THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL COSTUMES SCREEN WORN BY RAFI GAVRON AS DEV DURING FILMING OF THE HIT MOVIE:
"NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST".
RECEIVED DIRECTLY FROM THE SET WITH COA FROM MANDATE PICTURES PRODUCTIONS.
STUDIO TAG:
Dev 3
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Shirt: Diesel shirt on over tshirt, leaves open and untucked
Jacket: Dk Blue Denim w/gold sitching (worn open) Levi's
PLOT:
Nick O'Leary (Michael Cera), a teenager from Hoboken, New Jersey, is heartbroken after his girlfriend, Tris (Alexis Dziena), breaks up with him, and continues to make her "breakup" mix CDs. Thom (Aaron Yoo) and Dev (Rafi Gavron), his gay bandmates, convince him to perform at a club because his favorite band - the legendary, publicity-shy indie band Where's Fluffy - is performing somewhere in New York City that night. Norah Silverberg (Kat Dennings) attends the same high school as Tris; though Norah and Tris dislike each other, they have a mutual friend in Caroline (Ari Graynor).
Norah, who shares Nick's taste in music, has been recovering his mix CDs after Tris discards them in the trash. That night, the three girls end up at Arlene's Grocery on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where The Jerk-Offs are playing. Norah asks Nick to pretend to be her boyfriend to show up Tris.
Norah kisses him, unaware that he is Tris' ex-boyfriend. Caroline gets drunk and Norah wants to take her home, but Nick's bandmates offer to take Caroline home so Norah and Nick can spend time together trying to find the show.
After a confused Caroline escapes from Thom's van, Nick and Norah meet up again with Thom and Dev to try to find her. They first visit a club where Where's Fluffy? are rumored to be playing, but with no success.
Tris, eager to win back Nick, follows them and gets a phone call from Caroline, who tells Norah that she has "found Jesus" and an altar boy without pants. They find a drunk Caroline on stage at a gay cabaret dressed as a Christmas tree. Before Nick leaves, Norah tells him how nice it was to meet him, but he leaves without a response.
An upset Norah meets up at a club with her friend with benefits, Tal (Jay Baruchel), but soon realises that he has an ulterior motive and hopes to get a deal for his band with Norah's father, a record producer.
She agrees to pay for Tal and his friends' drinks, but she tells the waitress to increase the tab because there was a miscalculation, and she leaves him to pay. Nick, meanwhile, decides to confront Tris, but she tells him she wants to be together again and asks for a ride home. Tris asks Nick to stop by the river, where she tries to seduce him. Whilst she seductively dances in front of the car, Nick reminisces fondly about Norah and the night's events and drives away, leaving Tris behind.
Nick calls Norah, apologizing for leaving, and she agrees to meet him again. Deciding to go somewhere where no one they know will find them, they arrive at Electric Lady Studios, a music studio owned by Norah's father.
Once there, Norah gets Nick to play something he wrote in the studio, but then joins him in the recording room. Inside, they kiss, Norah begins to moan, and she eventually has an orgasm - Tris had teased Norah earlier with the fact that she knew Norah had never had one.
Norah gets a text message from Caroline telling her where she found Where's Fluffy? playing. When they arrive at the show, they meet Tris, who cannot understand why Nick will not take her back, and Tal, who wants the same answer from Norah. Tal starts a fight with Nick, but Thom and Dev's friend, Lothario (Jonathan B. Wright), steps in and headbutts Tal.
Nick and Norah share a smile and leave together. At Pennsylvania Station, Nick admits that he does not care about missing the concert, and they kiss on the escalator as the sun rises over New York City.
PRODUCTION:
Development
The film came into development in 2003 when producer Kerry Kohansky Roberts found Cohn and Levithan's novel and decided to adapt it for film. Scafaria was hired to write the script in 2005, and Sollett signed on to direct the film in 2006.
Principal photography took place over 29 days from October to December 2007, primarily in Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York City. During the course of filming, the cast and crew slept during the day and filmed from dusk to dawn.
