sonny
Calogero, Lorenzo & Sonny
Sydney Keyes
H. Film, Media & Drama
9/23/13
Mr. Rosenthal
With the classroom dark and the students hushed A Bronx Tale begins to play on the overhead TV. The loud catchy tunes of the do-op music in the Belmont neighborhood and the colorful cars and dusty alleys flash before the screen taking us all into a different world- something only movies and books can let us do. Calogero, who begins the movie as a young boy, we are quickly introduced to, and it becomes quit clear he will be playing the role as the protagonist throughout the film. It is through Calogero that we are then taken through the town of Belmont and meet all the drastically unique and colorful characters that make up his town. The one he puts real emphasis and recognition on hinting to us he will surely have a role in the films near future is Sonny, the town’s gangster, and who we would easily identify as the towns highest ranked man on the social ladder. Throughout the film Calogero is at a constant pull between his father and Sonny who from early on in the movie decided to take Calogero under his wing and treat him as if he were his own son. Sonny and Calogero’s father differ in everything from life style to morals causing an interpersonal conflict. The two men’s relationship throughout the movie with each other is a rising conflict and at one point in the movie they actually come face to face in a dramatic event one night in the back of a bar threatening one another and almost coming to physical blows. Being fully aware of Sonny and his father’s dislike for each other Calogero constantly has to deal with an internal conflict. Respecting and admiring Sonny who is real and up front about life matters, such as when he tells him the truth about baseball players having no real impact on one’s life, and having the bond with his father every son has with their Dad, at times leaves Sonny unsure and stuck in the middle. For example, at the wrestling match, when
Sydney Keyes
H. Film, Media & Drama
9/23/13
Mr. Rosenthal
With the classroom dark and the students hushed A Bronx Tale begins to play on the overhead TV. The loud catchy tunes of the do-op music in the Belmont neighborhood and the colorful cars and dusty alleys flash before the screen taking us all into a different world- something only movies and books can let us do. Calogero, who begins the movie as a young boy, we are quickly introduced to, and it becomes quit clear he will be playing the role as the protagonist throughout the film. It is through Calogero that we are then taken through the town of Belmont and meet all the drastically unique and colorful characters that make up his town. The one he puts real emphasis and recognition on hinting to us he will surely have a role in the films near future is Sonny, the town’s gangster, and who we would easily identify as the towns highest ranked man on the social ladder. Throughout the film Calogero is at a constant pull between his father and Sonny who from early on in the movie decided to take Calogero under his wing and treat him as if he were his own son. Sonny and Calogero’s father differ in everything from life style to morals causing an interpersonal conflict. The two men’s relationship throughout the movie with each other is a rising conflict and at one point in the movie they actually come face to face in a dramatic event one night in the back of a bar threatening one another and almost coming to physical blows. Being fully aware of Sonny and his father’s dislike for each other Calogero constantly has to deal with an internal conflict. Respecting and admiring Sonny who is real and up front about life matters, such as when he tells him the truth about baseball players having no real impact on one’s life, and having the bond with his father every son has with their Dad, at times leaves Sonny unsure and stuck in the middle. For example, at the wrestling match, when