-it wasn't him gathering the "ponytail".
-it wasn't even him clipping back his "bang".
-it was the commitment to following through with having such an "extreme" amount of hair, that it was hard to tuck inside the hat while battling the wind.
this is fucking comedic cinema. 😭
I call the Children’s Lit course I teach “Engines of empathy” and position the novels we read as vaccines against hate, stressing to students (18-20 year olds) the importance of the texts for basically this exact reason. If you take them seriously they model important behavior.
Thinkin bout the intersection of classical epic tradition, paternal authority, and moral pedagogy as embodied by Virgil, and also that time Ugolino maybe ate his kids. Fatherhood is a spectrum.