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the flute of death

posted 18 years ago by socalico
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Who else noticed that whenever the camera panned to Brandi's Native American father they played that ridiculous, stereotypical tribal flute music. Without fail. Hilarious.

[–] socalico 18 years ago

No one cares. At all. I guess.
:(

[–] Leonard_is_Love 18 years ago

I would care, but I haven't seen the movie.

Sorry.

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[–] TorreDegliAngeli 18 years ago

In all the years that I've lived in Tulsa (which has actually been my entire life) I've never actually seen one of those played outside a movie. I'm sure there are some people that still play them, but I seriously doubt that that actually happened... not that you saw it, but that they played it.

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[–] MystMoonstruck 16 years ago

How strange! They just had at least four closeups of the man and didn't play that flute music once, just the music written for that scene~which is fluteless. They're showing him again~with no music at all. (I'm watching it now, and it's only half over! Oh nooooooo!!!!!)

Perhaps you had better watch it again only that could be too much punishment for anyone, as this is a truly ridiculous, slanted presentation of a movie, one of those "poor little misunderstood girl" when she brought all of the troubles on herself! "Oh, I always draw pentacles on my hand." "Oh, I always doodle messages about killing my art teacher." "Oh, I always mock-threaten my friend in public with an evil spell which everyone should know isn't serious." etc.

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[–] premont 15 years ago

Is she responsible for an assistant principal who was ignorant enough to believe she was hexing teachers?

[–] elladeon 13 years ago

Okay, I haven't seen this movie, so it's not really fair for me to comment.

That said, if she threatened another student and wrote about killing a teacher, then isn't it possible they took the idea of a hex as, you know, a threat that she was going to hurt someone? Like, "I'm going to hex you .... and conveniently slash your tires with the power of my hex!" Or something.

If I were a principal and a student was going around threatening people, I would simply assume that any "hex" she started pronouncing was a real threat. Not because the hex is real but, you know, because the person saying it was crazy and violent.

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[–] MystMoonstruck 14 years ago

I was commenting on the claim that every time they showed the parents, there was the sound of flutes, which isn't true.

Yes, I know about Indian aka Native American flutes, as I have attended many reenactment events and powwows. Also, my family is a mixture of Illini and Irish. It should be noted that, at all of these events, I've been told "Indian" is preferred over "Native American". I even have a couple of handmade flutes in my collection of traditional instruments, along with a bodhran, Irish tin whistle, lap harp and bowed psaltery.

It's just that the person was exaggerating, claiming that they used the music for every closeup, and I wanted to correct that claim since I was watching the film.

~~MystMoonstruck~~

[–] socalico 13 years ago

::tweedles flute of death::

[–] fuego09 12 years ago

LMAO it's so true! I was actually noticing that (almost) every time they showed him. It was great. In a "too much" that it's funny, kind of way. XD

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