She's the Man

She's the Man
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Directed by	Andy Fickman
Written by	William Shakespeare (play) Ewan Leslie (story by and screenplay) Karen McCullah Lutz Kirsten Smith
Produced by	Lauren Shuler Donner Ewan Leslie
Starring	Amanda Bynes James Kirk Julie Hagerty Channing Tatum Laura Ramsey Robert Hoffman Alex Breckenridge Emily Perkins Amanda Crew Jonathan Sadowski James Snyder Clifton Murray David Cross Vinnie Jones Brandon Jay McLaren
Distributed by	- USA - DreamWorks - non-USA - Lakeshore Entertainment
Release dates	March 17, 2006
Running time	105 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$20,000,000

She's the Man is a 2006 film, starring Amanda Bynes and directed by Andy Fickman, based on William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will, though it also shared substantial similarities to Just One of the Guys. The film also stars Channing Tatum and co-stars David Cross.

Plot synopsis

Viola Hastings (Amanda Bynes) is a member of an upper-class family and plays for her school's soccer team. But when Cornwall cuts her soccer team because not enough girls signed up for it, Viola decides to try out for the boys' team. But the coach of the boys' team refuses to let her try out because she is a girl and Viola's boyfriend who is also on the team agrees. So Viola breaks up with Justin due to his sexist attitude (Viola's now ex).

When her twin brother Sebastian, scheduled to attend Illyria Preparatory, instead decides to go to London to play music, Viola resolves to pose as Sebastian so that she can try out for the Illyria boys’ soccer team, even though her mother would rather she be a Debutante. Then, she could play against Cornwall and show her old school that girls can indeed play soccer just as well as the boys or can be better.

To look like a boy, she cross-dresses and adopts masculine attributes with the help of her stylist friend Paul Antonio (Jonathan Sadowski). She falls in love with Sebastian's handsome roommate Duke Orsino (Channing Tatum), the captain of the Illyria boys' soccer team, after a débutantes' carnival kissing booth incident when Olivia takes a break and Viola takes over. There at the kissing booth Justin (Viola's ex) sees them kissing but he still thinks that there is something between them and Duke gets into a fight with Justin over Viola. Meanwhile, Duke has a crush on Olivia, the most beautiful girl in school. Duke enlists the help of Viola (posing as Sebastian) to help him get a date with Olivia, but in this process of matchmaking, Olivia falls for Viola (as Sebastian) instead. Since Viola (as Sebastian) helps Duke to get a date with Olivia, Duke helps Viola (as Sebastian) to make the first string by the soccer game vs. Cornwall. To make Viola (as Sebastian) notice her, Olivia flirts and dates Duke, to Viola's chagrin. When the 'real' Sebastian unexpectedly returns from London early, Olivia kisses him in front of Duke, setting off a series of confused actions and reactions, including Viola being thrown out of her room and Illyria nearly losing the soccer game due to Duke's anger. So Viola (as Sebastian) has to stay with Duke's lab partner who is a geek with braces. During the game Monique (Sebastian's jealous ex), Malcolm (a geek who is obsessed with Olivia), and Principal Gold stop the game because they think that the 'real' Sebastian is a girl. Sebastian proves to the principal that he is a boy by showing his penis to all the players and fans, which include his parents. Eventually, however, Viola decides to come clean during the soccer game and tell everyone who she really is (and isn't), by lifting her shirt and showing everybody her breasts. This causes Monique, Olivia, Duke, and Sebastian to become very confused. The film ends with Viola (Amanda Bynes) securing Illyria's win, Duke Orsino (Channing Tatum) and Viola getting together, the real Sebastian Hastings (James Kirk) and Olivia Lennox (Laura Ramsey) getting together, and Justin Drayton (Viola's ex who scorned her for trying out for a boy's team) (Robert Hoffman) and Monique (Alex Breckenridge) getting together, as well as Eunice, a geeky girl, (Emily Perkins) and Duke's friend Toby (Brandon Jay McLaren), and Paul and Duke's friend Andrew (Clifton Murray). (Each of these couples is seen together, in varying degrees of subtlety, in the final scene of the film.)

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Amanda Bynes posing as Sebastian.

References to Twelfth Night

• The main or secondary characters in the movie share the exact names of the original play's characters, such as Olivia, Duke (Orsino), Sebastian, and Viola.
• On the movie poster near the bottom in the production credits, there is a line that says: Inspired by the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
• In the trailer, when Amanda Bynes walks through the school's campus outside, a billboard can be seen on the left hand side advertising the school's production of "What You Will". That is the alternate title for Twelfth Night.
• The pizza parlor where the kids hang out is called Cesario's, in reference to the name Cesario, which is the name Viola used when she posed as a boy in the play Twelfth Night.
• The line "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them," which was spoken by the character of Duke Orsino in the film, is a direct quotation from the letter read by Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
• Various character names in the film are taken from Twelfth Night, although the roles in the film bear no similarity to their namesakes in the play. These character names are: Malvolio (the name of Malcolm's tarantula in the film), Feste (Malcolm's last name in the film), Valentine (Monique's last name in the film), Andrew and Toby (Duke's soccer buddies in the film), Maria (Olivia's friend in the film) and Antonio (Paul's last name).
• Stratford Country Club is a reference to Stratford-upon-Avon, where William Shakespeare grew up.
• "Illyria" is the country in which Twelfth Night, or What You Will is set.
• In Twelfth Night, or What You Will, a Duke named Orsino does fall in love with Olivia, who falls in love with Viola in disguise, as Viola herself, trapped looking like a man, falls in love with Orsino.
• Viola and Sebastian are twins in both this movie and the play.
• In the play, Viola dresses as a man because she needs to be male in order to get a job and survive, just as Viola "needs" to disguise herself in order to get on a soccer team in the movie.
• The confusion caused when Olivia kisses the real Sebastian in the movie directly parallels the confusion Sebastian feels in Twelfth Night, or What You Will when Olivia expresses her love for him and proposes marriage.
• When Duke has the disguised Viola help him get Olivia's attention in the movie, he is doing exactly what the Duke Orsino had his servant Cesario (Viola in disguise) do in the play.
• Malcolm's role in the movie is somewhat reminiscent of Malvolio's in the play.
• Eunice's name resembles a eunuch, which is a man who is castrated to resemble a girl. Viola was supposedly "castrated" in the play.

