Ford Torino

Have you ever heard of a muscle car? Muscle cars have always been a big part in the United States such as the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro, and Chevrolet Corvette. These cars are becoming more popular each and everyday due to the speeds and looks of the car. If not Muscle Cars aka supercars which means that they are different from other cars like luxury cars and sports cars. Over the years muscle cars the produced unique driving experience. To start with, The American Muscle car used to refer to a variety of high performance automobiles.Muscle cars as any group of american made 2 door sports cars with powerful engines. By the designed for high performance driving, there were made up as a rear wheel drive with means all the power comes from…

Our memory shape our opinions and how we are going to remember certain moments of our lives. It creates our history. Walt Kowalski, the main character of Gran Torino, is an old veteran who carry his horrible experiences from the Korean War in his memory and it shape his life in Detroit, in his neighborhood with Asian minorities. During the movie, we can watch scenes where Walt talks about the war, but he never actually says what exactly he did. The only information we get, are at the end of the…

Cheryl Evans Carol Hayes Interpersonal Communications June 12,2017 Cultural Diversity in Gran Torino The 2008 movie “Gran Torino” is filled with a tremendous amount of cultural diversity, which is met the expected amount of resistance, stereotypes, and an abundance of prejudice. The movies main character is Walt Kowalski. His world is changing around him after the death of his wife, the overtaking of his community, and the distant and almost non existing relationship he has with his grown…

Sami White Mr. Everett World Literature 19 October 2014 Gran Torino Hero’s Journey Analysis “You know Thao and Sue are never going to find peace in this world as long as that gangs around” (Eastwood). In the movie Gran Torino, directed by Clint Eastwood, Walt Kowalski, a Korean War veteran dislikes his neighbors who are Hmong, an ethnic group from Southeast Asia, because they moved into his neighborhood which used to be a primarily white community. Walt slowly accepts and becomes close to…

The main theme of “Gran Torino,” directed by and featuring Clint Eastwood, is that of racism and racial biases. Walt, played by Eastwood, is white man retired from the military; he holds to be the only remaining white man in a now primarily Asian neighborhood. From serving in the Vietnam War, Walt was social influences by his fellow soldiers to be racial bias towards the people they were fighting in the war; to Walt, this meant he was racial bias towards everyone of Asian descent. However, it’s…

The movie Gran Torino, directed by Clint Eastwood is an action-packed drama that examines racism at its very core. Korean veteran, Walt Kowalski despises his neighbours, but after a strange turn of events, he begins to protect them. Thao Vang Lor, a shy Korean boy, gets bullied by a gang, and one night, Walt breaks up the ruckus which takes place in front of his house. Walt makes it his mission to protect the Korean family from the gang, but leads to a tragic ending. In the film, Gran Torino,…

In the movie Gran Torino, there were many lessons both taught and learned. Some lessons were taught using good methods and some lessons were taught using bad methods. Since there were many different ethnicities and cultures in this movie, the lessons were also learned differently. The teachers became the students and the students became the teachers. When living in a neighborhood with neighbors of different cultures and ethnicities, trying to communicate could be very difficult, so everyone have…

Gran Torino Viewing Questions Setting- How does the physical state of the neighbourhood impact the movie? What do the condition of the homes say about the neighbourhood? How has the neighbourhood’s population changed over the years and why? Why has Walt stayed? In the film, there are many shots of the neighbourhood that depict how worn down it is. This adds to the change that has happened in the neighbourhood, with many refugees moving in and a growing gang problem. It is especially noticeable…

I choose Gran Torino for this assignment as I found it the most interesting out of the three choices we had. Everything involved in the film provided a helping hand to produce a stellar film that entertains the masses while unconsciously discipling the generations. The story follow Walt a misanthropist and his journey to salvation—in a twist of irony assisting Walt is a young male of Hmong descent. Hmong is a minority ethnic group in northern Korea. The relationship between the two fabricates…

your mind? In my mind Chevrolets, Plymouths, and Ford and Dodges of the late sixties and early seventies mostly come to mind. Many countries have made muscle cars and they have all failed to rival the American title as the muscle car capitol of the world. This is because America was obsessed with being a country of speed and in many ways till is that same way. Before companies cracked down on performance and safety regulations in the mid 70s companies like Plymoth would do crazy things to…