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School of Rock: An Overview
What's shakin', bacon.
LET’S GET ROCKING
a fandom overview for School of Rock
Sell my guitars? Would you tell Picasso to sell his guitars?
2003 brought us a lot of good movies. Like Mystic River. Finding Nemo. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. But all of those are eclipsed by a great little movie by Richard Linklater about an old rocker who takes lemons and makes a kick-ass rock band. I like to call it “School of Rock.”
THE PLOT
Meet Dewey Finn, played by Jack Black. He is an old-school rocker who lives, breathes, and sometimes dies a little for rock. Which is all well and good, except his band members kick him out for being too out there and his roommate’s girlfriend hates him and tried to throw him out and his roommate is lacking a pair and wants to be a substitute teacher. After that great run-on sentence, he pretends to be said friend, Ned Schneebly, and takes a job at Horace Green Elementary School.
At first, he is kind of your drunk uncle who never pays attention to you except to offer you sips of beer. (Or maybe that's just me?) Frustrated that nobody wants to join the new band he is trying to start, he delivers the best speech of all time to the kids. Just because everybody adores it, I'll post it here.
Give up, just quit, because in this life, you can't win. Yeah, you can try, but in the end you're just gonna lose, big time, because the world is run by the Man. The Man, oh, you don't know the Man. He's everywhere. In the White House... down the hall... Ms. Mullins, she's the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, he's burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank! And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock 'n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don't waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome 'cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just GIVE UP!
Exactly. But then the kids go to music class and Dewey goes to take a piss. There, he hears the kids, and gets the genius idea of creating a rock band from, you guessed it, the class. Adding to the fact that he is lying about his name, he also lies to the kids and tells them that "Project Rock Band" is something that every school will be doing so that they will go along with it.
Of course, along the way he bonds with each and every kid, who are all adorable. He sneaks them out to audition for Battle of the Bands, and they only get in because he says that the kids are all dying from a rare disease, "Stickittodamaniosis." He takes the Principal out after school, gets her drunk, and makes her agree to his "field trip," a.k.a. "Battle of the Bands," which is says is a classical concert put on by the Philharmonic. (I'm sensing a pattern here.)
In the end, he gets busted at parent night by his best friend's girlfriend. Still, the kids remain loyal to him, take the bus the next day, pick him up and go to the Battle of the Bands. (He is obviously a very good role model.) The parents freak out and all end up there to see the kids perform and, oh, by the way, they rock. Except they don't win, because Dewey's old band wins. But still, the kids' band, which is named, you guess it, School of Rock, gets called out for an encore and everyody is happy.
In the end, School of Rock stays together, Dewey's best friend grows a pair and gives up his girlfriend for rock music/teaching rock to little kids, and they all live happily ever after. Or something like that.
THE ADULTS
Dewey Finn (Jack Black)
On the outside, a seemingly creepy, old-ish guy who you really don’t want to talk to without getting contact drunk, as if there was such a thing. But at his heart, Dewey Finn is one of the greatest people you will ever meet. He worships rock and all that has to do with it. He quotes song lyrics on a daily basis and manages to be extraordinarily funny at the worst times. But most importantly, Dewey Finn has a heart of gold that he uses to lift the self-esteem of everybody around him. How does he manage to improve, like, everybody’s lives? It’s just his way, man.
Ned Schneebly (Mike White)
Your typical shy, boring substitute teacher… or is he? (Insert shifty eyes here.) Ned is another one of those “heart of gold” type characters that seem to be running amok here. He is pursuing a career of becoming a teacher, probably because he likes kids or whatever. Except that he used to be a super bad sex symbol in his rock band with Dewey, Maggot Death. Not willing to give up his rockin’ heart, despite the siren screeching of his girlfriend, at the end of the movie be teaches guitar to children. Which is kind of like both of his dreams squooshed together, but a lot cooler.
Rosalie Mullins (Joan Cusack)
Okay, so it may seem like this is getting all-too-convenient here, but Ms. Mullins is also one of those secret-rockers who hides behind a nice façade. A hardcore Stevie Nicks fan, Ms. Mullins rules Horace Green with strict adherence to the rules, even though, as she admits, it makes her a really, really huge, uptight bitch. Or she admitted to the last word, anyway. Or mouthed it. Whatever. The point is, after getting a little beer in her and then a little rock show in her, she finally learns that it’s okay to let loose every once in awhile. And also, she’s just great.
