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''S.F.W.'' (or ''So Fucking What'') is a 1994 film directed by Jefery Levy. It is based on a novel by Andrew Wellman, and stars Stephen Dorff, Jake Busey and Reese Witherspoon, in one of her first lead roles. ==Plot== Cliff Spab (Stephen Dorff) and his friend Joe Dice (Jack Noseworthy) go out one evening to buy beer from a convenience store...where a group of masked and heavily-armed terrorists take Cliff, Joe, and three other people hostage. The terrorists, who call themselves S.P.L.T. Image (a play on "Split Image"), have a video camera with which they tape their hostages' every word and action. During the month-long standoff with the police, S.P.L.T. Image's only demand is that their broadcasts be televised on worldwide TV, live and uncut - or else the hostages will be killed. S.P.L.T. Image makes good on said threat by killing two of the hostages. Now Cliff, Joe, and a beautiful teenage girl named Wendy Pfister (Reese Witherspoon) are the only surviving captives. After 36 days, Cliff becomes indifferent to being killed. He says repeatedly, "So Fucking What?", in reply to his captors' death-threats. The coverage of this makes Cliff a media icon. The movie skips forward, picking up in the hospital. Cliff, we learn, has shot his way to freedom...taking a bullet in his shoulder, and—more significantly—at the cost of Joe's life. Despite his friend's demise, Cliff is branded a hero for saving Wendy and killing the terrorists. He's picked up from the hospital by his brother Scott (David Barry Gray) and taken home. There he is welcomed awkwardly by his domineering father and weak-willed mother. Cliff soon becomes disenchanted with the reporters camped on his front lawn. He says goodbye to Scott and moves out. Back on the street, he finds his life changed forever by the convenience store incident. His line—abbreviated as S.F.W.—is on banners, newspapers, CDs, and billboard advertisements. At Burger Boy, the fast food restaurant where he works, Cliff finds his name and image posted alongside a "Special $.36 ''Spaburger'' (named after him)" which is being marketed in commemoration of his 36 days in captivity. Cliff visits Joe's older sister Monica Dice (Joey Lauren Adams) at her home. She resents the media idolization Cliff is getting, even though he didn't ask for it and has no idea what to do with it...while her brother, who was killed during the siege, has gotten neither sympathy nor attention from anybody. Cliff spends a night of empty passion with Monica, then departs in the morning. He visits another friend, Morrow Streeter (Jake Busey), who lets Cliff hide out at the elegant home of his lawyer-sister Janet Streeter (Pamela Gidley). She advises Cliff to make his fame work for him rather than against him...which would mean exploiting his notoriety for personal gain. Completely lacking in any sense of purpose, Cliff hitchhikes out of Los Angeles. He gets a ride with a disaffected couple, who confide with him about their marital troubles. Realizing that running from his problems is pointless because they will follow him everywhere, Cliff discovers the inspiration he has been seeking. Using his celebrity status to his advantage, Cliff checks into a fancy hotel; when he offers to promote the establishment, he is given a free suite. Cliff holds press conferences, makes public appearances, holds autograph signings, and generally portrays himself as a rebel. More than anything else, Cliff aspires to reunite with Wendy...who has been featured on the news, but refuses to make any statement regarding her ordeal in the convenience store. Cliff reaches out to her and soon discovers where she lives. A romantic attraction promptly develops between Cliff and Wendy, but their relationship is hampered by the reporters and paparazzi who shamelessly tail them both. Cliff has to sneak out of the hotel where he lives, in order to meet with Wendy. They revisit the previously-besieged convenience store, which has been closed down and boarded up as a crime scene. After reminiscing how he and Joe overpowered and killed their captors in a huge gunfight - where Joe was killed and Cliff was wounded - Cliff tells Wendy he'd like to be able to leave his notoriety behind him, just so the two of them can live out their lives together in a quiet romance. A few days later, Cliff and Wendy make a public appearance at a local high school. They both receive a standing ovation from a crowd of adoring students, who chant Cliff's line: "So Fucking What!" One distraught-looking student, Barbara "Babs" Wyler (Amber Benson), does not join in the cheering. After a minute of sitting in angry silence, Babs produces a gun from her book-bag and stands up. With a yell of "EVERYTHING matters!" she fires on Cliff and Wendy, seriously wounding them both. Media attention switches to Babs as she is arrested, booked, and indicted for attempted murder. Her line of "Everything matters" becomes the new public catchphrase, replacing Cliff's "S.F.W." line. Reporters and other media people cannot stop talking about Babs' actions. Sharing their own hospital ward, the recovering Cliff and Wendy are elated that their media ordeal is over. They slip away to get married, and to celebrate their newfound privacy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「S.F.W.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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