School Ties
Didn't Brendan Fraser do this movie in '92?
shareHahaha I thought the same thing when I saw the trailer. Is the movie really that similar? Have u seen it?
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You think it's the same film simply because the main character is a Jewish college student? It doesn't look anything like School Ties.
shareDid they make him look more Jewish for the role ??
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WTF?? What do you mean by "look more" Jewish. You do know Logan Lerman is actually Jewish in real life, right? What on earth do you think Jewish people "look" like? share
Something must be wrong with me. My Italian Great Grandparents came to this country from Italy making me of Italian descent.
My entire life, many people I would meet, who didn't know my actual heritage, would make assumptions that I was Italian.
Never once did it bother me and I never ever came anywhere close to taking offense for them associating me with the Italian ethnicity.
Maybe it's because the reality is, whether you like it or not, there are certain physical traits and characteristics that have a propensity to exist with certain groups of people, and referring to them can be purely objective with no malice intent whatsoever.
Then again, maybe it has to do with me being comfortable with who I am and how I look which causes me not to jump to the immediate conclusion that any reference to my "looking Italian" must somehow be negative.
Besides, when I find myself in a situation where I might, to use a colloquial expression, "go off half cocked", I try to invoke my second favorite quotation.....
"not only to say the right thing, at the right place,
but far more difficult to leave unsaid,
the wrong thing, at the tempting moment!"
George Sala
Mr. Sala was born in London, and wouldn't you know it, not only was his Father an Italian, but Georgie even "looked Italian".
I feel sorry for all the foolish, ignorant people you've met who told you that you 'looked' Italian. Even sorrier for you who think Italians all look alike. Italians, like most Europeans (you know, Europe where 'white' people come from) came in ALL shapes, shades and sizes. Blonde & blue eyed like Frank Sinatra, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jon Bonjovi, brown haired and brown eyed like Dean Martin, Giovanni Ribisi, Al Pacino, Lady Gaga, brown haired and blue eyed like Madonna, Steve Buscemi and John Travolta... curly and straight hair, small noses like Richard Grieco, huge honkers like Tony Bennett, pinker skin and more easily tanning skin, sun-kissed and rosacae-prone...............
Get the picture? There is no such thing as 'you look Italian' only people with small minds who pigeonhole entire groups of people into a stereotype. So sorry you were fed the Kool-aid and were shaped by it.
No one, absolutely no one should ever feel uncomfortable because of who they are or how they look. But it's ridiculous for anyone to be so ignorant as to believe that Europeans have a look exclusive to their man-made political borders!!!
It's hilarious how when people of European descent see a black person they say he looks black, African, never Somali or Ugandan. Because all you know is that vast continent of Africa. You see an Asian and they look Chinese, never Vietnamese or Indonesian. You see a person you assume is from southwestern Asia and they are an Arab! Never Jordanian or Yemeni. You wouldn't even bother to sort a Bengali from an Afghani. No, they are all the same to you. But when it comes to Europeans, yeah, you think you can actually type them down to each country's borders.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Go back to school, you require some serious re-education about the natural world around you.
BTW (1) I don't think you know what the word ethnicity actually means, it's not what you seem to think.
(2) You really are a magnanimous ignoramus yourself. "SALA" is a Sephardic Jewish surname!!!!!!!!
(3) Sephardic does not mean Italian.
(4) And Jewish, well, that was the original subject at hand, so thanks for unintentionally bringing it full circle!!!! LOL
(5) And if you're so sure that George Sala looks so Italian, must be because you think he looks like you. So I guess some small minded people might actually believe you look Jewish after all... for which I gift you a present: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEhHeILa3HE
Enjoy!
Stupid, under-educated Americans, always taking down the rest of us with them, unable to break out of their immediate surroundings and learn anything about the rest of the vast world, never mind world history and culture. Always making the rest of us Americans look bad.
"not only to say the right thing, at the right place,
but far more difficult to leave unsaid,
the wrong thing, at the tempting moment!"
George Sala
Totally different movie, similar circumstances . . . maybe just a Phillip Roth version of "School Ties." Much more about the psycho/emotional life and relationships of the characters. Also much more gut-wrenching.
I'm English, and if there's anything more deplorable than our cooking, it's our lovemaking
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I just saw the movie. When I saw the trailer, I thought the same thing regarding School Ties. This movie is definitely different.
The protagonist is not bullied and although religion is a theme he is not treated differently for being Jewish but rather more for his lack of religion and non-conformity. This mistreatment comes from school officials rather than his peers.