7 Things Movies Always Get Wrong About College
5. There's A Big Man On Campus
This isn't a thing. It just isn't. Universities are too large and the interests of those attending are too vast and divisive to ever allow one person - or one small group of people - to rule the roost.
That's not to say certain people aren't extremely well-known and well-liked. Anyone attending an American university with a respected football team knows that the star quarterback is going to get preferential treatment and all the free beer he wants, but outside of those house parties and removed from game day, his influence is pretty much nil.
That's why we never got a sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off with Matthew Broderick's character attending college. It would have been a much more sobering viewing experience. Ferris would've been called on his egotistical bulls**t all the time, and there would've been a ten minute montage of him being left hanging when he tried to high five everyone on his way to class.
So, sorry to all the Van Wilders of the movie world, as much as I hate to poke holes in your airtight storyline, the idea of one super popular dude having that much influence over the university is simply ludicrous.