Imagine yourself choosing between something you've wanted all your life and friendship.
Wow i’ve just finished watching this amazing film called Cars which is directed by John Lasseter, the film Cars is an engaging film that uses humour and fantasy to entertain the audience. It focuses on the dreams and hopes of lightening McQueen and how he will overcome his problems, but eventually the story will teach the audience the importance of friendship in our lives.
This film tells the classic story of Lightning McQueen, a professional race car traveling to California for the dispute of the final race of the Piston Cup against The King and Chick Hicks. As he was traveling to California he accidentally damages the road of the small town called Radiator Springs and is sentenced to repair it in order to enter in the Piston Cup race something he has wanted all his life.
At the centre of the story is the use of personification. The action of the characters keeps the audience fascinated and engaged throughout the movie. All different characters in the film have a different personality and unique technique to conveying the
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At first, McQueen is selfish, and arrogant car, confident that he can win the Piston Cup all on his own, without support from any friends and a coach. However, when he was asked by the town’s cars to fix the road that he himself destroyed when he first arrived at their place, his personality changes. He finds a new best friend called Mater. Mater was an old rusty, fun car, even though McQueen couldn't stand rusty old cars but he transforms into a more sympathetic and understanding character during his time in Radiator Springs and that just makes it obvious that the creators of the film are trying to get a message that friendship is more important than anything. Throughout the film many effects were used like music and the lightening to make McQueen look famous and successful at
Two brothers, Lyman and Henry, had very little in common other than their blood. One day they decided to catch a ride to Winnipeg. The car was introduced while these two were doing some sightseeing in the city. They spotted the red Oldsmobile convertible. Lyman, the storyteller, almost made the car a living thing when he said, "There it was, parked, large as life. Really as if it were alive." (461) The brothers used all of the money they had, less some change for gas to get home, to buy the car. The car's significance was the bond that it created between the brothers. The purchase of the vehicle brought these two together with a common interest: the car. Once the bond was formed, the brothers became inseparable, at least for a while. The boys spent the whole summer in the car. They explored new places; met new people and furthered the bond that the car had created. When they returned from their trip, Henry was sent to war. He left the car with Lyman. While Henry was gone, Lyman spent his time pampering and fixing the car. Lyman saw the car as an extension of Henry. Lyman used the car to maintain an emotional bond with his brother who was thousands of miles away.
During the Talladega 500, Cal Naughton Jr., Ricky Bobby's former best friend, pulled ahead of Ricky, allowing him to slingshot around his car and pass Jean Girard. Though Cal and Girard were teammates at Dennit Racing, Cal disregarded this and jeopardized his team's success to aid Ricky in the movie Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. This moment was crucial to Ricky, he having fallen from grace, going from NASCAR's top driver to being let go by Dennit Racing. The love Cal exhibited was a selfless form of love that was centered entirely around Ricky's happiness, not his own. Because of this selflessness, Cal compromised his own agenda, winning for Dennit, and disregarded personal consequence in hopes that Ricky would win the race. If you truly love someone as Cal loved Ricky, you must sometimes compromise your own interests for their benefit.
...who endures pain. His brother, Lyman, suffers from many of the same things as Henry. Lyman also experiences post-traumatic stress. Although Lyman seems to acknowledge this stress in a rather different way than Henry, it is there all the same. Just as Henry tries to give the red convertible up to his brother, Lyman does the same in the end, and pushes it right back to him. The red car represents a bond between the two brothers, and with Henry gone, Lyman can not bear to have it around anymore. Unfortunately, getting rid of the car does not take care of Lyman's pain. Even a long time after Henry's death, Lyman still experiences post-traumatic stress. Only now he has a tragedy of his own to endure.
...rich 363) We know that for Lyman, the car doesn’t mean anything to him without his brother, so he sends the car off into the river just as his brother had done. The car has always symbolized the bond between the brothers, sometimes sad and sometimes happy, the car always shows the readers the type of bond the two brothers shared.
Movie Analysis Racism, prejudice, stereotypes, discrimination, these are just a few of the topics that the movie Crash touches on. This film was well written and shows an honest depiction of the racial and social tensions that we face every day. However, the film shows us that no matter who you are, we all have some type of stereotype ingrained into us and it is not one group of people that believe in the stereotypes of others. In the first ten minutes of the film, we see a Persian man trying to buy a gun and the sales clerk, who was white, becoming impatient and refers to the man as “Osama.” This shows that the sales clerk believes that all Middle-Eastern looking people come specifically from Iraq.
