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REVISITING CLASSICS: 3

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Today we delve into the mind of Richard Linklater and his classic movie; School of Rock. School of Rock is one of Linklater's underrated films and he is known more for the iconic film, Boyhood. But School of Rock holds an important place of its own. The film started on a premise of a failed Rock Band singer trying to fit himself into the mainstream (make some money to earn a living) and in the process fakes as Temp teacher to get into a premier and elite Private School (as a proxy to his friend) and thereby gathering the momentum amongst a deadbeat set of students already loaded with the parochial and archaic pedagogy of modern education (a kind of ridicule on the modern education which is incentivized at every step). School of Rock is not a regular music based film but goes beyond the realm of it to showcase how passion is important in things that you want to do. An iconic Jack Black (Dewey Finn) was just the right guy to play the failed musician and his energy, passion and love f...