History Film / Hairspray2007

** Speaking of ''Film/PulpFiction'', check out some of Edna's moves when she joins the dance in "You Can't Stop the Beat," especially when she walks backwards and gestures at Velma--the choreography is extremely similar to the iconic dance scene from the former.

** Velma Von Tussle goes from being merely annoying and overbearing in the stage musical to being a horrible boss and rigging the pageant in Amber's favor here.

* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:Amber has Tracy steal her thunder and her boyfriend, gets hoisted above the set, tears her dress and sprains her ankle getting down, and loses her crown to a child on live TV]]. She's surprisingly good natured about it in the end, though, possibly making this a subversion. It's played straight with Velma, however, whose humiliation is more thorough and ''not'' taken well.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Unlike the Broadway Musical, Velma Von Tussle and Prudy Pingleton don't undergo [[HeelFaceTurn HeelFaceTurns]] at the end. After all, [[TruthInTelevision racists in real life don't change their ways instantly.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Unlike the original film, Velma doesn't go through a HeelFaceTurn at the end. After all, [[TruthInTelevision racists in real life don't change their ways instantly.]]

* ButNotTooBlack: A lot of people objected to Music/QueenLatifah's casting, claiming that she's too light for the role, especially given that certain lines in her song refer to how dark her skintone is.

A 2007 musical romantic comedy, this is the [[TheFilmOfThePlay film adaptation]] of ''Theatre/{{Hairspray}}'', which in turn was a ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'' (making this one a RecursiveAdaptation). It was directed and choreographed by Creator/AdamShankman from a screenplay by Creator/LeslieDixon.

* FreudianSlip: Velma von Tussle: "We've got to lead kids in the white direction...I mean...you know what I mean."

A 2007 musical romantic comedy. It's the [[TheFilmOfThePlay film adaptation]] of ''Theatre/{{Hairspray}}'', which in turn was a ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'' (making this one a RecursiveAdaptation). It was directed and choreographed by Creator/AdamShankman from a screenplay by Creator/LeslieDixon.


''The Corny Collins Show'' dominates the screens of teenagers in 1962 Baltimore. Overweight teen Tracy Turnblad (Creator/NikkiBlonsky) and her best friend Penny Pingleton (Creator/AmandaBynes) desire to audition. Tracy's overweight mother Edna (Creator/JohnTravolta) is reluctant, but her father Wilbur (Creator/ChristopherWalken) is supportive. However, Tracy is rejected by racist producer Velma Von Tussle (Creator/MichellePfeiffer) for her weight and support of integration. During detention, Tracy meets black dancer Seaweed J. Stubbs (Creator/ElijahKelley), the son of Motormouth Maybelle (Music/QueenLatifah), who hosts the show's "Negro Day". Seaweed teaches Tracy dance moves.

Link Larkin (Creator/ZacEfron), the most popular male dancer, spots her dancing and encourages her to attend a record hop, which causes her to be hired by Corny himself (Creator/JamesMarsden) and eventually become one of the more popular performers on ''The Corny Collins Show''. Link's girlfriend and Velma's daughter, lead female dancer Amber Von Tussle (Creator/BrittanySnow), feels threatened by Tracy, since she wants to win the Miss Teen Hairspray pageant. All this eventually culminates in a tumultuous pageant, a few new romances, and a fight for Baltimore's integration.

** This isn't the first time Zac Efron played a character in a musical film [[Film/HighSchoolMusical that had two girls fighting over him]].

** Velma Von Tussle goes from being merely annoying and overbearing in the stage musical to being a horrible boss and rigging the pageant in Amber's favor.
** Penny's mother is a minor example. Her harshness towards Penny is much more pronounced, and she doesn't have her moment of redemption in the end.
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler:Inez winning Miss Teenage Hairspray, despite not being a candidate]].
* BigotWithACrush: After losing the Miss Hairspray contest, the racist Amber is seen crushing on a black boy looking at her from the stage. Her equally but more racist mother Velma notices this and tells her to stop it. Though it's also implied Amber is only bigoted because of her mother's terrible influence.
* BreakingTheGlassCeiling: Inez Stubbs becomes the first black female to win Miss Teenage Hairspray.
* ButNotTooBlack: A lot of people objected to Music/QueenLatifah's casting, claiming that she's too light for the role, especially given certain lines in her song refer to how dark her skintone is.

