Just waltz in and hang around the theater arts room. Not one security guard checking him out? Or he just goes by the front office, says he's the theater arts teacher, and they say 'sounds good'? Give me a break.
shareJust finished watching it and I am forced to write something.
That is exactly the scene which made the movie trash. I had to force myself to watch the whole movie after that whole drama.
Absolutely bloated rating of 7. I gave it 5/10.
The whole hanging onto a 4x4 and getting on to the boat. Laughable.
It would be pretty easy actually, even today. I'm not so sure, but I don't think campus security was a widespread thing in the '90s. People can still just as easily step into a school building and rob the place.
My car is fast, my teeth is shiny, I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie!
Yeah you're right.
I've done this a few times.....unintentionally of course.
I agree, it's not hard at all. I went to an upperclass suburban high school in north Houston, and one could just get into the school by walking through the football locker-room or the side hallway. I admittedly ditched lunch a few times just by going out the side exit and re-entering a few periods later via the same way. Nobody knew I had left and I never had any troubles leaving or coming back in.
shareBack then there wasn't any campus security. It was a different day and age. Anyone can slip in through an unlocked door, or pry the lock.
share1. He was wearing clothes that covered his tattoos. Look at him in that scene, would you really do a double take if he walked past you? No, you wouldn't.
2. School security was nothing what it is like now. It wouldn't have been difficult for Max to get to the theater that obviously was in an area of the school that appeared to be isolated from the classrooms in the basement.
Did one of you actually say there was no campus security then? It was the 90's. Of course, there was campus security. The OP is right, no way this guy would have been allowed to just stroll onto the campus and teach.
shareI was in school during the 90's, and I can tell you that while in elementary school (early 90's), there was no school security. Sure, every now and then an officer would come in and do the whole "don't do drugs" routine, but those were few and far between. Now, in middle school (late 90's), there was school security, in the form of ONE police officer. I believe a character like Max, as clever as he is, probably could get around one cop. But considering the movie was set in the early 90's, no there probably wasn't any school security.
shareWhy all the "early nineties"? The film was released in Nov. '91 so it was based on whatever prior to that. The schools I know of did not have security. In '92 I visited my hometown, and returned to my grammar, junior, and high schools and had no problem walking in and around them. I had graduated high school in '72, so I don't think I looked like I was "attending" classes at even the high school.
Sometimes ya gotta wonder....
It was the 90's but Juliette Lewis calls weed "grass," lol. Scorcese forgot when the movie was supposed to be taking place.
shareDid one of you actually say there was no campus security then? It was the 90's. Of course, there was campus security.
I went to High School from 96-99 in two different schools in two different states. Anyone could have easily just walked into the school and walked around. The second school even had an on campus police officer, and you can still walk in and walk around.
shareWith the way he was dressed, who's to say he wasn't the theater or shop teacher? He could probably walk right through the main entrance of the building, carry a satchel bag or briefcase and look the part.
Herbert West: Who's going to believe a talking head? Get a job in a sideshow.
It was pre columbine. Would have actually been pretty easy.
shareIn answer to the original question: because this was a low point in Scorcese's life and film career and he didn't think clearly about ANYTHING that happens in this movie, lol. This movie SUCKS
shareI was in school from 90-'00. There was literally zero security until Columbine, and with that a police officer would hang around my high school sometimes. Also, staff members started wearing name tags.
That was it.
When I was 29 in 1989 I used to like to drive back and forth across the country. I'd often find college and high school gyms... and take full use of the showers, soap, towels, etc in unguarded locker rooms. Saved the money otherwise wasted on hotels. Different world now, and so am I.