I was really uncomfortable watching Paul Gleason go ape sh&t as Vernon when he was threatening Bender in the storage room.
I don't know why but I didn't feel they really needed to show it like that.
It was important for Vernon to show Bender as a coward, but the whole scene just made me cringe.
What was everyone else's take on that?
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That's one more, you two want another?
shareI've seen far worse from real life teachers.
So no, that was not OTT in the slightest... and if it made you feel uncomfortable, then the actor did his job very well. That was one moment when you should be really identifying with Bender.
I might have used the wrong word.
I meant uncomfortable as in Cringe-worthy. I found the scene and the dialogue just way too over the top.
Maybe I've never seen a teacher like that in any school I've gone to so it was really odd to see him act that way.
The adrenaline was definitely rushed and I can see a person who's really angry behave that way, but if Vernon's job was to try to straighten Bender up, he could have used it a different way.
I tend to look at it as someone with anger issues. That's a very dangerous thing to have in a school and any teacher would get fired for that.
Again, I've known much worse from real life teachers and yes, they did have 'issues'... with anger and many other things.
However, that was a long time ago. Most teachers even suspected of anything amiss are out on their arse and/or in court faster than you can blink, these days. That's why there are so few decent ones left and why many schools round here have a shortage... that and parents who expect teachers to raise their kids for them!
back in the 80's and 90's when I was a student, I would really never talk back to a teacher -- I would only explain why something happened or didn't happen and never sass. cause if I did, my ass would be grass!
this is what we DON'T have today! we don't have parents taking responsibility for their kid's lack of respect or even any discipline measures. and kids today and back then were asstwats. now you have kids actually making sure an innocent teacher loses his or her job and license by lying about sexual things and more. all because we believe every blessed word out of the kid's mouths!
notice how I don't call these kids students. cause they are not. students learn.
Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.
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Teachers are purple, and they fvck up a lot - I've seen teachers go much further than this on numerous occasions ... it's a pretty emotional job
shareIt was Saturday and behind closed doors and as another poster said he "had had enough of this punk."
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