Film Summary Stand and Deliver (1988) is a film that discusses and is based on Jaime Escalante. It starts with Escalante becoming a math teacher at James A. Garfield High School, a school whose student population is primarily Latino. The school is underperforming academically, which causes many of the teachers to feel like the kids are a lost cause. Unlike the other teachers, Escalante is undeterred by this obstacles and believes his students are capable of doing well if they are given good motivation and a drive the achieve; what he calls in the movie “ganas”. At first his students aren’t as receptive to his teaching style, but they soon learn to work with Escalante.…
“A Civil Action” is a based on a true event movie taken place in 1980s. The movie is about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts. The event starts after Anna Anderson child died from a disease called leukemia and Anderson’s neighbors children also fell ill. Anna Anderson eventually gathered the families and called Jan Schlichtmann, a lawyer, for succor. At first Jan did not want to take the case on based on a recondite evidence and defendant.…
Poorly written, eye-rolling in execution, Brokeback Mountain is a movie that breaks barriers and paves new roads. It prides itself on criticizing American society that ostracizes gay couples from having an open relationship. Unfortunately, it is eye-rolling in execution, and much too long for its simple plot. Ang Lee, the director for Brokeback Mountain, creates a movie that is faithful to the short story written by Annie Proulx. A short story essentially about two gay cowboys.…
5. I chose to watch the movie The Color Purple. I chose this movie because I felt like it would be the least graphic out of the libraries options. The Color Purple is set in the early 1900’s so they do not have as many technical devices as we have today and understand things in a different light.…
Signs, a movie written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan focuses on the loss of faith within the protagonist, Graham Hess and how he is brought back to it. Although, it seems as if there are two separate storylines, the two eventually intersect to help Graham become a believer again. The movie opens with the serene farmhouse where Graham Hess, his two children Bo and Morgan, and his brother Merrill live.…
Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival appropriately used lighting in many ways to convey mood. For instance, throughout his film nearly every scene is background lit rather than foreground; separating the subject from the background, as well as creating a sense of depth. Ultimately contributing to much of the mood, particularly when Louise and Ian make first contact with the heptipods, the majority of light was in the background. This technique put most of the emphasis on where there was light, the background. Even more it creates the sense that the characters in the scene are insignificant, and that their actions are what progress the story.…
This movie is about serial killer who want’s revenge from someone, because they took something important from his life. Wade Winston life was serial killer after he finish his mission he faint and was rush to the ER. The doctor told him he has terminal Cancer in his lungs and kidney, two thing he can't live without. He never knew this day would happen to him. He was think of plan to A to Z but can’t think.…
When most people begin house hunting, they contact an agent and the first thing out of their mouths is, "We're looking for a home to live in." The agent, having loads of experience with people in exactly this situation, immediately begins honing in on your consumer needs: how many are in your family (how big a house do you need), is there any particular style you like (ranch, modern, Victorian, and so on), where do you work (where would you like to live), and so on? By the time you've answered the agent's questions, you're a gone goose. You're deep into your own desires and the agent has neatly categorized you as a typical homebuyer. You'll see only properties that you find personally satisfying and except for such puffery as, "These homes…
The Shawshank redemption was released on September 23, 1994, it was directed by Frank Darabont. The Shawshank Redemption won several Academy Awards, such as best picture, best Actor in a leading role. It’s worth the time because of the story line, time frame, setting, and casting. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a banker that was wrongly convicted for killing his wife and her lover. The story is set in 1949, and told through Ellis “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman) we see through his point of view.…
“And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.” Is a quote that is from author Raymond Carver that is shown in the opening scene of the Oscar winning movie Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.)…
One individual can influence another individual positively or negatively because the actions of another individual can affect them in many different ways. In the film, The Shawshank Redemption directed by Frank Darabont, Andy’s character explores the concept of hope.(summarize andy’s situation) Like Andy, I have also experienced a situation where I had lost all hopes of playing basketball. However, I strived for what I wanted and did not lose hope. Both Andy’s character and my personal experience suggest that often, we are easily influenced by the amount of hope we feel within ourselves which can affect us positively. Initially, Andy’s character suggests that “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies”.…
This paper is about critical thinking to the movie called “Selma.” This paper will discuss some of my reactions and thoughts about certain scenes. My favorite scene will be mentioned. How I feel racism is getting worse will be explained. This paper will explain the difference between history information coming from books and films.…
Throughout history, philosophers have come up with multiple approaches to ethics in order for humans to reach “The Good.” Philosophers like Aristotle, Immanuel Kant and Emmanuel Levinas posses different concepts and philosophies towards how a human can reach “The Good.” Aristotle's theory is predicated towards fulfilling one’s purpose to reach their potential, Kant’s theory is driven towards the duty each individual must accomplish to reach “The Good,” and finally, Levinas's theory is based on the relationships that humans create with one another to find “The Good.” Each of the three philosopher’s concepts can be applied to the character Will Hunting from the movie Good Will Hunting, directed by Gus Van Sant. Will Hunting is a janitor at MIT…
Charles Darwin once said “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” Everyone decides what they value their life as. There are lots of beliefs that human life should be assigned a monetary value. Other believe that the ill and sick people should have a lesser value of life. However, the human life should not be valued by anything other than morally and if there was to be put a monetary value, it should be on those that died and were the main source of income for a family.…
The movie I chose to watch was Good Will Hunting, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Robin Williams and Matt Damon. This movie is focused on the character Will Hunting, a 20 year-old janitor at M.I.T who has an incredible gift for mathematics. He has had a pretty tough life, being given up for adoption at an early age and bounced from foster house to foster house. In many of these foster homes he was physically, mentally, and emotionally abused. Will recalls one foster parent making him choose between being beaten with a wrench, a belt, or a stick, having cigarettes being put out on him, and even being stabbed.…