Blackboard Jungle Comments

  • Kirsten 2023-07-31 14:17:08

    A lot of depth if you could put it down to 120 minutes to straighten out the turning points of a few characters would make a great educational...

  • Winnifred 2023-07-21 01:44:47

    The collision between rebellious youth and the education system, the metaphor of "jungle" is very appropriate, the emerging violence of students is like wild animals, and needs the training of animal trainers (teachers). The emerging and controversial rock music (students) is corroding traditional jazz (teacher), as the scene of the students smashing jazz records shows. Twelve years later, Sidney Poitier, a black student, turned into a people's teacher who taught students in "I Love My...

  • 2023-07-20 12:13:37

    Films from 70 years ago are still fully applicable today. Where is our evolution? Bad guys will always be there, regardless of age or circumstance. Instead of highlighting the changes made by teachers and the changes made by students, the focus is all on conflict, which is bold. My heart breaks for the rebellious boy singing Exodus. I guess we all learn sth from school, even teachers. What made me give up my passion for...

  • Glennie 2023-05-15 09:05:22

    Compared to "Rebel Without a Cause" and "The Bikers", the white little Alfie in this film is indeed more stubborn for no reason, and the black student played by Sidney Poitier is more like a baby normal youth during the tide. But the protagonist of this film must be the teacher played by Glenn Ford, the image of this great educator is too role...

  • Jayda 2023-05-14 03:41:51

    This teacher and even this movie are too idealistic, which makes me sad. According to my experience, this kind of teacher who really takes trash students seriously will collapse sooner or later, and it is laziness that is more difficult to deal with than evil. Share a little life experience: When facing someone who treats you as a fool, either fuck him or make him more unhappy than you,...

  • Mireya 2023-05-12 14:48:07

    Personally I think it's pretty normal. The atmosphere of film noir is matched with educational film, and the final freak is made. I really don't like it the more I watch it, the whole situation is too...

  • Ernestine 2023-03-20 07:44:28

    It has to be said that the audio-visual language is too moderate, which may also represent the moderation of the position. It did not use a strong lens to shape the teacher, nor did it use extra ink to make people sympathize with the plight of the bad boy's post-war family collapse. The political environment in the American North in the 1950s was surprisingly sensitive. The teacher finally domesticates the students. It is through patience and perseverance that the students' interest and sense...

  • Erika 2023-03-20 02:42:38

    Rock, hardcore. The works that describe the beat generation are mostly from the perspective of teenagers, telling how they are confused and helpless. In literature, such as "The Catcher in the Rye" and "On the Road", the teacher's perspective is very uncommon, and it can still be filmed. Gotta be so hardcore and rock 'n' roll; America belongs to the...

  • Eula 2023-03-19 10:44:49

    This is what I like about Americans. I prepare everything in advance. Haha, the blackboard jungle has memories of what I saw when I was in junior high school. I really like the straightforwardness and the feeling of being a student. I really want to go back...

  • Elwyn 2023-02-27 22:02:56

    Same year as Rebel Without a...

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  • Bethany 2022-10-23 23:04:52

    Chalkboard Jungle

    The title of this film is particularly good. The blackboard is the main medium for transmitting knowledge in schools, symbolizing education. Education often represents "love and hope". ”, this film tells exactly such a story with intense conflict and opposition. I like this film very much....

  • Demetrius 2022-10-23 23:24:10

    Youth, Exploitation and Hollywood's 1955

    It's the end of the road, boy

    Critic Gilbert Shields argued in 1950 about the value of teenage audiences to Hollywood: "The real moviegoers are made up of younger people . . . Children survive, they always automatically and habitually slip away to see the movies... Half of the people over the age of...

Blackboard Jungle quotes

  • Pete V. Morales: [talking into a recorder in front of the class] I get up at 7:30, go wash. But my stinking sister, she's still in the bathroom, so I can't get in.

    Richard Dadier: That's fine, boy. keep on talking.

    Pete V. Morales: So then I go to the stinking bathroom. I wash my stinking face. Then I eat some stinking sausages.

    Artie West: Louder, come on!

    Emmanuel Stoker: We can't hear you in the balcony.

    Pete V. Morales: So then I go down the stinking street with my stinking books, and then I meet this stink-face who lives near me. And he says: "You go to school, Pete?" I say, "You stinking right, boy!" So we walked to the stinking El, and wait for the stinking train. What do you think? The stinking train is late. So I gotta get into the stinking crowd. And that's why I'm stinking late to school, teach. How was I? Okay?

