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re: Dazed and Confused deleted scenes reveal previously unknown plot/character details
Posted on 5/7/21 at 5:55 pm to tylerdurden24
Posted on 5/7/21 at 5:55 pm to tylerdurden24
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Pink always came off to me as the really talented guy who was perhaps too cool and smart for his own good as he lost his opportunism in exchange for ego. I think we all know someone who had that youthful hubris in HS
Hollywood on the whole does a good job of churning out jock characters that are dumb or mean or oafish or all of the above. Jock characters that crossover as popularity alphas pick up traits of snobbishness and rigidity among social classes.
That was not my high school experience in the mid 00s. Popular students were, by and large, popular. They were friendly, fairly smart, good athletes; social butterflies who fit in with most everyone from Ag Guys to Stoners to Choir Kids.
That's why Pink rings so true. His character is more than some drama geek's vengeful fantasy 20 years down the road, he actually seems like someone we all might have grown up knowing, even if we didn't interact socially.
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Posted on 5/7/21 at 6:10 pm to Muthsera
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That was not my high school experience in the mid 00s. Popular students were, by and large, popular. They were friendly, fairly smart, good athletes; social butterflies who fit in with most everyone from Ag Guys to Stoners to Choir Kids.
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That's why Pink rings so true. His character is more than some drama geek's vengeful fantasy 20 years down the road
As someone who was in the class between Mitch Cramer and Randall Floyd, I can tell you that this film is spot on as a representation of southern high schools of the time. There’s no revenge fantasy in play here. Take out the paddling and it was my exact high school experience.
Posted on 5/7/21 at 11:26 pm to Muthsera
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That was not my high school experience in the mid 00s. Popular students were, by and large, popular. They were friendly, fairly smart, good athletes; social butterflies who fit in with most everyone from Ag Guys to Stoners to Choir Kids.
You hit it right on the head. My high school experience ('82, so I'm right in Linklater's wheelhouse) is like yours and why I've always thought most high school/coming of age stories ring false. There wasn't near the snobbishness as usually portrayed - and I went to an upper middle class high school. That's why D&C hit me like a sledgehammer. Minus the hazing element, the rest of the movie could be my yearbook come to life.
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