111 8 July 2013 Jamal Wallace The movie Finding Forrester (directed by Gus Van Sant)‚ is about a young boy named Jamal Wallace‚ who is from the Bronx‚ that has a love for basketball. He ends up getting a full basketball scholarship to one of Manhattan finest prep schools. One day Jamal comes across Pulitzer Prize winning writer William Forrester‚ who helps Jamal find his inner writer. Jamal enters a paper that he had finished writing for Mr. Forrester into a writing contest at school‚ causes
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The film Finding Forrester defies the standards of a regular sports film‚ instead it depicts characters that find hope through venturing into the unknown. This film portrays the paths of two major characters‚ a striving African- American teen Jamal‚ and a Pulitzer prize winning recluse author William‚ who overcome stereotypes‚ prejudices‚ and myths which had fueled their unfounded fears. Throughout this process‚ they are also able to defy the assumptions made about them by others in order to reach
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or society.” They are “mistfits” even‚ “unable to adjust to a situation” with its narrow‚ inflexible expectations. Holden Caulfield in the novel Catcher in the Rye‚ Wally in the short story White Chocolate‚ and Jamal Wallace in the movie Finding Forrester are examples of teen heroes‚ all attending high school‚ who struggle to fit‚ but who discover quickly that they are not wanted. They are ostracized‚ cast out. Jamal‚ is a black high school student who resides in mainly black neighbourhood
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“Finding Forrester” is a touching drama surrounding our protagonist‚ Jamal Wallace‚ an African American youngster who grew up in a lesser desirable social circumstance. With the combined factor of his gift in the basketball courts‚ and his excellent standardized test scores‚ Jamal Wallace finds himself invited to a prestigious prep school in New York. During the same time frame‚ Jamal Wallace befriends an enigmatic old man‚ unknown to Jamal at the time‚ the old man is in fact William Forrester‚ a
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In the movie finding Forrester there is a young man named Jamal he is the strongest and bravest character in the movie.In the movie Jamal is shown as a young black male who lives in the Bronx’s. He lives with his mom and brother named Fly. Jamal and his friends are good at basketball‚his friends take it serious but Jamal takes something else serious which is his writing. He is in love with writing and reading.Jamal has to face the challenges of being accepted by his friends and also hiding his true
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Finding Forrester “No more lessons. I have a question‚ though. Those two foul shots at the end of the game...did you miss them or did you miss them?” This is the biggest question of the whole movie and also a huge part of the movie. Finding Forrester was a movie about a young man named Jamal‚ who had gotten into some trouble. Jamal was a very bright student and also a very good basketball player. Jamal is a lower class person‚ he always did well in school and was always a winner on the basketball
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Finding Forrester. I’d never heard of this movie before that was why I had no idea of what it was all about. The word “Forrester” made me think of a native person living in the forest‚ so I thought the movie was all about finding that person. I became excited because I expected it to be some kind of action or speculative fiction movie‚ but I was wrong. When I played the movie‚ the first scene I saw was the rap part. I thought I was watching the wrong one‚ I even texted one of my blockmates to clarify
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very talented in the sport of basketball. On the other side of the story‚ William Forrester has the potential to be in the wealthy elite because of his writings‚ but he chooses to stay to himself and live in a shabby apartment in the Bronx. With the use of their brilliant minds‚ both Jamal and William Forrester are able to win-out and overcome the wealthy elite and accomplish their goals in the film Finding Forrester with the help of their strong bond and never ending friendship. Not only is Jamal
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Finding Forrester (2000)‚ directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Mike rich‚ is an inspirational film that captivates you if you pay attention. The reason I say this is because nothing extraordinary happens the first few minutes of the movie. It begins like some of the ordinary movies I have seen before. For example‚ I Robot is one of the many movies that starts off with the usual waking up routine. Jamal who is played by Rob Brown‚ as predicted‚ arouses from his sleep to start off his day.
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In the movie “Finding Forrester”‚ it is about a lower class black male‚ who does not believe in himself. He is the type that does not show what he is capable of. He has a mind of a very educated human but struggles to show because he does not think he will fit in with anyone around him. In this movie‚ there are few people that placed a burden on Jamal Wallace. Jamal knew his strength but was afraid of showing them. Robert Crawford his school professor‚ Jamal Wallace himself and fly one of Jamal’s
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