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The Guard with the Southern Accent?


OK, I know he was trying to play a part - the part of a southern prison guard, but good lord was the guard annoying.

Dumb forgettable film.

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He was imitating a character from the movie cool hand Luke starring Paul newman.

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Maybe or maybe not but if you go on Youtube and watch the actual clips from the actual experiment, John Wayne really did have (or pretended to have) a southern accent, as seen here in the "sausage incident."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uczcm1RGlPg



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He infuriated me! The weasel! Still I get what drove him to push it to limits. I can see him being a proud Stanford student and challenging fellow students to rise to the moment, be the type of leaders their education is supposed to be inspiring them to be, and then waiting for them to act and turn that horrible situation around.

They were so submissive! Then again, they were all Stanford students. A+, teacher's pets. Kids who played by every single rule laid out for them in their lives which paid off in BIG reward: acceptance to the venerable Stanford University! Put some high school drop outs or community college students in there and maybe the outcome would've been different.


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Were they all Stanford students? If so, the guy in charge belongs in Hell.

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They were not all Stanford students. I don't remember the exact breakdown but there was at least one community college student and the John Wayne guard with the fake southern accent was a student at Chapman University. Regardless they were all college students in the Stanford area.

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While I agree that there may have been a different outcome if the "prisoners" were comprised of high school drop outs or whatnot, I think you're oversimplifying and stereotyping Stanford students. I doubt that they're all "A+ teachers pets who played by every single rule laid out for them."


Screws fall out all of the time. The world's an imperfect place.

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There's no way this was real. It was all a performance. The real outcome would be incredibly boring, because it simply couldn't replicate what a real prison is like, with guards dealing with inmates who are in prison for years and desperate to get out and to get women. The inmates wouldn't have anything to fear from the guards. They would just walk out or play cards and ignore the guards until their sentence was over. The movie would have made more sense if they got law enforcement cadets to play the guards. Otherwise, this is a joke.

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It was an actor playing the part of a real person who himself had been an amateur actor - I suppose all he had to do was employ his own ham acting of a film character to achieve it.

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