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State Theater
Ilt Natalie: "Old School" is a relatively new movie compared to the other
t id n ig h t onesyou have shown. Doyouthinkitwillbe anissuethati's notas much
as a novelty that it's newer, canbewatched online and is notye a cult
favorite?

Preview
Daily Arts Writer
Natalie Gadbois
talks with Facility
and Programming
Manager Brian Hunt
of Ann Arbor's State
Theater about the
upcoming screening of
"Old School."

Brian: I hope it does great for the same reasons that "Anchorman" did
great, because I think that"Old School"is really the movie that made Will
Ferrell a star. It's funny because he's not really the star of "Old School,"
but he has become the star of "Old School." He had been in other things
before but this was the movie that a mainstream audience looked at and
said, "This guy is funny." I think if you go back and look at Tom Hanks or
Jim Carrey, for example, there is a movie that made people watch them,
and that was "Old School" for Will Ferrell.
Natalie: I think it was that moment he's running down the street butt-
naked - it's so memorable and ridiculous and defines Will Ferrell.
Brian: He was on the cover of Runner's World when that movie came out
because of (that scene). The cover is this totally 1970s inspired (picture),
and it's him running down the street sweating. He had all this crossover
appeal. It wasn't just stoners who were into him, you know. Like right
now, sitting here, is this a Will Ferrell movie or a Luke Wilson movie?
Natalie: It's a Will Ferrell movie. Poor Luke Wilson.
Brian:Butit's supposed to be a Luke Wilson movie! He is the star, and no
one remembers. I still think the funniest partis when Will sings "Dust
in the Wind" at Blue's funeral. I actually posted it on the State Theater's
Facebook. It was 8a.m. and I was cracking up in my office because it just
is such a weird movie.
Natalie: Obviously, you have no way ofknowing who willshowup,but do
you think that it will be more of the college students who bond with that
frat humor, or the people in their thirties who related with these men who
can't grow up?
Brian: I think that guys in fraternities look at this asa funny movie. And
I do think that people unfairly write it off as frat-boy humor, but it's not
- it's just Will Ferrell humor that I think is easily relatable to everyone.
Everygeneration has their college movie, and I don't knowif"Old School"
is it for this generation, butI think it's pretty close.

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