Laura Dern was kicked out of school for filming 'Blue Velvet'

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Laura Dern's College Forced Her to Drop Out Over 'Blue Velvet' and Called Her 'Insane' for Giving Up Her Education; Now the School Teaches the Film: 'Pisses Me Off' https://t.co/a2njZxHEBQ
- Variety (@Variety) July 24, 2024

• Laura Dern was attending UCLA when she auditioned for Blue Velvet and landed the role
• She asked the head of the department for a

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[tigermilk]

1. I love Laura Dern
2. I kind of miss college and writing really Serious Papers about movies and like, how the lighting in the diner scene is a commentary on post-WWII Europe and individual sense of self or whatever

[lamppost1911]

1. Agreed

2. Same but I was not so deep and eloquent but still received A's on my papers/projects. I actually received an A+ once which I didn't think was a thing in college. I remember one I received a C+ but the way they wrote it on my paper (showing my age) it looked like a G so my friends joked that it was a G for GRRRREEEEEEAT. The professor overheard us and asked me to stay after and said he felt bad giving me that grade because he usually looks forward to my writing because I always showed so much enthusiasm but I obv didn't care for the paper topic.

All that to say, I miss being bright eyed and excited about things.

[iznanassi]

2. is why i joined the naruto fandom online lmfao

[my_moloko]

2. I miss those essays too! Deep readings of so many texts, analyzing details, looking at patterns and meanings. Siiiiigh.

[daredevilwolf]

Hope that guy felt like a loser when her career kicked off

also i now own wild at heart and there is a very disturbing scene in it

coupled with the fact at what happened to her at 15

i don't think david lynch would have filmed it if he knew

he's not that kinda guy

[pin_stripe]

I know I’m gonna regret asking, but what happened to her at 15?

[daredevilwolf]

she was sexually assaulted at age 15

and there is a really creepy scene with her and william dafoe in wild at heart that basically is sexual assault

but she only said this a few years ago and wild at heart came out in 1990

so yeah like i said david lynch

not that kinda guy

[solira21]

Yeah, in fact it actually makes me think about how her character was treated in Twin Peaks the Return...like, the anger and pain on her face when her character talks about her assault felt very real & nothing was shown onscreen.

[justrachna]

Men and their fucking emotions need to stop being prioritized. We don’t need equality we need female supremacy. Sorry not sorry. I had a piece of shit head of department in uni tell me I could not take a summer course at university of toronto and was only allowed to take it at guelph or western because he had bad blood with u of t. Okay???? How is it my fault? This is my literal education and you’re playing games because of ~bad blood~. Who fucking cares about your feelings? And I needed to take the course in the summer because of health issues and I could not go to guelph or western as they were too far ahd i didn’t have a car! So i had to stress myself while dealing with health issues and take the course the following year on top of my 3rd year courses. Another time this same man held us hostage in class while he lost his shit and cried because we didn’t understand the lesson and he was jetlagged from paris. This man is revered in our field. For what reason, other than being a white man, I don’t know. I fucking hate him. This dude

[theactualworst]

God I remember I had an English professor who assigned his own book as the required text and if you wrote any dissenting opinions you wouldn’t get higher than a C. Like this is an English course bud! It’s like not like disagreeing with some scientific fact!

Luckily our head of department was a bad ass woman who had taught me before and knew I wasn’t a C student and let me drop the class without penalty. I did an independent study instead.

[justrachna]

Professors assigning their own books for school should not be allowed. I had several profs do that too. It’s pretty much double dipping and exploiting young students. Glad your head of dept was reasonable and gave you a viable alternative

[bellwetherr]

lol jokes on that guy

[nemophilist]

So he was a sexist prick who was wrong, basically.