Date: September 10th, 2020 9:03 PM Author: Lemon bawdyhouse ratface
By refusing to sign the anti-drug pledge, Randall “Pink” Floyd shows he’s a Loser instead of a Jock. A Jock would just sign the pledge and go get high an hour later and laugh about the whole thing.
Date: September 11th, 2020 5:59 PM Author: Lemon bawdyhouse ratface
It’s bad writing. The starting quarterback for a high school football team in fuckin Texas of all places has to be a Jock ffs. The writer is basically a Loser and projecting.
Date: September 11th, 2020 7:49 PM Author: wonderful meetinghouse
OP Zhang Wei really wants people to fit a formula. For some reason it pleases his mentally ill brain to think that people and life can be completely predictable and preprogrammed.
Date: September 11th, 2020 6:06 PM Author: passionate angry pocket flask trust fund
a lot of that movie is drawn from his real life. i mean, he was getting sued over it by the people referenced in the movie.
and Pink is the hub in a wheel of groups and subplots that makes the movie as a whole work. you can't weave in and out of the different cliques without some common elements. it would've been much clunkier that way and turned out like some stoner pulp fiction.
Date: September 11th, 2020 6:07 PM Author: Cerebral Blood Rage
bc I went to one of the five snottiest prep schools in the country and there’s more to “prep” than money, tho money is important and Floyd gives off the aroma all film of coming from just a bit more than the other guys (I am thinking about the scene in the car at the party talking about playing next season or quitting the team)
Date: September 11th, 2020 6:09 PM Author: Lemon bawdyhouse ratface
Fair enough, he does have some of the Noblesse Oblige of the Prep, but it’s still bad writing cause he shouldn’t be a Prep in a middle-class Houston suburb in the 70s.
Date: September 11th, 2020 6:07 PM Author: Lemon bawdyhouse ratface
Compare to Wooderson, an exquisitely-written Scumbag. No sentimentality, just pure amoral and unapologetic id. He’s such an accomplished Scumbag that even his whiff of self-awareness doesn’t ruin his character (like it does to John Bender in The Breakfast Club).
Date: September 11th, 2020 6:07 PM Author: Sadistic duck-like whorehouse
when the movie starts, randy floyd is "in between" cliques and u can tell he became a stoner during junior year & realized he doesn't think sports are that important. he wants to get high and have interesting conversations with these guys:
Date: September 11th, 2020 6:19 PM Author: Cerebral Blood Rage
Pickford is a Prep. Well-dressed, somewhat affluent background. Way too concerned with UMC mores to be a Scumbag, who would just let them drop the kegs in the yard, yell Fuck You to his parents and dare them to do something about it
One of my best friends growing up looked almost exactly like Pickford
Date: September 11th, 2020 6:22 PM Author: Sadistic duck-like whorehouse
Pickford isn't a dork - him and Slater are the most hardcore stoners but are both philosophy types / headed to college. basically cool hippies but kind of rich & not as liberal
Date: September 11th, 2020 6:48 PM Author: Sadistic duck-like whorehouse
Affleck really? maybe but to me some of the jocks are more like hanging around in the city, not going to college, more working class type, such as McConaughey's character
Date: September 11th, 2020 7:53 PM Author: unhinged violet senate
the jewish guy, friendly blonde nerd, and redhead girl = the group of nerds who are on the edge of being cool, mainly because of the redhead & cuz they are now bout to be seniors
Date: September 11th, 2020 6:38 PM Author: Sadistic duck-like whorehouse
Which of the Cool Girls is your favorite out of the Seniors? Do you like randy floyd's motherly, genuine girl, or the ultimate jock overall boy's HOT blonde? 2 pics:
Date: September 11th, 2020 7:47 PM Author: Fantasy-prone jet-lagged house
Pink if anything is an ascended jock. If you’ve ever played sports you’d know the jocks all fucking hate the coaches. Pink knows though he has the coach by the balls because the team is fucked without him so he can throw the letter back in the coach’s face literally and knows he won’t do shit. Any of the other jocks did that and they’d get made an example of. Prob kicked off the team.
Also the black kid. They can do whatever they want and the coaches kids their ass but then we’re talking about blacks and not jocks.