(The subject matter was keeping me away - I just didn't think I could handle it.)
Tell me about it!! I knew of the playwright, as we had done a production of Wonder of the World at my university and read Fuddy Meers in my contemporary playwrights class, and those are both definitely comedies. Really insane comedies. So my entire theater department was at a huge theater conference in Kansas a few years back and someone was doing a production of Rabbit Hole, and all we knew was that it was by David Lindsay-Abaire so we assumed it would be a fun time. Yeah... not so much. Fantastic play, but... we were not prepared for the subject matter.
I had a question from a friend, and could not properly answer it-- In St. Elmo's Fire how did Demi Moore or Rob Lowe's character a) get in to Georgetown and b) not get kicked out/fail out of Georgetown.
I posited family money for Demi and a marching band career for Rob.
In St. Elmo's Fire how did Demi Moore or Rob Lowe's character a) get in to Georgetown and b) not get kicked out/fail out of Georgetown.
Handwavium?
But actually, I knew people in college who graduated with honors and yet spent their 4 years partying like rock stars. And while my college wasn't quite Georgetown, it was fairly tough.
I think there are just people like that. Not many, but then the movies about people who stay in and study for 4 years tend to not be all that interesting.
Not many, but then the movies about people who stay in and study for 4 years tend to not be all that interesting.
So, you are saying that there may not be a movie of my college career ;)?
But actually, I knew people in college who graduated with honors and yet spent their 4 years partying like rock stars. And while my college wasn't quite Georgetown, it was fairly tough.
Well, just about when I started (i.e., the year that movie came out), Georgetown was starting to get significantly harder to get into. Seniors I knew said they would never have gotten into my year. Although at that point, the nursing school still had an acceptance rate of about 70%. I think Languages and Linguistics was about 30% and the Business School, College, and Foreign Service were from 10-20%. Foreign Service was the hardest.
Prior to that point, it was known as a school for upper middle-class Catholics who wanted to go to a decent Catholic school that wasn't Notre Dame.
I just have to say, I'm in the middle of Toy Story 3, and this would have TRAUMATIZED me as a child. Did parents punish their children with this movie?
Did parents punish their children with this movie?
The crypoints (in my experience) tend to be more for the adults than the kids. Matilda, at least, doesn't really get the sadness of Andy's scene at the end with Bonnie.
The Toys facing the incinerator though is pretty scary for them.
Dana, Sara wasn't bothered. There was one scene that made her a little tense, but I was the wreck while watching it. Kids are weird? And a little heartless?
Or maybe that's just mine.
Okay, yeah, the last scene is a killer. Jesus.
I remember when I was a kid, my mother was traumatized by both Peter Pan and Bambi, and I was stoic. But I can't watch them now.