THE KIDS
Okay, there are far too many kids in this movie to talk about all of them, so I’ll just review the ones most likely to be in a fic. (Or MLTBIAF, but that seems like a silly acronym.)
Zack Mooneyham, a.k.a. Zack Attack (Joey Gaydos Jr.)
Inheritor of the coolest slash funniest last name ever, Zack is a seemingly shy classical guitarist who comes out of his shell and becomes the next Hendrix. His dad is kind of strict with him, but he’s still a nice kid who is a surprisingly talented songwriter. When he gets older he is either written as way hardcore, emo, or a very shy teenager.
Freddy Jones, a.k.a. Spazzy McGee (Kevin Clark)
The obligatory Bad Boy. Freddy plays percussion (apparently because he “couldn’t play anything else) and likes to “burn stuff.” When introduced to rock, he likes punk music and The Sex Pistols. After thinking rock was all about “getting wasted and acting like a jerk,” Dewey sets him straight that rock is about “changing the world.” When he gets older he is written as either a jerky jerk-face punk boy or a nice, funny, great, absent-minded punk boy. Either way.
Summer Hathaway, a.k.a. Tinkerbell (Miranda Cosgrove)
The obligatory smart slash stuck up girl. She, like Ms. Mullins, likes the rules and getting everything done right and receiving gold stars. So, obviously, she becomes the manager of School of Rock. When she gets older, she is basically written as less annoying, but still somewhat of a tight-ass. Which is why we love her.
Katie, a.k.a. Posh Spice
The obligatory, um, hot girl? Even as a fifth grader, Katie shows signs of the Youknowyouwantmemodel gene. She plays cello, and then she plays bass thanks to her great mastery of the G chord. Katie doesn’t speak a lot, but she does make a very funny face with Dewey. When she gets older, she is either written as a sassy girl, a cool girl, or a quiet girl.
Lawrence, a.k.a. Mr. Cool
Alright, so he doesn’t appear in much fic (which is a very, very big shame) but he is my favorite, so. He obviously deserves to be here. The obligatory Asian boy, he plays piano and then the keyboards. Lawrence also does not think he is cool until Dewey shows him that he is damn cool, thankyouverymuch. Still, he prefers reading and classical piano. When he is older, he is written as, um, the same, pretty much. That’s my boy.
AND THE REST
Marta, a.k.a. Blondie - Backup singer and cute, blonde pigtail girl.
Alicia, a.k.a. Brace Face – Backup singer and sassy, cussing girl.
Frankie, a.k.a. Tough Guy – Security. He’s friends with Freddy?
Leonard, a.k.a. Shortstop – Also security, even though he’s a tiny black boy. Which is cute. He likes Puff Daddy.
Billy, a.k.a. Fancy Pants – The gayest gay boy that ever gayed. He’s the band stylist and he’s fabulous.
Marco, a.k.a. Carrot Top – Cute redhead kid who takes care of the equipment. Aw.
Gordon, a.k.a. Roadrunner – Technological guy who made the stage directions and has little freak outs.
Tomika, a.k.a. Turkey Sub – Backup singer with the greatest, soulful voice you have ever heard. She has low self esteem because she’s fat but Dewey makes her feel better.
Michelle and Eleni – Um, groupies. They name the band and like girly things.
Patty Mi Marco – Ned’s girlfriend. She’s a bitch, but we love her. Or love to hate her. Either way.
THE PAIRINGS
Okay, so the thing about School of Rock fic is that we are all basically working with an open canvas. Most people don’t write about the kids as, well, kids, and if they do it is a gen fic. So we get to take clues from the kids’ childhoods and figure out what they would be like as teenagers. For this reason, every pairing has its own genius.
for the heterosexual minded
Most pairings have to do with Zack/Freddy/Summer/Katie, mixed up. So it’s either Zack/Summer and Freddy/Katie or Zack/Katie and Freddy/Summer. I tried to figure out which one was the most popular and really, it’s almost a tie. But in the end, Freddy/Summer wins out, because you know the idea of a bad boy and a smart girl is always cute. Although my own personal favorite het pairing is Lawrence/Summer, but since I’m the only person who has written this so far I’m sad to say it has yet to catch on.
Zack/Summer
Usually because people want to stick the two "hot people" (Freddy/Katie) together. But it works, because both are somewhat shy and demure and care about what other think of them. Most fic is built on the sweetness of the two.
