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\\\"Dawson Casting: Resse Witherspoon and Chris Klein were 23 and 20 respectively when they starred in this film.\\\"
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
\\\"Cool Loser: Tammy\\\"
Doesn\\\'t fit the description on that page (\\\"when a character who is smart, funny, fashionable and good looking is portrayed as being much less popular than they would be in real life\\\"), she is ordinary looking, very different to her popular brother and quite believable as a social outcast. The only cool things about her are perhaps her rebelliousness and the way her \\\"Who cares about this stupid election\\\" speech goes down.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim [=McAllister=] is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be an American Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a future world leader (or any powerful politician) is quite frightening.
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
\\\"Cool Loser: Tammy\\\"
Doesn\\\'t fit the description on that page (\\\"when a character who is smart, funny, fashionable and good looking is portrayed as being much less popular than they would be in real life\\\"), she is ordinary looking, very different to her popular brother and quite believable as a social outcast. The only cool things about her are perhaps her rebelliousness and the way her \\\"Who cares about this stupid election\\\" speech goes down.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim [=McAllister=] is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be an American Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a future world leader (or any powerful politician) is quite frightening.
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\\\"Dawson Casting: Resse Witherspoon and Chris Klein were 23 and 20 respectively when they starred in this film.\\\"
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
\\\"Cool Loser: Tammy\\\"
Doesn\\\'t seem to fit the description on that page (\\\"when a character who is smart, funny, fashionable and good looking is portrayed as being much less popular than they would be in real life\\\"), she is ordinary looking, very different to her popular brother and quite believable as a social outcast. The only cool things about her are perhaps her rebelliousness and the way her \\\"Who cares about this stupid election\\\" speech goes down.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim [=McAllister=] is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be an American Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a future world leader (or any powerful politician) is quite frightening.
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
\\\"Cool Loser: Tammy\\\"
Doesn\\\'t seem to fit the description on that page (\\\"when a character who is smart, funny, fashionable and good looking is portrayed as being much less popular than they would be in real life\\\"), she is ordinary looking, very different to her popular brother and quite believable as a social outcast. The only cool things about her are perhaps her rebelliousness and the way her \\\"Who cares about this stupid election\\\" speech goes down.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim [=McAllister=] is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be an American Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a future world leader (or any powerful politician) is quite frightening.
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\\\"Dawson Casting: Resse Witherspoon and Chris Klein were 23 and 20 respectively when they starred in this film.\\\"
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
\\\"Cool Loser: Tammy\\\"
Doesn\\\'t seem to fit the description on that page (\\\"when a character who is smart, funny, fashionable and good looking is portrayed as being much less popular than they would be in real life\\\"), she is quite ordinary looking, very different to her popular brother and her moody personality makes her quite believable as a social outcast. The only cool things about her are perhaps her rebelliousness and the way her \\\"Who cares about this stupid election\\\" speech goes down.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim [=McAllister=] is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be an American Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a future world leader (or any powerful politician) is quite frightening.
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
\\\"Cool Loser: Tammy\\\"
Doesn\\\'t seem to fit the description on that page (\\\"when a character who is smart, funny, fashionable and good looking is portrayed as being much less popular than they would be in real life\\\"), she is quite ordinary looking, very different to her popular brother and her moody personality makes her quite believable as a social outcast. The only cool things about her are perhaps her rebelliousness and the way her \\\"Who cares about this stupid election\\\" speech goes down.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim [=McAllister=] is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be an American Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a future world leader (or any powerful politician) is quite frightening.
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\\\"Dawson Casting: Resse Witherspoon and Chris Klein were 23 and 20 respectively when they starred in this film.\\\"
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim [=McAllister=] is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be an American Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a future world leader (or any powerful politician) is quite frightening.
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim [=McAllister=] is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be an American Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a future world leader (or any powerful politician) is quite frightening.
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\\\"Dawson Casting: Resse Witherspoon and Chris Klein were 23 and 20 respectively when they starred in this film.\\\"
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim [=McAllister=] is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be an American Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a future world leader is quite frightening.
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim [=McAllister=] is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be an American Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a future world leader is quite frightening.
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\\\"Dawson Casting: Resse Witherspoon and Chris Klein were 23 and 20 respectively when they starred in this film.\\\"
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim McAllister is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be an American Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a future world leader is quite frightening.
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim McAllister is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be an American Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a future world leader is quite frightening.
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\\\"Dawson Casting: Resse Witherspoon and Chris Klein were 23 and 20 respectively when they starred in this film.\\\"
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim McAllister is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be a future Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a world leader is quite frightening.
As a matter of fact, Chris Klein was discovered at one of the high schools in Omaha, Nebraska that Alexander Payne visited while preparing for the film (although not the one was eventually used). He would have been 19 when this was filmed and in his first year out of school, playing a high school junior only 2 years younger. So not quite \\\"Dawson Casting\\\" there.
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: [Tracy] later becomes a Congressional aide, with it strongly implied that she is having a sexual relationship with the older man.\\\"
I wouldn\\\'t say \\\"strongly\\\" implied, we just see Tracy chatting (inaudibly) to the congressman and getting into a limo with him. Although they seem to be getting on well, she could just be brown-nosing him. I think this is a case of YMMV. She\\\'s quite a frigid character and I\\\'m not sure she\\\'s the type that would try to sleep her way to the top. After all, her previous affair with the teacher was not done to try and get ahead, rather he was seducing her. This is also mentioned in the \\\"Bittersweet Ending\\\" bit.
\\\"Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Deconstructed. The student council is ultimately revealed at the end of the film as being highly dysfunctional, to the point that Tracy can\\\'t get anything accomplished during her tenure as President.\\\"
Again, YMMV. The scene just shows the council voting on something and not quite being unanimous, with Tracy taking things very seriously as usual. It doesn\\\'t say that Tracy couldn\\\'t get anything accomplished, and we all know this is only a stepping stone for her. I think it just makes being in the student government look boring and mundane (although that\\\'s no different to anything else in that school). I would keep the entry of this trope but change the description to the council being insignificant rather than dysfunctional.
Also here it says:
\\\"Where Are They Now?\\\" Epilogue: Unfortunately for Tracy, everyone on Student Council hates her (and each other in general), meaning that Tracy\\\'s tenure is a miserable experience all around.\\\"
The film doesn\\\'t say that, it just shows she wasn\\\'t any more popular after becoming President, her senior year was anti-climatic and she still didn\\\'t have many friends (she says hardly anyone signed her yearbook). The student council types are shown to be quite mild-mannered and dutiful (see: Larry - the one who counts the election votes), the ones who dislike Tracy seem to be the ones who don\\\'t care, like Tammy and the \\\'Eat Me\\\' boy.
And finally:
\\\"Pick On Someone Your Own Size\\\"
Just my opinion really, but although Jim McAllister is the \\\"bigger\\\" one at this point in time, it seems very much like Tracy has the potential to be a future Margaret Thatcher (she\\\'s obviously quite right wing), and at one point Jim wonders how high she will go and how many people will suffer because of her. The thought of her as a world leader is quite frightening.
