'The Pacifier' holds hope for sophomores

Nick Avery • January 27, 2010

As the newcomers and default underdogs last year, the class of 2012 attempted a remake of the Jack Black movie School of Rock. Despite their reigning success at their freshman homecoming and sophomore powderpuff, last year’s Night of the Stars (NOTS) movie did not receive any awards.

This year however, the class anticipates several wins with The Pacifier at NOTS, Feb. 20.

The movie centers around Shane Wolfe, a Navy SEAL agent who, after failing a mission to protect a government scientist must defend the deceased man’s five children from any harm which confronts them. While doing this, he must also search for the scientist’s top secret experiment, hidden somewhere inside the family home.

Although Mitchell Weibert was not able to participate in a movie last year, he was cast as the lead roll of Wolfe. Weibert says he can relate to his character, played by Vin Diesel in the actual film, and likes the feeling of camaraderie caused by his involvement in the movie.

“I was cast as Vin Diesel because I’m basically the biggest guy in the cast,” Weibert said. “It’s nice to be included in a film this year because last year I didn’t really do anything.

As the film progresses, Wolfe must face challenges the average mother faces every day, such as changing diapers and putting the children to bed. One scene even involves wrestling with the vice principal of the children’s school, played by Trevor York, after an altercation leads to them settling their differences through male combat.

Darlene Idsinga, who plays the rebellious teen daughter Zoe, says she is delighted for filming to begin and, like Weibert, was cast appropriately for her role.

“I think I was cast well because she’s a teen and I feel I can relate to her, minus the fact that she has a lot of attitude in the movie,” Idsinga said. “I’m excited for filming to begin because it’s going to be a lot of fun and we tend to make everything we do fun.”

Josh Hopper will be the director for the movie, with Mary Hierholzer as his producer. Hopper began his career in video productions when he was a child in the backyard creating movies with his two brothers, Daniel, ’10, and Carson, ’08.

Now attempting a project with fight scenes and multiple actors, Hopper attributes this experience to the success he predicts for the film.

“There’s a certain amount of responsibility saying as a portion of the movie is completely in my hands,” Hopper said. “Despite this, I feel I’m up for it because of all the previous experience I’ve had choreographing fights with my brothers. Now that this will be in a movie, I think I can make the fight scenes look incredible.”

Though not choreographing or editing, Hierholzer has the responsibilities of the producer ? making sure everything is going smoothly by organizing film locations, times, assisting in script writing and making sure everyone has necessary information for their parts.

“Last year I did a lot of writing, but mainly just acting,” Hierholzer said. “Now that I have more jobs it can be more stressful to organize everything, especially with everyone’s busy schedules.”