![]() ![]() In real Yale, Skull and Bones, "Bones", or as it's more properly named, The Knights of Demosthenes, is a secret society (one of several - Berzelius, Scroll and Key, Wolf's Head, Book and Snake, and one or two minor players) based in a stone tomb-like American Neoclassical building whose rites involve a mandatory two-day grilling about one's public life and private life, including sexual details. ![]() In the film's version kids dance on tables after the Big Win, eat tofu pizza (say what?) and get to take the loving cup home to keep. At the real Mory's, the architecture and furnishings are Federalist, the membership is staid, and the food, the apotheosis of American blue-blood bland. ![]() The fictional "Y" University, on the other hand, is a college almost entirely inhabited by sosh Aryan Youth, who live in palatial dorm suites complete with priceless antiques, and totally diss anyone not of their blue-blood grandeur. Real Yale has a varied student body, who are sartorially half trying to be "real Ivy League" and half experimenting with hair dye and the more advanced forms of body piercing, a progressive political bent, gorgeous music (clubs of all kinds, aside from regular choruses, sing together at least once per meeting), awe-inspiring ceremonies, and residential "colleges" that resemble palaces on the outside, and monks' cells (complete with kicked-around Mission and International-style furniture) inside. The biggest flaw is not that it's not New Haven (although Toronto does a good job of looking New Haven-like), but that the film never quite knows whether it's supposed to be a "serious" thriller (that is, on the level of say, Tom Clancy) or a teen-frightener set in a fantasy university. Crappy but strangely interesting film about the secret society Skull & Bones. ![]()
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