HWayne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>julian814 wrote:
>> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>> > Anybody want to fill me in on how it varied form the true story?
>>
>> The main story was about a gifted teenager who went to college, then
>> disappeared for a long while. According to the movie and the media hype
>> at the time, the kid went crazy after playing an RPG. The real story,
>> which wasn't revealed until much later, was that the kid who
>> disappeared was a closet homosexual (at a time when homosexuality
>> wasn't as well accepted as today), schizophrenic and cooked his own
>> drugs. He didn't like himself for what he was and what he was doing, so
>> he went into the steam tunnels underneath the campus to kill himself
>> with sleeping pills. When that didn't work, he ran away. His problems
>> had nothing to do with role playing games. The reason the truth didn't
>> come out sooner is because the family of the kid didn't want such dirty
>> laundry aired in public. When the kid in question finally committed
>> suicide, the real story came out. Anyway, most people refer to Mazes
>> and Monsters as the definitive proof that role playing games are evil,
>> even though in the movie you'll notice it was the kid's guilt of
>> helping his brother run away that caused him to go over the edge, not
>> the game.
>
>I never quite understood this. Who in their right minds would get their
>views on life from a *movie*?
Ask those who watched "Fahrenheit 9-11"...
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It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.
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