Media is a really big part of our lives. Maybe too big. Too strong. Here’s a list of books and movies that shaped me.
1. The Outsiders
It made me realize how hot criminals are. Just kidding! Kind of. But it did made me realize that some of those people in my class who don’t seem to care about anything probably have something else too big for them to care about anything else.
2. Lord of the Flies
It triggered my interest for serial killers. I signed up for Psychology the next year and started watching documentaries about serial killers, “Too Young to Kill” kids, and now I think everybody is one. Because you know, it’s always the one who doesn’t look like it. But what does one look like? Exactly.
3. Child’s Play
It made me scared to walk on stairs with gaps in between them. I don’t know how I was able to look at this picture. This is also probably why I think dolls are creepy now too.
4. Legally Blonde
It made me want to be a lawyer for a little bit.
5. Good Will Hunting
It made me think that maybe I should have tried 100x harder in school, applied to Stanford, then turned them down and framed their acceptance letter. Just knowing that they think I’m worth it is enough for me.
6. Stuck in the Suburbs
I don’t want to leave my house.
7. The Things They Carried
It made me realize how jacked up wars are, emotionally and psychology. And different ways to use the f-word.
So what movies or books influenced you?
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Good Will Hunting is a good one!
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“I don’t know how I was able to look at this picture.” Funny that you said that because as soon as I got a little peripheral glance of the title, I looked off to the side and scrolled down past it so I wouldn’t have to look. Lol. I do not need images of Chucky in my head when I’m trying to fall asleep tonight
daffodil / 1615 posts
I absolutely loved The Things They Carried. I read it my junior year of high school for an AP English class and it was very moving. I liked The Outsiders so much that I read it in one day hahaha
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The Things They Carried is so. good.
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Chucky can be really scary.
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The Outsiders is my dad’s favorite book, and I love it too. While I also enjoyed The Things They Carried, my high school English teacher made it very clear that most of it heavily embellished. Still a good read.
magnolia / 1027 posts
I wish I didn’t see #3 at all =( lol
Outsiders, the movie AND book = YES YES YES!! Loved everything about it. I love how tight knit their friendship was despite all things.
I have to reread Lord of the Flies. I remember liking it, but I forgot it now lol.
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Can I just say that I loved The Outsider as a book but I watched the movie a few months back and it’s awful. AWFUL. The acting is painful to watch.
Also I read Lord of the Flies in my advanced English class in 6th grade. It gave me such nightmares. It wasn’t so much about serial killers for me as it was about Golding using children (which generally symbolize innocence) to display the violent nature of humanity.
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I hate The Things They Carried. It’s incredibly inaccurate. My uncle fought as a marine in the Vietnam War, and he about had a heart attack when he read that book. Sure, it is an entertaining book, but so many people finished that book thinking that that was a representation of what the Vietnam War was like.
sunflower / 405 posts
@Shytooth@xanga - I think the author mention somewhere that it some or most of it is fiction. except stuff referenced to the characters. i guess every soldier has a different experience in a war. but we can all agree that war shouldn’t happen
sunflower / 405 posts
@her_phantasmagoria@xanga - yeah i agree. but coppola said that the warner bros had made him cut a lot of it because i guess it was too long. but i don’t think translating the book into film is at all possible.
idk if at 12 years of age you’re still considered innocent. i think it’s pretty much faded by that time. but then again, it’s a different time period.
sunflower / 405 posts
@her_phantasmagoria@xanga - the heck you read flies in the 6th grade? i know that’s the same age as the characters in the book but I read it in my sophomore year in high school
sunflower / 405 posts
@ask_ashleyyy@xanga - you skip a lot of things when you read books in a day. i use to do that, then when I read The Outsiders for the 4th time i did one chapter at a time.
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lol @ 6 and 7!
you’re so right about 5. if i tried harder i would have done the same thing!and i LOVE the outsiders, both book and movie
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Hands down on the Chuckie one…. : / I used to really love dolls.. now I’m deathly afraid and become really paranoid whenever I see a doll. I swear they’re moving… .__.