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Jay and Silent Bob Do Degrassi: Directed by Graeme Campbell, Philip Earnshaw. With Raven Cinello, Lauren Collins, Drake, Jake Epstein. Follows Kevin Smith looking for a school to film a movie at and he finds one the one and only Degrassi High while all of the normal behind the scenes drama of Degrassi unfolds.
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- Comedy
- Graeme Campbell, Philip Earnshaw
- 2005-11-08
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was a film starring, written and directed by Kevin Smith, which was filmed in Degrassi Community School, in the summer of 2005.
The plot concerned Jay and Silent Bob, characters from Smith's View Askewniverse, attending a high school in Canada in order to finish their education as they were unable to do so in the United States.
•Jason Mewes as Jay
•Kevin Smith as Silent Bob
•Manny Santos as Apollonia
•Ellie Nash as Goth Girl
•Paige Michalchuk as Queen Bee (scenes deleted)
•Emma Nelson as High School Student
In West End Girls, Caitlin Ryan told Kevin Smith that her "sort of stepson" Craig Manning was a talented young musician. She invited Craig to the CQJH studios to meet Kevin, who gave him the number of the composer and asked him to write an Emo song for the film. He and his girlfriend Ashley Kerwin wrote a song for it. When they played it for the film's music producer Dave, he hated it and described them as "a whiny girl trying to be Kate Bush accompanied by a Van Halen wannabe." However, Kevin liked the song and hired him for his new film.
In Goin' Down the Road (1), Kevin cast numerous Degrassi students to play characters in the film such as Manny Santos as Jay's teenage love interest Apollonia, Paige Michalchuk as a Queen Bee and Ellie Nash as a Goth girl. Ellie admitted to Craig that her Goth costume was very 1988. Emma Nelson, Toby Isaacs, Liberty Van Zandt and Christine Nelson had smaller roles in the film while Christine also did the hairdressing. Kevin hired The Dot to provide the catering. J.T. Yorke was a member of the crew.
In The Lexicon of Love (1), Kevin, Jason and many Degrassi students such as Craig, Manny, Ellie, Emma, Paige, Toby, Liberty, Marco Del Rossi, Jimmy Brooks, Alex Nuñez, Hazel Aden and Peter Stone attended the premiere in Toronto, as did the principal Daphne Hatzilakos and the Media Immersions teacher Archie Simpson. Paige was very disappointed to le...
Jay and Silent Bob are fictional characters created by Kevin Smith, prominently featured in his View Askewniverse films. They first appeared in "Clerks". Silent Bob, portrayed by Kevin Smith, has a reticent nature, communicating mostly through gestures and facial expressions rather than speech.
Jay and Silent Bob were rated R, Degrassi was TV-14. There may have been some overlap in the audiences but Jay and Silent Bob definitely wasn't created with the intention of kids watching them.
Degrassi Dudes - Jay and Silent Bob. Stephen Jensen (@FightTalk_) & SP3 (@TruHeelSP3) discuss Jay and Silent Bob aka Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith being a part of Degrassi: The...
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Jul 17, 2005 · Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes head north to film their next movie in which their alter egos are forced to go back to high school, called "Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh?" And what better high school to shoot at that Degrassi Community School?
Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes (Clerks...nuff said) head north to film their next movie in which their alter egos are forced to go back to high school, called "Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh?" And what better high schoool to shoot at that Degrassi Community School?
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