Smart Guys/Gals - People who try way too hard to look smart

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I don't get how someone can claim intelligence in the same breath as basically lumping all of Shakespeare's plays together. You have your Othello and Hamlet but you also have your Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. And that's not going into the comedies. Shit, the movie She's the Man is pretty much exactly the plot of Twelfth Night (with some very clever references actually) and I'm sure that "smart guy" would probably dismiss the film as a frivolous Amanda Bynes movie. Side note, the 1996 adaptation of Twelfth night with Helena Bonham Carter is a riot, highly recommend as a great adaptation and comedy
I love a good Shakespeare play, but it's not like each and every one of them is a masterpiece in high art, most are the equivalent to Jurassic Park, really well executed b-movie equivalent plays
I mean hell, if all his plays required high intelligence to read/watch and understand they wouldn't be teaching Romeo and Juliet to 8th graders
 
Shakespeare's great triumph was not in plotting, but in the poetry of his language. He created over 1700 English words, many of which we still use. His turns of phrase permeate our literature and our culture. That's why his material is so widely taught.
 
Candidae said:
I love a good Shakespeare play, but it's not like each and every one of them is a masterpiece in high art, most are the equivalent to Jurassic Park, really well executed b-movie equivalent plays
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That's not a bad thing, and in a few hundred years, if Twentieth Century art is taught, probably some of those blockbusters now looked down on will have survived the test of time.
 
AnOminous said:
That's not a bad thing, and in a few hundred years, if Twentieth Century art is taught, probably some of those blockbusters now looked down on will have survived the test of time.
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Oh no, I don't think it's bad at all, hence why I mentioned Jurassic Park. But just because something is popular enough to remain and become a classic doesn't make it the most intelligent thing that only super smarts can appreciate like people similar to Reddit guy act. Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, etc are classic movies but Casablanca and Citizen Cane are classics as well and one wouldn't really put them on the same level (despite the former category likely being watched more)
Within the Shakespearian plays you have both categories and it's just very odd to act like only super smarts read them, that they're all on the same level, and that somehow reading these classics makes you better than someone who reads modern classics or just books in general (with the exception of the actually worthless pieces of literature like 50 shades)
 
Thinking more about Shakespeare's plots, I marvel that they are not more widely mocked. Consider the succession of fake and then real suicides at the end of Romeo and Juliet. Wouldn't it have been hilarious if that had continued for a few more rounds?

Suppose Romeo had accidentally drunk a sleeping draught rather than poison, and when he awakens and sees Juliet dead of her self-inflicted dagger blow, he hangs himself. But then Juliet rises! She used a stage dagger Romeo had brought with him, and collapsed from shock as she stabbed herself. Seeing her lover hanging, she slits her wrists and falls. Then the rope breaks, and Romeo, seeing Juliet, takes a sword, and...

You get the idea.
 
Candidae said:
Within the Shakespearian plays you have both categories and it's just very odd to act like only super smarts read them, that they're all on the same level, and that somehow reading these classics makes you better than someone who reads modern classics or just books in general (with the exception of the actually worthless pieces of literature like 50 shades)
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It's literally the base line for just being considered educated, and not advanced education. This is part of the basic education given to everyone, or at least available to everyone.

It's sort of like talking about how much of a nerd you are because you liked the most recent Star Wars movie.
 
AnOminous said:
That's not a bad thing, and in a few hundred years, if Twentieth Century art is taught, probably some of those blockbusters now looked down on will have survived the test of time.
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As someone pointed out, Shakespeare's plays were intended for the lower classes. The ruling class considered themselves above such drivel as they were too busy backstabbing each other and fucking their cousins.
 
Shadfan666xxx000 said:
So we should teach Romeo and Juliet by showing them the DiCaprio version from the 90s?
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Actually my school did. My second English teacher thought the point of Shakespeare was to see it performed. Or rather to hear it, not read it. So sometimes we would watch it, sometimes we would just read it aloud in class. She used the latter to get me to join some drama club because she always wanted someone who could read Shakespeare as naturally as she thought I could.

It is kind of a neat talent to show off when meeting people.
 
Shadfan666xxx000 said:
So we should teach Romeo and Juliet by showing them the DiCaprio version from the 90s?
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My school did that actually, it was in 7th or 8th grade I believe. We had to read it first though, the film was our reward for paying attention and participating in the reading.
 
AnOminous said:
It's literally the base line for just being considered educated, and not advanced education. This is part of the basic education given to everyone, or at least available to everyone.

It's sort of like talking about how much of a nerd you are because you liked the most recent Star Wars movie.
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To be fair, just because you were forced to read Romeo and Juliet doesn't mean you actually understood or appreciated the play. But there's not too much to marvel over anyways.
 
Corbin Dallas Multipass said:
I just recently said in chat "I'd guess my IQ is between 120-140, although admittedly that is a wild guess".

Lol what a fag.
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I agree, what a fag.
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My IQ is 314. On my days off I cruise the galaxy with my pet alien.
 
vertexwindi said:
My IQ is 314. On my days off I cruise the galaxy with my pet alien.
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I'm the smartest man alive, and am currently finalizing my plans for world domination. Could you pick up an anti-matter reactor for me the next time you're out? I'm building a robot army and my power needs are astronomical. I'm going broke from the electric bill alone and I keep getting raided by the cops who think I'm running a grow op. TIA.
 
Godless9 said:
I don't have to try to look smart all I do is humiliate my opponent. I can fucking humiliate anyone in a debate. I can defend bullshit positions and still win because stupid fucks don't know how to debate.

This link I am positing where I am debating this Christian the idiots on this forum won't even understand the arguments we are talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImrxBhJ8SOU
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aw she was banned? shit. That was some prime lolcow material.
 
Zach_Kun said:
>140 IQ
>"Sweedish"
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Of course his IQ is 140! He's far too busy thinking Important Thoughts to be bothered with something as plebeian as proof-reading.
If you have to bring up your IQ, I think it's safe to say you don't have anything substantive to point to when debating someone.
 
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