My brain, and other frightened rodents.

[attackfish]

So I got an assignment to critique a certain movie and analyze what it says about teaching, and because I am who I am, I few into a little bit of a panic, you know, the "oh my God, oh my God, how do I do this?  I have no idea how to do this!" kind of thing.   And then I just gave myself a long look in the mirror and said to myself, "Honey, you're in fandom.  This is what you do."

And now it's done, so there.

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[ljlee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember thinking while watching the Nice White Lady video, "This pretty much is Dangerous Minds." At least One Thousand Violins is a decent movie.

Ooh, I had no idea they made To Sir With Love with Sidney Poitier! It's going on my to-watch list. The dearth of cool black women teachers on the screen makes me haz a sad, since my favorite teacher when I went to school in the States was black.

I'm so sorry to hear about your experience with Dead Poets Society. D: I hate spoilers as much as the next guy, but couldn't he have just quietly excused you from the movie? I guess that might have required him to act like a human being and everything and was way too much trouble.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry it's taking so long to get back to you. I'm not ignoring you, I'm just in the middle of midterms, and am a little buried.

Sidney Poitier as a West Indian teacher who comes to a poor, mostly white London school to teach. It's very teacher movie-esque, but that makes sense, since it helped create the formula in the first place.

The cherry on the awful person cake was that he tried to give me detention for walking out of his class, and called me a baby who couldn't distinguish fiction from reality. He was a nasty piece of work in a lot of ways. This was just the worst example. He also had no sense of irony, having us watch DPS, since he was all about telling us to shut up and do as he says.

[ljlee.livejournal.com]

Hey no worries. I just assumed that was as far as the thread went for you. Good luck with midterms--we're done with the semester now, I guess your system is different.

Oh wow, that's... a serious amount of douchebaggery. o_O He's like Snape without the redeeming characteristics.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I'm taking a summer semester. No summer break for me. *sad sigh*