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*** This is a very conflicting case, because what Jessup is saying is essentially right, but he's saying it for all the wrong reasons. |
*** This is a very conflicting case, because what Jessup is saying is essentially right, but he's saying it for all the wrong reasons. |
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** The worst part is that Jessup's breakdown isn't supposed to be the center of the movie - it's supposed to be about the duty of the strong to protect the weak, and how Jessup betrayed that duty when he had a kid brutalized and accidentally killed him for being weak. Nicholson should have been cast as Weinburg, not Jessup, so that he could have put his personality behind it. As is, everybody remembers Jessup talking about [[Necessary Evil]]. |
** The worst part is that Jessup's breakdown isn't supposed to be the center of the movie - it's supposed to be about the duty of the strong to protect the weak, and how Jessup betrayed that duty when he had a kid brutalized and accidentally killed him for being weak. Nicholson should have been cast as Weinburg, not Jessup, so that he could have put his personality behind it. As is, everybody remembers Jessup talking about [[Necessary Evil]]. |
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{{quote|'''Lt. Weinberg''': ''They beat up on a weakling, and that's all they did! The rest is just smokefilled coffee-house crap! They tortured and tormented a weaker kid! They didn't like him! So, they killed him! And why? Because he couldn't run very fast!'' |
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'''Galloway''': ''They stand upon a wall and say, "Nothing's going to hurt you tonight, not on my watch."'' |
'''Galloway''': ''They stand upon a wall and say, "Nothing's going to hurt you tonight, not on my watch."'' |
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'''Dawson''': ''We were supposed to fight for the people who couldn't fight for themselves. We were supposed to fight for Willie.'' }} |
'''Dawson''': ''We were supposed to fight for the people who couldn't fight for themselves. We were supposed to fight for Willie.'' }} |
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* ''[[Boys Don't Cry]]'' is about young trans man Brandon Teena struggling to find his identity as an adult and as a man, since for the first time in his life he can truly be who he is inside. Most reviewers loved it, but while sympathetic to the character, referred to Teena as female and seemed to think it was a story about [[Completely Missing the Point|a lesbian who felt she had to pretend to be a boy because of homophobia or something.]] One reviewer even said something like "in disguising herself, ironically, this young woman helped other girls find themselves." (Yikes.) In real life, Teena was your average somewhat macho straight guy and had the kind of [[Jerkass|enlightened]] opinions on feminism and lesbianism you'd expect from a young man born in the Bible Belt in the early seventies. |
* ''[[Boys Don't Cry]]'' is about young trans man Brandon Teena struggling to find his identity as an adult and as a man, since for the first time in his life he can truly be who he is inside. Most reviewers loved it, but while sympathetic to the character, referred to Teena as female and seemed to think it was a story about [[Completely Missing the Point|a lesbian who felt she had to pretend to be a boy because of homophobia or something.]] One reviewer even said something like "in disguising herself, ironically, this young woman helped other girls find themselves." (Yikes.) In real life, Teena was your average somewhat macho straight guy and had the kind of [[Jerkass|enlightened]] opinions on feminism and lesbianism you'd expect from a young man born in the Bible Belt in the early seventies. |
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