- It's so weird watching a movie about high schoolers graduating
when I'm graduating high school. You are actually gonna head on
over to theater to watch the full movie right now.
- Oh my gosh. No way. Wait. Are you being serious?
- (Molly) Amy, you've been out for two years, and you've never
kissed a girl. - What is this?
- (Amy) ...with all that stuff.
- This is "Booksmart."
- (gasps and claps) "Booksmart"!
- (Molly) I once tried to [bleep] with an electric toothbrush.
- Oh my god. - Wait, too-- (chuckles)
- (Molly) But I got a horrible UTI.
- Oh. - (Molly) Like, horrible.
- Oh. - (Amy) I wish that would've
been a secret, but you've mentioned it many, many times.
- (chuckles) - Everything I've heard about
this movie is just like, "It's good. You have to see it.
You have to see this movie." - (Amy) Oh, [bleep].
Are we gonna go to school or-- - (Molly) Nope.
- They are literally me, both of them. Like, it's me.
- (Amy) Isn't it crazy that it's the last day of school--
- (Molly) Are you kidding me, Samantha?!
- (laughs) - (Amy) She's got a really cute smile.
- (Molly) Go talk to her.
- (Amy) Oh, oh! Sorry, sorry. - (Ryan) Sharp elbows.
- (Amy) Not as sharp as your... chin. - (Ryan) What?
- Great flirting technique. We love it.
- (Amy) Not as sharp as your chin. - (chuckles)
- (Molly whispers) Amy. - That's just so accurate
to how high schoolers flirt. - (teacher) We got you
through high school! - (Molly) I need to go over
the end-of-the-year budget numbers. - (principal) Can't we just graduate,
head off to college? That should do it, right?
- (Molly) We will persist! - (chuckle)
- (principal) I can't hear you. I can't. Soundproof glass.
- This is honestly one of my teachers.
- Olivia Wilde directed this? - Olivia Wilde killed it with this.
She really said, "Let me show you guys what I can do."
- (Molly) ...party tonight. - (Amy) What?
- (Molly) Nobody knows that we... - Ooh, a party.
"Nobody knows that we are fun." LOL.
- (Molly) ...school and get into good colleges.
- (Amy) And it worked. - I love cheesy movies like this.
- (Mollyh) Irresponsible people who partied also got
into those colleges. - (chuckles) That's facts, though.
- (girl) I'm incredible at [bleep], but I also got a 1560 on the SAT.
- Yes, Queen! Ah! - (Molly) We haven't done anything!
We haven't broken any rules! - Damn, she's like--
she just woke up. She's like, "What?!
We could've been having fun?! What?!"
- (Amy) Name one person whose life was so much better, because they broke
a couple of rules. - (Molly) Picasso.
- (Amy) He broke art rules. - (Molly) Rosa Parks.
- (Amy) Name another one. - (Molly) Susan B. Anthony.
- (Amy) Goddammit. - She's got a point. (chuckles)
- (Molly) Susan B. Anthony. - (Amy) Goddammit.
- Feminist icons.
- (Amy) Hand sanitizer. - (Molly) Check.
- (Amy) Chapstick. - (Molly) Check.
- (Amy) Mace. Listen, it is very...
- Mace?
Oh! - Ooh! (chuckles)
- It's so weird watching a movie about high schoolers graduating
when I'm graduating high school. - (Molly) Tonight is your night.
- (Amy) Yes! - (Molly) Yeah!
- Damn, already in their cap and gown, giving no [bleep].
- (people yelling) - (driver) What is this?!
- Their hair's covering their face. - That's...
- (driver) What is this?! - (Molly) We ask the questions!
- (driver) Oh my god! How old are you?
- (Molly) Does not matter! - (chuckles)
- (Amy) Well, this seems excessive. Shotgun. Just kidding.
I don't have one. - (chuckles) "I don't have..."
This is taking turns I didn't think it would.
- Oh, "Booksmart." - (Amy) Don't say we're having
a date night. - (Molly) Why? It's funny
your parents think we're boning. - Oh my god.
- Phoebes! - (Molly) We are gonna show each other
how much we care about each other. - (Amy) We'll probably just do
a Korean face mask. - (Molly) I don't need to know
all the words. Don't need to know all the words.
- Ah! YES! I relate to it a lot.
I feel like I didn't party at all in high school.
I'm like, "Shoot. People that had fun also did well, and they're going
to good colleges, and I wanna do that!"
- Just based off of the trailer, it seems pretty legit.
