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19 Jan 2007, 1:45 am

heh i thought Napoleon Dynamite was incredibly boring. He could have AS though.



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19 Jan 2007, 2:39 am

I think "Brick" from 40 yr-old virgin displayed WAY more aspie traits.

Napoleon can dance though.... and I seem to remember a previous poll here where an overwhelming majority of ppl said they couldn't &/or didn't like dancing.

I say he's just nerdy.

edit: Oh... and wouldn't he have gone off on his mom (or aunt or granmother~w/e ) for saying "quesa-dil-uh" instead of quesadilla? Even that drove me batty!


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19 Jan 2007, 11:52 am

Sedaka wrote:
I think "Brick" from 40 yr-old virgin displayed WAY more aspie traits.


Brick from "Anchorman"
Brendan from "Brick"
Steve Carell's character from "The 40-Year-Old-Virgin"

All displayed some Aspie traits one way or the other.



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19 Jan 2007, 12:37 pm

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I would say yes. I dug his drawing skills because they reminded me of myself. Always drawing on the back of my school papers. Maybe he is just a geek though.


Heh heh.

In my freshman year, {I am now a junior} I used to write on the back of my papers, especially ones for Algebra.


If papers = exams, I did it too :oops:, only once :P I was so bored in programming class, I was like 16 at that time, and drew a LARGE smiley face on the back of one page in my exam
and handed it like that to my teacher... :oops:

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Napoleon Dynamite=Really cool movie!

I totally agree!



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19 Jan 2007, 1:21 pm

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If Napolean was AS he'd actually be good at art.


....?



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19 Jan 2007, 1:26 pm

Sedaka wrote:
I think "Brick" from 40 yr-old virgin displayed WAY more aspie traits.


I thought that before. Because he rode a bycycle (even though he worked a job that could earn him a car)

And his social-interaction wasn't as good as his friends's

Plus he collected action-figures, lotsa them!


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19 Jan 2007, 2:19 pm

I watched that and thought it was pretty dumb.

There was some bits which stuck out and were funny like when he was dancing.

But in all, I found it stupid.



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19 Jan 2007, 3:25 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
Sedaka wrote:
I think "Brick" from 40 yr-old virgin displayed WAY more aspie traits.


Brick from "Anchorman"
Brendan from "Brick"
Steve Carell's character from "The 40-Year-Old-Virgin"

All displayed some Aspie traits one way or the other.


yeah, that's why i put "brick" in quotations.... cause i couldn't remember his real name lol thanks :o


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19 Jan 2007, 5:22 pm

Heh, funny this topic should come up. I was just watching this the other day and thinking, "It seems like half the people in this movie have AS..." :P

Of course the people in it were just actors, but I wonder if the director was influenced at all by Asperger's he knew in real life...

I thought it was mildly funny... at some parts...


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19 Jan 2007, 5:24 pm

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If Napolean was AS he'd actually be good at art.

Not true at all. I'm pretty sure I'm AS and I'm absolutely horrible at art. Logic is my strength and creativity is my weakness.



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19 Jan 2007, 10:51 pm

computerlove wrote:
AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
ghostgurl wrote:
I would say yes. I dug his drawing skills because they reminded me of myself. Always drawing on the back of my school papers. Maybe he is just a geek though.


Heh heh.

In my freshman year, {I am now a junior} I used to write on the back of my papers, especially ones for Algebra.


If papers = exams, I did it too :oops:, only once :P I was so bored in programming class, I was like 16 at that time, and drew a LARGE smiley face on the back of one page in my exam
and handed it like that to my teacher... :oops:

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
Napoleon Dynamite=Really cool movie!

I totally agree!


Nah, papers=the regular biweekly Algebra test. I used to write whatever popped into my head.
Napoleon Dynamite=Really DUMB movie!



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19 Jan 2007, 10:53 pm

dgd1788 wrote:
Sedaka wrote:
I think "Brick" from 40 yr-old virgin displayed WAY more aspie traits.


I thought that before. Because he rode a bycycle (even though he worked a job that could earn him a car)

And his social-interaction wasn't as good as his friends's

Plus he collected action-figures, lotsa them!


Now I remember! Steve Carell's character from 40-Year-Old-Virgin was named Andy.



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19 Jan 2007, 11:27 pm

I had to laugh when he was dancing when the music stopped and he didn't know what to do and turns and runs off the stage.



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20 Jan 2007, 1:01 pm

I read in several interviews Jon Heder had over and over claimed that Napoleon Dynamite was never intended to portray any 'mental illness' or disorder... that he was just intended as a kinda a sterotypical geek type character, a character with bits and pieces that a larger audience could in some ways relate too. I can't remember the websites now as it's been well over a year or so since I read them.



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20 Jan 2007, 3:41 pm

MishLuvsHer2Boys wrote:
I read in several interviews Jon Heder had over and over claimed that Napoleon Dynamite was never intended to portray any 'mental illness' or disorder... that he was just intended as a kinda a sterotypical geek type character, a character with bits and pieces that a larger audience could in some ways relate too. I can't remember the websites now as it's been well over a year or so since I read them.


We heard you the first time.

But that doesn't mean the character didn't turn out to have AS traits, regardless of what Heder was trying to do.



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20 Jan 2007, 4:21 pm

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Stupid movie



I agree. same goes for 40 year old virgin