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** Has Tammy found love with her new girlfriend, or this just [[HistoryRepeats history repeating itself]]?
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** Has Tammy found love with her new girlfriend, or is this just [[HistoryRepeats history repeating itself]]?
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** Is Tracy Flick a ruthless evil politician and FemmeFatale in the making? Is she just an ambitious teenager [[EducationMama manipulated by her mother]], [[TeacherStudentRomance abused by a teacher]], and [[PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize sabotaged by another teacher]] (who might lust after her too, if some of the sex scenes are any indication)? Or is she a JerkassWoobie who has no one to guide her in anything but becoming a ManipulativeBastard [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] and may never realise she doesn't have to be LonelyAtTheTop?
*** The original ending (one taken from the book) took the stance that she was indeed the latter.
*** The original ending (one taken from the book) took the stance that she was indeed the latter.
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** Is Tracy Flick a ruthless evil politician and FemmeFatale in the making? Is she just an ambitious teenager [[EducationMama manipulated by her mother]], [[TeacherStudentRomance abused by a teacher]], and [[PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize sabotaged by another teacher]] (who might lust after her too, if some of the sex scenes are any indication)? Or is she a JerkassWoobie who has no one to guide her in anything but becoming a ManipulativeBastard [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] and may never realise she doesn't have to be LonelyAtTheTop?
***LonelyAtTheTop? The original ending (one taken from the book) took the stance that she was indeed the latter.
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*** The original novel eventually revealed their first sexual encounter and makes it ''very'' clear Dave was the person with power over Tracy and Tracy is clearly scared and disgusted by what happened. It's very clear that even though Tracy talks herself into thinking this was consensual, Dave knew exactly what he was doing. The sequel novel takes this a step further by going through Tracy's coping later in life with realizing she was in fact a victim of sexual abuse and how realizing her own lack of power in a situation she had believed she had control of still affects her.
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** The appraisal of who is meant to be a "hero" and who is a "villain" has changed dramatically over time even by film critics. In 1999, the general consensus was that [=McAllister=] was a sympathetic man who just made some mistakes while Tracy was an out and out villain who uses her sexuality to destroy innocent men and basically deserved the campaign of hate against her by her own teacher. In [[https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Election-Gets-Results-Teen-black-comedy-hits-2933339.php one review typical of the time]], Mick [=LaSalle=] of the [=SFGate=] chastises Tracy as "sexually amoral", insinuates that Dave was a victim of hers, and even calls her "a kind of Hitler in the crib." [=MaryAnn=] Johanson of [[https://www.flickfilosopher.com/1999/04/election-review.html The Flick Filospher]] was one of the few contemporary critics that seemed to predict that the Gen X viewers of 1999 like herself were likely to view McAllister as the hero in spite of his actions and the overly eager, smug, and obnoxious Tracy as the villain, but identified that viewers closer to Tracy's age, the burgeoning millennials, would likely see these roles in reverse. The critical reappraisal post-[=#MeToo=] included critics such as the New York Times' AO Scott, who wrote [[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/movies/tracy-flick-reese-witherspoon.html a passionate re-evaluation of her in 2019]] on the film's 20th anniversary that asked "How despicably does a man have to behave before he forfeits our sympathy? How much does a woman — a teenage girl — have to suffer before she earns it?"
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** The appraisal of who is meant to be a "hero" and who is a "villain" has changed dramatically over time even by film critics. In 1999, the general consensus was that [=McAllister=] was a sympathetic man who just made some mistakes while Tracy was an out and out villain who uses her sexuality to destroy innocent men and basically deserved the campaign of hate against her by her own teacher. In [[https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Election-Gets-Results-Teen-black-comedy-hits-2933339.php one review typical of the time]], Mick [=LaSalle=] of the [=SFGate=] chastises Tracy as "sexually amoral", insinuates that Dave was a victim of hers, and even calls her "a kind of Hitler in the crib." [=MaryAnn=] Johanson of [[https://www.flickfilosopher.com/1999/04/election-review.html The Flick Filospher]] was one of the few contemporary critics that seemed to predict that the Gen X viewers of 1999 like herself were likely to view McAllister [=McAllister=] as the hero in spite of his actions and the overly eager, smug, and obnoxious Tracy as the villain, but identified that viewers closer to Tracy's age, the burgeoning millennials, would likely see these roles in reverse. The critical reappraisal post-[=#MeToo=] included critics such as the New York Times' AO Scott, who wrote [[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/movies/tracy-flick-reese-witherspoon.html a passionate re-evaluation of her in 2019]] on the film's 20th anniversary that asked "How despicably does a man have to behave before he forfeits our sympathy? How much does a woman — a teenage girl — have to suffer before she earns it?"
