NFL.com has posted a comprehensive oral history of the making of Varsity Blues. It's amazing. It's exhaustive. But this is the most important takeaway of all:
Guys Van Der Beek WROTE HIS SCRIPT NOTES IN THE ACCENT. This changes everything. http://t.co/knPvoxzYOv pic.twitter.com/184QzwkiB2
— nilay patel (@reckless) August 11, 2014
PHONETIC TEXAS ACCENT. You remember the speech in question, of course:
But seeing it literally spelled out, with phonetic pronunciation ... for the first time ever, yes: we do waont this lahf.
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