Freddy/Katie
Because beautiful people belong together? Because hot boys usually end up with hot girls? It depends on how Katie is written. Usually they are best friend who "become something more."
Zack/Katie
Usually, Katie is written as a very nice girl when this pairing shows up. It's very cute, cuter than Zack/Summer, because this way it's two dark haired beauties who are quiet and sweet and, well, you know.
Freddy/Summer
The best, obviously, because it has that whole "I hate you but I like you a lot" thing. For those girls/boys who always find themselves strangely attracted to annoying people, which is really unfair, right?
Lawrence/Summer
Okay, so I'm the only person who has written it, but come on. You know it makes sense. Because Lawrence is very complex and caring and Summer needs somebody who will adore her.
for the homosexual minded
Okay, so the other thing is there is basically one gay pairing and one lesbian pairing written so far. Except for Michelle/Eleni which I am working on, but that is beside the point. Zack/Freddy by far rules the slash fandom in School of Rock, since we like to imagine them as dirty, rocker, best friend boys who experiment with a bit more. And for the cute girl pairing to the dirty boy pairing, Summer/Katie has also been written a few times but has yet to become too popular. Not that we aren’t trying. Also, Freddy/Zack/Lawrence is amazingly great. I just haven't gotten around to writing it yet. Erm.
Zack/Freddy
Because this way, the boys can be boys: dirty and stupid and cusseriffic. (I just made that word up, if you didn't get that.) By far the most popular pairing in the School of Rock fandom.
Summer/Katie
Because it's cute when girls become lesbians. Surprisingly, most of the fic is written with them as somewhat-dirty, but still girly girls. Not that this has been written more than three times, but still.
Michelle/Eleni
Again, only person to write it, but think about it. They're two girly-girl best friends. And if that isn't one of the best foundations for exploration in fic, I don't know what is.
THE LINKS
School of Rock Official Site
School of Rock on IMDB
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Hypnotisized: The Manifesto for Zack/Freddy
a fandom overview for School of Rock
Sell my guitars? Would you tell Picasso to sell his guitars?
2003 brought us a lot of good movies. Like Mystic River. Finding Nemo. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. But all of those are eclipsed by a great little movie by Richard Linklater about an old rocker who takes lemons and makes a kick-ass rock band. I like to call it “School of Rock.”
THE PLOT
Meet Dewey Finn, played by Jack Black. He is an old-school rocker who lives, breathes, and sometimes dies a little for rock. Which is all well and good, except his band members kick him out for being too out there and his roommate’s girlfriend hates him and tried to throw him out and his roommate is lacking a pair and wants to be a substitute teacher. After that great run-on sentence, he pretends to be said friend, Ned Schneebly, and takes a job at Horace Green Elementary School.
At first, he is kind of your drunk uncle who never pays attention to you except to offer you sips of beer. (Or maybe that's just me?) Frustrated that nobody wants to join the new band he is trying to start, he delivers the best speech of all time to the kids. Just because everybody adores it, I'll post it here.
Give up, just quit, because in this life, you can't win. Yeah, you can try, but in the end you're just gonna lose, big time, because the world is run by the Man. The Man, oh, you don't know the Man. He's everywhere. In the White House... down the hall... Ms. Mullins, she's the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, he's burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank! And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock 'n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don't waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome 'cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just GIVE UP!
Exactly. But then the kids go to music class and Dewey goes to take a piss. There, he hears the kids, and gets the genius idea of creating a rock band from, you guessed it, the class. Adding to the fact that he is lying about his name, he also lies to the kids and tells them that "Project Rock Band" is something that every school will be doing so that they will go along with it.
Of course, along the way he bonds with each and every kid, who are all adorable. He sneaks them out to audition for Battle of the Bands, and they only get in because he says that the kids are all dying from a rare disease, "Stickittodamaniosis." He takes the Principal out after school, gets her drunk, and makes her agree to his "field trip," a.k.a. "Battle of the Bands," which is says is a classical concert put on by the Philharmonic. (I'm sensing a pattern here.)
In the end, he gets busted at parent night by his best friend's girlfriend. Still, the kids remain loyal to him, take the bus the next day, pick him up and go to the Battle of the Bands. (He is obviously a very good role model.) The parents freak out and all end up there to see the kids perform and, oh, by the way, they rock. Except they don't win, because Dewey's old band wins. But still, the kids' band, which is named, you guess it, School of Rock, gets called out for an encore and everyody is happy.
