Bend It Like Beckham What you want and what your parents will accept is a common disagreement in most households these days. In the movie ‘Bend it like Beckham’ they showed the conflict between Jess between and her parents. The conflict was how they feel and what they want for her‚ how Jess sees the situation and how it is resolved. Throughout the movie Jess is constantly pulled in different directions for what she wants and what her parents and culture expect from the Indian girl Jess. Jess’s
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Intersectional analysis of Bend it Like Beckham. For this assignment‚ to make an intersectional analysis I decided to watch a movie. After searching and thinking for a while I picked the movie Bend it Like Beckham‚ since a lot of elements in this movie are applicable on my own life and I really could relate to one of the characters in the movie. As the title of the movie already implies‚ it is about football and takes place in England. Jesminder is a Sikh‚ Indian girl from a very traditional Indian
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The movie "Bend It Like Beckham" deals not only with different gender- appropriate behaviors but also how different cultures have their own set of gender- appropriate behaviors. Jessie is from an Orthodox Sikh Indian family. She dreams of being a famous soccer player one day and of playing soccer professionally like her idol David Beckham. She watches him on television and has posters of him hanging in her room. Jessie’s parents want to raise her traditionally. They want her to have domestic
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English Essay (prejudice) In the two texts Deadly Unna? written by Phillip Gwyne and Bend It Like Beckham directed by Gurinda Chadra the theme of prejudice is significantly explored. Deadly Unna? is the story of a young boy Blacky who is made to overcome prejudice in his small town of the Port. Bend it like Beckham is set in London and is the story of Jess a young Indian girl whose infatuation is football‚ much to her parent’s discontentment. The key theme of prejudice is greatly explored in both
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sets the Whale Rider plot apart from Bend It Like Beckham was the heavy focus on the Maori culture. The Maori culture has a heavy influence in this story which also leads the Paikea into making the necessary decisions about her leadership. Although there were many contrasts‚ Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider shared many similarities between their individual plots. One similarity between plots was that both of the protagonists were very ambitious. In both films‚ both of the protagonists are very
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It’s interesting when we look at media and wonder if it all Depends on the Attitude of the author‚ producer or publisher when it comes to looking at certain issues or points relating into the world. What we don’t realise in the 21st century is that year 12 students studying supplementary material in standard English may find it difficult to understand and come to terms with it. ‘Educating Rita’ was voted ‘Best Comedy of the year’ when performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980. By 1983
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Bend it like Beckham and Educating Rita could relate in these ways • In Bend it like Beckham the Indian tradition of women getting married‚ having children and taking on domestic duties-e.g. cooking etc. relates to Rita how she is expected to live in the same sort of way but wants to break away from that social status and live her own life. • The scene where Jesminder first plays soccer with the team. The coach asks her "where do you play?" and she replies "in the park.” It shows her naivety this
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Report for Cultural Understanding The main aim of this report is to describe‚ analyze and understand Indian culture and integration Indians with British culture in a connection to movie: “Bend it like Beckham”. The aim is also to assign every character to stage of intercultural sensitivity and define what kind of cultural development is possible for each of them. Findings: Jess: In my opinion she is on the fifth level of intercultural learning‚ she adapts to the british culture‚ she knows
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Bend It Like Beckham Dir. Gurinder Chadha‚ UK/Germany 2002‚ Certificate 12A Introduction Bend It Like Beckham was one of the surprise hits of 2002‚ making over £11‚000‚000 at the UK Box Office and hitting a chord with a range of audiences at cinemas. A vibrant and colourful British comedy about a young girl from a Sikh family who desperately wants to play football against the wishes of her traditional parents‚ the film can be seen to follow the path of other recent British-Asian films such as
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Many films revolve around a challenge for the main character. The challenge Gurinder Chadha’s character‚ Jess Bhamra faces in ‘bend it like Beckham’ is to choose between her family and her love of football. This challenge is presented through the techniques of props‚ dialogue‚ and costumes. The director used props effectively to portray the challenge Jess is to face between the clash of football and Jess’s Indian heritage. This is shown effectively when Jess is practicing her football skills using
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