We have 5 kids:
A jock
A popular hot girl
A bad boy
A nerd
A quiet girl
Jock ends up with quiet girl. Bad boy ends up with popular hot girl. Nerd gets nobody.
I think it would have been better if jock ended up with popular hot girl. Nerd ended up with quiet girl. Bad boy gets nothing...we all have our issues (like the other 4 also had) but it doesn't entitle you to be a jerk to everyone else.
Thoughts?
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I agree with what most people said. It was all about them breaking through the stereotype barriers and becoming friends in the end. But the nerd alone at the end did leave the audience with the same stereotype as the beginning but at least he made some friends.
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Brian had the paper.
I always took it that way since he kisses it at the end. His monologues bookend the movie, which I found more important than getting the girl.
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I agree, I thought the pairings were really odd, and they had nothing in common whatsoever. I thought the popular girl should gone with the jock, the quiet one with Bender, and the nerd with a supermodel in the future.
shareWhose to say either couple stayed together? Each characters' flaws were exposed yet will remain that way, at least for their remaining time in high school, as they have come to accept who they are. Therefore it seems inevitable that each relationship will become strained due to these flaws, which can be seen as realistic.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
I loved the pairings as Ally & Emilio are my favourites.
Brian was the only one who didnt really need "fixing". He just needed to take a page from "Risky Business" and say "what the f^ck".
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^This. The best thing for Brian was to become self-aware, to accept that failure at something is not the end of the world, and to not stay inside the pressure cooker of others' expectations of perfection.
Plus, he had the rest of his life to date and kiss girls which was secondary to everything else going on in the film.
I liked that the polar opposites Bender and Claire came together which as others have said fit the premise and message of TBC, even if it can be argued that such a pairing is stereotypical in movies. The jock Andy and the eccentric Allison were a good pairing also. He followed lots of rules on and off the mat and received a lot of wanted and some unwanted attention. She didn't.
I think it would have been interesting to see the popular girl be with the nerd and the rebel and quiet girl be couples.
The popular girl dating the nerd pre-dates a time when being a nerd/geek is awesome. Plus I've only seen it done once before in revenge of the nerds, and that was on a more adult level.
As for the rebel and the quiet girl, the rebel could've brought the quit girl out of her shell. I think she would have been more of a decorative object if she was with th jock.
The thing is for all the talk about the celebration of the nerd starting a decade after the 80s and how everyone is so enlightened now.... I have to say I saw a lot more cheerleader and 'it' girl types with brains in the 80s than I did later on or today (granted for the head cheerleaders and really 'it' girls mostly if the brains were also somewhat athletic and good looking and so on as well as brainy/quiet). Even the among the more athletic and best looking nerds/geeks today I don't see them getting those girls nearly as much as back in the 80s, much less be chased down by them.
Also back then you had guys like Matthew Broderick and Michael J. Fox being popular so it wasn't as much the giant steroid bad boy hulks of later on. Look at baseball players in 80s compared to 90s/00s and then were half the thickness and someone like Marty in BTTF might've been laughed at for being a skinny little pencil neck in the late 90s.