Cell phone neo-McCarthyism
The newspaper article doesn’t give nearly enough information to say if this is an attack on cell phones or just another inane school action in the war on drugs, but it is funny for Dazed & Confused fans.
“People shouldn’t get power based on suspicions, people should be considered innocent until proven guilty,” said senior Adam Goldberg. “It feels like our rights are stripped away when we walk through the doors.”
Adam Goldberg is also the name of the actor in Dazed and Confused who plays Mike Newhouse. In response to similar strong-arm tactics by the football coach, he says:
See I just didn’t know that drugs and alcohol were such a big problem that they had to resort to neo-McCarthyism.
Better watch out kids, next it’ll be urine tests.
Incidentally, I’ve got the Dazed and Confused Criterion edition• and it is awesome. If you’re a fan of the movie, I strongly recommend it.
In response to Dazed and Confused is on its way!: The Criterion edition of Dazed and Confused looks pretty damn official: the announcement is on the Criterion web site.
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- Dazed and Confused Criterion edition•: Richard Linklater
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This movie is an incredible tale of sound and fury signifying high school. Linklater has crafted a beautiful story of a bunch of high schools students in Texas on the last day of school in 1976. There is no plot to get in the way of characterization. The soundtrack consists of seventies songs chosen specifically scene by scene for maximum impact. If you were ever in high school, you should see this movie for nostalgia reasons; if not, you should see it as an education. Slow ride, baby. Watch it in English or French, or with English or Spanish subtitles. Dazed and Confused is one hell of a movie; despite being set a thousand or so miles away it nearly perfectly fits my mid-seventies high school experience.
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- “Teens say officials are ‘overreacting’ and violating their privacy. Fearing their wireless freedom may be in jeopardy, students at Framingham High School were fuming over a new school policy that allows administrators to seize cell phones and search their contents.”
- Adam Goldberg
- “An actor with a talent for mining the neuroses of his characters for both comedic and dramatic effect and a filmmaker adept at exploring the philosophical questions at the heart of the human experience, Adam Goldberg has solidified his position as a versatile and unique talent.”
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