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** The appraisal of who is meant to be a "hero" and who is a "villain" has changed dramatically over time even by film critics. In 1999, the general consensus was that [=McAllister=] was a sympathetic man who just made some mistakes while Tracy was an out and out villain who uses her sexuality to destroy innocent men and basically deserved the campaign of hate against her by her own teacher. In [[https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Election-Gets-Results-Teen-black-comedy-hits-2933339.php one review typical of the time]], Mick [=LaSalle=] of the [=SFGate=] chastises Tracy as "sexually amoral", insinuates that Dave was a victim of hers, and even calls her "a kind of Hitler in the crib." [=MaryAnn=] Johanson of [[https://www.flickfilosopher.com/1999/04/election-review.html The Flick Filospher]] was one of the few contemporary critics that seemed to predict that the Gen X viewers of 1999 like herself were likely to view McAllister as the hero in spite of his actions and the overly eager, smug, and obnoxious Tracy as the villain, but identified that viewers closer to Tracy's age, the burgeoning millennials, would likely see these roles in reverse. The critical reappraisal post-[=#MeToo=] included critics such as the New York Times' AO Scott, who wrote [[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/movies/tracy-flick-reese-witherspoon.html a passionate re-evaluation of her in 2019]] on the film's 20th anniversary that asked "How despicably does a man have to behave before he forfeits our sympathy? How much does a woman — a teenage girl — have to suffer before she earns it?"
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I have to admit this was always my interpretation of the film so I was a bit surprised to realize that at least at the time you were supposed to sympathize with him more. It definitely seems like the guy has no capacity for self-reflection and you're *meant* to see his last whiny attack with the drink has him refusing to ever get over a self-driven grudge against a teenager he wanted to sleep with.
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** Is [=McAllister=] actually meant to be seen as sympathetic just because the film is largely told from his perspective? All the films characters are [[UnreliableNarrator unreliable narrators]], we already see evidence that [=McAllister=] himself has unsatisfied sexual urges for Tracey that are driving his grudge against her, and [=McAllister=] always tries to spin the consequences of his own escalating bad actions as the fault of other characters. It's not hard to come up with an interpretation that he's a VillainProtagonist who will never understand that his own victimization complex is going to hold him back (for example, he's ''still'' so obsessed with Tracey years later that in addition to the incident where he harasses a child that reminds him of her, he throws a drink at a car Tracey is riding when he sees her happy and successful.)
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** [=McAllister=]'s ambition to prevent her from succeeding (and later, refusing to acknowledge a bright young girl, whom he thinks is a lot like her) comes off as super anti-feminist on many levels.
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** [=McAllister=]'s ambition to prevent her Tracy from succeeding (and later, refusing to acknowledge a bright young girl, whom he thinks is a lot like her) comes off as super anti-feminist on many levels.
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** Tracy's relationship with Dave Novotny is bound to be viewed in a different light after the [=#MeToo=] era. [=McAllister=] blaming a high school student for his adult friend's inability to control his behavior comes across as distasteful at best, and victim blaming at worst. Watching it today, it definitely gives a more unsympathetic interpretation of [=McAllister=], and 2st century viewers are likelier to think the injustice was not that Dave lost his job, but that he escaped a jail sentence.
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** Tracy's relationship with Dave Novotny is bound to be viewed in a different light after the [=#MeToo=] era. [=McAllister=] blaming a high school student for his adult friend's inability to control his behavior comes across as distasteful at best, and victim blaming at worst. Watching it today, it definitely gives a more unsympathetic interpretation of [=McAllister=], and 2st 21st century viewers are likelier to think the injustice was not that Dave lost his job, but that he escaped a jail sentence.
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** Tracy's relationship with Dave Novotny is bound to be viewed in a different light after the [=#MeToo=] era. [=McAllister=] blaming a high school student for his adult friend's inability to control his behavior comes across as distasteful at best, and victim blaming at worst. Watching it today, it definitely gives a more unsympathetic interpretation of [=McAllister=].
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** Tracy's relationship with Dave Novotny is bound to be viewed in a different light after the [=#MeToo=] era. [=McAllister=] blaming a high school student for his adult friend's inability to control his behavior comes across as distasteful at best, and victim blaming at worst. Watching it today, it definitely gives a more unsympathetic interpretation of [=McAllister=].[=McAllister=], and 2st century viewers are likelier to think the injustice was not that Dave lost his job, but that he escaped a jail sentence.
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*** How happy was Jim in his position and life prior to the election? For all his insistence that he loves teaching and never wanted to do anything else, he often comes across as bored and disinterested. Tracy says she feels bad for how he has to see students go on to better things while he's stuck teaching the same stuff year after year, and the ending shows that Jim has a tendency to cover up his resentment of his place in life with blind optimism that borders on self-delusion. It's hard not to imagine that Jim sabotaged the election -- a fairly meaningless role that ultimately wouldn't hinder Tracy much, a fact which Jim was likely perfectly aware of -- not out of duty or civic principles, not even because of hatred of Tracy, but because he was deeply unhappy with his life and wanted an excuse to start again.