In the end, School of Rock stays together, Dewey's best friend grows a pair and gives up his girlfriend for rock music/teaching rock to little kids, and they all live happily ever after. Or something like that.
THE ADULTS
Dewey Finn (Jack Black)
On the outside, a seemingly creepy, old-ish guy who you really don’t want to talk to without getting contact drunk, as if there was such a thing. But at his heart, Dewey Finn is one of the greatest people you will ever meet. He worships rock and all that has to do with it. He quotes song lyrics on a daily basis and manages to be extraordinarily funny at the worst times. But most importantly, Dewey Finn has a heart of gold that he uses to lift the self-esteem of everybody around him. How does he manage to improve, like, everybody’s lives? It’s just his way, man.
Ned Schneebly (Mike White)
Your typical shy, boring substitute teacher… or is he? (Insert shifty eyes here.) Ned is another one of those “heart of gold” type characters that seem to be running amok here. He is pursuing a career of becoming a teacher, probably because he likes kids or whatever. Except that he used to be a super bad sex symbol in his rock band with Dewey, Maggot Death. Not willing to give up his rockin’ heart, despite the siren screeching of his girlfriend, at the end of the movie be teaches guitar to children. Which is kind of like both of his dreams squooshed together, but a lot cooler.
Rosalie Mullins (Joan Cusack)
Okay, so it may seem like this is getting all-too-convenient here, but Ms. Mullins is also one of those secret-rockers who hides behind a nice façade. A hardcore Stevie Nicks fan, Ms. Mullins rules Horace Green with strict adherence to the rules, even though, as she admits, it makes her a really, really huge, uptight bitch. Or she admitted to the last word, anyway. Or mouthed it. Whatever. The point is, after getting a little beer in her and then a little rock show in her, she finally learns that it’s okay to let loose every once in awhile. And also, she’s just great.
THE KIDS
Okay, there are far too many kids in this movie to talk about all of them, so I’ll just review the ones most likely to be in a fic. (Or MLTBIAF, but that seems like a silly acronym.)
Zack Mooneyham, a.k.a. Zack Attack (Joey Gaydos Jr.)
Inheritor of the coolest slash funniest last name ever, Zack is a seemingly shy classical guitarist who comes out of his shell and becomes the next Hendrix. His dad is kind of strict with him, but he’s still a nice kid who is a surprisingly talented songwriter. When he gets older he is either written as way hardcore, emo, or a very shy teenager.
Freddy Jones, a.k.a. Spazzy McGee (Kevin Clark)
The obligatory Bad Boy. Freddy plays percussion (apparently because he “couldn’t play anything else) and likes to “burn stuff.” When introduced to rock, he likes punk music and The Sex Pistols. After thinking rock was all about “getting wasted and acting like a jerk,” Dewey sets him straight that rock is about “changing the world.” When he gets older he is written as either a jerky jerk-face punk boy or a nice, funny, great, absent-minded punk boy. Either way.
Summer Hathaway, a.k.a. Tinkerbell (Miranda Cosgrove)
The obligatory smart slash stuck up girl. She, like Ms. Mullins, likes the rules and getting everything done right and receiving gold stars. So, obviously, she becomes the manager of School of Rock. When she gets older, she is basically written as less annoying, but still somewhat of a tight-ass. Which is why we love her.
Katie, a.k.a. Posh Spice
The obligatory, um, hot girl? Even as a fifth grader, Katie shows signs of the Youknowyouwantmemodel gene. She plays cello, and then she plays bass thanks to her great mastery of the G chord. Katie doesn’t speak a lot, but she does make a very funny face with Dewey. When she gets older, she is either written as a sassy girl, a cool girl, or a quiet girl.
Lawrence, a.k.a. Mr. Cool
Alright, so he doesn’t appear in much fic (which is a very, very big shame) but he is my favorite, so. He obviously deserves to be here. The obligatory Asian boy, he plays piano and then the keyboards. Lawrence also does not think he is cool until Dewey shows him that he is damn cool, thankyouverymuch. Still, he prefers reading and classical piano. When he is older, he is written as, um, the same, pretty much. That’s my boy.
AND THE REST
Marta, a.k.a. Blondie - Backup singer and cute, blonde pigtail girl.
Alicia, a.k.a. Brace Face – Backup singer and sassy, cussing girl.
