BODY SWAP MOVIE
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And itвЂ™s unlikely the mom in вЂњFreaky FridayвЂќ thinks itвЂ™s appropriate to вЂњfixвЂќ her daughterвЂ™s friendsвЂ™ style of dress. ThereвЂ™s no way the dad in вЂњVice VersaвЂќ thinks a school cafeteria has Grey Poupon. Additionally, while portraying the adult trapped in their kid body, they are written as being so ignorant of what itвЂ™s like to be young that they come off as even older-minded than theyвЂ™re supposed to be. Adult-As-Kid Acts Too Behind-the-TimesДЄ reciprocal clichГ© to the one above, child and teen actors cast in these films (the parent-child ones) are overly serious, even before the transference, which actually contributes to the problem of clichГ© #2. Obviously, this clichГ© canвЂ™t be applied to 17 Again.ДЈ. 13-year-olds arenвЂ™t as excited by toys, 17-year-olds arenвЂ™t as careless with their gum, they know what a drink means when itвЂ™s вЂњon the rocks,вЂќ and teens generally arenвЂ™t as immature or unintelligent as they are when played for slapstick humor by adults. But most of the time, whether itвЂ™s Judge Reinhold or Dudley Moore (or even Tom Hanks or Jennifer Garner, for the age-swap connection), the performance is too childish, no matter the original age of the kid. Typically a comedic actor or actress will be cast as the father or mother character (in the parent-child swaps), because while portraying the kid trapped in that adultвЂ™s body he or she is required to be silly and childlike. This clichГ© does overlap with the age-swapping movies, which use an arcade fortune-telling machine, wishing powder or, in the case of вЂњ17 Again,вЂќ a wish-granting janitor played by Brian Doyle-Murray. It may be a serum (вЂњLike Father Like SonвЂќ), or a jeweled skull bust (вЂњVice VersaвЂќ), or an Aztec statue ( вЂњItвЂ™s a Boy Girl ThingвЂќ), or a fortune cookie (the most recent вЂњFreaky FridayвЂќ), or ancient earrings (вЂњThe Hot ChickвЂќ) or some other stupid object, as long as it can be described in trailers and posters as вЂњmysterious.вЂќ Sometimes the method is not actually given an explanation, such as in RodgerвЂ™s book of вЂњFreaky Friday,вЂќ but this is rare and unacceptable. Neither brain transference nor transmogrification (for the difference as related to the genre, watch this) is scientifically possible, so screenwriters have to develop as ridiculous an explanation of and method for body swapping as possible. While watching вЂњ17 AgainвЂќ this weekend, be on the look out for any of the clichГ©s of the body swap movie, which we illustrate below, in order to determine its closeness to the classification.

BODY SWAP MOVIE

In a way, because of the lesson learned in вЂњ17 Again,вЂќ this new movie is also reminiscent of AnsteyвЂ™s novel, even if not in a walking-in-someone-elseвЂ™s-shoes sort of method.Д«ut are there any other similarities to the body swap genre? You decide. Even the three movie versions of вЂњFreaky FridayвЂќ are more akin to AnsteyвЂ™s story than the Mary RodgersвЂ™ novel on which theyвЂ™re based.

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AnsteyвЂ™s 1882 novel, вЂњVice Versa: A Lesson to FathersвЂќ, which is, yes, the source material behind the 1988 movie starring Fred Savage and Judge Reinhold, as well as the basis for four other, prior film adaptations and a short-lived TV series. Most familiar body swap movies owe their basic plot structure to F.

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