The Michigan Daily- Wednesday, October 9, 1991 -Page?7 SHOUT Continued from page 5 of-age movie about boys who save their souls through rock 'n' roll, or John Travolta's character, because the two are synonymous. The story follows five young men who dig ditches and play polkas to pass their time in a hellhole called the Be- nedict School for Boys. Jesse (James Walters), coming soon to the cover of Teenbeat, leads the five by virtue of smoldering sex appeal, causeless rebellion and his ability to pick a mean guitar. Jack Cabe (Travolta) arrives at the dusty school building, which is co-mplemented by a sky streaked with orange and red; most of this movie, it seems, takes place at sun- set, that stage between youth and adulthood, virginity and sexuality, Sousa mar-ches and rock music. Cabe takes the boys under his wing and wins them slowly over with his ut- ter coolness. In fact, his incompati- ebility with this backward town is marked by his cool lingo. After the sheriff pulls the plug on the juke- box for playing "nigger music," Cabe says, "Come on man, be cool." "What kind of a word is cool?" replies this sheriff of the heat and dust. "You're not from around here, are you?" Cabe is the epitomal stranger. One of the first shots of the film frames the city's main street; the movie theater is playing Shane. Cabe is a renegade with a heart of gold, a saviour of lost youth. As the school's music teacher, Cabe sees the boys' frustration with their Fourth of July repertoire and starts teaching them the blues, which more adequately expresses their discontent. They groove and bloom under his tutelage, but there's a problem. The powers that be still think rock 'n' roll is an in- strument of the devil, and they seem singularly opposed to the boys hav- ing any fun whatsoever. Cabe's deep dark secret (doesn't every stranger have one?) crops up every so often to lend the movie some depth. All of the acting is decent, but the characters seem drawn with a cookie cutter instead of a pen. Jesse, our bad boy hero, falls in love with school principal Benedict's daugh- ter, Sara (the inevitably delicious Heather Graham), but only after he's made a bet that he'll "nail her," which causes a bit of a misunder- standing later on. Good girls fall in love with bad boys, and bad boys lust after Black blues musicians. One night, the boys sneak out to the other side of the tracks, a secret blues bar frequented by the hip Cabe and Black people. It's an exotic sexual frenzy for these white boys, who later get in- carcerated because they drink a few beers too many and ring the town bell. Black people represent sexual- ity, and the boys are all too happy to comply. This is followed, of course, by a sermon that warns against "this new music, a foul Black mu- sic," and a preacher who cautions his worshippers to "just say no to it." The dialogue is hokey, and we've seen the plot a thousand times be- fore. The intended identification be- tween persecuted white boys and slaves rings very false. None of the progressions seem plausible: the boys all learn how to play kick-ass blues music in a day, and the entire town rocks by the end of the movie. Shout will appeal primarily to 13-year old girls who'll respond to the sex appeal of the adolescent boys, but they won't notice that the story's about the boys and the boys only. Shout's girls stay locked up in their prep school, except on Sun- days, and the movie validates only the boys' pain and sexual stirrings. But because boys are all Hollywood has to offer for coming-of-age al- legories, junior high girls will have to continue figuring out their se- xuality for themselves, stuck in a whirlpool of virginal expectations and motorcycle fantasies. SHOUT is playing at Showcase and Briarwood. VIDEOS Continued from page 5 learn. W VELASQUEZ AND REMBRANKT TWO FACES OF THE SEVEN- TEENTH CENTURY will be shown today at 12 p.m. Free ARTVIDEOS are shown each Wednesday at noon. in the AV room at the University' Museum. Call 764-0395 for more info. - a esting 4I-11 xe ' as 0ctobev The Governor of Michigan has declared October 6-12, 1991, as Investing in Ability Week. The purpose of this special observance is to encourage employers, as well as the general public, to focus on the abilities of individuals who have handicaps. The University of Michigan will celebrate Investing in Ability Week with a series of events listed below. eob er g w ,0'0ber Education Day Annual Meeting of the University's Council for Disability Concerns The 1991 James Neubacher Award will be presented by President James Duderstadt at 11:00am. 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