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.
Read more about this topic: Hazing
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)
“Coincidence is a pimp and a cardsharper in ordinary fiction but a marvelous artist in the patterns of facts recollected by a non-ordinary memorist.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)