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*** How happy was Jim in his position and life prior to the election? For all his insistence that he loves teaching and never wanted to do anything else, else and his talk about how much he loves his wife Diane, he often comes across as bored and disinterested.disinterested and has an affair despite being supposedly content. Tracy says she feels bad for how he has to see students go on to better things while he's stuck teaching the same stuff year after year, and the ending shows that Jim has a tendency to cover up his resentment of his place in life with blind optimism that borders on self-delusion. It's hard not to imagine that Jim sabotaged the election -- a fairly meaningless role that ultimately wouldn't hinder Tracy much, a fact which Jim was likely perfectly aware of -- not out of duty or civic principles, not even because of hatred of Tracy, but because he was deeply unhappy with his life and wanted an excuse to start again.
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*** How happy was Jim in his position and life prior to the election? For all his insistence that he loves teaching and never wanted to do anything else, he often comes across as bored and disinterested. Tracy says she feels bad for how he has to see students go on to better things while he's stuck teaching the same stuff year after year, and the ending shows that Jim has a tendency to cover up his resentment of his place in life with blind optimism that borders on self-delusion. It's hard not to imagine that Jim sabotaged the election -- a fairly meaningless role that ultimately wouldn't hinder Tracy much -- not out of duty or civic principles, not even because of hatred of Tracy, but because he was deeply unhappy with his life and wanted to start again.
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*** How happy was Jim in his position and life prior to the election? For all his insistence that he loves teaching and never wanted to do anything else, he often comes across as bored and disinterested. Tracy says she feels bad for how he has to see students go on to better things while he's stuck teaching the same stuff year after year, and the ending shows that Jim has a tendency to cover up his resentment of his place in life with blind optimism that borders on self-delusion. It's hard not to imagine that Jim sabotaged the election -- a fairly meaningless role that ultimately wouldn't hinder Tracy much much, a fact which Jim was likely perfectly aware of -- not out of duty or civic principles, not even because of hatred of Tracy, but because he was deeply unhappy with his life and wanted an excuse to start again.
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** How pre-meditated were Dave's actions? Mr [=McAllister=] sees Dave as a harmless ManChild despite the fact he had sex with an underage student of his. But having sex with a student is a ''huge'' professional and ethical breach even when the student is of age, due to the power differential. ''New York Times'' critic A. O. Scott [[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/movies/tracy-flick-reese-witherspoon.html comments]] that, in Tracy's flashback to her affair with him, Dave's behavior is "a textbook case of predatory grooming." Dave's insistence that they were in love could be more about justifying it to himself then anything else or even getting out of jail time by [[Obfuscating Stupidity pretending to be the bumbling victim]] and ManChild Mr [=McAllister=] thinks he is, who did something stupid rather than a predator who knew what he was doing was illegal and wrong but did it anyway. If he ''is'' so dimwitted that he doesn't know why he shouldn't have a relationship with one of his own students, he definitely shouldn't be a teacher.
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** How pre-meditated were Dave's actions? Mr [=McAllister=] sees Dave as a harmless ManChild despite the fact he had sex with an underage student of his. But having sex with a student is a ''huge'' professional and ethical breach even when the student is of age, due to the power differential. ''New York Times'' critic A. O. Scott [[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/movies/tracy-flick-reese-witherspoon.html comments]] that, in Tracy's flashback to her affair with him, Dave's behavior is "a textbook case of predatory grooming." Dave's insistence that they were in love could be more about justifying it to himself then anything else or even getting out of jail time by [[Obfuscating Stupidity [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretending to be the bumbling victim]] and ManChild Mr [=McAllister=] thinks he is, who did something stupid rather than a predator who knew what he was doing was illegal and wrong but did it anyway. If he ''is'' so dimwitted that he doesn't know why he shouldn't have a relationship with one of his own students, he definitely shouldn't be a teacher.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Part of the story is built around Jim's old colleague Dave having a relationship with a teenage student. Nearly twenty years later, Rose McGowan would accuse director Alexander Payne of similar behavior, starting a sexual relationship when she was fifteen and he was twenty-eight.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Part of the story is built around Jim's old colleague Dave having a relationship with a teenage student. Nearly twenty years later, Rose McGowan [=McGowan=] would accuse director Alexander Payne of similar behavior, starting a sexual relationship when she was fifteen and he was twenty-eight.
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Uh, I'm pretty sure McAllister is supposed to be unsympathetic in the movie, and his actions and motivations are pretty uniformly portrayed in the wrong, even though the film is sympathetic to him as a base person, much like most of the other characters in the movie. Also removed objective tropes that are listed here for some reason.
