Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Remember the unalloyed pleasure when you’d walk into a classroom, particularly one that you totally did not prepare for and see, instead of the teacher at the front, a projector at the back of the room?
You’d be, like, what?! (with a smile to your friends). The reason didn’t matter, all that mattered was that you had a guaranteed non-called-on fifty minutes ahead of you. Didn’t matter what the film was about.
Well!
Don’t bother taking out your text books, we’re having a film today.
Well, actually, video(s). Three of them. They will be presenting clear as ‘are-you-sure-you-didn’t-serve-as-Doctrine-consultant-to-the-scriptwriters-or-for-that-matter-personal-coach-to-the-actors?
No, no we did not.
First up (and the first of these that I stumbled across, back in the day): A clark and a scott. (As if the visual weren’t enough, De Niro tells us in a voice over what makes him the clark and Pesci the scott)
Language advisory: uses the f word a bunch. Violence advisory: well, this is about a scott! lol
Next: a clark and a scott and a roger (again with De Niro as the clark) but more in-depth on how a scott relates themselves to the world around them
You know who the roger is, ’cause he’s the only wearing a hat. lol. oh, yeah Language advisory …
Finally, a scott and a roger (truly the patron saint of male rogers, James Spader)
Hey! a scene in a movie with a scott and not a single ‘fuck’. ….. oh, damn. Language Advisory lol
Where it is often enough to simply watch a scott, it is quite instructive to listen to the roger in this scene.
Closing comment.
New Readers: of course these are actors performing roles, portraying characters with certain… characteristics. But everyone in the world is one of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, I would expect that those ‘playing to’ (personal) type are more effective than when their roles have them playing another predominant worldview.
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Those were fun to watch! lol. And actually, helpful to see the different worldviews played out. DeNiro in the first two videos what the aghast clark. You could see the wheels spinning as he processed what was going on. The scotts – omg – I would be FREAKING OUT watching them as a clarklike female. Not because of what they were doing so much, as the fallout from all that was happening. The final video, there was Stewart, still trying to uphold the status quo.
This here Doctrine pervades my thinking now. I swear. I was walking my dog around the lake earlier and there was a sign for a polar plunge. J takes one look at it and chides, “well, WE clarks wouldn’t take place in such a rogerian activity. It just won’t happen.” Earlier in our walk, we were talking about our rogerian in-law who wants to travel more and desperately wants to take his dog on trips because “they are so great for meeting lots of people.” We both laughed at how we clarks wouldn’t EVER mutter such a phrase. 😂😂😂
Aren’t they (the three vids) fun? and, like I say in the intros, so clear in their demonstration/illustration/exposition (whichever is the word) of the character of the three worldviews.
Looking at the three tonight with Phyllis, I focused on the scott, while Joe Pesci’s character is total over the top scott… you can see the same nature in the David Caruso character in the second video, just not as manic or yelling and screaming, but there is nothing restrained about his interaction with the roger at the bar simply an un-restrained threat without reservation. Damn! The power of the here and now!
As an additional perspective on the world, it’s my favorite thing
always glad when others report the fun to be had
“I love you Bro” – only a Roger would sound so convincing.
Thank you.
worse (in a sense, to a clark) its not that he’s able to sound convincing…he’s convincing because he is, at the moment, acting in sincerity… (not necessarily honestly or genuinely) its the way of the world of the Herd Member.
useful reminder to us to remember that translation is key to understanding other people.
Fascinating studies, all of them (and all of us, too).