Ubiquitous wrote:
> 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"...
That was a documentary, not some piece of fiction "based on a true
story."
I swear, you're the kind of person who won't believe anything unless it
was spoon fed to you from the Republican party.
Ralph Glatt
Member, Old Farts Club
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