Episode 103 - American History X

We decided to curb stomp the 1998 Edward Norton vehicle "American
History X" that showed us all neo-Nazis have to do to overcome
their vicious deep-seated racism is have one jokey conversation
with a funny black guy in prison.


This movie has it all: a "Psycho"-esque black-and-white bloody
slow-motion shower scene, a hilariously unrealistic reverse slam
dunk by Edward Norton, a giant swastika tattoos, a cheesy
villains, a few funny wigs, and even a little kid dressed up as
Adolf Hitler.


Edward Norton stars as Derek Vinyard, a leader of a white
supremacist gang called the Disciples of Christ, who kills a
couple dudes who try to rob his car (one by curb stomping). He
then serves three years in prison for voluntary manslaughter,
changes his beliefs and tries to prevent his brother from going
down the same path. He goes from wearing a backward hat over his
mullet (like Poochie from "The Simpsons") when innocent to a
shaved-head neo-Nazi with a giant swastika tattooed on his chest
two seconds later.


Edward Furlong plays Norton's younger brother who recalls the
story and writes it in a paper for school and annoyingly narrates
throughout the film.


Beverly D'Angelo (of the "Vacation" movies fame) plays their
chain-smoking mom who can't catch a break after her racist
firefighter husband dies.


Avery Brooks (Benjamin Sisko from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine")
plays Dr. Bob Sweeney, a high school principal who also seems to
run the police department and the prison system.


And we also have Ethan Suplee, Fairuza Balk, Elliott Gould, Stacy
Keach, and the nice-guy dad from "Boy Meets World" as an N-word
spewing fireman dad.


We wonder who would be funny at reading the "Mein Kampf"
audiobook, how hard Beverly D'Angelo is trying to win an Oscar in
this, and how the paper Edward Furlong's character writes
throughout is an F paper.


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