Sally
So whatever happened to David and Sally?? i always thought they were cute together but the movie never shows if they get back together??
shareFrom what I remember (I haven't seen the movie in years) they did not get back together.
What I want to know is why she broke up with him. Was it because he was Jewish or because he lied about it?
proabably both i think mainly because he is jewish which is really sad
shareYeah, I'm sure it was mainly because he was Jewish. The fact that he lied about it was just a convenient excuse.
shareSally breaks up with David because he is Jewish. When he stops by her swimming practice she pretty much tells him how her family would never stand for them to be a couple (something about how her grandmother would be rolling over in her grave) and how she is being constantly teased by her friends for even kissing a jewish guy. David tries to reconcile with her and goes to kiss her but she pulls back and says that she won't allow this to happen. So, because he is jewish is the only reason they stop seeing each other, otherwise, who knows what might have been.
shareIn fact, Sally says "Believe it or not, you're not the first Jewish boy I've met, just the first one to deny it."
shareShe's an airheaded biatch anyway. She would eventually married a guy for more money and wealth because all she could do was swim and be ignorant. Heck, she never even heard of taking trash to the dump. People like that will never know how to survive without their trust fund. It is ironic how both of these actors wound up playing lovers again in Airheads.
shareI couldn't stand the character of Sally! She didn't have to be that way with Charlie when she was dancing with David. She's just a snot.
shareSally was a bit childish, particularly in the way she dealt with Charlie, but that's not unexpected in a sheltered child. I did think there was an underlying strength in the character, and got the sense that if David had met her in college instead of high school she'd have been able to defy her peers on this. I also think that his inability to tell her he was Jewish was a real factor in her not being willing to try defying her family and peers.
shareThat may be true but I will never forget her acting humiliated and whispering tearfully that her friends asked her if his nose got in the way when they kissed. She just absolutely couldn't handle it.
It's Khazadum, not Z'Ha'Dum. Sheridan, go home!
I don't think it was because he was jewish...i think it was because he was poor and from scranton. Sally only dates the rich and the powerful. When she found out David was from Scranton, was poor and not powerful, she dumped him.
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No look at the scene where David goes to her school pool. Hse flat out tells him that her parents wont allow her to date a Jewish gu, not to mention he lied about it. She dumped him because he was Jewish and not due to his money status, although it prolly helped inthe decision inthe end.
stupid was a crime you would get double life and the electric chair
On Sally and David's first date, she finds out that he is poor and from Scranton. He tells her about taking the trash to the city dump and watching 2 guys scavenging for metal and later says how his family shares the woods with everyone else who wants to go camping and doesn't have a private cabin/house in the woods. Even after the game where the Dillons and Wheelers are having dinner, David still gives off the impression to everyone that he's not wealthy because he says how in Scranton a club is 4 guys who chipped in to buy an old car. I don't think anyone cared about his wealth only because they could see that David was going to be a football star and would go to Harvard and that he was going to be successful later in the life.
shareI don't think David ever denied he was Jewish--he just didn't announce it to everyone. Why should he? Before he got to the school, the football coach was the only one who knew about it and warned him not to say anything to the other students.
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He never actually denied being Jewish but he did try to hide it in other ways, such as not wearing his Star of David.
I'm not saying I blame him considering the obvious anti-semetic attitudes shown by his "friends".
He also explains to Sally that one of the reasons he hid it was because he had similar experiences before regarding bigotry.
Right, he never denied being Jewish. Nobody asked, so he didn't tell.
shareWhat's a jewish person supposed to do? "Hi I'm mark and oh I'm jewish in case that's a problem with you??" It's absurd. Why why why why do people care what your religion is or where you came from?? The movie proved that the scumbag can be the majority anyway. Makes me so frustrated.
Cindy
*beep* bigot
Cohagen- "My friend in 5 minutes you won't give a *beep* about the people"
I think that if Sally knew from the get-go that David was Jewish, she would have broke up with him. A part of her felt betrayed finding out about it the way she did. Sally comes from blue-blood society so meeting other people's expectations was crucial. Even if she decided that his religion didn't bother her, they don't have enough in common for a long-term relationship.
shareThough her exact motives aren't clear, I had the impression her problem wasn't so much anti-Semitic feelings as a fear of what her friends would think.
sharehe never lied about being jewish