I’m a little late to the party on this one, but last week, Drafthouse posted an undergraduate thesis on the subject of The FP (a favorite around here), entitled “The FP: A Reflection of Cultural Change and Stereotype Exploitation,” from some intercultural communications students at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Forrest Good, Jacqueline Ramstack and Demar Hall. Suffice to say, I read the entire thing. It’s awesome in the way that quotes from blackout drunks embedded into a dry police report are awesome, that endlessly compelling cocktail of clinical robot prose and vulgar vernacular, like making Stephen Hawking read a Penthouse letter.
I’ve excerpted my favorite quotes below:
The lack of alcoholics has caused the local duck population to flee, seeing as there is no one to feed them. As the character KCDC, played by Art Hsu, framed it, “What’s a f*ckin’ town with no ducks, JTRO? It’s nothin’! It ain’t nothin’! How’s a nigga supposed to sort his shit out without no ducks?” (Trost 2011).
Probably the first time in academic history that a motivational speech about bringing back the town’s supply of booze and ducks has been used in a citation. Hopefully not the last.
The FP takes these concepts to an extreme, because it employs the monomyth, it is put in the same cultural conversation as many legitimately respected writings across the world such as Beowulf or The Lord of the Rings.
“…such as Beowulf or Lord of the Rings.” On one hand, I hope they mean the books, because I don’t like the idea that Beowulf and the Lord of the Rings movies are considered “legitimately respected.” If they mean the books, I like to imagine they pulled them blindly from a dirty pillowcase marked “EXAMPLES.”
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