Near the end, the foreign element in his experiment finally mutates and is accepted by the larger body, turning the compound in his petri dish to a purple color.
Later, we get an overhead shot of of him wearing a red jacket at a school spirit rally where everyone else is wearing blue, the school color.
Color Motifs: Angus' science project involves a foreign element (colored red) either blending in or being rejected by a homogeneous body (colored blue). Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Grandpa's fiancee April is a good-hearted but somewhat odd bird, and not just because she wants to marry a man thirty years her senior. Rick, despite years of getting broken noses from Angus, never seems to learn from his encounters. Most bullies tend to back off when they realize their victims can successfully fight back and defend themselves. Bullying a Dragon: Even though Angus is strong enough to overpower Rick and break his nose multiple times from childhood to high school, Rick continuously harasses and bullies Angus despite the fact that he gets beaten down almost every time. A few broken noses is probably worth the sick kicks he's been getting with a killer hand like that. Why doesn't Rick Sanford back down despite having a glass nose? Because Angus is an easy target for Rick in another form: Angus' naturally low social standing, and the fact that Melissa, Angus' object of obsession, is Rick's girlfriend. Bullies do what they do by seeking out what they perceive to be easy targets. However, that's not going to help his immediate situation. Angus is perfectly capable of taking on Rick mano-a-mano (he pretty much spent his early childhood breaking Rick's nose at least once a grade). Armor-Piercing Question: "So which is it, Rick: are you normal, or are you just one of us?". And "Screw 'em" is used to great effect several times. Adaptation Expansion: The source material was a short story, so obviously there's a lot of this going on, although it stays true to the original premise. Academic Athlete: Angus is good enough to be on the football team and excels in academics at the same time. Helping him along are his geeky best friend Troy (Chris Owen), his loving and slightly unorthodox mom ( Kathy Bates) and his equally loving and much less orthodox grandpa, Ivan ( George C. On one hand, Angus knows he's being set up for humiliation and doesn't want to play along, but on the other hand, he's had a crush on the (in his mind) unattainable Melissa for years, leaving him unsure of what to do. Talbert stars as Angus Bethune, who in his own words is "a fat kid who's good at science and fair at football." He's also got a vicious rivalry with pretty-boy Jerk Jock Rick Sanford (Van Der Beek), who decides to play a cruel prank on Angus by rigging an election that nominates Angus as the Winter Ball King opposite Rick's girlfriend, Melissa LeFevre (Ariana Richards). #Angus switchies movie
A 1995 coming-of-age teen movie based on Chris Crutcher's short story " A Brief Moment In The Life Of Angus Bethune", directed by Patrick Read Johnson and starring Charlie Talbert and a young James Van Der Beek in their first film roles.
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