Whether you're starting a new year of high school, college, grad school or just keeping your brain sharp with continuing education...Which classmate from the movies do you most wish you could sit next to while you're schooled? And what, pray tell, are you hoping to learn from them?
Definitely Janice Ian. She'd keep me real.
ReplyDeleteThough she'd probably say I was "too gay to function".
Either Kelly Preston in Mischief or Caren Kaye in My Tutor.
ReplyDeleteAnd what would I want to learn from them? The facts of life, my friend!
Count me in for further eduction with Rita.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to hear more of her ideas about Howards End.
if only Will Hunting was a student
ReplyDeleteoh how could I forget? Luna Lovegood could teach me a lot of things I don't know, don't understand, don't care.
ReplyDeleteI'd want to sit by the Bratz to learn about social niches.
ReplyDeleteAnd sex.
aracir -- i'll allow you the janitor. wasn't he a janitor? hottest janitor ever?
ReplyDeletefox -- omg. MY TUTOR. haven't heard that title in 4ever. wasn't that the one that starred Mr. Olivia Newton John as the tutored
Neil Perry from Dead Poets Society.
ReplyDeletehenry! perhaps you could have saved him from his tragic fate?
ReplyDeletewell, OF COURSE, donnie darko!!!
ReplyDeletebecause of the eyes and... just everything about him (JAKE GYLLENHAAL!!!).
He could teach me how to hallucinate or... see REAL things that nobody else can see???
and of course smurfs history. (???)
in the end we will both talk about wanting to have sex with each other while under hypnosis at our therapists...
YEAH!
For both the cuteness and the coolness, Ally Sheedy in Breakfast Club. Before the final "makeover", natch.
ReplyDeleteso true. a more inspiring finale might have had the wrestler going goth to join her. ;)
ReplyDeleteNathaniel -
ReplyDeleteYes! That movie really had an effect on my MILF fetish. Or, I like to think it did. I have some of those "tutoring" scenes seered into my brain.
And Henry-
... dude, that is sad. Not your pick, but just thinking about Neil. His demise in that movie was so depressing. Didn't he even wear a crown of thorns or something at the end?? Oh my!
Who? Off course it would be Ferris Bueller, do I need to say the movie title?
ReplyDeleteI would love to be his friend, learn everything you need to now about High School and life in general, and GOD my bi-curiousity it would explode with his brother Jeanie. Hey it was a boy right? I mean he/she would love me!
WHO AM I KIDDING?
I WOULD SCREW EVERYONE!
Still s......!
Callie from Dangerous Minds. She was the smartest in the class and even though she had baby while still in high school, I think that we could have a blast talking about 'My Darling, My Hamburger.'
ReplyDeleteI'm reading Maths at University, and it's got to be Jake Gyllenhaal in Proof. Or Donnie Darko, I ain't fussy.
ReplyDelete... And he could teach me how to be so lovely. :)
I'm going to kind of cheat here and say Ivonne from "Hamlet 2", but mainly because she's played by Melonie Diaz. Just saw her in that one and in "Be Kind Rewind" and although she was underused in both, she made a big impression - looking forward to seeing more from her.
ReplyDeleteGogo Yubari. We could swing that spikey ball and stuff. But I'd refrain from asking her if she likes Ferraris.
ReplyDeleteTracy Flick and the Metzlers... just for the fun of an insane campaign for class president.
ReplyDeleteCarrie. I'd make sure she didn't go to the prom, we could've stayed at home and watched horror films instead.
ReplyDeleteNeil Perry from Dead Poet's Society, so I can tell him that there are choices in life other than community theater and death.
ReplyDeleteIn truth, I haven't seen Dead Poets Society in a while (going in the Netflix queue!) so I forgot that Neil dies at the end. Really, the whole class of Dead Poets Society is worth sitting next to while in school. Carpe diem was a motto of mine I'd always go back to while I was in college.
ReplyDeleteHow 'bout Jeff Spicoli then? I always wanted to learn how to surf. And to order pizza whilst in class. I never did act out too much while I was in school.
ReplyDeleteI second d's thoughts on Melonie Diaz. She is adorable and a bubbling under talent. In fact, her performance in Be Kind Rewind is amoung my favorite this year.