Writing
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was originally a novel written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, which producer Kerry Kohansky Roberts brought into development as a film in 2003. Lorene Scafaria was hired by Roberts in early 2005 to adapt the novel for Chris and Paul Weitz and Focus Features; the script was her first film adaptation.
Peter Sollett signed on to direct the film in 2006, when the script was in its second draft, and collaborated with Scafaria. Scafaria said that Norah "was me on the page", while Sollett felt that as a teenager he was "not dissimilar to Nick". Both had similar experiences to Nick and Norah, commuting into Manhattan at night, Scafaria from New Jersey and Sollett from Staten Island.
Cohn and Levithan had written the novel in alternating chapters: Cohn wrote every second chapter from Norah's perspective and Levithan wrote every other chapter from Nick's perspective. Cera and Dennings recorded voice-over narration to mimic the first-person perspective from which the novel is written, but the voice-overs were not included in the final cut of the film. Scafaria says that the differences between the novel and the film were "to make it a little more cinematic".
She said that Nick and Norah's parents were written out of the script "to absorb what it's like to be young, [because] you're not thinking about your parents when you're out all night". In addition to searching for Where's Fluffy?, Sollett felt that the film needed a second MacGuffin to propel the story forwards, so Norah's best friend Caroline got drunk and then lost, giving Nick and Norah an additional objective.
The characters' names are inspired by Dashiell Hammett's characters, Nick and Nora Charles.
Filming
Shooting on a budget of US$10 million, principal photography of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist took place from late October to early December 2007. The film was shot over 29 days in one-week blocks, and was one of the first to receive a filming subsidy from the state of New York under the "Made in NY" incentive program. Filming took place mainly in Manhattan's East Village and Lower East Side, as well as Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Filming locations included Katz's Delicatessen, Mercury Lounge, Arlene's Grocery, Pennsylvania Station, the Veselka restaurant and Don Hill's bar. Union Pool, a bar in Brooklyn, was also used for filming but requested to be called "Brooklyn Pool" in the film, and Norah's father's recording studio was filmed at Electric Lady Studios. Some scenes were shot on a sound stage in a studio in Brooklyn.
The cast did many rehearsals, including on-location rehearsals, which Dennings described as "the most practical thing I've ever heard of". During the course of filming, the actors slept during the day, woke in the afternoon, had their make-up applied on set, and filmed from dusk until dawn.
The cast and crew members would often sit inside the The Jerk-Offs' van between takes to avoid the cold, and sometimes stayed inside, out of sight, while scenes were being filmed in the van. Reshoots of the film began in May 2008; the film had originally begun at The Jerk-Offs' show where Nick and Norah first meet, and all prior scenes were written in later. Editor Myron Kerstein cut some of the shots on set due to time and budgetary restraints.
BIOGRAPHY OF RAFI GAVRON:
Raphael Pichey "Rafi" Gavron (born June 24, 1989) is a British actor, known for the Anthony Minghella romantic-drama film Breaking and Entering, and the 2008 movies Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and the fantasy Inkheart.
Gavron was born in Hendon, Middlesex to a North London, Jewish family, the son of American-born writer Martha Pichey and the late publisher Simon Gavron (Gavron himself has American citizenship). His paternal grandparents were millionaire philanthropist Robert Gavron and Hannah Fyvel. He has two younger brothers; Benjamin (born 1992) and Moses (born 1996).
In Breaking and Entering he played Miro, a young burglar who uses techniques from parkour to gain access to the high-tech offices of an urban landscape architect; he performed several difficult physical feats in the film. For his role, Gavron received a nomination for the Most Promising Newcomer award at the British Independent Film Awards.
Gavron played the hired assassin Duro in the second season of HBO's Rome. He also appeared in the 2008 release Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist as Dev, the gay lead singer of Nick's band.
In Inkheart, a movie adaptation of a novel, Inkheart (aka Tintenherz. Gavron played the role of a boy named Farid, a character from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights magically brought to life from the book. The film was released theatrically in January 2009.
He recently guest starred on a few episodes of 24, as Hamid Al-Zarian, the younger brother of an assumed terrorist. In May 2009, he was chosen as the love interest of Miley Cyrus' character for the film The Last Song. However, the role was later given to actor Liam Hemsworth.
