'Meatballs' at 40: An appreciation of the good-bad movie that launched BillMurray's big-screen career
, many of us would have had a much more difficult time navigating the first two years of high school.
Much of the action centers around a kid named Rudy, played by Chris Makepeace . Rudy, spending his first summer away from home, is described early on as "the short depressed kid we ordered," and that's his role, to go from short, depressed and ostracized to short, happy and loved, another satisfied customer who can't wait to return, giving the film its narrative arc.
Boomers believe in merit, but Gen-Xers know the meritocracy is worse than the old aristocratic order. At least the aristocracy knew it was an aristocracy. It knew it did not deserve what it had, hence the concept of noblesse oblige. The meritocracy has no idea what it is. It believes it's where it is because it works hard and is smart — because of merit.
Bluto might've been an idiot, but he was still playing off Western tradition. He was King Henry in the funhouse mirror. Bill Murray'sspeech sounds like that, but isn't. It's actually that tradition inverted, undermined.
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