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Dance, Sundance, Revolution Hess: We had a bunch of extras who were just local high school kids. We had just shot the scene where Napoleon was talking about how girls only want guys who have great skills.
When we broke for lunch, there were a group of about 10 or 15 kids and they were quoting what we had just shot amongst themselves. I thought that was a good sign — that maybe people will understand and enjoy this film. Heder: When we shot the film, I had no idea of what the plans were. But the producers were talking about Sundance, and I knew that was kind of a big deal.
But Jeremy did it anyway; I was pretty upset with him at the time. Much of the genius of the film is in the details, and I wanted to make sure I truly absorbed and savored its magnificence. Plus I was laughing so hard I missed hearing some lines. I have family from Preston, Idaho, where they made the film, so it was especially great to see the film made with such heart.
We were all sitting in the last row and as we were watching it you could really just feel the audience getting into it. I thought that was the coolest moment. Heder: Just going to Sundance is still one of the most memorable moments of my life. A lot of us had our friends and family there, but then there were people like Faye Dunaway and I think Daryl Hannah might have been there?
Duff: Seeing the film at Sundance was pretty surreal. It was also sort of when Sundance was different, too; people were still making really tiny movies and they were really getting a chance to have people see their films. So it was special to sit there and see people laughing at it and enjoying it, the way we enjoyed making it.
Hess: I was so nervous about Sundance. I was convinced that people would either totally get it and enjoy the film, or I would hear crickets. But we got there and people started laughing at the first image of Napoleon, it was just an amazing experience. During the slow motion shot of Napoleon walking down the street in the brand-new suit that he just got to go to the dance, there was a moment where I looked over at Jerusha and got a little choked up that people were enjoying it the way they were.
People were cheering and clapping. I think the film is going to have a little bit of a life. Groth: I felt really strongly that this was a great film but with any comedy, especially one this unique, you never know how people will react. Utley: Like many people, I thought the movie was absolutely hilarious. And that catches your eye right away. Every film student reads those books.
I had read a bunch of them going into the festival, but I had no expectations at all. Just getting into Sundance for me was such a dream come true. I lived so close to the festival growing up and had attended it as a teenager and while I was in college, just to experience it.
But to be there and have people wanting to buy your film… it was very surreal. Utley: I think its celebration of the underdog is a perfect analogy to independent films, which are the scrappy, misfit, idiosyncratic cousins to the glossier, big studio films. And the big studio, tentpole films are more akin to the character of Summer, with her perfect costumes and her choreography and her pretty hair. Napoleon Fever Heder: I knew that there was something there, especially when I started getting cards from agents and managers and publicists.
Right away, there was a bidding war for Napoleon Dynamite, but that was in January. Yes, it was popular at Sundance. It got purchased; I got an agent. Utley: It was somewhat surprising how quickly it caught on.
It helped that some Idaho farm kids drove down to see the screening. We had a few ringers in the crowd. Lefler: People were just coming unglued—cheering, standing up and screaming and hollering. It was just this hinterland kind of perspective on life that they had never seen before, but it rang true to them in some shape or form. Everybody was trying to get a ticket to Napoleon Dynamite. Coon: The next day we had seven or eight offers from different companies for the film, which is amazing.
We felt like Searchlight was best at marketing indie films at the time. They gave their pitch. We had a small boutique hotel my brother had booked for all of us to stay in, all the actors and key people. We had the run of the building. We just had a party there that night.
Gries: It was like a college dorm. We had these toys, these little guns that would shoot discs. We were running around hallways shooting things. It was like going and doing the movie all over again, because the movie was like going to summer camp. Wyatt: The person running marketing, Nancy Utley, had this great vision.
She wanted the viewer to have some degree of discovery of the movie, to think they were finding something nobody else knew about it. So it opened as this very small thing in four theaters, then 30, then 50, then something like screens. That made its theatrical run much longer than other indie films. Heder: David Letterman was the first main talk show I did. There was no leading up to that. It was like, all right, David Letterman. I thought it was just going to be a little indie darling.
We made it for, like, somethings, somethings. Those became some of our biggest fans, middle schoolers, high schoolers.
That took us by surprise. In almost every interview, being LDS would come up. It kind of gave the Church exposure in a different area for a while. Heder: One of the highest praises, honestly, was from Jerry Seinfeld. You changed things. That was one of the coolest things to see spread out into the world. We watch that film all the time on the bus! Heder: The statue of Napoleon on the Fox studios lot is incredible. Not a lot of people get that made of themselves.
Wyatt: I was in a junk shop store and I found Napoleon Dynamite tater tot eraser tops. Heder: I still meet fans all the time. I still meet new fans. The story itself is so specific to time and place but feels almost universally relatable in its portrayal of teen awkwardness, which is why people all over the world still connect with it.
Jerusha Hess: The Smithsonian wanted the Napoleon suit. Heder: I had the original Vote for Pedro shirt, but then I traded it to a prop guy on a film for one of the golden snitches from Harry Potter.
An FFA medal. And probably my favorite is my MTV movie popcorn award for winning best film. Jared Hess: Where would the characters be today? Kip would be teaching hacking at ITT Tech. Napoleon would be on a professional gaming team competing at the world championships in South Korea. Oh, Deb: she would be president of the United States. Feedback: Send comments on this article to magazine byu. Napoleon Dynamite launched the careers of the key BYU students and alumni involved.
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How a bunch of undergrads made themselves a dang cult classic. Large photo by Aaron Ruell. Small photo courtesy Munn Powell, who can be seen in the background. A Winning Short Jeremy R. Photo courtesy Munn Powell. The Hess family llama, aka Tina, and cinematographer Munn Powell.
The Napoleon Aesthetic Cory M. Jared Hess: The tater-tots pocket. Jerusha, the costume designer, endured the July Idaho heat pregnant. Napoleon selfie. Jon Heder hydrates atop the stallion Napoleon tamed in the bonus wedding scene. Local Preston High students filled in as extras.
Pedro, mid-buzz.
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