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Post by moviemaniac22 on Jun 14, 2017 18:51:32 GMT
When Nicholson told the young Mat Damon that getting good grades is a paradox, what did he mean?
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Post by moviemaniac22 on Jun 14, 2017 19:19:40 GMT
ok thanks. But you could you interpret that please.
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Post by _ on Jun 14, 2017 19:26:53 GMT
He just meant it didn't matter that they both did well in school.
They both ended up as criminals anyway.
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Post by moviemaniac22 on Jun 14, 2017 19:39:03 GMT
So it means that studying and getting grades and graduating has no relevance in life? Is this because everybody's destiny has other plans?
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Post by _ on Jun 14, 2017 19:46:51 GMT
So it means that studying and getting grades and graduating has no relevance in life? Is this because everybody's destiny has other plans? Yes, or even the idea that "good students" turn out to be "good guys" or have "good jobs" |
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Post by moviemaniac22 on Jun 14, 2017 20:04:18 GMT
thank you for your response. Do you think that if a individual has a degree but not a good job, that it makes them a failure?
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Post by _ on Jun 14, 2017 20:23:33 GMT
thank you for your response. Do you think that if a individual has a degree but not a good job, that it makes them a failure? You are very welcome! And, no, I do not think that is true at all. No one really knows where they will end up! ( by the way the picture of a "pair of docks" was a joke, it just was not a very funny one ) |
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Post by carlcarlson1 on Sept 28, 2017 23:05:05 GMT
Nicholson as Frank Costello: You do well in school?
Damon character Young Colin: Yeah
Nicholson as Frank Costello: Good. So did I. They call that a paradox.
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The fact that Costello got good grades but wound up a criminal is the paradox -- a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion.
If applicable, please mark this SOLVED.
Regards
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Post by Royale H. Oaks on Oct 8, 2017 20:03:35 GMT
I'd like to add a question to the thread please? What did Costello say to the store owner's daughter Carmen that had her laughing in 1 second?
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 8, 2017 22:54:18 GMT
What bothers me more is the comic books they show when he says "do you like comic books?" are not from the right era.
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Post by carlcarlson1 on Oct 11, 2017 2:46:27 GMT
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