Rick Dadier Double Entry Analysis

Journal Entry: Summary
Rick Dadier, a war veteran is hired to teach at North Manual High School. This is his first teaching assignment, so he can support himself and his pregnant wife. Dadier learns quickly that the school has a severe discipline problem, and the established teachers advise him how to deal with the students. Regardless, Dadier tries to discipline the class and this provokes a violent response in which Dadier is ambushed by a group of students. Dadier then goes to seek advice from his old mentor and is then faced with two choices too either go to another school or stay at the school. Dadier returns to the school the next day and is reported by a student for using racial epithets. Due to this Dadier is called into the principal’s office and after a heated argument where Dadier reasons with the principle, after the principal attempts to regain his trust by giving him the Christmas Show. The movie continues with Dadier and his colleagues in the classroom where he is enraged about the complacent and complaining attitude from his fellow teachers as well as their lack of innovation and ideas to fix the juvenile delinquency of the kids. Dadier then tries to connect with the kids through a simple cartoon by making them think. In an attempt
The audio codes in the film can be grouped into diegetic and non-diegetic. A good example of non-diegetic codes appears in the scene in which Mr Dadier and a colleague are ambushed in an ally by a group of students. While this happens energetic jazz music accompanied by lively drums play in the background creating a fast paced, suspenseful atmosphere. Another example of non-diegetic codes is when Dadier and his wife are talking about how they had previously lost a baby, throughout this conversation intimate music is playing making the audience emotional provoking feelings of sympathy towards the main