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Posted: 10/26/2013 5:07:09 PM EDT
Somone recently posted a YT link to this short film. I remember watching this in English class back in high school ('76). It was every bit as unsettling and probably even more so than the first time I watched it 37 years ago.
How many of you have seen this short film? How many of viewed it in school? (From Wikipedia) Details of contemporary small town American life are contrasted with an annual ritual known as "the lottery." In a small village of about 300 residents, the locals are in an excited yet nervous mood on June 27. Children gather stones as the adult townsfolk assemble for their annual event, that in the local tradition has been practiced to ensure a good harvest (one character quotes an old proverb: "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon"), though there are some rumors that nearby communities are talking of "giving up the lottery." In the first round of the lottery, the head of each family draws a small slip of paper from a black box; Bill Hutchinson gets the one slip with a black spot, meaning that his family has been chosen. In the next round, each Hutchinson family member draws a slip, and Bill's wife Tessie gets the marked slip. In keeping with tradition, each villager obtains a stone and begins to surround Tessie. The story ends as Tessie is stoned to death while she bemoans the unfairness of the situation. You can read and download the story here: http://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/2010/09/jackson_lottery.pdf You can watch it on Youtube here: 
And watch the second half here:
As well as the post-film discussion:
The film features a 20 year-old Ed Begley, Jr. in one of his first film roles. |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 5:09:36 PM EDT
[#1]
I remember a short story similar to this, but they paddled their chosen "winner" out into the bad and sank them with an old engine block
mob rule is creepy |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 5:09:37 PM EDT
[#2]
Read the story when I was younger never saw the film.
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Posted: 10/26/2013 5:09:59 PM EDT
[#3]
Saw it in the same thread, never read it/ never watched it before that. (HS class of 2000)
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Posted: 10/26/2013 5:10:19 PM EDT
[#4]
We did it for a one-act play competition when I was in high school.
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Posted: 10/26/2013 5:11:34 PM EDT
[#5]
Read the story, I ve never seen the video
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Posted: 10/26/2013 5:11:35 PM EDT
[#6]
Read it in HS, circa 1980.
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Posted: 10/26/2013 5:12:05 PM EDT
[#7]
I've read it. Good story.
The most interesting thing about it is how it functions as a Rorschach test. Everybody thinks it's an allegory warning against 'those other guys'. |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 5:17:33 PM EDT
[#8]
Never heard of it before earlier today when someone posted a link. I graduated in 1976. With all the new age crap that they were cramming down our throats, I'm surprised I wasn't
subjected to it. Creepy, never the less. |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 5:19:44 PM EDT
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There's also a South Park episode that references it (when they kill Britney Spears). ETA: Pack of young fools! For the week after we watched that in school everybody kept repeating that 
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Posted: 10/26/2013 5:21:51 PM EDT
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One of the most disturbing short films I've ever seen, even thought some douche bag let slip the ending just before we watched it in college Comp. 1. When my children are old enough, it will be required reading/watching.
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Posted: 10/26/2013 5:37:17 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Read it in HS, circa 1980. You're an old fucker! 
1979 grad 
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Posted: 10/26/2013 6:29:13 PM EDT
[#12]
I thought it was a Stephen King story.
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Posted: 10/26/2013 6:35:59 PM EDT
[#13]
We read The Lottery during Junior English class in high school.
I like it. |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 6:37:39 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Read the story, I ve never seen the video |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 6:46:00 PM EDT
[#15]
Bill Hutchinson rigged the drawing.
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Posted: 10/26/2013 6:55:49 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You're an old fucker! 1979 grad Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Read it in HS, circa 1980. You're an old fucker! 1979 grad  <class of '78> |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 7:00:50 PM EDT
[#17]
I saw it in school at some point.
Decades later it still creeps me out. |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 7:41:38 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We read The Lottery during Junior English class in high school. I like it. Yup read it in high school as well. Had no idea there was a cool movie to watch. I feel cheated now. |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 8:07:35 PM EDT
[#19]
Hunger Games?
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Posted: 10/26/2013 8:12:00 PM EDT
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You kids... https://talesfromthedarkroastside.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/get-off-my-lawn.jpg <class of '78> Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Read it in HS, circa 1980. You're an old fucker!
1979 grad https://talesfromthedarkroastside.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/get-off-my-lawn.jpg <class of '78> Haha Class of 73 |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 8:15:31 PM EDT
[#21]
Read it in HA and college. Saw the film twice in college.
Not a bad piece of literature though...wrote 2 final exam essays and a literary analysis over it. |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 8:37:48 PM EDT
[#22]
Just read and discussed in my college class.
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Posted: 10/26/2013 8:41:48 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just read and discussed in my college class. Nice catch! |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 8:56:14 PM EDT
[#24]
I remember seeing it in Jr. High along with An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
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Posted: 10/26/2013 9:02:21 PM EDT
[#25]
I thought the short story was predictable, hackneyed, and terrible. Maybe that's because I was raised on Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, but when I was forced to read it, I thought the characters were ridiculous and the plot was paper thin.
