From the Department of Obvious, a new study is touting that having a college roommate of a different race can reduce prejudice and diversify friendships (of course, it also claims that having a white roommate can “boost black students’ academic performance,” but let’s leave that bit of fuckery alone).
But how does that bear out in real life (and by “real life,” we of course mean “television and movies”)? Hollywood clearly loves a good interracial buddy story, and nothing assuages its liberal guilt like an academic rainbow coalition. We took a look back over the past 20 years and came up with five movies and five TV shows that knew the value of educational diversity…
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This week’s Complex movie pick is The Wrestler, and with all due respect to aging alcoholic actors trying to make comebacks, it ain’t because of Mickey Rourke’s performance. Nope, we’ll watch The Wrestler another twenty-five or so times to check out Marisa Tomei’s awesomely convincing turn as Rourke’s stripper girlfriend.
We’ve cut for Tomei for years, but even more since she turned 40 and started getting naked in damn near every flick she’s in. Read on for a rundown of our favorite “tasteful” nude moments in Marisa’s career…
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So here’s the dilemma facing the producers of flicks like The Reader: you’ve got some schlocky super-serious “film” about war crimes or whatever and you know it’s gonna get a gaggle of Golden Globe nominations (Reader just picked up four), but you want it to reach a wider audience. The solution? Write in a side plot where an older woman seduces a teenage boy! (Duh.)
It’s no secret that teenage dudes think about sex a lot, and although they usually beat meat to thoughts of some schoolyard crush, the ultimate fantasy is having an experienced older lady show you the ropes. So while having Kate Winslet take baths with a 15-year-old guy in Reader may be crucial to the movie’s plot (fuck if we know), the cinephiles here at Complex see it for what it is: a cynical (albeit welcomed) ruse to get dudes to watch boring movies. After the jump, check our list of high-minded films that used this lowbrow plot device…
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