** Creator/JerryStiller plays fashion store owner Mr Pinky. Stiller played Wilbur Turnblad in the original 1988 film. Several other actors from the original and the director appear as well, see "The Cameo".
** Creator/BrittanySnow essentially fulfilled the same role as Tracy in her show ''Series/AmericanDreams'' except she actually danced on ''Series/AmericanBandstand''.

** When Velma switches the Miss Teenage Hairspray votes at the end of the movie, Edna, in disguise, is the only one to see her do it; later, it's Edna who orchestrates the EngineeredPublicConfession described below.

-->'''Motormouth Maybelle:''' You've been dozing off in history class??
-->'''Tracy:''' Yes, always.
* ContinuityNod: The 2007 film makes several references to scenes from the 1988 movie that don't happen in the new version. During one song montage, Tracy is knocked in the head during dodge ball, and one of the nasty rumors Amber tries to start is about Tracy getting put into Special Ed, though it doesn't actually happen in this version.
* CreatorCameo: John Waters, director of the 1988 film, appears as a flasher during "Good Morning Baltimore", and director Adam Shankman, composer/lyricist Mark Shaiman and co-composer/lyricist Scott Wittman play talent agents. The associate choreographers also make appearances.
* CurtainClothing: An extremely subtle one: The dress Penny wears during "You Can't Stop The Beat" is made from the curtains in her room.

* DarkHorseVictory: [[spoiler:Little Inez's victory in the Miss Teenage Hairspray contest. Despite not even being a candidate in the competition, she got a tidal wave of phone calls from viewers who liked her dancing and she won.]]
* DeliberateValuesDissonance : Many tongue in cheek examples, particularly during "Welcome to the Sixties." Two pregnant women smoking and drinking martinis, a [[CarloadOfCoolKids carful of children standing up on the seats,]] and so on. Also, the circular pins worn by a couple of the girls, which indicated a girl was a virgin. Brenda was wearing one in the "Just nine months" scene, made even more ironic by the possibility that Corny is the father (look closely, you'll see them arguing in a FunnyBackgroundEvent).
* DirtyCop: The lead police officer who's working for Velma. He finds an excuse to throw Tracy, Edna, Motormouth Maybelle and the rest of her protest group in jail, simply by accusing Tracy of assaulting a police officer (she only "barely" hit him with her protest sign). It's played for laughs but he also helps engineer ridiculous propaganda against Tracy that leads to her being accused on the news of savagely beating a cop and an Eagle Scout.
* TheDogBitesBack: The cameraman who lets the Turnblads use his camera for Velma's EngineeredPublicConfession is the same one that she had belittled and threatened in the beginning of the movie.

* EyeAwaken: Done by Tracy in the opening scene just before “Good Morning Baltimore”. As first opening shot the audience sees of Tracy is her eyes fluttering open to the music as she gets ready for school.

* TheHeroDies: Definitely doesn't happen in the musical or the movie, but the final lines of the song "New Girl in Town" imply that the new girl mentioned in the lyrics (Tracy?) was run over by a moving van and died (or the old girl died and the new girl who was in the van became the only one-which might make more sense in context):

* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:Amber has Tracy steal her thunder and her boyfriend, gets hoisted above the set, tears her dress and sprains her ankle getting down, and loses her crown to a child on live TV]]. And then she's surprisingly good natured about it in the end, possibly making this a subversion. Played straight with Velma, though, whose humiliation is more thorough and ''not'' taken well.
* IndyPloy: Corny Collins isn't responsible for any of the events of the movie, but damned if he isn't ready to use them to his advantage. In the movie, he knows Inez Stubb's name and the very specific clause to let her win, implying that he's been waiting and preparing for any kind of situation for him to push his agenda.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Unlike the previous film, Velma doesn't go through a HeelFaceTurn at the end. This just goes to show that racists don't change their ways instantly.
* RemakeCameo: Jerry Stiller, who played Wilbur Turnblad in the original movie, played Mr. Pinky, who ran a plus-sized boutique and wanted Tracy to do commercials for him when she became a hit on the Corny Collins show. Ricki Lake (Tracy from the 1988 film) also appears, as a talent agent. Even John Waters has a cameo as (who else?) "the flasher who lives next door."
* LaserGuidedKarma: Velma Von Tussle gets struck by this. After going to great lengths to win the Miss Hairspray contest through throwing people in prison through false arrest and cheating and seduction, she is caught on the television admitting to her daughter she helped her win the competition through cheating, gets fired by her boss, and publicly humiliated.
* LifeIsntFair: Invoked with Tracy in the scene with her father, after the latter is thrown out of their house for [[MistakenForCheating supposedly cheating on Edna]]. While having a conversation with Wilbur about the cancellation of Negro Day on the Corny Collins show, Tracy says that despite her optimistic views, she later accepts how unfair life can be. She also speaks about how fairness won't happen because people want it to.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Amber. Although she only seems to be like that because her mother holds very high standards to her. In the end, she [[GracefulLoser accepts defeat]] and (in the musical at least) Tracy and the others are happy to invite her to [[HeelFaceTurn join in the final number]].
* MamaBear: Edna barricades a [[DirtyCop police officer]] from chasing her daughter, despite the fact that she was dragged into a protest she didn't really want to be in and it just gets her arrested. In a deleted scene she also unflinchingly demands that the same police officer apologize to the van full of ''peaceful'' protesters. You almost forget this is the same woman who hadn't ''left her house in eleven years''.
* MightyWhitey: The fact that Tracy, a white high school girl obsessed with dancing who has no real understanding of the sociopolitical scene or the importance of integration - she spends all day at school sleeping and has no knowledge of American history either - comes up with the idea to do a "march" to save the 'Negro Day' TV show while all the black people who have been fighting and striving to make a difference just stand around accepting being forced out from TV.
* MistakenForCheating: Velma attempts to make Wilbur look like she was cheating on Edna as a plan to make sure Tracy doesn't participate in the pageant.
* MomLooksLikeASister: Invoked. In one scene (Welcome to the 60s), a store owner asks Tracy if Edna is her older sister.

** Playing right into Tracy and friends' plans, Velma forces all the security guards outside despite ample security outside in response to the bait (Wilbur dressed as Tracy), getting them locked out. The guards then beat down the door with a hairspray battering ram with Tracy inside. Once Velma realizes what they've done, they all rush to it, only for all of them to get locked out once again.
** After Amber [[spoiler: loses the Miss Teenage Hairspray Competition, Velma then admits to Amber that she rigged the votes. Edna then informs Velma that her confession was broadcasted on camera, which causes Velma to lose her job.]]

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Tracy, possibly, since in "I Can Hear the Bells", she has no problem pushing people and pinning a guy against a locker.

* OneHeadTaller: Inverted with Penny and Seaweed. She is noticeably taller than him. In the 1988 movie, Penny is of average height while Seaweed is very tall indeed.
* ParentalHypocrisy: Penny's mother, Prudy, forbids Penny from watching the Corny Collins Show, yet Prudy watches the show herself.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Velma Von Tussle is quite blatantly racist in the second movie, where she seems to revel in her own misdeeds. In the first film, she's more of a Lawful Selfish StageMom who's willing to court segregationist attitudes to look respectable.

'''Link:''' [[ThatCameOutWrong ...oh God]], nonono, that's not what I-\\

'''Link:''' No, Trace! That's not what I-\\

* SeductionProofMarriage: AlphaBitch Velma tries to seduce Wilbur simply so she can cause strife between Wilbur and his wife. Wilbur is so faithful to his wife that he seems completely oblivious to her advances, but Velma's plan works anyway because she just throws herself at Wilbur as his wife comes in the door to "catch" them in the "act".

