Fiction
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Films where hazing plays an important part in the plot and/or constitutes a forceful scene include if...., Fraternity Row (film), National Lampoon's Animal House, Hell Night, Full Metal Jacket, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (female pledges paddled during initiation ritual), Dazed and Confused (high school freshmen are put through many rituals, including fake "air raids", being covered in food, spanked with a paddle, and forced to lie in a trucks bed while it goes through the car wash), A Few Good Men, The Lords of Discipline, The Skulls, Old School, Jarhead, The Good Shepherd".
In Followers, three friends want to pledge, but only the white ones are accepted, and must target their refused black friend. In the comedy National Lampoon's Pledge This! (2006), sorority president Paris Hilton forces her candidates to eat spoiled sushi, go on a used condom scavenger hunt, and walk around campus wearing diapers and baby bonnets. In Frat Brothers of the KVL (2007), a lacrosse team's excessively dangerous hazing leads to a fatality. W. (2008) about George W. Bush includes a hazing by members of a fictional fraternity.
Sydney White included varying forms of hazing. The film Igby Goes Down, about a cocky, bright young man's coming of age, begins with a blanket party ritual. In the Spike TV sitcom, Blue Mountain State, hazing is depicted among college football players throughout the series.
Isaac Asimov wrote a short story called The Hazing.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is raised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.”
—Andrew Gordon, U.S. educator, critic. “The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1992)
“For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
—Coleman Dowell (1925–1985)