ReplyDeletep.s. She's also awesome in A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints!
I know it's not from the movies, but I would totally be best friends with Tapanga...in elementary school. Once she cuts her hair and becomes a babe I'm not really interested anymore. I think her babeness would be a strain on our friendship.
ReplyDeletecan tv count? Kelly Kapowski. yum. if not i think maybe Freddy Jones from School of Rock. I think the 2 of us could create a lot of highly entertaining havoc together
ReplyDeleteJuno MacGuff...just so I could tell her that she's at her best when she's not trying so damn hard...
ReplyDeleteI'm hanging with Veronica Sawyer, drinking a cherry slush and listening to Big Fun.
ReplyDeleteSean Bateman - he'd teach me how to care less about what happens. How apathy can be cool? It would lead to fun, that's all I know.
ReplyDeletefox and d ... please tell me you've seen RAISING VICTOR VARGAS. It's such a sweet moving fun interesting movie and nobody has seen it despite me giving it praise constantly since it came out five years back.
ReplyDeleteoh and i single you two out because you like Melonie Diaz and that's where I first saw her. But really, the movie is just too good to pass up.
runs like ...
ReplyDeletetrue story: i've never seen EDUCATING RITA but i was totally thinking about it this weekend when i finally saw MAMMA MIA! when Julie Walters was singing 'take a chance on me' i thought. 'ohmygod. i sitll haven't seen educating rita.'
I haven't seen "Vargas" but did come across it when I decided to check Netflix for other stuff Diaz has been in. She was also in the recent "Itty bitty titty committee", which I may have to see now despite some pretty mediocre reviews.
ReplyDeleteUm, the choice is obvious:
ReplyDeleteSandy Stranger.
I would give anything to be sitting next to that internal combustion engine listening to Miss Brodie wax poetic about her prime.
Just saw this movie again for the first time in years so I have to mention it because it was my favorite movie when I was like 7...Cher and Dee in Clueless. I would kill to go around the halls "as if"-ing and "whatever"-ing everything around me with these ladies.
ReplyDeletePatrick Fugit in either "White Oleander" or "Saved". Same reason - trapped in an incredibly bleak or oppressive place, Patrick reminds you that good people exist - and like you.
ReplyDeleteRyan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, & Reese Witherspoon in Cruel Intentions. I would like to take anatomy with them. They'd seduce me and use me for their own good in the end (and someone would wind up dead), but it'd be a lot of fun (/highly educational?) in the process...
ReplyDeleteBrenden Fraiser in Encino Man!
ReplyDeleteOr better yet, in School Ties. I need to learn how to fight Matt Damon and the naked boys in the shower.
ReplyDelete1. Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard) AND Todd Anderson(Ethan Hawke) from Dead Poets Society
ReplyDelete2. Dakin (Dominic Cooper) from The History Boys
3. Jim Stark (James Dean) from Rebel Without a Cause
Chris... fight? You sure that's what you wanna be doing with them?
ReplyDeleteplato i say move #3 to #1 and we have a deal ;)
fugit loving anon ---that's beautiful
Nathaniel-
ReplyDeleteOh yes. I quite enjoyed Raising Victor Vargas. I was expecting wretched indie fare, but I got sweet little slice of life.
Did you know the director of RVV is the one behind Nick And Nora's Infinite Playlist?
yes which is why i'm excited waiting for it, being a big VICTOR VARGAS missionary.
ReplyDeleteKeith and Watts in "Some Kind of Wonderful." Talk about sexual tension. Plus he could sketch my portrait while she teaches me how to play drums. Perhaps we could sit in detention with that bald bike guy, Duncan, who carves into desks with a switch blade.
ReplyDeleteHeath Ledger in "Ten Things I Hate About You."
ReplyDeleteOr maybe Adam Sandler in "Billy Madison."
Or John Travolta in "Grease."
Billy Elliot. I just saw the movie and I would probs tell him that he could do whatever he wanted in his life and that he shouldn't listen to other. Actually, Emma Watson wouldn't be bad to look at...Which one? So different yet...Watson! Just cause I would want to show her that she isn't as smart as me.
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