**Scent of a Woman **- When you see your douchebag pretend friends trash the deans car it is less honorable to tell the truth than it is to adhere to the code of the Old Boy’s Club and bring some crazy blind retired Army officer threated to kill the entire school with a flamethrower.
The Legend of Baggar Vance - You can erase past life tramaus and earn the forgiveness of the woman you abandoned through medicore performance in some inane and unrelated activity.
Rudy - If you obsessively give %110 at something you have no particular aptitude for, you may eventually earn enough pity from your “peers” to reach the barest minimum possible level of acheivement.
All underdog sports films - Through sheer moxy and borderline cheating, a team of lazy out of shape slackers and losers can beat the well trained, disciplined champions.
**All romantic comedys **- A post-adolescent total moron can win the heart of a woman by changing enough to function as a normal human being just like the rest of us.
That’s not the message I got. I got “You’re a tool if you follow anyone without thinking independently, whether it’s the IKEA salesman, or that guy having a psychotic break who wants you to join his terrorist cult.”
However, I thought it was tremendously amusing how many people seemed to adopt Tyler Durden’s philosophies as a creed after seeing the film, given that he was the product of a dissociative disorder.
Not to mention that the ending of the film clearly and unambiguously portrays him as a villain. How anyone managed to leave that movie thinking that it glorified the “fight club mentality” (regardless of whether or not a given person thought such a message would be a good or bad thing) is beyond me.
I think the point of that was that she actually WANTED to be a Tinker fairy, the only reason she wanted to change is because she wanted to go to the mainland. If Tinkers got to go to the mainland she would have been perfectly happy doing so. The point was about finding who you really are, not just about society’s labels. That there is no shame in being who you are.
I was wondering the same thing. Also, where is the beast abusive? He’s just ugly. The point of the Disney version at least is that he’s more of a gentleman than Gaston.
While many of the answers here are funny I think a common misconception that we come up in society lately is that every movie is a morality play, that just because we are focusing on those characters they are objects of emulation.
When Harry Met Sally Their love is cute DESPITE their foibles.
To be fair, complaining about your girlfriend’s playful punches on your arm as if they’re horrible torture is something Joey would do. And the friends all back off when they realize Punky Brewster is actually hitting him really hard and not just playing around.
That’s the one. A Knight’s Tale is one of my favourite guilty pleasures and I like its overall message too, but the romance between Will and Jocelyn gets me every time, probably because I’ve got a lot more in common with Kate.
I love the idea of a man rising above his birth and becoming more than his circumstances allow him to be, and I like Will and the rest of the crew. I just wish he had better taste in women! Then again, what would you expect from the girl who’s definitely more the sidekick than the leading lady type?
Revenge of the Nerds- If you are a geeky guy who can’t get the girl all you have to do is disguise yourself as the cheerleader’s boyfriend and have sex with her. Instead of charging you with rape she will fall madly in love with you.
Thelma and Louise: “All men are scum and it’s okay to shoot them if it makes you feel more empowered. You may have to kill yourself later, but that’s okay because it’s empowering too.” For some reason, feminists loved this message.
Wall Street - It’s worth it to screw over your mentor, lose your girlfriend and your appartment, toss away your career, shit away more money than you ever dreamed of and go to jail for a bit in order to save your dad’s failing airline business because small, poor companies are always morally superior to large, wealthy ones.
I am Jack’s broken shattered heart.
Actually, the moral of Fight Club basically comes down to “just be yourself.”
Yeah, I think that’s a good point. It’s not like these movies are saying this is the way life’s supposed to be. Esp. not Pulp Fiction. I don’t feel that Quentin Tarantino made that film so we would think violence was glamorous but it’s not like he wants us to hate violence either. It’s there, but I think it’s less about putting across a message and more about writing/directing something clever/interesting than about making us come away with a little lesson.
At the risk of repeating myself from other threads…
Everyone should respect everyone else…not make fun of them…see them for who they really are and respect them…Women should look beyond the physical characteristics of men…because they may good be a real good man deserving of your love.