* ShoutOut: Director Adam Shankman included several homages to and winks at the films that were his inspiration. The opening shot is a mix of the opening shots for ''Film/{{West Side Story|1961}}'' and ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic''. Penny's dress at the end of the film is made from her curtains, just like the Von Trapp childrens' play clothes that Maria makes out of old curtains in ''The Sound of Music''. Several of Tracy's scenes - such as her ride atop the garbage truck, and her post-makeover hairstyle in "Welcome to the Sixties" - are taken from the Barbra Streissand film version of ''Film/FunnyGirl''. Link singing to Tracy's photograph, which sings back, is directly inspired from ''The Broadway Melody of 1938'', in which Creator/JudyGarland sings to a photo of Clark Gable.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Noreen and Doreen.
* TruthInTelevision: Edna forbids Tracy from auditioning for a spot on the Corny Collins Show. This is because she believes that since Tracy is overweight, she will get rejected and her feelings will get hurt. Anyone growing up in the 60s will know how difficult it was for people who didn't meet Hollywood's standards of beauty to break into the entertainment industry.
%% * VictoriasSecretCompartment: Where Velma hides the official votes when rigging the pageant. Edna sees the villainess Velma quietly tucking the voting tallys inside between her breasts.

** Amber loses it at the end of the film when [[spoiler:Tracy secretly enters Miss Teenage Hairspray]].

%% * WoundedGazelleGambit: Velma pulls this when she's trying to hit on Wilbur and Edna walks in. As she seduces the clueless Wilbur, Edna walks in and Velma pulls him onto her and making it look as if he was the one seducing her, to her success.
* WritersCannotDoMath: According to the script, the show begins in "early June" on a Monday and ends on June 6th, 1962. Schools did not run into June in 1962, especially in Baltimore, because there was no air conditioning and it was oppressively hot and humid.

* VillainousBreakdown: Velma has a great one after [[spoiler:Inez wins Miss Teenage Hairspray]], leading to an Engineered Public Confession which [[LaserGuidedKarma costs her her job]].

* TheHeroDies: Definitely doesn't happen in the musical or the movie, but the final lines of the song "New Girl in Town" imply that the new girl mentioned in the lyrics (Tracy?) was run over by a moving van and died:

''The Corny Collins Show'' dominates the screens of teenagers in 1962 Baltimore. Overweight teen Tracy Turnblad (Creator/NikkiBlonsky) and her best friend Penny Pingleton (Creator/AmandaBynes) desire to audition. Tracy's overweight mother Edna (Creator/JohnTravolta) is reluctant, but her father Wilbur (Creator/ChristopherWalken) is supportive. However, Penny is rejected by racist producer Velma Von Tussle (Creator/MichellePfeiffer) for her weight and support of integration. During detention, Tracy meets black dancer Seaweed J. Stubbs (Creator/ElijahKelley), the son of Motormouth Maybelle (Music/QueenLatifah), who hosts the show's "Negro Day". Seaweed teaches Tracy dance moves.

A 2007 musical romantic comedy. It's the StageToScreenAdaptation of ''Theatre/{{Hairspray}}'', which in turn was a ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'' (making this one a RecursiveAdaptation). It was directed and choreographed by Creator/AdamShankman from a screenplay by Creator/LeslieDixon.


''The Corny Collins Show'' dominates the screens of teenagers in 1962 Baltimore. Overweight teen Tracy Turnblad (Creator/NikkiBlonsky) and her best friend Penny Pingleton (Creator/AmandaBynes) desire to audition. Tracy's overweight mother Edna (Creator/JohnTravolta) is reluctant, but her father Wilbur (Creator/ChristopherWalken) is supportive. However, Penny is rejected by racist producer Velma Von Tussle (Creator/MichellePfeiffer) for her weight and support of integration. During detention, Tracy meets black dancer Seaweed J. Stubbs (Creator/Elijah Kelley), the son of Motormouth Maybelle (Creator/QueenLatifah), who hosts the show's "Negro Day". Seaweed teaches Tracy dance moves. Link Larkin (Creator/ZacEfron), the most popular male dancer, spots her dancing and encourages her to attend a record hop, which causes her to be hired by Corny himself (Creator/JamesMarsden) and eventually become one of the more popular performers on ''The Corny Collins Show''.

Meanwhile, mean girl and lead female dancer Amber Von Tussle (Creator/BrittanySnow), Link's girlfriend and Velma's daughter, feels threatened by Tracy, since she wants to win the Miss Teen Hairspray pageant. All this eventually culminates in a tumultuous pageant, a few new romances, and a fight for Baltimore's integration.

* RecursiveAdaptation: ''Hairspray: TheMusical: TheMovie''.

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