<p>How did people feel about the film's portrayal of the Skull and Bones and of Yale in general?</p>
<p>such a bad movie...what a dissapointment</p>
<p>Joshua Jackson = beautiful. </p>
<p>Although it's true that we don't really know what happens in Skull and Bones, i sincerely doubt they're secretly running the country. Although, when two bonesmen run for president, it does make me suspicious.</p>
<p>It was about 168 minutes too long.</p>
<p>It was a good movie, a little "intellectual" and long-winded, but it was fascinating anyway. I think it portrayed Yale and SB pretty well, but i wouldn't know as i'm in neither of them.</p>
<p>agreed. not the greatest movie. the portrayal of yale was fine. the portrayal of skull and bones made yale seem a bit too elitist for my taste, especially given the exclusive nature of S&B. did anyone else feel the same way?</p>
<p>This is just like all of that Bohemian Grove crap.</p>
<p>The Skull and Bones is just a fun club for the privileged. If you had the chance to be in an exclusive club due to your connections, wouldn't you take it?</p>
<p>The correlation between successful and powerful people and SB really doesn't prove any causation at all.</p>
<p>But does anyone know whether membership is only reserved for the wealthy?</p>
<p>Since the early 1990s, all of Yale's secret societies have admitted women and have valued diversity--racial, socioeconomic, etc.--in their membership. They are absolutely not just for the wealthy/privileged these days.</p>
<p>But the wealthy and privileged are still able to blackball people who are not wealthy and privileged and that is a little scary when you think about it.</p>
<p>hedoya--I have no horse in the secret society race, but I think you're buying into the mythology of the societies rather than the modern day reality. I have no idea whether the societies have a blackballing procedure, but if they do, the members who are poor and unconnected (previous to attending Yale) can blackball the wealthy and privileged. At least since the early 90s when the societies admitted women, being wealthy and privileged seemed to be a strike against people in society membership selection--like the societies were trying REALLY hard to prove that they weren't just for rich, white men anymore.</p>
<p>Read "Cloak and Gown" by Robin Winks -- a history of US Espionage and their recruitment at Ivies -- especially Yale. They were natural centers of recruitment in the 1930s due to the languages, and families with business/family ties to Europe.</p>
<p>Was the movie indicative of Yale? Some aspects, sure. But it depicted Yale of the late 1930s. It's a remarkably different institution today and when I attended (late 80s).</p>
<p>(It was GREAT for me, BTW. I loved it there)</p>