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JohnWesleyDowney
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Jedi_Reject_Jesse posted:
Well yeah. All true. But what other films are similar? What other films explore American motifs?
The only one I could think of off the top of my head would be Requiem for a Dream.
AMERICAN BEAUTY and THE GRADUATE and INTO THE WILD
All films that address issues in American society and disenchantment with the American dream - especially materialism.
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solojones
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Right. Those are obviously some really good examples (kind of gives it away when 'American' is the title, huh?  ). I think these all play into the kind of disenchanted American Dream motif. But as I said, there are just all kinds of American film types and motifs. Although I think this is definitely the central modern one.
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WormieSaber
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Make it a trilogy.
And follow the formula. Watch the Scream movies, you'll learn what an elementary trilogy is by watching those movies. 
I have 2 projects on the backburner that I still have to edit; and writing a sci-fi pilot and a sitcom pilot at the same time......
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Hey Bacon did you end up watching Slacker!?
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Andalite-Bandit
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BACON!?!?!??!
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Bacon164
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not yet. I got preoccupied. but I will.
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I hate you more than lettuce hates farming.
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I WATCHED WANTED, LOVE GURU, AND WALL*E I'M SO STOKED
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I want to see Wall E but Im broke as a lamp in an elephant stampede, and I need to see Dark Knight. Priorities. 
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Oh I stayed up like two nights in a row and I'm all caught up on Weeds.
I really, really, want a beat up van now.
Ah summer. I'm catching up on all of the quality TV I've been missing.
Shield...check
Weeds....check
Just need to start the Wire now.
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one time it took a personality test and it said this, among other things:
You are impulsive and whimsical, and that's OK. Sometimes decisions need to be made quickly, and you make them quicker than most! You're zany, colourful, and just generally great fun to be with... as long as someone isn't relying on you to get some work done. Approximately 0.4% of the population has a lower conscientiousness score than this.
I am a horrible person.
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Andalite-Bandit
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Everytime I take a personality quiz it paints me out as some wacked out depressive nutcase.
Jedi Reject jesse! I know your thoughts. I have only seen one season of Weeds and 4 eps of season 4, but it makes me want to be a kingpin pot dealer.
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Well I have the benifit of working at a library where we carry the complete season boxsets of like every show in the world. And I don't have to check them out one disc at a time like the rental places.
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behold my super titanic soundtrack.
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Blarh>!
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