High school dorks need to stick together. Superbad screenwriters Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg know this as well as anyone — they started writing the movie when they were, you guessed it, high school dorks. 14 to be exact. The on-screen Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) try their hardest to be cool high school seniors — you know, going to parties, scoring hot chicks, and getting as drunk as possible before going their separate ways. They mostly fail, but in the process, bond like teenage boys will when chased dangerously immature cops. At film’s end, the pair declare their love to each other while tucked into side-by-side sleeping bags. College shall never cleave their hearts in twain.
(Warning: This clip contains the emotional and narrative climax of an approximately 12-hour film. Avoid if you’re one of the seven people who have yet to see The Lord of the Rings trilogy.)
Over the course of three films Samwise Gamgee — Frodo’s incredibly loyal gardener — grows to become the most heroic character in a trilogy obsessed with the idea of heroism. Time and again, he puts himself in harm’s way to save his old boss (and when we say “time and again,” we’re serious. Sam saves Frodo like eight times — from drowning, from Orcs, from a giant spider…), though it’s only at the climax of the entire series that we get to witness his true mettle. He carries Frodo up the side of a volcano!
But bravery aside, it’s easy to lose count of how many times the two look longingly into each others eyes and exchange emotion-filled words of love and fellowship. And let’s not even get into the trilogy’s second-to-last scene, which consists of Sam jumping happily on Frodo’s bed before giving him a fierce hug, and a long, tearful stare goodbye. He wasn’t the only one crying.
Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show “Family Feud” has died. He was 79.
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