Day #5 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #5 of the 30 Day Film Challenge - A Film where a Character has a job that you want.

Oh dear, this is hard.

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I actually tried to go in this direction in school when I was 18. I took anthropology, I minored in Epic, Myth and Folklore. I traveled to another country and collected ghost stories. But alas - it wasn't meant to be. The Universe had other plans. Probably a good thing - I get claustrophobic (due to exploring one too many tunnels as a kid) and issues with arachnids.

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[cjlasky7]

This was my alternate choice for "five words or more movie titles" but I think it works better here.

He's a test pilot, a physicist, a neurosurgeon and a rock star! He hangs out with the Hong Kong Cavaliers (including Jeff Goldblum), he's romancing Penny Priddy (Ellen Barkin), and kids think he's the coolest guy ever. Well, he is the coolest guy ever.

When is "Buckaroo Banzai 7: Revenge of the Red Lectroids" coming out?

(Oh wait. We don't live in that dimension.)

https://youtu.be/RdanCNK4ayo

[cactuswatcher]

I could have used yours. But there are others with the same job I was thinking of namely a professor. The job I wanted when my movie came out. Here's Paper Chase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGUfvZU4wiE

The none of the characters really matter in the movie except for Professor Kingsley. I was in grad school when it came out and for obvious reasons it hit home. Yes, in our department we had our version of Kingsley, the prof we were afraid of, just as demanding, just worthwhile listening to, but a lot more good-natured. But more than once, he really zinged poor under-grads who stumbled into taking his classes.

You were in law school not me. Were study groups a thing? In grad school if you couldn't do it all by your lonesome you weren't going to make it.

The Socratic method. Pure garbage. Unless you have students in the class who don't need the class, its a pretentious waste of time. You think students at that level have the time to guess what you think is important and read up on it as the term goes along? It doesn't happen. If you've got students in the class past that stage, you can play the game, and make the ones who need the class feel like crap.

Students bombing out. Of course we had them too. Men and women totally unprepared for post-graduate work, intellectually, emotionally and/or in terms of maturity. Sadly the ones that had the most trouble with us were the ones that got their degrees from the same department of the same university. I don't know who else graduated with them and went elsewhere. But it didn't make the department look good.

Complicated romances. Yeah we had those, too. ;o)

[atpo_onm]

Ohhh, easy one for me, for the kid who used to lie on his back in the back yard and stare up at the stars, for whom one of his coolest Christmas gifts in the early 60's was a neat little 4" reflector telescope from the A.C. Gilbert company.

So where did I go wrong? Not that I wanted to be an astronaut, my asthma would never have allowed that anyway. But any job in the space program? Engineer, or even just a worker helping to assemble a spacecraft.

Easy answer, two words-- high school. (Buffy fan, no further explanation required).

But one can still dream, or enjoy and appreciate the actions of others far braver and more creative than I.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtEIMC58sZo

Note: IMO, one of the best edits in the history of cinema occurs when they cut from the rocket lifting off to the faces of the wives, shaking and crying in deep relief that the damn thing didn't simply blow up, the possibilities of which were far greater than the general public ever knew-- until the Challenger explosion.

OK, this is not good. I don't have the time to re-watch all these cool movies, and this series is only just starting!

Evil, 'tis evil, I tell ye...

[wendelah1]

Julie & Julia. I don't just want to be a celebrity chef: I want to be Julia Child.

[petzipellepingo]

I had to think about this one for a while .