These are conversations that I've had with my friends
and with my friends' parents. - I remember seeing a trailer
a while back, and I still get the same vibes. Just not my movie.
- Usually, in high school dramas or whatever or comedies,
it's, like, the dumb jocks, the nerds who are successful.
And then this kind of plays on the actual reality that, no,
there's people who are definitely a mix.
- (FBE) So, that was the trailer for the film, "Booksmart."
- I've never heard about this movie, "Booksmart."
- (FBE) For today's episode, we have brought in teens
from the graduating classes of 2018 and 2019,
since you all were recently high school seniors.
- Graduated two days ago. - (FBE) So today, we're doing
something a little different. - Okay.
- What are we doing today? - (FBE) You are actually
gonna head on over to the theater to watch the full movie right now.
- Oh my gosh. No way. Wait, are you being serious?
- Oh, really? Oh, that's awesome. - All right! Maybe I'll--
it'll subvert my expectations. Hopefully, it does.
Maybe I'm like, "Oh, this movie's fun.
This movie's great." - (FBE) Ready to go?
- Yes! Let's go right now! Are you kidding me?
Can we just go? Can we cut? Everyone, let's get up.
Let's go. Let's do it.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- (FBE) So, first of all welcome back.
- Thank you. I had so much fun.
- It was fun, you know, with friends to watch it.
But all in all, it wasn't for me.
- It was like really genuinely funny. Everyone was laughing their butts off.
- (FBE) Being someone very close to the age of the characters
in the film, do you feel that the movie was an accurate depiction
of what this time in your life is or was like?
- Yeah, definitely. It's so authentic the way
that they portray a female friendship like that.
Such a strong best friend relationship is hard to come across.
- In the real world, you do see
people act the way they acted, you know, try to be party people
just because of societal pressures, and people do some stupid stuff
to fit in, so it's accurate in that way.
- I don't think there's that many people
taking wild drugs in high school and not so many people
throwing empty parties on yachts. There have been rumors of teachers
at my school driving Ubers and Lyfts, so that part was definitely realistic.
- I feel like that's an over- exaggerated version of high school,
but it's still... I understand what they're going for,
which I actually really liked. - It's just a movie.
You're not supposed to take it too seriously.
but if they're going for the route that's supposed
to be high school, then for sure,
it definitely was not like high school.
They drove through the gate at graduation
with their friend's car. I'm like, "Yeah, that's funny, but no."
- The characters talk to each other how me
and my friends talk to each other, and it was normal.
And it was really weird for me to watch a movie about the class
of 2019 when I'm the class of 2019 in 2019.
- Of course, it's over-dramaticized, but there's some truth to what
they were saying about how even if you didn't work as hard,
you could still get into some of these colleges.
You can finesse your way in. This is literally what high school is.
- (FBE) The movie really focused on the aspect of partying
versus studying in high school and if you can have both.
In your opinion, do you think high school is more about academics,
the social experience of partying, or does there have to be a balance?
- I think there does have to be a balance of both.
This is your teenage years. This is your time to have fun.
Not saying that you can't study and stuff, but balance it.
- You do need a balance, because if you just focus on school,
you're gonna kind of be disconnected from the real world.
- Having a balance between socializing and studying is extremely important,
but if something is genuinely stressing you out mentally,
there are resources that are better than using parties as an outlet.
- There can be a balance. People can't be cooped up
doing school all day. High school has fun moments like prom,
formal, and other-- maybe some social events
that you can go participate in. - You're in school primarily
for academics, you know. You're trying to learn.
But also, part of learning is learning social awareness
and being able to pick up on social cues
and hold conversations and interact with totally different people
than what you usually associate yourself with.
- Some people do really focus on the schoolwork, on the homework,
and the tests, and studying and exclude all social activities
from their life. High school and middle school
are so important to get to know yourself and try new things
and do stuff. You only have to live
with one person for the rest of your life, and it's yourself.
- (FBE) And if we're speaking honestly,
do you consider yourself more
of a studier-- - Oh, 100% a studier.
You don't even need to finish the sentence.
- (FBE) Do you consider yourself more a partier or a studier?
- Okay, if I did have to choose one, I would say more on the academic side.
But for parties, I've only ever been to two parties,
and I didn't like them. - Studier.
Partying was definitely not on my agenda.
- I would definitely say I was a partier,
'cause I went out with friends a lot, I did sports, I did clubs.
I think that's where got me into a school.
