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The Latin School Movie: A Useful Guide to Navigating the World of Academic Cinema

1. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan)
2. Regina George (Rachel McAdams) - leader of The Plastics
3. Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert)
4. Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried)
5. Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan)
6. 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