Numerous actors, including John Larroquette, John Diehl, Conrad Dunn, Judge Reinhold, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Timothy Busfield, and Bill Paxton, appear in the film in some of the earliest roles of their careers. Ramis wrote the film with Len Blum and Dan Goldberg, the latter of whom also served as producer alongside Reitman. She embodies the film’s spirit - breaking the rules society has built up, being wild and going back to being tigers.Stripes is a 1981 American war comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. “Feeding off Zofran’s energy was so fun and exciting.
“This is a film to celebrate the monsters out there - the people who don’t fit in and who are rejected by society,” she adds. “She was always the girl who would be the first to try everything.” “She was just amazing - so playful and incredibly cheeky, but also really brave,” she says. It was through these workshops that Zofran, her eventual star, grabbed Ew’s attention.
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After meeting a few hundred girls, they narrowed the selection down to about 30 and held a series of acting workshops. ‘Whenever there was a partial opening from the lockdowns, we would quickly contact their parents and arrange a meeting in person,” Ew remembers. Her casting director reached out to Malaysian tweens who seemed to fit the parts and had large followings, and the production also bought ads to post targeted digital casting calls to the social media services. Instead, they turned to TikTok and Instagram. The film was produced during the height of the pandemic, which precluded visiting local schools to hold open casting calls as her team originally intended. The playful energy and style that suffuses Tiger Stripes was inspired by the three young first-time actresses who play Zaffan and her two best friends, Ew says. “It was always going to be very gnarly and very much rooted in our culture, which is probably something that a lot of the world hasn’t seen, because Southeast Asia’s old genre movies are relatively underexposed.” “I never wanted something elegant,” she explains. When a charlatan social media spiritual guru is called in to exorcise Zaffan as the source of the malevolence, she is faced with the decision of whether to submit to society’s shaming or embrace her true monstrous self, with all of its wrath, rage and beauty.įor the movie’s creature elements, Ew says she took direct inspiration from Southeast Asia’s endemic 1950s monster cinema. As Zaffan defiantly lashes back, the girls collapse to the floor in fits and a mass hysteria sweeps through the school, with rumors of a dark spirt haunting the halls infecting even the imaginations of the teachers. But it’s not long before her classmates - led by her two former best friends, Farah (Deena Ezral) and Mariam (Piqa) - take notice and begin mercilessly bullying her. Embarrassed and confused, Zaffan soon begins experiencing other, horrifying changes to her body, which she initially attempts to conceal. Tiger Stripes stars first-time actress Zafreen Zairizal as Zaffan, a rebellious and carefree 12-year-old who finds herself in the awkward position of being the first girl in class to get her period. At the same time, she creates the feeling of a universal parable by limiting the film’s setting to a few key locations: her young protagonist’s home, school and the surrounding jungle - a somewhat imaginary version of Malaysia’s remote Nusatara region. With Tiger Stripes, Eu gives this premise an appealing particularity by rooting the story in rural Malaysia’s traditional folk beliefs - tales of immoral women driven into the jungle to become dangerous, supernatural creatures, or tiger spirits who disguise themselves as human to enter into society.
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