It was my stuff outside. - I am a social butterfly.
I talk to everybody. I feel like you should always
find a balance between what is supposed to be done
and what you wanna do. - Definitely a partier.
Are you kidding me? I mean, I...
You know, in school, I was a smart girl.
I tried my best.
But I definitely was more focused on the people at school
rather than the tests. - (FBE) One of the things
many people were very excited to see in this film was
the representation of diversity. - Yas! That was my favorite part.
Most of the time, when you watch a movie, the cast members
don't look like the real world people. In this movie, they did.
- (FBE) There are characters of different ethnicities,
sexual orientations, and body sizes,
none of which were ever spoken about but all of which helped to enrich
the real-world feel. - Yeah. it should just be more
just raw and more natural. I love the fact that they didn't
even question anybody. There were a lot of gay characters
in that movie, and they were just chilling.
They were just living their life. Everybody was cool with them.
- Oh, I think it was really good that they incorporated it
into the movie in some way, but didn't focus in on it,
because that's not really what the movie was about.
- Diversity is always something that should take part in movies.
It's just a simple little side note that you glaze at, you nod your head,
and you kind of move on. - (FBE) Beanie Feldstein,
who plays Molly in the film, said, "Representation
is really important. I think if I could have
seen our film earlier, I think I maybe would have
found myself a bit sooner." - I love that. I love that.
I'm gonna cry. That's so real.
There's so much representation of different types of people,
and it's nice to see that not under a microscope.
So, there's diversity, but it's not about
a diverse person. It's just incorporating
these different things to be normal.
- She's a wonderful person and a great person in the community.
She's also part of the LGBTQ community.
And the fact that she supports the film
so much in that sense is adorable. - (FBE) How important do you think
it is for this film and others to show this type of representation
and diversity on screen. - It felt more... what's the word?
It felt more genuine in the way that it was going about
representing these stories. - It did a really good job
of just making it real and not like it was forcing it
to be a coming-of-age film. It's representation in
an everyday setting, where it would be in real life,
which is the most important. - It's extremely important
to showcase different ethnicities and different roles, because there's
sort of this negative feedback loop, where if you're of a certain ethnicity
or sexuality and you only see yourself represented in one sort of stereotype
or one generic way, you kind of socialize yourself
to think, "Well, that's really the only option for me."
By having entertainment that represents different identities,
it really opens up doorways for people to be powerful
no matter where they come from or who they are.
- (FBE) Finally, in the movie, Amy and Molly are trying
to catch up on what they missed in high school.
So, if you could give advice to a teen who is going to
or is in high school about something
they shouldn't miss out on, what would it be?
- Ooh, prom. (chuckles)
If you're not planning to go to prom, rethink your decision and go,
'cause I know I thought about not going to prom,
and my whole mind shifted. My parents told me about it.
And I'm so glad I went. I had a really good time.
- Just don't hold yourself back. If you want to do something, do it.
- It's definitely important to experience high school
and life to its fullest. But just join in on the fun
when it comes to public events. Don't worry about it.
Don't overthink it. - Don't miss any events.
Even if it turns out lame, you still have that experience
of like, "Oh yeah, I remember going to my 10th grade [bleep] homecoming,"
you know? You have that memory, and that's something
you'll keep forever. - You know how all the schools
have a graduation night, a grad night?
Even though it might seem boring and dull, it is gonna be amazing.
For us, personally, it was Disneyland. For the people that went,
it was amazing. And everyone who didn't go was like,
"Damn, I wish I went."
- Stay off your phone, because I spent so much time
on my phone on social media and playing games,
and I didn't see as much of the real world as I wanted to.
So, get off the phone or your laptop,
whatever you're watching this on, and go outside and play! (laughs)
That's my advice. - Don't miss out on
introducing yourself to people that you think are cool and admirable,
because, honestly, most of the time, they'll just reciprocate
and that's something that I wish I'd done sooner.
There were so many people that I thought were too cool
to be my friend or something, and so I waited.
And then, once I did actually introduce myself,
we ended up being really close.
And you know, no one's ever too cool for you!
Just reach out, introduce yourself,
and see what friends you can make.
- Thanks for watching this special episode of React.
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like this one. - Shoutout Craziestgamesandmore.
- Bye, guys! - Hey, everyone.
Lauren, producer here at FBE. If you wanna see more episodes
like this from all the generations, we got a whole bunch of them.
The links will be down in the description.
Bye, everyone! And I'm gonna go do
a Korean face mask.