Frankie, a.k.a. Tough Guy – Security. He’s friends with Freddy?
Leonard, a.k.a. Shortstop – Also security, even though he’s a tiny black boy. Which is cute. He likes Puff Daddy.
Billy, a.k.a. Fancy Pants – The gayest gay boy that ever gayed. He’s the band stylist and he’s fabulous.
Marco, a.k.a. Carrot Top – Cute redhead kid who takes care of the equipment. Aw.
Gordon, a.k.a. Roadrunner – Technological guy who made the stage directions and has little freak outs.
Tomika, a.k.a. Turkey Sub – Backup singer with the greatest, soulful voice you have ever heard. She has low self esteem because she’s fat but Dewey makes her feel better.
Michelle and Eleni – Um, groupies. They name the band and like girly things.
Patty Mi Marco – Ned’s girlfriend. She’s a bitch, but we love her. Or love to hate her. Either way.
THE PAIRINGS
Okay, so the thing about School of Rock fic is that we are all basically working with an open canvas. Most people don’t write about the kids as, well, kids, and if they do it is a gen fic. So we get to take clues from the kids’ childhoods and figure out what they would be like as teenagers. For this reason, every pairing has its own genius.
for the heterosexual minded
Most pairings have to do with Zack/Freddy/Summer/Katie, mixed up. So it’s either Zack/Summer and Freddy/Katie or Zack/Katie and Freddy/Summer. I tried to figure out which one was the most popular and really, it’s almost a tie. But in the end, Freddy/Summer wins out, because you know the idea of a bad boy and a smart girl is always cute. Although my own personal favorite het pairing is Lawrence/Summer, but since I’m the only person who has written this so far I’m sad to say it has yet to catch on.
Zack/Summer
Usually because people want to stick the two "hot people" (Freddy/Katie) together. But it works, because both are somewhat shy and demure and care about what other think of them. Most fic is built on the sweetness of the two.
Freddy/Katie
Because beautiful people belong together? Because hot boys usually end up with hot girls? It depends on how Katie is written. Usually they are best friend who "become something more."
Zack/Katie
Usually, Katie is written as a very nice girl when this pairing shows up. It's very cute, cuter than Zack/Summer, because this way it's two dark haired beauties who are quiet and sweet and, well, you know.
Freddy/Summer
The best, obviously, because it has that whole "I hate you but I like you a lot" thing. For those girls/boys who always find themselves strangely attracted to annoying people, which is really unfair, right?
Lawrence/Summer
Okay, so I'm the only person who has written it, but come on. You know it makes sense. Because Lawrence is very complex and caring and Summer needs somebody who will adore her.
for the homosexual minded
Okay, so the other thing is there is basically one gay pairing and one lesbian pairing written so far. Except for Michelle/Eleni which I am working on, but that is beside the point. Zack/Freddy by far rules the slash fandom in School of Rock, since we like to imagine them as dirty, rocker, best friend boys who experiment with a bit more. And for the cute girl pairing to the dirty boy pairing, Summer/Katie has also been written a few times but has yet to become too popular. Not that we aren’t trying. Also, Freddy/Zack/Lawrence is amazingly great. I just haven't gotten around to writing it yet. Erm.
Zack/Freddy
Because this way, the boys can be boys: dirty and stupid and cusseriffic. (I just made that word up, if you didn't get that.) By far the most popular pairing in the School of Rock fandom.
Summer/Katie
Because it's cute when girls become lesbians. Surprisingly, most of the fic is written with them as somewhat-dirty, but still girly girls. Not that this has been written more than three times, but still.
Michelle/Eleni
Again, only person to write it, but think about it. They're two girly-girl best friends. And if that isn't one of the best foundations for exploration in fic, I don't know what is.
THE LINKS
School of Rock Official Site
School of Rock on IMDB
schoolofrockmusicalfusionschoolofrockfic_thesorkidsfz_ficrelayHypnotisized: The Manifesto for Zack/Freddy
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p.s. Need a new fandom? Eh? Eh?
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I just sit here and wait for the recs to roll in, shall I? *...sits*
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What a great film. Had no idea there was fic.
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My 5 year-old started playing drums after seeing it!
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I've always wanted to read School of Rock fic but never bothered to look because I thought it was only me . . .
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AND, I'm working on the relay fic as we speak. Er, well, not as we speak, but you get the gist. *cough* :)
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