Cornell in the Movies

[upprdeck]

My hope is that Quantum leap finds out when its gonna end with enough time to get Bakula into some kind of ending for his char. if its next yr to 5 yrs from now.  Even if he wont come back to film anything  they can do something with it

[nshapiro]

Maybe in some alternate reality, he already has

[Dunc]

This tournament feels relevant lol:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MxnWvIy8r_bTPFy5cVpnbS_FjyLSLkFl_8jG6Rbpr9E/edit#gid=1108555858

[nshapiro]

I am very proud of the fact that most of those entries mean nothing to me.

[George64]

Perhaps the definitive Cornell in the Movies list, courtesy of Corey Earle '07

Here are the downloadable brackets.

[George64]

Waiting for the ECAC playoffs to resume — Love Story

[Trotsky]

Those characters are both so magnificently punchable.  But the movie does provide a valuable public service in demonstrating that, regardless of social caste, Harvard always has sucked and always will suck.

[French Rage]

Rob Lowe's son's character in Unstable on Netflix went to Cornell and there's a quick clip of Rob Lowe's character giving a commencement speech at Cornell.

[upprdeck]

In So Help Me Todd the leads Girlfriend is now attending Cornell.

[Trotsky]

So, Hollwood uses Harvard and Princeton to indicate privilege and Yale and MIT to indicate intelligence.  What are they conveying when they connect a character to Cornell?  Is it "smart but relateable"?

[Weder]

So, Hollwood uses Harvard and Princeton to indicate privilege and Yale and MIT to indicate intelligence.  What are they conveying when they connect a character to Cornell?  Is it "smart but relateable"?

Smart but did not live up to their potential (or did not have the right connections).

(I'm reminded of the scene in the Netflix comedy Never Have I Ever from Mindy Kaling where the college consultant throws the Penn and Cornell mascots into the trash.)

[Trotsky]

Is there any distinction between Eng (best Ivy to go to, smart and perhaps Asian kid) vs A&S (Oh... So close, honeybunny.  Maybe next year in New Haven)?

[George64]

Movie to be released in July, Oppenheimer, "The epic thriller chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic American scientist who ran the Manhattan Project — which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II." As Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Paul Olum (had a class with him, BTW) all worked on the Manhattan Project, I think Cornell may get a mention. Even if not, sounds like an interesting movie.
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Oppenheimer opens in theaters July 21.  Portrayed Cornell faculty include Hans Bethe (Gustaf Skarsgard), Philip Morrison (Harrison Gilbertson) and Richard Feynman (Jack Quaid), also Nobel Laureate, Isidor Isaac Rabi, BS '19 (David Krumholtz).

While at Cornell, Feynman lived at Telluride House, where he said "it's there that I did the fundamental work" for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1965.
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[Trotsky]

My first assignment as a freshman Cornell journalism student was to interview Hans Bethe.

I hope I was not a total jackwagon, but I have my fears.

(My second was Jason Seley -- one of the most wonderful people I ever met.  He died only about a year later.)

[George64]

Jason Seley '40, But where can I get bumpers this big?