    De Lica: You sure stunk up that record, boy!

    [whole class applauds and laughs]

    Richard Dadier: That'll be enough for the day.

    Artie West: You gonna play it?

    Richard Dadier: No. Thanks for picking Morales. I'm sure you're his "friend".

    Gregory W. Miller: Sure enough, chief. Too bad you can't say the same.

    Richard Dadier: And just what does that mean?

    Artie West: Morales is a spic, that's what it means. Maybe you don't like spics.

    Richard Dadier: That will be enough of that, West.

    Pete V. Morales: What did I do , anyhow?

    Artie West: All right, sit down... spic.

    Belazi: You heard him, greaseball.

    Pete V. Morales: At least I'm no Irish Mick!

    [Belazi throws a magazine at Morales]

    Richard Dadier: I said, that will be enough!

    Richard Dadier: Now, you pick up that magazine , Belazi. Pick it up! I wanna get one thing very clear in this classroom.There's not gonna be any name calling here. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Now you understand that? All of ya!

    Pete V. Morales: I was just kidding.

    Richard Dadier: Yeah, I know you're just kidding. That's how things start. Like a street fight. Somebody pushes somebody in fun. Somebody pushes back, and soon you got a street fight with no kidding. That's the same way with name-calling. All right, West, look. You're of Irish descent. So is Murphy over there. You call him a Mick. He calls you a Mick. Suppose Miller called you a Mick. Is that all right? Then you call him a nigger.

    Pete V. Morales: I was just kidding.

    Richard Dadier: Well, stop kidding!

    Artie West: Sure, sure. Come on, Morales. Tell me all about your stinking sister!

    [whole class laughs and the bell rings]

  • Richard Dadier: Now, pretty soon, you're gonna be reading in the newspapers want ads for jobs, apartments, something to buy. Advertising space is expensive so abbreviations are used. Now, write out the complete words to all the abbreviations in these problem ads. All right, get started.

    [Dadier notices Belazi coping anwsers from Morales paper]

    Richard Dadier: Belazi. Let's keep your eyes on your paper.

    Belazi: Me?

    Richard Dadier: Cheating won't help you learn those abbreviations, you know.

    Artie West: He won't look for no job. His old man owns a store.

    Belazi: Yeah, and I'm not gonna buy me me no Cadillac either.

    Artie West: No, It's cheaper to steal one. That's arithmetic for ya, teach.

    Richard Dadier: All right, Belazi. Bring me your paper up here.

    [Belazi gets up and hands over his paper to Dadier]

    Belazi: Five points off. What for?

    Richard Dadier: For having loose eyes.

    Richard Dadier: [Dadier notices that West is cheating also] West!

    Artie West: You talking to me, teach?

    Richard Dadier: Bring your paper up here West.

    Artie West: What for?

    Richard Dadier: I said bring your paper up here.

    Artie West: And I said , what for?

    Gregory W. Miller: Come on, Artie. Bring him the paper.

    Artie West: Now , look, you keep your rotten mouth out of this, black boy.

    [Miller stands up ready to pounce on West]

    Richard Dadier: Miller!... Hold it... All right. All right, Miller. It's all right. Now, bring your paper up here, West.

    [West crumbles the paper and throws it on the floor]

    Richard Dadier: All right, we're going down to see the principal.

    Artie West: We are? You gonna make me, Daddy-O? How'd you like to go to hell?

    Belazi: What's the matter, Daddy-O?

    Artie West: Yeah, how about it, teach? You got a big mouth. Tell me to do this, do that. Are you big enough to take me to the principal's office? Beacause that's what you're gonna have to do. Take me. So, come on! Take me! Come on!

    [Dadier approaches West and West pulls out a switchblade. This stops Dadier in his tracks and the rest of the class gets up and out of the way]

    Artie West: Come on. For a bright boy, you didn't learn nothing. Well, take me down. Come on. Step right up and taste a little of this , Daddy-O.

    Richard Dadier: Give me that knife, West.

    Artie West: Where do you want it? You want it in the belly? Or how about in the face, huh? Here it is. All you gotta do is take it. Come on, take it! Come on!

    Gregory W. Miller: Take it easy, chief. He's crazy, he's high, he's floating on Sneaky Pete wine.

    Pete V. Morales: He's gonna kill him.