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Contents 1 Catcher in the Rye 2 Winona Ryder's career? 3 Columbine 4 Similiar Movies made Earlier 5 That is so 1988 6 "Films based on urban legends" 7 Why where the images all removed/deleted? 8 Nancy Marchand? 9 Heathers reference used in Eureka SciFi TV series 10 Fair use rationale for Image:Heathers.jpg

[edit] Catcher in the Rye

In the 'Special Features' section on the DVD, the writer specifically mentions that he wanted to reference 'The Catcher in the Rye' rather than 'Moby Dick' because it would have been funnier. Why is there a "citation needed" tag there? I am removing it until someone can tell me why it shouldn't be there. 68.44.224.112 01:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)BadMojoDE

[edit] Winona Ryder's career?

The article currently says that the main character, Veronica, was "played by Winona Ryder in the role that broke her career." First off, is this saying "broke" as in "it was her breakthrough," or as in "it destroyed her career"? Neither seems to be supported by Winona's article, which states that Beetlejuice was probably her breakthrough role, and lists several films that she made after Heathers. --LostLeviathan 17:37, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, that was weird. I got rid of that comment. --DoorFrame 09:16, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Columbine

I thought this movie prefigured the Columbine massacre in many ways.--Rockero 20:12, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

umm, I doubt it...the Columbine massacre killers didn't go on the killing spree because they got the idea from Heathers..they shot all the people because they where sick of being bullied, not because of "Heathers" 202.6.138.34 11:18, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Similiar Movies made Earlier

I recall seeing a movie circa the late 60's early 70's that is extremely similiar. It features takes place in a college which is ruled by a clique of "beautiful" jocks who terrorize various other cliques through various means including physical intimidation. One of the jocks, the outsider of the group is injured in a handgliding accident that leaves him with a limp and as a result is cast out of the clique. He gets to know the "oppressed" cliques and develops a crush on a girl (who looks something like Winona Ryder). The outsider jock kills the other members of his clique by draining the pool (in an earlier scene it is established that they have a key to the pool and jump from the high dive at night after it is closed, when the lights are out, so the jocks do not realize that they are jumping do their death into an empty pool).

What follows is the realization that the "oppressed clicks" are no better at "ruling" the university that the jocks. In a series of increasingly short episode, the new ruling clique shows itself to be just as unenlightened, the new ruling clique at first attempts to co-opt and then is murdered by the outsider person.

In the climactic final scene, the outsider person is going to blow up the campus gym with a bomb placed in the boiler room during a dance, but because the girl whom he has a crush on (who is the only person who knows that the bomb is there) refuses to leave the gym, the outsider attempts to remove the bomb from the school, but because of his limp cannot both get the bomb out of the school and also get away and as a result is killed.

I don't remember what the movie's title.

[edit] That is so 1988

Didn't the whole "that's so last year/last century/last week" meme originate from a line in this film? Probably worth mentioning if so. --80.3.179.56 12:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Your close, instead of that is "so last year" one of the charecters says "god, bulemia..that is so 1987!", so I guess that the film started that pharse, so yeah I think I'll add it. 202.6.138.34 11:14, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

WHY does no one add the movie "Jawbreaker" as a movie linked to "heathers" it obviously, is.

[edit] "Films based on urban legends"

Heathers is included in the category "Films based on urban legends." Upon what urban legend is this film allegedly based? Roland Deschain 09:27, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why where the images all removed/deleted?

Why where all the images removed from the page, that's just silly. If it's a problem of too many, then however could have left 1 or 2! Or they could have explained why they removed them on the talk page, I'm adding a few back in!

They've all been deleted, can someone please add one or two new ones in, that would be great. Jfpearce 03:38, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nancy Marchand?

Cannot find source for Nancy being the teacher who was "Impressed by the word Myriad in Heather's suicide note." Cr8tiv

[edit] Heathers reference used in Eureka SciFi TV series

In Season 2 of Eureka, the episode of "Space Junk" refers to group of brainy Heather girls in such a way that you know they are refering a style of cruel girls like in the "Heathers" movie.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Heathers.jpg

Image:Heathers.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 00:34, 7 November 2007 (UTC)