War Of The Worlds Movie Analysis

Entertainment was a very important thing for Americans during the depression years. People would turn on the radio and forget about their worries for a short period of time, but it was better than nothing. Like The Wizard of Oz, War of the Worlds, and Gone with the Wind, Angels with Dirty Faces was a very popular, enjoyable movie for the American people. Even though it was loved, it was different from the rest. It was a gangster movie with a twist.
In the very beginning, both Jerry and Rocky are running from the cops, Rocky gets caught and gets sent to jail for 3 years and 4 months. After this, Jerry decides to change his ways and goes from gangster to Priest. Unlike many other gangster films of this time, this focuses on the good and the bad. It puts the movie in two different perspectives. It allows you, as the viewer, to understand that
He continues to beg Rocky. Rocky is straight faced and not scared. Once he is faced with the chair, he breaks down, crying and fighting the cops pleading for his life. Father Jerry watches with tears in his eyes. The switch was pulled.
The next day the headlines were crazy. They all read something about Rocky dying a coward. The neighborhood hoodlums could not believe it. Their hero could not have let them down. Father Jerry confronts them, they ask if it’s true, did he really cry and plead and die a coward. He replied yes. He walked the boys out and continued to say, “Say a prayer for a boy who couldn’t run as fast as I could.”
This movie taught the people during the depression years that even the bad have some good in them. Rocky was not close to a good guy, but when it came down to it, he did what he had to do to make things good. He helped his friend and the kids that looked up to him. He didn’t want the kids to have the same life he did. He saw the potential in them and by dying a coward maybe they will use it to find the good they each have in