Other Related Text Grand Torino Theme used: Racism‚ Culture Clash and Peer Pressure Story line: A Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood)‚ is a grumpy‚ tough-minded and border-line hateful widower‚ who is the lone white home owner in an increasingly ethnic neighborhood dominated by Asians. A Korean War veteran‚ he’s unable to get along with either of his children or his neighbors. But when Thao‚ a Hmong teenage neighbor attempts to steal his 1973 mint condition‚ Gran Torino‚ Kowalski reluctantly
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English Communications Comparative Assignment Million Dollar baby and Cinderella Man Cinderella Man directed by Ron Howard and Million Dollar Baby directed by Clint Eastwood are two films about two individuals viewed as underdogs by society and the world of boxing who overcome the odds and achieve personal goals. In these two heroic tales we follow the lives of two passionate and determined fighters. Like all heroic tales we encounter a hero‚ a villain and a final showdown portrayed as a
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The film‚ Gran Torino‚ directed by Clint Eastwood is a film about Walt Kowalski played by Clint Eastwood‚ an old racist American man‚ and Thao Vang Lor played by Bee Vang‚ who is a very shy Hmong boy‚ that is being pressured into joining the local gang by the Hmong teenaged boys. Set in the 21st century‚ South Detroit‚ with a large number of Hmong people moving into the neighborhood‚ we see that Walt’s opinion of the Hmong changes‚ as Walt is getting to know the Hmong people‚ and forming a relationship
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Nebencharaktere Walt Kowalski 4. Background information Detroit City Hmong in Detroit 5. Message of the story 1. present the movie Gran Torino released 2008 Produced‚ directed by and starring Clint Eastwood 2. The movie Gran Torino deals with the story of Walt Kowalski‚ played by producer and director Clint Eastwood. Walt is a crabby‚ lonely and conservative widower‚ who fought on the side of America in the Korean War. Now he is living in a suburb of Detroit City‚ where also many Asian people live
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interaction with others and the world around them either enriches or limits their experience of belonging. In Peter Skrzynechi’s anthology “Immigrant Chronicle” this statement is explored via two of his poems‚ “Migrant Hostel” and “In the Folk Museum”. Clint Eastwood’s 2008 film Gran Torino also demonstrates similar themes and concepts. However both these texts are relevant and illustrate how one’s interaction can strengthen or alienate their experience of acceptance and identity. Through connections with
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Analysis of Unforgiven Brenda J. Thompson ENG 225: Introduction to Film Nathaniel Millard October 5‚ 2009 Summary While the movie Unforgiven (1992) directed and starring Clint Eastwood‚ as William Munny‚ is in the genre of a western in the late 1800’s. It has a basic theme that we are still making movies about today‚ justice and what is acceptable and what is not acceptable in our search for it. It is a story of a journey that one man has to make in order for him to care for his children
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Gina Lawence English 306 Gran Torino (final draft) In the Eye of the Beholder The film Gran Torino allows Clint Eastwood directs and plays a role that depicts an older man dealing with lost love‚ life and death‚ hauntings from the past‚ and managing his own racial biases. All of these obstacles come to a harsh reality with the changes taken place in his mid-western home town. Eastwood plays the widower‚ Walt Kowalski‚ who is highly racist and prejudice. His character was a former Korean War
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Million Dollar Baby‚ a non-fiction movie‚ featured the iconic director‚ producer and actor‚ Clint Eastwood. The lead actress was Hilary Swank‚ followed by the supporting actor Morgan Freeman. After its release on December 15‚ 2004‚ it grossed in just under $200 thousand on its opening box office weekend in the United States of America with only 8 screenings. It went on to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. A determined‚ poor‚ thirty-one year old woman named Maggie Fitzgerald decides to make
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communism in Southeast Asia from the early 1960s through the Vietnam War era. Through this the Hmong were recognized for what they did for America during the Vietnam War. They also explained why they are here and explained who the Hmong people are. Clint Eastwood wanted the cast to have input on the film and have it portrayed correctly. According to Laventure‚ “Eastwood invited the cast to make changes and offer input‚ he added. But he didn’t want the scenes to be boggled down with debate” (Laventure)
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the elements and things such as cowboys‚ Indians‚ robberies‚ gunman‚ sheriffs‚ and other things make up the Western genre. Through several examples such as High Noon (1952) by Fred Zinneman‚ Stagecoach (1939) by John Ford‚ and Unforgiven (1992) by Clint Eastwood‚ the different styles and the iconography of American Western are portrayed. Though each of these movies may have completely different plots‚ setting‚ conflicts‚ and style‚ all three movies can be considered to be part of the Western genre
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