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* LogoJoke: The Columbia fanfare is performed on an electric guitar.
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''Finding Forrester'' is a movie from 2000 about a boy from a poor neighborhood in the Bronx with talents for writing and basketball. When his high test scores and athletic skills get him a scholarship to a prestigious prep school, he meets a famously reclusive author who helps lead him to success. The film is starred by Creator/RobBrown as Jamal, Creator/SeanConnery as the titular Forrester William Forrester in what would end up being his penultimate film role before retiring in 2003. The cast is completed by Creator/AnnaPaquin, Creator/FMurrayAbraham and Music/BustaRhymes.
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''Finding Forrester'' is a movie from 2000 about a boy from a poor neighborhood in the Bronx with talents for writing and basketball. When his high test scores and athletic skills get him a scholarship to a prestigious prep school, he meets a famously reclusive author who helps lead him to success. The film is starred by Creator/RobBrown as Jamal, Creator/SeanConnery as the titular Forrester William Forrester in what would end up being his penultimate film role before retiring in 2003. The cast is completed by Creator/AnnaPaquin, Creator/FMurrayAbraham and Music/BustaRhymes.
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: At the end Forrester stands up for Jamal when Professor Crawford and the School Board threaten to revoke his scholarship for plagiarism, causing the headmaster to drop the charges. While Crawford is a jerk motivated by bitterness and a long-standing grudge against Forrester, he does have reason to be pissed given that Forrester had sabotaged his own hopes of publishing a book by lying to potential publishers about obtaining Forrester's non-existent second novel instead. As for Jamal, Crawford was right in accusing him of plagiarizing part of his essay without the original author's permission, even if Forrester retroactively sanctions it later on.
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: At the end Forrester stands up for Jamal when Professor Crawford and arranging for Jamal to face punishment for plagiarism is treated as nothing more than the School Board threaten to revoke his scholarship for plagiarism, causing the headmaster to drop the charges. bitter actions of a jerk getting revenge on a student who verbally bested him in class. While Crawford is a jerk motivated by bitterness this and a long-standing grudge against Forrester, he does have reason to be pissed given that Forrester had sabotaged his own hopes of publishing a book by lying to potential publishers about obtaining Forrester's non-existent second novel instead. As for Jamal, Crawford was right in accusing him of plagiarizing part of his essay without the original author's permission, even [[spoiler:even if Forrester retroactively sanctions it later on.]]
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: At the end Forrester stands up for Jamal when Professor Crawford and the School Board threaten to revoke his scholarship for plagiarism, causing the headmaster to drop the charges. While Crawford is a jerk motivated by bitterness and a long-standing grudge against Forrester, he does have reason to be pissed given that Forrester had sabotaged his own hopes of publishing a book by lying to potential publishers about obtaining Forrester's non-existent second novel instead. As for Jamal, Crawford was right in accusing him of plagiarizing part of his essay without the original author's permission, even if Forrester retroactively sanctions it later on.
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''Finding Forrester'' is a movie from 2000 about a boy from a poor neighborhood in the Bronx with talents for writing and basketball. When his high test scores and athletic skills get him a scholarship to a prestigious prep school, he meets a famously reclusive author who helps lead him to success. The film is starred by Rob Brown Creator/RobBrown as Jamal, Creator/SeanConnery as the titular Forrester William Forrester in what would end up being his penultimate film role before retiring in 2003. The cast is completed by Creator/AnnaPaquin, Creator/FMurrayAbraham and Music/BustaRhymes.
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It was Creator/GusVanSant's more proper follow-up to ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (after his poorly-regarded ''Film/{{Psycho|1998}}'' remake) and its perceived failure led to an eight year sabbatical from mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, doing [[Film/{{Gerry}} a string of minimalist]] [[Film/{{Elephant}} movies where he had a]] [[Film/LastDays hand in the writing]], before coming back with ''Film/{{Milk}}''.
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* GrumpyOldMan: William Forrester is this at first, but he manages to get better over the course of the film.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Forrester is an obvious stand-in for Creator/JDSalinger.
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* ActorAllusion: In his last scene, William wears a grey three-piece suit, similar to the one Creator/SeanConnery wore in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
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** In his last scene, William wears a grey three-piece suit, similar to the one Creator/SeanConnery wore in''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
** Jamal jokingly suggests Forrester going home to Ireland. Connery's turn as Jim Malone in ''Film/TheUntouchables'' was ''infamous'' for playing an Irish-American cop with a Scottish accent.
** In his last scene, William wears a grey three-piece suit, similar to the one Creator/SeanConnery wore in
** Jamal jokingly suggests Forrester going home to Ireland. Connery's turn as Jim Malone in ''Film/TheUntouchables'' was ''infamous'' for playing an Irish-American cop with a Scottish accent.
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* PlagiarismInFiction: Jamal is accused of this when he turns in an essay written with William's help (and lifting the title & opening paragraph from one of William's earlier works. Oops.)
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* PlagiarismInFiction: Jamal is accused of this when he turns in an essay written with William's help (and help.... and lifting the title & opening paragraph from one of William's earlier works. Oops.)
