Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Racism in sports

     What roles do sports play in racism? I believe that sports have a huge role in racism because they put both the races colored and white together in the same game on the same team and they are all equal to each other no matter what. like in the movie "Remember The Titans" they made them sleep with one of each race. They made them understand each other and once they understood each other they were able to play like no tomorrow and didn't lose a single game all season.


     I believe that sports do help to eliminate racism. Because in the movie 42 Jackie Robinson was not wanted in the white major league baseball. But after a few games he was loved by his teammates and treated like one of there own. This is the reason why I believe that sports help to eliminate racism without sports we probably would never have accepted the colored people for who they are and not the color of there skin.
      I believe that sports both amateur and professional have a huge responsibility to play in racism like in the movie "Glory Road" where more and more people started to love them for having colored people on there team and as there starters in the championship game. The reason why I think that is because the fans of the sports will tend to copy their team and favorite players.


    

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Is He A Hero

     The hero archetype is based off many different characteristics such as a warrior to the super heroic and anything in between. the movie that I'm deciding if it matches the hero archetype is the movie "Brave Heart" which is about the Scottish trying to fight for there freedom and to get away from English rules. I believe that "William Wallace" fit into many of the hero archetypes such as hero as a warrior because  he fought and killed many English men after the murder of his wife "Marion Braidfute". Another is hero as a scapegoat because he gets tortured for the lives of many Scotsman and there freedom. Also as the defiant hero because he defied the English king and the jarls of his people and did what he had to do for his people. Finally he is also the denied hero due to his status as a farmer and not of royal blood and considered a scoundrel.


     The type of archetypical journey for the movie "Brave Heart" is one of many such as the quest for vengeance which is why William Wallace retaliated in the first place because they killed his wife. Another one is the warriors journey to save his people because William Wallace kind of adopts that journey after hundreds of Scotsman joined him on his vengeance journey. and the final journey is the quest to rid this land of danger because the English men are dangerous to his people and think of his people as slaves.
    
    

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

father and son

     from watching all these movies about father and son relations it has proven that all the movies are myths in the minds of the producers of the films.

     these films relate to the article I read by how in the beginning of the films it says that the fathers don't really pay attention or don't care about the kid or children. Like in "Click"  Adam Sandler was just worried about what to buy his kids what they want and to be the provider not the father that is needed. then he goes through a life changing theme in which he fast forwards through all the important times of his life and realizes that all the bad times is what really counts and he needs to be there for all of the important things of his children's lives.

     In "The Field of Dreams" the father Ray Kinsella built a baseball field that he thought that was to bring his dads favorite baseball player to it but it actually brings his father John Kinsella.    

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Is The Road To Perdition Film Noire

Is The Road To Perdition a film noire or is it something else? I strongly believe that it is film noire and the reason why is that the movie is very dark throughout the movie like in scenes when people were getting shot or murdered. Especially when Michael saw his father and Connor Rooney kill three men that were accused of stealing from the boss or the head of the family John Rooney. Most of the time the people died during the night and throughout the movie they mainly shot when it was raining or dark.
I also believe that it is film noire is that all the adult men are wearing fedoras and thick overcoats that went along the length of the mans body and covered most of them so they could hide there weapons. The women wore long dresses that showed a low neckline and wore long white gloves. they also smoked a little bit in the movie not as much as in the other film noire movies. 
The final reason is that throughout the whole movie you were never mislead into thinking there would be a happy ending for the 2 of them. Like when they were robbing banks they were having a good time and then the bounty hunter found them he tried to stop them from running but mike shot a glass vase in his face. They got away but not before the bounty hunter shot mike in the arm. After that Mike got sick from the wound in his arm and almost died from it.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

The Differences Between Mr. Deeds and Mr. Deeds Goes To Town

  The similarities of Mr. Deeds and Mr. Deeds goes to town is that deeds in the newer Mr. Deeds is a volunteer firefighter and he is very polite to the ladies in the movie and stands up for their honor. He is also looking for a women in distress to save and  fall in love with. The newspapers of New York City just wanted to make him look like an idiot and a selfish jerk that cared for himself and only himself. Then someone in both the movies were trying to get the money and control of the company because they didn't want to lose their power.
   The main differences are that the people in the first movie "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" is that they show one playing the tuba and writing good poetry and the other one just writes bad poetry and the people in the first movie they all are smart while in the remake they are all kind of hillbillyish in a way. The uncle dies differently too, in the first movie he dies in a car crash while the remake shows that he died while climbing a mountain during a blizzard and freezes to death. Also one more thing in the first movie Mr. Deeds goes to court for the loss of his money while in the remake Mr. Deeds signs it away because he didn't want it because it reminded him of Pam Dawson.
   In my personal opinion I think that both movies are great but if I had to choose I would choose the Adam Sandler remake because it told you more of his uncle and what kind of man he was. I also think that putting Babe Bennett in a news area instead of a newspaper company was a good change to show that it was caught up to our time.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

back to the future

Today I'll be talking about the consequences of time travel according to back to the future. One of the consequences of time travel is that  you can really change things if you interfere with anything like a really important part of your or the worlds history like Marty did when he pushed his dad out of the way of his moms dads way. In doing that he made his mom get a crush on  him instead of his dad. Since he did that him and his brother and sister started to disappear because he saved his dad from getting hit by the car. So he spent a week in the past to fix what he has done so that he could exist in the future.


There is also another consequence in this movie if you do anything that is not normal in the past then it will change the future as well as the past. Like how Marty taught his dad to be a man and not a spineless fool who is scared of his own shadow. Or how he took some kids scooter and turned it into a skateboard to get away from Biff and his gang. Or how he stopped his mom from being a drinker and a smoker. With his efforts he made it where his dad is a man and is rich and Biff is working for his dad instead of bullying Marty's dad. His mom is thin and doesn't smoke or drink  and is very understanding with Marty and his girlfriend going out the next weekend.