Box office

North America

As of July 1 2006, She's the Man has grossed a total of just under $33.7 million in North America.

Europe

Netherlands

The film entered the box office Top 10 at number eight, grossing €96.460 in its first week. As of July 14, 2006, the film has grossed €121.250. -->

Trivia

• Writer/producer Ewan Leslie got the idea for the movie after seeing Sam Mendes' production of Twelfth Night at the Donmar Warehouse in London starring Emily Watson as Viola. After writing the script, he attached Amanda Bynes to star before sending it to studios.
• Amanda Bynes did not play soccer at the start of filming. She learned for the movie, and played in many of the scenes herself. Bynes' double for some of her soccer scenes was Shannon McDonald, a native of Richmond, British Columbia. McDonald's husband was also a double for Tatum.
• The lyrics of Sebastian's song in the film are the opening lines of "Let Go" by Dave Lichens.
• During the double date scene at the pizza restaurant, just as Viola and Eunice are sitting down at the booth, Viola says "Lady pterodactyl". This is a reference to the 1994 cult classic Pterodactyl Woman From Beverly Hills.
• The final film to be distributed by DreamWorks themselves, as Paramount Pictures purchased the company in 2005. It was made before the purchase, and released afterwards. The first DreamWorks film to be distributed by Paramount is Over the Hedge. Paramount, however, did release She's the Man on DVD, though under the DreamWorks label.
• She's the Man was filmed in Vancouver, Canada. (However the film itself was set in a upper crust suburb of Chicago.)
• Brandon Jay McLaren actually has played competitive soccer and had a scholarship to play in college.
• In the Spanish-dubbed version of the film, the voice actress of Viola also did the voice for Amanda in the syndicated version of The Amanda Show.
• During the scene where Paul is making Viola into a boy, Jonathan Sadowski accidentally spit in Amanda Bynes's eye while filming.
• The fight between Paul and Viola when Viola first arrives at Illyria is completely improvised.
• This is the first PG-13 film Amanda Bynes stars in.
• This is one of the other movies that have storylines similar to Shakespeare plays like, 10 Things I Hate About You is to "The Taming of the Shrew", O to Othello and Get Over It to "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
• As Duke and Olivia are beginning their date at the pizza parlor, listen carefully. "Sebastian's" lyrics are in the song playing in the background at the pizza parlor.
• The names of many of the Illyria players are the last names of the crew members, like Fickman and Donner.
• Two posters of the band Of a Revolution or O.A.R. can be seen on Sebastian's wall. Later in the movie, the song "Love and Memories" by OAR is played.
• Duke has a Sum 41 poster on his wall for their 2004 album Chuck.
• James Kirk (who plays Sebastian) and Lynda Boyd are both in this film as they were in Final Destination 2.

Continuity Errors

• In the scene where Viola (as Sebastian) is in the science lab with Olivia, Viola pours too much of a chemical into a tube and the liquid spills out of the tube. Viola looks at Duke, then Duke looks at Viola, and when it shows Viola (as Sebastian) next to Olivia, the chemical that was spilled is no longer there.
• In the second scene, students are seen playing basketball in the background. Once there is talk about the girls team being cut, the basketball players are gone.
• In the scene where Viola (as Sebastian) is walking down the hallway to her room, you can see the same boy three times in different places (he is wearing a red cap backwards).
• When Viola is changing in the tilt-a-whirl at the debutante charity fair, you can see, several times, that she is alone in the seat. However, it is shown that there was a small child there the whole entire time, when there actually were not.
• Robert Hoffman is wearing white underwear, and his stunt double is wearing black underwear during the fight scene at the carnival with Duke.
• In the scene when Viola (as Sebastian) is in the Headmasters office, and when the Headmaster asks if she is inspired by the school colors, she retracts her hand twice after he says to her that she can’t touch it.
• In the scene where Viola (as Sebastian) sits down with Duke, Toby and Andrew in the cafeteria and a Pepsi bottle falls off her tray, there is a juice bottle in front of Toby when she sits down, but when the camera angle changes the juice bottle and the soda are right next to each other. Throughout the scene, the juice bottle is farther and closer to the Pepsi bottle depending on the camera angle.
• In the cafeteria scene, when Viola (as Sebastian) sits at the table with Duke, Toby and Andrew, she has a Pepsi bottle and it falls next to a bottle of juice. Although, when Duke, Toby, and Andrew flee from the table, Toby grabs Viola’s Pepsi and leaves his juice.
• Also, In the movie, when Viola is posing as Sebastian, there is one scene where she's talking on the phone with her mother and she mentions to her mother "No, I Will Not Wear Heels!"; however, in the poster advertising the film and in some of the scenes, if you look closely enough, she's wearing heels.
• In the first laboratory scene when Duke, Toby, Andrew, Viola are picking lab partner names, Duke picks out three pieces of paper and hands them to Andrew and Toby. Viola then picks two pieces of paper and hands one out to Andrew

See also

• Shakespeare on screen (Twelfth Night)

External links

• Official site
• She's the Man at IMDb
• She's the Man soundtrack questions, answers and other music information.
• Channing Tatum Talks She's The Man