Accepted (2006): Dramatic Speech

The clip Dramatic Speech from Accepted (2006) with Justin Long, Anthony Heald

You have one formal teacher for upwards of 300 students?
Mr. Gaines.
Answer the question.
Nah, I'm not gonna answer your question,
'cause you guys have already made up your minds.
I'm an expert in rejection,
and I can see it on your faces.
And it's too bad that you judge us by the way we look
and not by who we are.
Just because you want us to be more like them
when the truth is we're not like them.
And I am damn proud of that fact.
Rock on!
I mean,
Harmon College and their... and their 100 years of tradition.
But tradition of what?
Of hazing kids
and humiliating anyone who's a little bit different?
Of putting so much pressure on kids
they turn into these... these stress freaks and caffeine addicts.
Your phony school demeans real colleges everywhere!
Why? Why can't we both exist? Huh?
You can have your grades, and your rules
and your structure, and your ivory towers,
and then we'll do things our way.
Why do we have to conform to what you want?
Your curriculum is a joke, and you, sir, are a criminal.
You know what? You're a criminal.
'Cause you rob these kids of their creativity and their passion.
That's the real crime!
Yeah. Maybe he's right.
Well, what about you parents?
Did... Did the system really work out for you?
Did it teach you to follow your heart,
or to just play it safe, roll over?
What about you guys?
Did you always want to be school administrators?
Dr. Alexander, was that your dream?
Or maybe no, maybe you wanted to be a poet.
Maybe you wanted to be a magician or an artist.
Maybe you just wanted to travel the world.
Look, I... I... I... I lied to you.
I lied to all of you, and I'm sorry.
Dad, especially to you.
But out of that desperation, something happened that was so amazing.
Life was full of possibilities.
A
A-And isn't that what you ultimately want for us?
As parents, I mean, is... is that, is possibilities.
Well, we came here today to ask for your approval,
and something just occurred to me.
I don't give a shit!

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