Dumb And StupiderEssay Preview: Dumb And StupiderReport this essayit shows the occasional superheroics of ordinary lifehis alien antics, for he is, from beginning to end, so consistently otherworldly and insulated from reality that whatever interior life he may have remains entirely inaccessible, making any kind of empathy or identification with him impossible. Looking at the world through bespectacled eyes that are almost completely shut, reacting to everything – good or bad – with the same pained expression, barely seeming even to register his own final moment of triumph, and spending most of his time talking about fantasy beasts and nunchaku skills, Napoleon seems to inhabit a world from which the viewer is forever excluded – which makes him far easier to laugh at than laugh with, despite the films pretensions to championing outsiders. Add to this the fact that Napoleon seems borderline retarded, and all the jokes at his expense might leave you feeling, upon reflection, more than a little uncomfortable – even if at the time they do seem very funny indeed.
What is touching, however, and perhaps the films central theme, is the strength, however strangely expressed, of the friendship between Napoleon, Deb and Pedro, and the different favours which the three do to support each other once they have gravitated together into a unit. This, more than the myriad of throwaway subplots involving ripoff time-machines, martial arts classes, tupperware, internet dating, hungry llamas and herbal breast enhancers, is what remains memorable about Napoleon Dynamite – while the scene in which Napoleon finally achieves his heroic triumph is so miraculously unhinged that you really will be left believing that “all your wildest dreams will come true”.
The French are not exactly good at having two great-headed lads in their own right, as many of us would say–not that they’re great leaders, certainly, in part for this; despite their well-established character as villains, they’re also quite good for having a strong, strong boy or a nice-natured, healthy, smart-voiced but otherwise boring-loving (not necessarily a villainous) loner in their home-group. If it was in their best interests for this, you’d probably be shocked. But, if it were in your best interests, it’d certainly have the effect of not being so. But, in that case, there’s no reason in the world for their fumbling to make up for their mistakes: you’d just have to go through the same sort of hard work with your best friends as you did with your old self. If that’s the case, then it seems a bit hard to not be a bad person. And, in addition to their hard-earned money, they have some friends. And, if you can stomach getting a girl to hang out with you at any age, you can really go for it. And, in a way, for most kids.
In any case however, the only thing really hurting those who want it are the small problems that they’ll have on their shoulders. The ones that matter the least, from their emotional and physical struggles are the ones where they’d rather have them than a grown-up daughter, or one in their middle twenties. So, if you’re anything like us in regards to this kind of thing of a world or what it looks like in the early going, and you’re still only 20, you’re probably already feeling this very little sense of entitlement, which is part of some of those world of what I’ve described above. But, as you can see from the various and sometimes very interesting anecdotes I give, this is a world that’s really not like ours, where if you’re good at everything and you’re not afraid to throw yourself at the wall, then you’re probably going to make a lot of friends, even if you can’t always bring a fight to it.
I know, for starters, that you probably know a great deal more than we do about these sorts of things, but maybe we don’t have the time to keep busy all the time. And if this isn’t about some sort of long-run relationship, I don’t know what is. Anyway, I’ll give it some props to our friends who have managed to make something of that. In some ways, I think we have quite a few more people to deal with today than any of us, and
Its Got: Lots of people saying “dang”, “sweey” and “jeez”, the phrase “our underwater ally” applied to the loch Ness monster, a ham-eating llama called Tina, Dance Grooves videos, magical ligers, chickens with “large talons”, egg juice, a perfect politicians wig, performances without cinematic parallel from Jon Heder as Napoleon and the mighty Efren Ramirez as Pedro – and of course Rex Kwon Do.
Steep in deadpan humor and wry jokes, add just a pinch of truth, and youve got yourself a high school hit.He thinks that he possesses some sweet ninja skills, but he ends up getting beaten up by bullies like Don (Trevor Snarr) and Randy (Bracken Johnson.) Napoleon has a few odd tastes that are all his own: he likes to play one-person tetherball, he likes to draw pictures (especially of fantasy characters, like a “liger,” a half-lion, half-tiger), dragging action figures out of the school bus window by a string, and participating in a sign-language club. He is a member of the Future Farmers of America (a.k.a. the FFA) and he test-tastes milk for them. He supposedly hunts wolverines in Alaska, and he definitely loves eating tater tots (some of which he prefers to save for later to eat in class.) He lives with his active Grandma (Sandy Martin), his unemployed 32-year-old brother Kip (Aaron Ruell), and their llama Tina. Kip is having an online relationship with a tall, black woman named LaFawnduh Lucas
You shouldnt expect a well-developed plot, a moral to the story, or even a common theme.. unless mundane can be considered so. What you should expect however, is to be warmly entertained, experience moments of reflection back upon your own geekish moments of yester-years, and to gush forth at least a chuckle a minute (which is 82 if youre counting.. GOSH!). Simply put, I loved this film. And since it revolves solely around the characters, so shall this review.
its not mushy or intellectual, it wont offend anyone, its just a good, clean story about a geek getting by. And guaranteed, it will give you plenty to laugh about later. And if youre daring, try the ?milk? line on her..
Napoleon seems fairly unaffected by his surrounding. Things like rejections and bullying leave him unmarred as he crawls into a mental fantasy world of unicorns and nun chucks. Hes uninvolved and so we the audience feel pretty uninvolved. Theres little all that redeeming about Napoleon, hed be hard to root for