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The Latin School Movie: A Useful Guide to Navigating the World of Academic Cinema
- Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan)
- Regina George (Rachel McAdams) - leader of The Plastics
- Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert)
- Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried)
- Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan)
- Damian Leigh (Daniel Franzese)
- The Wax Tablet Montage: A student scrapes a stylus across a wax tablet to erase a mistake. This visual is the genre’s equivalent of the chalkboard eraser fight.
- The Slave-Teacher (Paedagogus): Usually a Greek slave who is smarter than the Roman master’s son. He sighs a lot and quotes Homer incorrectly.
- The "Bread and Circuses" Lecture: At some point, a cynical politician explains that the mob is controlled by panem et circenses. This is the genre’s thesis statement.
- The Exotic Etruscan: There is always a mysterious soothsayer or an "Etruscan priestess" who speaks in riddles and predicts doom.
- The British Accent for Nobility: Patricians sound like Laurence Olivier. Plebeians sound like Phil Silvers or, in modern takes, like they are from Brooklyn.
: Famous for a specific "piece" or scene where a Roman centurion forces a graffiti artist to correct his Latin grammar ("Romani ite domum"). Other Related Media Piece by Piece latin-school-movie