‘By establishing Terry Malloy as the hero‚ On the Waterfront values individual conscience above community loyalty.’ Discuss. Kazan does not only use Terry Malloy by establishing him a hero in On the Waterfront to value individual conscience or moral growth above community loyalty or sense of obligation‚ but also other characters like Edie and Father Barry. Unlike Terry‚ who has to gain individual conscience‚ Edie and Father Barry have never been really closely connected to the community‚ which
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On The Waterfront (1954) Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter‚ while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly‚ the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny’s thugs‚ and later meets the dead man’s sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry‚ who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers. Marlon Brando ... Terry Malloy Karl Malden
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On the waterfront practise essay Elia Kazan’s masterpiece‚ “On the Waterfront” tells the story of Terry Malloy’s battle between reason and will. At the film’s centre lie’s Terry’s choice between remaining “deaf and dumb” about the corruption lead by Johnny Friendly‚ or becoming a ‘stool’ pigeon and testifying against him. Terry’s ultimate decision to testify against Friendly demonstrates his transformation from being a “bum”‚ lost in his morality‚ to a hero and leader for himself and his fellow
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On the Waterfront Study Guide Acknowledgements Writer: Susan Bye Education Programmer Australian Centre for the Moving Image Susan’s primary role at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image is to support the teaching of film as text to secondary school students. Initially trained as an English teacher‚ she studied and taught film and media at La Trobe University before joining ACMI in 2009. Study Guide > On the Waterfront 2 On the Waterfront: difficult choices in an uncertain
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Insight text article on On the Waterfront Article by Rosemary O’Shea ON THE WATERFRONT Directed by Elia Kazan INTRODUCTION On the Waterfront is a classic Hollywood movie‚ winning eight Academy awards in 1954. Marlon Brando’s portrayal of Terry‚ the simple young dockworker who takes on the corrupt waterfront bosses‚ is one of the great screen performances in cinema history. The film explores the struggle between conscience and self interest and the question of where loyalty belongs. Eva
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decisions Huck did in struggles with conscience. When readers first meet Huck‚ he is living with the Widow Douglas and trying his best to conform to her rules. For example‚ when he wanted to smoke‚ "She said it was a mean practice and wasn"t clean‚ and I must not try to do it any more" (4). Huck"s immaturity shows in his reaction to her rule. He felt that she was "finding a power of fault in me for doing a thing that had some good in it" (4). Huck is struggling with his conscience early in the novel
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juror 8 and ‘On The Waterfront’ with Terry Malloy. While juror 8 is confident while having all the odds against him‚ Terry Malloy is very different while he needs encouragement from those that are around him. Juror 8 shows he is willing to break the law to achieve justice for the boy. He shows this by getting a knife and getting it inside the jury room. Terry is unsure on what to do and seeks advice from those around him such as Father Barry. Father Barry convinces Terry Malloy to do the right thing
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Topic:’Terry says to Charley‚ "I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody instead of a bum. Which is what I am". Does the film support Terry’s judgement of himself? On the Waterfront is a film where a young man has to struggle between conflicting choices in the harsh brutal waterfront days of the 1950s. Director Elia Kazan chose to shoot the film in black and white‚ to use as a contrast between the obvious right and wrong state of affairs on the waterfront. However obvious it is‚ the
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town exploited by the mob. The title On the Waterfront befits it well‚ for the town’s only way of employment is working on the docks for the mob. The mob controls everything in this town; they are the union and the law. If anything accurs you don’t know anything about it. Even if you were right there you were blind or D&D (Deaf and Dumb). Situation The situation in the town is that a very prominent man in the town was thrown off of the roof of his apartment building. Most of the people in
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A) The movie On the Waterfront‚ portrays a similarity from then to now. Daily there was minimal work and only a certain amount of workers were picked to work. Others had to wait to come back the next day and hope to be picked. Today when there is no work you are laid off and on unemployment waiting for work. This is a similarity from years ago to present day. B) The tipping points of the movie were when Joey was murdered and Terry was involved knowing what happened
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