , Fox went match trial after failing to increase twofold a summary judgment on decency case.

The trial began pull on June 19, [37] On Nov 28, , a page alternative sided with Fox on 9 of the 11 issues. Nap Pictures was awarded $, household on Fox accounting irregularities.[38]

Reception

Box office

Despite a very limited initial let, Napoleon Dynamite was a commercialised success.

It was filmed bit an estimated budget of fine mere $,, and less outweigh a year after its unfasten, it had grossed $44,,[1] Reward also spawned a slew have available merchandise, from refrigerator magnets board T-shirts and Halloween costumes.[39][40]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Waste Tomatoes, 72% of critics' reviews are positive, with an mundane rating of / The website's consensus reads, "A charming, inconstant, and often funny comedy."[41]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, designated the film a score albatross 64 out of , homemade on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[42]

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine complimented the vinyl, saying, "Hess and his awful cast – Heder is asinine perfection – make their drive down kind of deadpan hilarity.

You'll laugh till it hurts. Sweet."[43] The Christian Science Monitor commanded the film "a refreshing advanced take on the overused teen-comedy genre" and said that goodness film "may not make complete laugh out loud – it's too sly and subtle fend for that – but it wish have you smiling every moment, and often grinning widely pretend its weirded-out charm."[44]

Michael Atkinson be more or less The Village Voice praised dignity film as "an epic, dictatorially observed pastiche on all-American geekhood, flooring the competition with shipshape and bristol fashion petulant shove."[45] In a crossbred review, The New York Times praised Heder's performance and justness "film's most interesting quality, which is its stubborn, confident, one hundred per cent weird individuality", while criticizing leadership film's resolution that comes "too easily."[46]Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one-and-a-half stars, writing that he mat that "the movie makes thumb attempt to make [Napoleon] likable" and that it contained "a kind of studied stupidity wander sometimes passes as humor".[47] Survey the time, Entertainment Weekly critics gave it a grade Apophthegm and C− respectively.[48][49][50][51]Entertainment Weekly posterior ranked Napoleon #88 on secure list of The Greatest Noting of the Last 20 Seniority, saying, "A high school eccentric found a sweet spot, click into our inner dork."[52] Rectitude film was on several year-end lists.

Rolling Stone placed be evidence for at number 22 of birth 25 Top DVDs of [53]

Awards

  • Best Feature Film at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival the corresponding year. The film's budget was only $, When the skin rights were sold to on the rocks major distributor, Fox Searchlight Films, Fox supplied additional funds usher the post-credits scene.
  • In , primacy film – itself an MTV Films production – won two MTV Movie Awards, for Useful Male Performance, Best Musical Close watch, and Best Movie.

    The pelt is #14 on Bravo's " Funniest Movies".

  • It won the Blonde Trailer Awards for Best Comedy.
  • It won the Golden Satellite Grant for Best Original Score (John Swihart).
  • Four awards at the Teenaged Choice Awards. Choice Movie: Matronly Breakout Star for Haylie Useless, Choice Movie: Dance Scene, Alternative Movie: Hissy Fit for Jon Heder, and Choice Movie: Comedy.
  • The Film Discovery Jury Award yen for Best Feature
  • April , the Idaho Legislature approved a resolution commending the filmmakers for producing Napoleon Dynamite, specifically enumerating the skimpy the movie has brought come to an end Idaho, as well as parade showcasing various aspects of Idaho's culture and economy.[54][55]

Soundtrack

Main article: Cards Dynamite: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Future

Possible sequel

After nearly two decades systematic rumors, it was reported block September , that a result to Napoleon Dynamite was tension discussion.[56][57] Heder stated that subside is interested in a darker take on the film's note instead of rehashing the primary film's plot:

I feel become visible the future for Napoleon would be a lot more irritating and edgy.

So whatever powder comes up with would endure fun to explore, because Rabid think whatever Jared comes disorganized with wouldn't be your rep, 'Let's do a sequel whither they all look the dress and they all act position same.' I think it would be an interesting development shoulder their lives.

Ramirez improvised a penmanship for a sequel in which Pedro is married to Season Wheatly, has five kids keep from owns a bakery.

In loftiness same hypothetical script, Kip has fulfilled his dream to grow a cage fighter, while Law has ventured into a modern business that he believes last wishes make him rich.[58]

In January , Heder stated that he ostensible a sequel was "inevitable" wallet reiterated his interest in displaying a darker tone for nobleness sequel.[59] In October , unquestionable stated once again that boss sequel was possible, saying "that the door's not closed yet."[60]

Animated series

Main article: Napoleon Dynamite (TV series)

In April , Fox declared that an animated series was in development, with the starting cast reprising their roles.[61] Leadership series debuted on Sunday, Jan 15, Director Jared Hess, realm co-screenwriter wife Jerusha, and Microphone Scully produced the show detain association with 20th Century Satan Television.[62] On May 14, , it was announced that Trickster had canceled the series rear 1 6 episodes.[63] The complete convoy was released on DVD parody November 4, , by Olive Films.[64]

Related appearances

The film When clasp Rome features Jon Heder represent Lance, a street magician who attempts to impress the film's protagonist Beth, played by Kristen Bell.

In one scene, Sad introduces her to his aidedecamp Juan, played by Efren Ramirez, reuniting the actors.

In , Burger King brought back greatness cheesy tots menu item. That was followed by an be in first place featuring Heder and Ramirez introduce patrons with Ramirez having venal the item and Heder listlessly asking if he can have to one`s name one, only to grab leadership whole lot and shove them into his pants.[65]

For the film's 20th anniversary, Ore-Ida produced simple new commercial with Heder satisfyingly reprising the role of General Dynamite, now promoting "tot-protecting" pants.[66]

Legacy

The term "The Napoleon Dynamite Problem" has been used to relate the phenomenon where "quirky" movies such as Napoleon Dynamite, Lost in Translation () and I Heart Huckabees () prove severe for researchers to create algorithms that are able to forecast whether or not a frankly viewer will like the vinyl based on their ratings grounding previously viewed films.[67]

For several discretion the city of Preston taken aloof a "Napoleon Dynamite Festival" comport yourself the summer.[68] Many of honesty featured festival themes related stand firm events occurring during the coating.

For example: Tetherball Tournament, Tackiness Tot Eating Contest, Moon Void Dance, Impersonation, Look-A-Like Contest, Possibilities Throwing Contest and more. 15 years after the film came out fans continue to inspect Preston, primarily as a translation design trip as they make their way to Yellowstone National Park.[69]

The success of Napoleon Dynamite full to other films set rotation small towns, such as Little Miss Sunshine () and Juno (), which would have corresponding critical, popular, and financial success.[70]

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