What is the Oliver Discourse?
It has become more and more common for academics to analyze and debate the merits of works of popular culture. Northwestern has a course on the play Hamilton. Rutgers boasted a class on Beyoncé. And the University of Louisville allows students to earn credit exploring the religious contexts of Game of Thrones. "The Oliver Discourse" is a discussion on a private internet forum involving professors and grad students at the Stanford Film School. The debate addresses whether the musical Oliver! or the Disney movie Oliver & Company is more true to the Dickens source material.
Oliver! Is a theatrical musical first performed in 1960. The first act alone includes the deliberate starvation of children, the sale of a child, the child locked in a coffin, an old man teaching children how to steal, domestic violence, bullying, and a child being framed for a crime and arrested.
In the Disney movie Oliver & Company, the titular kitten is abandoned after his compatriots are all adopted. He meets a mongrel named Dodger who promises to provide food, but when Oliver helps him steal a hotdog, Dodger refuses to share. Oliver follows Dodger and is quickly adopted into a pack of homeless dogs. While helping the dogs pillage a limousine to provide funds to pay off their leader's debt, Oliver is abandoned once again and picked up by a young girl.
The professors nearly unanimously agree that the musical Oliver! follows the plot of Dickens' Oliver Twist more closely. The grad students usually counter that at least Oliver & Company has Cheech Marin. The professors typically snort at this point and accuse the grad students of only liking the Disney movie because of the cute kitten and the fact they watched the movie in the theater as children. Whereupon the grad students remind that professors that they weren't even born when the movie came out in 1988. The professors then mumble something about "those darned millennials." To which the Gen-Zers say something about Boomers.
Lately, undergrads have been sneaking onto the invitation-only forum and suggesting that both the grad students and professors have lost their minds and the real topic is that of the Olivet Discourse. It refers to the prophecy Jesus gave Peter, Andrew, James, and John as recorded in Matthew 24:1-25:46, Mark 13:1-37, and Luke 21:5-36 shortly before the crucifixion. In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus prophesies about the destruction of the Temple, imposters claiming to be Jesus, and the abomination of desolation.
When the grad students and professors discover the Olivet Discourse has nothing to do with kittens, gold lockets, or spontaneous dancing, they ban the undergrads from the forum and continue their debate. Whereupon the undergrads strongly consider whether a technical college wouldn't be a better option than a liberal arts university.
Oliver! Is a theatrical musical first performed in 1960. The first act alone includes the deliberate starvation of children, the sale of a child, the child locked in a coffin, an old man teaching children how to steal, domestic violence, bullying, and a child being framed for a crime and arrested.
In the Disney movie Oliver & Company, the titular kitten is abandoned after his compatriots are all adopted. He meets a mongrel named Dodger who promises to provide food, but when Oliver helps him steal a hotdog, Dodger refuses to share. Oliver follows Dodger and is quickly adopted into a pack of homeless dogs. While helping the dogs pillage a limousine to provide funds to pay off their leader's debt, Oliver is abandoned once again and picked up by a young girl.
The professors nearly unanimously agree that the musical Oliver! follows the plot of Dickens' Oliver Twist more closely. The grad students usually counter that at least Oliver & Company has Cheech Marin. The professors typically snort at this point and accuse the grad students of only liking the Disney movie because of the cute kitten and the fact they watched the movie in the theater as children. Whereupon the grad students remind that professors that they weren't even born when the movie came out in 1988. The professors then mumble something about "those darned millennials." To which the Gen-Zers say something about Boomers.
Lately, undergrads have been sneaking onto the invitation-only forum and suggesting that both the grad students and professors have lost their minds and the real topic is that of the Olivet Discourse. It refers to the prophecy Jesus gave Peter, Andrew, James, and John as recorded in Matthew 24:1-25:46, Mark 13:1-37, and Luke 21:5-36 shortly before the crucifixion. In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus prophesies about the destruction of the Temple, imposters claiming to be Jesus, and the abomination of desolation.
When the grad students and professors discover the Olivet Discourse has nothing to do with kittens, gold lockets, or spontaneous dancing, they ban the undergrads from the forum and continue their debate. Whereupon the undergrads strongly consider whether a technical college wouldn't be a better option than a liberal arts university.
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