Townies harassing cadets outside at the ball
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AW_RATLIFFHxC — 10 years ago(January 01, 2016 10:48 PM)
What I don't understand is; why were those townie kids outside provoking and shouting at the cadets and their guests at the ball? What was the motivation ? Did they really have nothing better to do ? It just didn't make sense to me.
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chas77 — 10 years ago(January 19, 2016 12:54 PM)
I remember asking a guy this same question he was a cadet like these boys and transferred to my high school shortly after this film came out. He said that a lot of these military academies buy land in in small towns because they can get it cheap. So you get a lot of lower-class "townie" types who resent the presence of these guys living there, stealing their girls, etc. Kinda like the townies in "An Officer and a Gentlemen" harassing Richard Gere in that one bar scene.
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mikechoate2000 — 9 years ago(January 24, 2017 11:22 AM)
At that time too in the early 80's we were less than a decade out of Vietnam and that war left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths so it's possible the town kids resented the cadets, plus like another said, it's likely that a majority of the girls were from that town which of course wouldn't sit well with the local boys.