Finding Forrester The movie "Finding Forrester" was a good‚ quality movie with a great theme and moral. In this movie Jamal‚ an African American basketball player and student‚ meets a famous old writer named William Forrester through a dare. Little do they know when they first meet what a great difference they would each eventually make for each other. William is the first to help Jamal by helping him in his writing. Jamal is a great writer but just doesn’t know it yet. William helps Jamal
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Discovering Jamal Jessica Micallef Finding Forrester was directed by Gus Van Sant and released in 2000. The film was interesting. It showed you that anything is possible; you just need to put in hard work and effort. Gus Van Sant shows us that it does not matter where you are from‚ anything is possible. Jamal Wallace is an African-American boy from the Bronx who is secretly highly intelligent but he does not want anybody knowing because it will ruin his reputation at school‚ an example of this
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Finding Forrester Finding Forrester is the story of Jamal Wallace’s‚ played by Rob Brown in his first motion picture‚ life in the rough world of the inner city. Early on we find that Jamal is very intellectually gifted from his scores on the standardize test‚ but he doesn’t try to succeed in school so that he won’t be secluded from his friends. On a dare‚ he sneaks into a mysterious apartment‚ but leaves his backpack behind when is surprised by the old man. When the old man tosses the backpack out
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nding forresterViolet Lukobi-Johnson Mr. Quetone American Literature May 21‚ 2012 Finding Forrester Film Review The film Finding Forrester was an interesting‚ eye-catching‚ attention grabbing and exciting movie. The writer Mike Rich did a great job of creating the plot to be funny and fast paced. The director of the film‚ Gus Van neatly directed the scenes characters to make the film more entertaining. Producers Sean Connery‚ Laurence Mark‚ and Rhonda Tollefson had made a great decision
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English 101 15 April 2014 Finding Forrester and Outliers My views on the book were that it was inspiring and show the realistic views on life. The Outliers is set of stories that shows the errors in human nature‚ however‚ it also shows the paths of those who overcame the obstacles on the way to success. Outliers is a book that reveals how the most powerful people‚ those that have become idols when talking about success‚ had the greatest luck and opportunities already around them. When Bill
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Khalia Milton Mrs. Clark English II CB 31 August 2010 Lessons Learned from Finding Forrester In the book Finding Forrester‚ written by James W. Ellison‚ there are many thoughts ideas of great importance to many individuals. Each person finds out that you can learn anything from anyone‚ no matter whether they are negative of positive influences to them. There are some individuals that value pride and swagger while some sought the virtues of conceitedness. Jamal Wallace‚ William Forrester
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My choice for this topic is a bit different than the other choices I have seen so far; I chose Finding Nemo. The movie finding Nemo is about a father fish‚ Marlin‚ whose son was trying to be brave on a school trip by swimming out further than everyone else and he got captured by fisherman. At The beginning of the story‚ Marlin’s wife‚ Nemo’s mother‚ is killed and Marlin vows to always take care of Nemo. This “promise” leads him to be overbearing and very protective of his son. We then transition
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Finding Nemo At first glance this movie appears to be just a computer animated film about a bunch of fish for children. Lookinat at it from a psychological standpoint‚ however‚ reveals it’s more complex than one may think. I chose this film o write about because of the fact that all the main characters seem to suffer from some sort of psychological disorder. The story is about a small clown fish with an injured fin‚ Nemo‚ who rebels against his father‚ Marlin‚ and gets captured by a human scuba
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plot. The movie Finding Nemo is about a fish named Nemo‚ that is taken from his father and moved to the other side of the ocean. During the movie‚ Nemo’s father Marlin is looking for him all over with another fish named Dory‚ however they encounter a great number of struggles on their journey. This movie stresses the importance of listening to your parents‚ working together as a team‚ and never giving up. I personally have been in many situations where these three principals have
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Finding Forrester The movie Finding Forrester is based in the Bronx. Jamal Wallace meets William Forrester and at first is unaware that he is a famous author. William helps Jamal with his passion for writing which he covers up with basketball to get accepted. He gets the opportunity to go to a different school for basketball until he figures out that he would rather be there for academics. William and Jamal have an agreement that William will help with writing and Jamal will
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