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* ActorAllusion: There are quite a few allusions to Creator/MatthewBroderick's [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff best-known role]]:
** Broderick's Mr. [=McAllister=] narrates a lot, and is shown taking showers in a very similar manner to that of Ferris; all that's needed is a chorus of "Danke Schön."
** Five minutes into the film we see [=McAllister=] throwing questions to the class and asking "[[Creator/BenStein Anybody]]?"
** The scene where he prowls around Linda's yard and ends up getting injured and increasingly disheveled is reminiscent of what happens to [[Creator/JeffreyJones Principal Rooney]] in the older film.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Tracy, actually; as author Creator/TomPerrotta noted, in the book she is portrayed as far more of a FilleFatale and less vulnerable.
** Broderick's Mr. [=McAllister=] narrates a lot, and is shown taking showers in a very similar manner to that of Ferris; all that's needed is a chorus of "Danke Schön."
** Five minutes into the film we see [=McAllister=] throwing questions to the class and asking "[[Creator/BenStein Anybody]]?"
** The scene where he prowls around Linda's yard and ends up getting injured and increasingly disheveled is reminiscent of what happens to [[Creator/JeffreyJones Principal Rooney]] in the older film.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Tracy, actually; as author Creator/TomPerrotta noted, in the book she is portrayed as far more of a FilleFatale and less vulnerable.
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* SpiritualSequel: With its dry tone and Creator/MatthewBroderick's narration, some have seen this movie as a de facto sequel to ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', in which an older Ferris must contend with the results of his carefree youth finally catching up with him.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: Tracy gains a lot more sympathy from modern viewers (including author Tom Perrotta, whose 2022 sequel ''Tracy Flick Can't Win'' is much more on her side). AcademicAlphaBitch or not, she is still just a kid being groomed by a teacher and blamed for it, with another teacher who antagonizes her relentlessly. There are also strong implications that she's not really right in the head.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: Tracy gains a lot more sympathy from modern viewers (including author Tom Perrotta, whose 2022 sequel ''Tracy Flick Can't Win'' is much more on her side). AcademicAlphaBitch or not, she is still just a kid being groomed by a teacher and blamed for it, with another teacher who antagonizes her relentlessly. There are also strong implications that she's not really right in the head.
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* SpiritualSequel: SpiritualSuccessor: With its dry tone and Creator/MatthewBroderick's narration, some have seen this movie as a de facto sequel to ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', in which an older Ferris must contend with the results of his carefree youth finally catching up with him.
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** Tracy gains a lot more sympathy from modern viewers (including author Tom Perrotta, whose 2022 sequel ''Tracy Flick Can't Win'' is much more on her side). AcademicAlphaBitch or not, she is still just a kid being groomed by a teacher and blamed for it, with another teacher who antagonizes her relentlessly. There are also strong implications that she's not really right in the head.
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** Tracy gains a lot more sympathy from modern viewers (including author Tom Perrotta, whose 2022 sequel ''Tracy Flick Can't Win'' is much more on her side). AcademicAlphaBitch or not, she is still just a kid being groomed by a teacher and blamed for it, with another teacher who antagonizes her relentlessly. There are also strong implications that she's not really right in the head.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Being fired is the ''absolute least'' one would hope would happen to a high school teacher who had sex with a student. [=McAllister=] blaming Tracy for "ruining his life" is literally UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming.
* ValuesDissonance: Tracy's relationship with Dave Novotny is bound to be viewed in a different light after the [=#MeToo=] era. [=McAllister=] blaming a high school student for his adult friend's inability to control his behavior comes across as distasteful at best, and victim blaming at worst. Watching it today, it definitely gives a more unsympathetic interpretation of [=McAllister=].
* ValuesDissonance: Tracy's relationship with Dave Novotny is bound to be viewed in a different light after the [=#MeToo=] era. [=McAllister=] blaming a high school student for his adult friend's inability to control his behavior comes across as distasteful at best, and victim blaming at worst. Watching it today, it definitely gives a more unsympathetic interpretation of [=McAllister=].
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Being fired is the ''absolute least'' one would hope would happen to a high school teacher who had sex with a student. [=McAllister=] blaming Tracy for "ruining his life" is literally UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming.
* ValuesDissonance:ValuesDissonance:
** Tracy's relationship with Dave Novotny is bound to be viewed in a different light after the [=#MeToo=] era. [=McAllister=] blaming a high school student for his adult friend's inability to control his behavior comes across as distasteful at best, and victim blaming at worst. Watching it today, it definitely gives a more unsympathetic interpretation of [=McAllister=].
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** Tracy's relationship with Dave Novotny is bound to be viewed in a different light after the [=#MeToo=] era. [=McAllister=] blaming a high school student for his adult friend's inability to control his behavior comes across as distasteful at best, and victim blaming at worst. Watching it today, it definitely gives a more unsympathetic interpretation of [=McAllister=].
