Twenty-four years later after numerous high school films depict the ability of the nerds to overcome their "geekiness" and become just like everybody else, the film Napoleon Dynamite challenges this notion and offers a new role model for the high school nerd. In his essay, he summarizes the rosy lesson each of them learned after the eight hours spent together, thereby emphasizing the function of social groups on identity formation in high school which not only determine who sits where but who can occupy what role in this space (Brian, incidentally, occupies the lowest level in this space). Asked to write a 1000-word essay explaining what they have learned after spending a Saturday locked in a library for detention, the other students, a jock, the prom queen, the rebel, and the basketcase characters all convince the brain to write their essays for them. In the past twenty years of teenage angst movies, perhaps the most memorable message is delivered by the nerd archetype at the end of John Hughes' The Breakfast Club. Jon Heder, appearing as Napoleon Dynamite on The Late Show with David Letterman "#1? How the heck would I know? I'm like the coolest kid in school. "And the number one sign that you're not the most popular guy in school?"
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