Thursday, September 6, 2018

Thursday Movie Picks #217: The New Kid at School



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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is The New Kid at School

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I've been the new kid at school before, but I was very young and it's easier for younger kids to make friends. However, it must be terrifying to be an older kid being new to a school where everyone else have known each other for most of their lives like in the movies I've picked today.

Mean Girls (2004)
Having never gone to school before, new girl Cady gets a lesson on the social structure of a school. 

Twilight (2008)
The first third or so was all about Bella having to move to live with her dad, being the new kid at school in a small town and becoming some sort of a novelty at school since everyone else knows everything there is to know about each other already.

Morris from America (2016)
Morris from America is the new kid having just arrived in Germany. It's summer, so this isn't quite school, but Morris is enrolled in some classes at the youth center probably to prepare him for his eventual school life and he is struggling to fit in what with him speaking little German and being the only foreign black kid.
 
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7 comments:

  1. I always seem to catch Mean Girls near the end of the movie but one day, I will see it. I did actually watch Twilight and had to laugh because it is such a girlie swoon flick for teen girls. They would all love to have a smouldering young vampire love them...quite silly. I haven’t seen the last movie at all but it sounds good.

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    1. Twilight - yes definitely for the teen girls...but did you know it is popular with the adult women too, especially the books.

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  2. We match on Morris from America! I love Mean Girls as well, but Twilight was not for me.

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    1. Haha I actually love Twilight, the first one at least.

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  3. Mean Girls is a very fun movie. Love your pick of Morris From America. It's really an underseen movie that I really enjoyed. Twilight...sigh. I laughed hysterically when everyone in the school knows her name as soon as she shows up and are even writing an article on her in the school paper. That school wasn't that damn small. Just dumb as hell. And the franchise never got any smarter.

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    1. Twilight - I suppose the kids knew her name because she was the sheriff's daughter. She was new to the school but not completely new to the town. But yeah...the franchise did not get better with each movie. I only like Twilight.

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  4. I put off seeing Mean Girls for years because I thought it was just another dumb teen comedy but it was a cut above and quite insightful. The little snippet I saw of Twilight was enough to tell me it wasn't for me and Morris from America is new to me but sounds intriguing especially since it's turned up more than once today.

    I tried to go towards a more serious side for the week though my first is a very black comedy.

    Lord Love a Duck (1966)-Pretty, pert and madly ambitious Barbara Ann Greene (Tuesday Weld) is the new girl at Consolidated High (overseen by Principal Harvey Korman) who befriends outsider prodigy Alan "Mollymauk" Musgrave (Roddy McDowell) who is dazzled by her and sets out to make all her dreams come true. That begins innocuously with her admission to an exclusive girls club within the school but rapidly escalates to far more formidable plans calling for drastic measures which her eager acolyte gleefully pursues. The blackest of black comedies with a cast including Ruth Gordon and an excellent Lola Albright as Barbara Ann’s cocktail waitress mother this study in absurdity’s skewed viewpoint isn’t for everyone.

    My Bodyguard (1980)-New kid in school Clifford Peache (Chris Makepeace) a shy, quiet teen becomes the target of bully Melvin Moody (Matt Dillon). Nearing the end of his rope Clifford approaches fellow student, gentle giant Ricky Linderman (Adam Baldwin) to be his bodyguard. Though initially reluctant Ricky agrees and while offering protection the two disparate boys form a friendship until circumstances put a strain on their bond. Compassionate film with a great message and wonderful naturalistic performances.

    Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)-When three new students, including Jean Bonnett (Raphael Fejto), arrive at his French boarding school during WWII Julien (Gaspard Manesse) doesn’t take much notice of them thinking they are no different from the other boys. What Julien doesn't know is that they are Jews passing as Gentiles trying to evade capture by the Nazis. While headmaster Père Jean (Philippe Morier-Genoud), works to protect the boys from the Holocaust the at first antagonistic Julien and Jean develop a tight bond. Louis Malle’s deeply moving film captures the idiosyncrasies of boyhood, structured education and the fear of a creeping menace.

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