Revenge of the Nerds (1984) | How Woke Is It?

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Revenge of the Nerds1984

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What We Think

Revenge of the Nerds is about as non-woke as it gets by modern standards. It puts the story and laughs before any form of social lecture, making it a relic of less self-serious times. Definitely not one for the woke scoreboards.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Revenge of the Nerds is firmly a product of its time, focusing on storylines, humor, and underdog tropes rather than pushing identity-based ideology. Character roles are driven by personality and narrative purpose. There is very little in the way of forced representation or highlighting identity over substance.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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While the film makes fun of jock culture, it actually upholds plenty of traditional values like the importance of friendship, perseverance, and even some pretty unfiltered masculinity. No significant subversion or revisionism of core societal institutions present.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

The movie features a pretty wide array of personalities and worldviews, nerds, jocks, outsiders, all played for laughs rather than ideology. There’s little to no mockery of traditional norms for the sake of it, and nothing resembling a modern ideological agenda.

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