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Things I learnt from Fame

posted 15 years ago by tikwateinu
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1. The cute little white girl doesn't need to show any acting skills to be accepted as an actress into a performing arts school.
2. The students in an acting class will never actually practise acting but rather always study together with the singing kids.
3. It is better to pack 15 storylines into a movie and not follow one to the end than to focus on 4 or 5 to provide the characters with some depth.
4. The vocal teacher singing with a squeeky voice at some karaoke bar impresses the hell out of the students.
5. The black kid in an acting class doesn't have to prove he can act besides showing off street credibility.
6. Black acting-kids would rather rap anyways.
7. Black piano-kids would rather sing.
8. Black parents never like what their children do at first.
9. Bach is boring.
10. There are better ways to spend 10 bucks.

Feel free to continue...

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Groucho Marx

[–] rachel111393 15 years ago

11. The blonde pretty white dancer with no personality will always be on on one of the main posters for the movie. Even if she's only in the movie for 10 minutes.

[–] SocialAlcoholic 15 years ago

12. It's really easy to scam $5000 out of a young director wannabe.

Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery? - Dr Venture

[–] Rumek 15 years ago

13. After four years no one will look any different.

[–] SocialAlcoholic 15 years ago

14. It's always important to be honest when you're trying to nail a chick in your trailer.

Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery? - Dr Venture

[–] Rumek 15 years ago

15. Even if a girl says no to you for over a year, you keep asking her out and she'll eventually say yes.

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[–] kang_grace28 15 years ago

23. This movie was terrible.

[–] rachel111393 15 years ago

24. PA couples always go their seperate ways after school ends.

[–] freefall79 15 years ago

25. Iowa now has the greatest dance teacher of all time
26. your parents will not be there at the dance, they will not be there when you record the song...yet your worried they have this strange mental link to you, that know what your thinking at all times.

Thunderbirds Aren't Slow

[–] Faye-9 15 years ago

27. When you're a teen and your dominant parent objects to what YOU want to do, wait till the end of the movie because the passive parent will win and you'll get to do what YOU want to do. [That premise is SO predictable in movies...when are they going to give it up?]

[–] marcos_ho 14 years ago

Do not mock this! It is an important message to all the predators and stalkers out there!

[–] baal-zebub 15 years ago

How to dance in slow-motion ? You can learn it in a performing arts school.

How to remake an eighties classic with a "High School Musical"-look.

Male singers are only good singers when they sing with a boysband-voice.

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[–] rekcusdoo 15 years ago

32. That this is the worst "Things I learned From" thread on IMDB.

[–] TheCommenteer 15 years ago

agree, a few decent lines, but mostly trash.

[–] Eefjee 15 years ago

33. That if you're not as good a dancer as other people, the only way to deal with it is by attempting a suicide.

[–] Rumblebum 15 years ago

34. THat if your name is Kevin in a movie be prepared for heart break and probably suicide. And you're usually gay.

(named Kevin IRL and I've been paying attention)

[–] AKid 15 years ago

35. If you want to go to a prestigious performing arts school for directing, try acting for your audition...it doesn't matter how bad you are, you'll get in.

36. It's really easy to drink underage in the clubs where high school kids perform at, sometimes, your teachers will be there too!

37. If you get drunk and throw up on camera, and your teacher sees it, there will be no consequences, they really could care less.

38. Complexions doesn't care if you graduate high school or not.

39. Your boyfriend will dump you if you try to get a job behind his back.

[–] danceshock14 14 years ago

40. If you attempt suicide at a subway, there will always be two or three friends there to stop you.

41. Don't try to stretch, practice, get extra help, or take corrections when you're a dancer. Move back to your hometown after you've spent thousands of dollars in NYC and proclaim yourself the best dancer the planet's ever known.

42. Being a cello player gives no pay. Singing in creepy carnival clothes is so much more fulfilling.

43. Be yourself, and the entire world will take notice. Instantly.

44. There's no order during lunch or free periods. Let yourself go and run down tables into a front-flip.

45. EVERY black kid in NYC wants to be "tha next rappa o' singuh!"

46. Mothers will tell their children they're talented, but then still doubt them. It's good to lie. The future confrontation will make for a crappy argument in an attempt to advance the plot.

47. DON'T research music labels interested in you. Blindly give them five grand.

48. Teacher's at PA don't support students who put their own spin on music or dancing. That'd be too creative. After all, a performing arts high school is meant to hold students BACK. How else will they learn to be dramatic and make a weak climax showcase?

49. "Don't be afraid to SUCCEED". Even when it's your teacher telling you you're not even good enough for a college recommendation.

"Our wills are like the Phoenix: Our souls can end but are never forfeited."

[–] princesachiquita 14 years ago

50. That danceshock14 confuses me That's what the movie is about, everyone wants to be famous. It's called Fame. I didn't understand the racial motivation for number #45, lol. There were 2 main black people in the movie & no sense for that conclusion to be drawn seeing as they all want to be famous...?

[–] camel-wides 14 years ago

also, number 45 should be a movie producer, not record label... and still a dumb thing to do. i didn't watch fame when it wass on tv when i was a kid, so mabe they lifted this plot element from the original... but come on, has this director wanna be not heard of the internet?

[–] sneak64 10 years ago

I'd like to try and bring some life into this thread, but then I'd have to watch the movie again.

[–] Goodbye_from_Fox_In_A_Box 14 years ago

51. In a PA school that's filled with talented singers, an actress with no voice will be asked to sing solo at graduation.

52. Out of 10,000 applicants, the best 200 made the cut. That must mean the other 9,800 played 'chopsticks' on the piano, sang Roseanne Barr's version of our national anthem, danced the 'robot', or acted out a monologue from 'Dumb and Dumber' as their auditions.

53. The singing teacher's class is made up of a lot of students, yet when she takes them out to the karaoke club and out to dinner after, it's only the core cast that goes with her. It pays to star in a crappy movie, you get free drinks and dinner.

"I hardly know, which way is up, or which way down" - "I Feel Possessed", Neil Finn