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* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Leigh Ann tearing the Drug Dealer a new one. |
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Leigh Ann tearing the Drug Dealer a new one. |
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* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: SJ. If the training montage doesn't do it for you, the college auditions sure will. |
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: SJ. If the training montage doesn't do it for you, the college auditions sure will. |
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* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: |
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: |
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** Sandra Bullock was adopting baby from New Orleans, who turned out to be an African-American boy named Louis, after Louis Armstrong. Made slightly less hilarious since she's divorcing her husband. |
** Sandra Bullock was adopting baby from New Orleans, who turned out to be an African-American boy named Louis, after Louis Armstrong. Made slightly less hilarious since she's divorcing her husband. |
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** Michael Oher himself has been switched to right tackle, likely permanently, so he may never protect the blind side again. |
** Michael Oher himself has been switched to right tackle, likely permanently, so he may never protect the blind side again. |
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** This scene, in which Miss Sue flat-out lies to Michael in order to get him to do what she and the Tuohys want, rather strongly implies that [[Broken Aesop|the NCAA investigator is right]] and that the Tuohy family has been manipulating Michael. |
** This scene, in which Miss Sue flat-out lies to Michael in order to get him to do what she and the Tuohys want, rather strongly implies that [[Broken Aesop|the NCAA investigator is right]] and that the Tuohy family has been manipulating Michael. |
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* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] |
* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] |
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* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Despite being purportedly a biopic of Oher, the film mostly revolves around Leigh Ann Tuhoy's saintliness for rescuing a black man from the influence of other black people, here mostly portrayed as [[ |
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Despite being purportedly a biopic of Oher, the film mostly revolves around Leigh Ann Tuhoy's saintliness for rescuing a black man from the influence of other black people, here mostly portrayed as [[Exclusively Evil]]. Even her line about "You so much as cross into downtown, you will be sorry. I'm in a prayer group with the D.A., I'm a member of the NRA, and I'm always packin'" basically translates to "You keep your guns and drugs in the poor/black side of town, or I will convict or murder you." |
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** Black people can escape from poverty, but only by playing sports, and only with the help of white people. |
** Black people can escape from poverty, but only by playing sports, and only with the help of white people. |
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== The Blind Side book == |
== The Blind Side book == |
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