The Paper Chase (1973) - SON OF A BITCH KINGSFIELD

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[MarcusCMarcellus]

Pre-Affirmative Action America = Standards. Can you imagine Michelle Obama in such a classroom being treated as an intellectual equal? Neither can I. (NB: Columbia Law).

[MazerRackhamX]

@MarcusCMarcellus Good point.

[444sabo444]

loved the TV series....with the exception of PBS and a handful of cable channels, it's terrible how empty and intellectually starved television has become.

[laminage]

Yeah, I was terrified of Kingsfield but looking back, he was one of the best teachers in any American Movie about Education. When he did what he did to Hart, it was his way of putting Hart in his place. Kingsfield knew that Hart was The Best Student in the Class, but in the Thirty Years he had taught at Harvard, he had a Student like "Hart" each year. I think in his own way he felt that Hart was getting a little too pompous and self-righteous for his hown good.

[Encom7]

He should be expelled just for that hair.

[niggapleeeze]

@MarcusCMarcellus

Agreed!

...or sarah palin, any tea party member, billionaires, the majority of people who received social benefits(white women.), etc. I cannot imagine any of them being is such a classroom either. Since it is about standards you might as well add every person who, either through action or apathy, allowed slavery, racism, sexism, ageism, rape/murder-by-US-soldiers, and corporate-greed. Hell, is there anyone in the class now?

[flubblert]

@MarcusCMarcellus What a racist idiot. Way to ruin a classic movie scene.

[npagano05]

@MarcusCMarcellus

Drama Queen

[ADAMSIXTIES]

@MarcusCMarcellus First of all Affirmative Action was well under way by the time this film came out (1973). 2nd of all Michelle Obama's only real accomplishment was marring someone who became president.

[telamon2011]

After seeing the incredibly large size of law school classes such as this one, it is no wonder that there has long been a glut of lawyers in this country.

[telamon2011]

@BenAliGtor

I believe it was until that time, perhaps a bit later, that male and female law students at Harvard were taught separately? And the male students were taught by the more celebrated faculty? (Elizabeth Dole, who is in her seventies, was one of only half a dozen women in what was one of the first coeducational classes at Harvard).

[BenAliGtor]

Friend of mine-retired judge- attended Harvard Law in the late 1950's when this actually went on. He still looks back upon it with a great measure of loathing.

[Landaux]

"That really BURNS-MY-BUTT!"

[vnisanianisback]

@MoManny It was probably a different take, and whatever available extras there were for the filming.