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Posted: 10/26/2013 9:12:19 PM EDT
[#26]
Read it in highschool,in 1985 and then we watched the film.
Good story, even better now. South Park did a parody of it with Brittiny Spears. |
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Posted: 10/26/2013 9:18:44 PM EDT
[#27]
Saw something similar in "fallout New Vegas".
Humans in groups are scary creatures. 
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Posted: 10/26/2013 10:31:47 PM EDT
[#28]
Read it in high school. Class of '97! Never heard of the movie before now.
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Posted: 10/26/2013 11:39:13 PM EDT
[#29]
I remember seeing that flick. And reading the story in school as well. It is a twisted story, IIRC.
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Posted: 10/27/2013 4:10:15 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I remember seeing it in Jr. High along with An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.  http://youtu.be/DocXC-kobmUEnglish Lit professors are cut from the same cloth. We also read and watched An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a few weeks after The Lottery. I wonder sometimes what my Lit Profs were trying to do to us...
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Posted: 10/27/2013 5:23:47 AM EDT
[#31]
Disturbing
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Posted: 10/27/2013 5:27:36 AM EDT
[#32]
Yeah, twice in school in the 80s. Pretty standard in curriculums back then
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Posted: 10/27/2013 5:36:11 AM EDT
[#33]
I remember reading this in Jr. high, had forgotten about it until now.
I better remember in the same class reading The Most Dangerous Game |
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Posted: 10/27/2013 5:37:53 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Saw something similar in "fallout New Vegas".
Humans in groups are scary creatures. Dispersion of accountability. Hangings, riots, gangs, legal authority criminal actions, bad behavior after natural disasters...a lot of justification and/ or lack of responsibility going on in people's minds. |
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Posted: 10/27/2013 5:55:52 AM EDT
[#35]
I seem to remeber another version where they pulled white and black stones out of a pouch. Thanks for finding them i gave up looking aftwr i watched the one in the other thread.
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Posted: 10/27/2013 5:59:18 AM EDT
[#36]
We watched that in school when I was in 4th or 5th grade!
It half freaked me out at the time! Fabulous film! |
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Posted: 10/27/2013 6:05:16 AM EDT
[#37]
Good one. Also take a look at The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.
In the story, Omelas is a utopian city of happiness and delight, whose inhabitants are intelligent and cultured. Everything about Omelas is pleasing, except for the city's one atrocity: the good fortune of Omelas requires that a single unfortunate child be kept in perpetual filth, darkness and misery, and that all her citizens should be told of this upon coming of age. After being exposed to the truth, most of the people of Omelas are initially shocked and disgusted, but are ultimately able to come to terms with the fact and resolve to live their lives in such a manner as to make the suffering of the unfortunate child worth it. However, a few of the citizens, young and old, silently walk away from the city, and no one knows where they go. The story ends with "The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas." |
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Posted: 10/27/2013 6:08:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I thought it was a Stephen King story. That was "The Long Walk." This is a theme that has been redone over and over again since "The Lottery." See Hunger Games. |
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Posted: 10/27/2013 7:27:06 AM EDT
[#39]
I saw that years ago. Fascinating film. My dad warned me about the danger of mob mentality when I was a kid.
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Posted: 10/27/2013 7:37:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Read the story when I was younger never saw the film. |
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Posted: 10/27/2013 7:47:01 AM EDT
[#41]
I don't believe I was aware of the story at all until I saw it in that same thread the other day.
High school class of '87
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Posted: 10/27/2013 7:48:40 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Read it in HS, circa 1980. Same here, ~1983. |
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Posted: 10/27/2013 7:49:04 AM EDT
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Class of 94
I've never heard of it until I watched this Marilyn Manson video, then I read the story but never knew there was a film until now |
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Posted: 10/27/2013 7:50:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I seem to remeber another version where they pulled white and black stones out of a pouch. Thanks for finding them i gave up looking aftwr i watched the one in the other thread. That version was in the TV series "Spartacus". Crassus punished his troops for cowardice by invoking decimation, where 10% of the group being punished were chosen by lottery, and then beat to death by their fellow Soldiers. |
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Posted: 10/27/2013 7:51:08 AM EDT
[#45]
I remember reading the short story in school, but never saw the video.
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Posted: 10/27/2013 7:54:21 AM EDT
[#46]
Yep back in school.
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Posted: 10/27/2013 8:00:45 AM EDT
[#47]
It sounds like that offered up what we were to gather from "Lord of the Flies." Class of '71.
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Posted: 10/27/2013 8:01:10 AM EDT
[#48]
Never read it, but then we grew up on "The Twilight Zone" re-runs like "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"...
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Posted: 10/27/2013 8:15:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
It sounds like that offered up what we were to gather from "Lord of the Flies." Class of '71. Never read or saw this one, but we did do Lord of the Flies. '92. |
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Posted: 10/27/2013 8:18:55 AM EDT
[#50]
Screw the movie, read the short story. In my high school English class, we read books.
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