Of The Herd

I keep watching this movie over and over again. It's not my favorite movie, but it's the only one that my dad lets me have. I've seen clips of other movies in the commercials, but we only have the kind of tv that's in black and white, and sometimes it fuzzes up if the antenna on it isn't right.

I sometimes wonder if I've seen the scenes more than the actors had to take them. They probably didn't take too many times to look over the script. All the characters are just stereotypes of themselves. The blonde girl is the punchline of everything she says, saying something stupid every couple of seconds. The main character is a strong white man with short hair who constantly impresses his love interest. His love interest "plays hard to get" until the very end. She has dark hair and pale skin. The sidekick has no particular love interest, and is very clumsy in contrast to the main character. There's a token black man, who has an urban accent and is the comedy of the movie. I wonder why none of the actors never tried to tell people they weren't like this. Fitting roles just to make money I guess. I know everyone but the main character was thinking this was demoralizing. I wonder what the main character was thinking.

I like to draw the characters when I watch. I try to make my own comics, of people who aren't the same thing everyone has seen, but they always end up looking too much like the characters in the movie. It's always too dark in our house for me to see myself, and dad usually doesn't come down to talk to me. Someday when I'm much older I'm going to go out and watch another movie, that's what I hope.

I have a feeling those characters will look the same too though.