Sandra Bullock

DJ EZ Rock's It Takes Two, which happens to be the anthem of The Proposal. The Proposal is the romantic comedy about a book publisher that appears to have everything and her assistant that she never took the time to get to know. Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) the high class book publisher finds out that she is being deported back to Canada; in order to stay in the United States and keep her job, she forces her assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her. After spending time with Andrew…

The film, Gravity, directed by Alfonso Cuarón illustrates key methods of overcoming adversity. Cuarón uses film techniques to highlight certain situations within problematic circumstances. Certain situations where the lead character Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and her supporting actor Matt Kowalski (George Clooney). These situations are shown throughout the film and keep the audience’s seats gripped firmly. The sound and music accompanies Cuarón’s camera work gracefully. Certain parts of the…

“Crash” is a drama film from 2004; Paul Haggis has produced and directed the movie. The film is set in L.A, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. There are several main characters, including Shaun Toub as Farhad, Bahar Soomekh as Dorri, Sandra Bullock as Jean Cabot, Brendan Fraser as Rick Cabot, Matt Dillon as Officer Ryan, Terrance Howard as Cameron Thayer, Thandie Newton as Christine Thayer, Ludacris as Anthony, Larenz Tate as Peter and Michael Peña as Daniel. The film is truly…

The American people need to acknowledge that equal rights of the sexes is still a prevalent dark cloud hanging over our country. It’s still a topic most people avoid talking about. Girls are afraid to talk about it with their friends and family in fear of coming off as preachy. Others ignore it so they can live in their lie that they call equality. The hatred of women has grown more vulgar over the years. Men are much more open about their insults and harassment. A girl my age at 17 years old…

Two theories that take place together during a part of the movie is the feminist criminology theory and power control theory. The definition states that “Feminist criminology is primarily concerned with the victimization of women, such as female delinquency, prostitution and gender inequality in the law and the criminal justice system are also receiving attention”(Dr. Julian Herminda). This article concludes that “The power-control theory posits that gender differences in delinquency can be…

The movie Miss Congeniality was released in 2000. The film presents the image of a woman against the prototype that society believe is the correct behave of a woman. Is really important please society? The protagonist is manipulated during the whole movie to assume a personality that she does not possess. At the beginning of the plot she is against the Gender Socialization which later she had to change. Then, she adapt new manners just to please society. As a requirement for the role, she has to…

Crash can be defined as a collision of two objects, most of the time we associate the word crash with a car accident. This same word is a title of a movie that came out in 2004. The move Crash takes place in Los Angles, California over a two-day period. The movie starts off with a car crash but the movie is not about car collisions. The collisions that happen in this film are ethnocentrism, stereotypes, and racism. We all know the popular phrase “six degrees of separation”, well this movie…

How destructive is the white savior complex? While the white savior complex article written by “Teju Cole” argues that many efforts by the North Americans to rescue “victims” of poverty and injustice in Africa are more about the western activist and their desire for a sentimental heroism than caring about the actual need of the African, it ultimately causes a major division between white activist and the racial other. The white savior complex is basically quite destructive trope that has been…

On top of that the movie had Sandra Bullock for the role, given that she is such a well-known actress the director hand to take advantage and use her to reel audiences in. In relation, there are some small differences when it comes to Oher’s schooling including the name of the school he attended. In the book he attends, Briarcest Christian High School, while in the movie he attends, Wingate Christian High School. Other than that both the book and the movie had showed that Oher needed oral…

Many Americans reach out to movies for entertainment nowadays. Movies are often made to convey a message or most people come up with their own interpretations of these films. Audiences who have seen the animated film Lilo & Stitch see the importance of family and to get a view of a family who has been lost then stitched back together. People who have watched Dead Poet’s Society learn why it is important to cease the day. These films address important emotional issues in our society. But even…