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* ReclusiveArtist: [[invoked]] William is this at the beginning of the movie, but Jamal convinces him to experience the outside world by the end.
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* ReclusiveArtist: [[invoked]] William is this at the beginning of the movie, but Jamal convinces him to experience the outside world by the end.[[invoked]]
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The scene where Jamal finds out that [[spoiler:William dies]] has oddly upbeat music. Although it may have been to get across the point that [[spoiler: Forrester died happily.]]
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The scene where Jamal finds out that [[spoiler:William dies]] has oddly upbeat music. Although it may have been to get across the point that [[spoiler: Forrester [[spoiler:Forrester died happily.]]happily]].
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It was Creator/GusVanSant's more proper follow-up to ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (after his poorly-regarded ''Film/{{Psycho|1998}}'' remake) and its perceived failure led to an eight year sabbatical from mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, doing [[Film/{{Gerry}} a string]] [[Film/{{Elephant}} of minimalist]] [[Film/LastDays movies where]] [[Film/ParanoidPark he had a hand in the writing]], before coming back with ''Film/{{Milk}}''.
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It was Creator/GusVanSant's more proper follow-up to ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (after his poorly-regarded ''Film/{{Psycho|1998}}'' remake) and its perceived failure led to an eight year sabbatical from mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, doing [[Film/{{Gerry}} a string]] string of minimalist]] [[Film/{{Elephant}} of minimalist]] movies where he had a]] [[Film/LastDays movies where]] [[Film/ParanoidPark he had a hand in the writing]], before coming back with ''Film/{{Milk}}''.
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It was Creator/GusVanSant's more proper follow-up to ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (after his poorly-regarded ''Film/{{Psycho|1998}}'' remake) and its perceived failure led to an eight year sabbatical from mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, doing [[Film/{{Gerry}} a string]] [[Film/{{Elephant}} of minimalist]] [[Film/LastDays movies where]] [[Film/ParanoidPark he had a hand in the writing]], before coming back with Film/{{Milk}}.
''Film/{{Milk}}''.
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It was {{Gus Van Sant}}'s more proper follow-up to ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (after his poorly-regarded ''Film/{{Psycho|1998}}'' remake) and its perceived failure led to an eight year sabbatical from mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, doing [[Film/{{Gerry}} a string]] [[Film/{{Elephant}} of minimalist]] [[Film/LastDays movies where]] [[Film/ParanoidPark he had a hand in the writing]], before coming back with Film/{{Milk}}.
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It was {{Gus Van Sant}}'s Creator/GusVanSant's more proper follow-up to ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (after his poorly-regarded ''Film/{{Psycho|1998}}'' remake) and its perceived failure led to an eight year sabbatical from mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, doing [[Film/{{Gerry}} a string]] [[Film/{{Elephant}} of minimalist]] [[Film/LastDays movies where]] [[Film/ParanoidPark he had a hand in the writing]], before coming back with Film/{{Milk}}.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: When Jamal confirms he wrote everything Forrester read, Forrester observes matter-of-factly, "...And you're black." When Jamal asks what the hell he meant by that, Forrester replies that people in this neighborhood are going to judge him for that whether he likes it or not, whether it's his neighborhood friends or the administration of his private school. Jamal already reached this conclusion his own, Forrester is just putting it into words.
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It was {{Gus Van Sant}}'s more proper follow-up to ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' (after his poorly-regarded ''Film/{{Psycho|1998}}'' remake) and it's its perceived failure led to an eight year sabbatical from mainstream Hollywood filmmaking, doing [[Film/{{Gerry}} a string]] [[Film/{{Elephant}} of minimalist]] [[Film/LastDays movies where]] [[Film/ParanoidPark he had a hand in the writing]], before coming back with Film/{{Milk}}.
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* ActorAllusion: In his last scene, William wears a grey three-piece suit, similar to the one Creator/SeanConnery wore in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
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* MagicalNegro: Jamal is [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools a thoughtful and fleshed out]] version to William as he brings the old writer out of his shell. It gives depth to their student/teacher relationship.
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** Jamal is [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools a thoughtful and fleshed out]] version to William as he brings the old writer out of his shell. It gives depth to their student/teacher relationship.
** Jamal is [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools a thoughtful and fleshed out]] version to William as he brings the old writer out of his shell. It gives depth to their student/teacher relationship.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Early on, William flippantly assigns Jamal to write "Five-thousand words on why you should stay the ''FUCK'' out of my home!" Jamal follows his instructions [[ExactWords to the letter]].
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* MagicalNegro: Jamal is [[TropesAreTools a thoughtful and fleshed out]] version to William as he brings the old writer out of his shell. It gives depth to their student/teacher relationship.
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* MagicalNegro: Jamal is [[TropesAreTools [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools a thoughtful and fleshed out]] version to William as he brings the old writer out of his shell. It gives depth to their student/teacher relationship.
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** It is also possible to see Forrester as a race-inverted version, a saintly, elderly figure whose main task is to dispense friendly, optimistic advice.