The main characters in the short story, Lyman and Henry Lamartine, are Native American brothers that have a nearly inseparable connection through a car; a red convertible for which the story gets its name. The brothers’ journey begins when they decide to go up to Winnipeg one day. This is where the two brothers first realize their dream. They see the car for the first time; a car that “reposed, calm and gleaming, [with] a FOR SALE sign in its left front window” (1). This vehicle is the embodiment of freedom, the freedom the boys yearn to experience. Although there are many symbols throughout the story, the largest of them is this red convertible. After making the abrupt decision to purchase the car, they use it to escape from the hard, impoverished life that they were raised in. They spend the summer traveling to Chicken, Alaska and across Montana, Idaho and many other U.S. states. The convertible serves as a source of happiness for both brothers and represents their independence. The convertible made them feel like they never “[had] to sleep hard or put away the world” (2). They left behind the unfair and lackluster quality of living from the reservation and got a taste of their dream, however
In the documentary “Fed Up,” sugar is responsible for Americas rising obesity rate, which is happening even with the great stress that is set on exercise and portion control for those who are overweight. Fed Up is a film directed by Stephanie Soechtig, with Executive Producers Katie Couric and Laurie David. The filmmaker’s intent is mainly to inform people of the dangers of too much sugar, but it also talks about the fat’s in our diets and the food corporation shadiness. The filmmaker wants to educate the country on the effects of a poor diet and to open eyes to the obesity catastrophe in the United States. The main debate used is that sugar is the direct matter of obesity. Overall, I don’t believe the filmmaker’s debate was successful.
Gran Torino is an interesting portrayal of communication dilemmas, spread out across several characters and in particular that of main character Walt Kowalski. After the death of his wife, Walt is bombarded with unwanted attention from several angles and attempts to “deal” with the attention to the best of his ability. There are many examples of communication struggles in the film, but they all seem to follow a similar pattern, and that is distance in time and culture. I’d like to focus on some of these communication barriers between his family, neighbors and priest and see how some of these walls got broken down, or could have been removed more easily.
Trainspotting presents an ostensible image of fractured society. The 1996 film opens, famously, with a series of postulated choicesvariables, essentially, in the delineation of identity and opposition. Significant here is the tone in which these options are deliveredit might be considered the rhetorical voice of society, a playful exposition of the pressure placed on individuals to make the "correct" choices, to conform to expectation.
Paul Walker exhibits the element of hamartia when he encourages his business partner and friend, Roger Rodas, to drive incredibly fast on the road. Walker, besides being in a rush to get home, exhibits a strong desire to experience the thrill of freedom associated with driving at high speeds. Walker antagonizes his friend, saying that Rodas drives “like a grandma”. Walker, an experienced driver who participated in auto shows and in car races, thinks that just because no one else is on the road that it is appropriate for his friend to drive at maximum speeds. He continues to push his friend to drive as fast as one-hundred miles per hour. However, it is not long before Rodas can no longer control the car, resulting in the horrific accident which ended both of
In life many people are hurt or “damaged” and need to find a way to heal. The characters in the movie “Crash” experienced a lot of hurt and some realizing that they did not even know they were hurt to a major event happened.
As a fan of cinema, I was excited to do this project on what I had remembered as a touching portrait on racism in our modern society. Writer/Director Paul Haggis deliberately depicts his characters in Crash within the context of many typical ethnic stereotypes that exist in our world today -- a "gangbanger" Latino with a shaved head and tattoos, an upper-class white woman who is discomforted by the sight of two young Black kids, and so on -- and causes them to rethink their own prejudices during their "crash moment" when they realize the racism that exists within themselves.
The symbolism of the car also change between the brothers. Henry came back from the Vietnam War a different person quiet and never comfortable sitting still. “But he was quiet, so quiet, and never comfortable sitting anywhere but always up and moving around (136)”. Lyman see the same quietness and sitting still just like the convertible. After an altercation with his brother Lyman had to figure out how to get his best friend back to normal. “Henry must have known what I was up to. He rushed from his chair and shoved me out of the way, against the wall (137)”. Lyman found a hammer and started to do a damage the car by bashing the tail pipe, removing the muffler off its clamps. “One night Henry was off somewhere. I took myself a hammer. I went out to that car and I did a number on its underside. Whacked it up. Bent the tail pipe double. Ripped the muffler loose (137)”. According to Lyman the car was in horrible shape, the worse looking car on its reservation. “By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises-full of holes (137)”. The damage to the car represent the damage the war cause to Henry and the damage relationship between the
Crash is a crime-drama film directed by Paul Haggis. It is a real-life incident based story about racial and social tensions in lives of people of Los Angeles. In the movie, various characters didn’t knew each other, but their lives met without their intention. This carried out situation where a decision has to be made. The movie points towards the importance of coming out of your comfort zone to be in the lives of other people to become more like them. Looking at the story with sociological perspective, following are some of the concepts that explains the story in a better way. Crash demonstrates the Thomas Theorem, The Interactionist Perspective, Ethnocentrism, Racial Inequality, and many more. Further we will talk about how the concepts are related to the story.
The stories in Crash happened in Los Angeles, which is a metropolitan, multicultural and diversified city. According to Simmel’s theory, the modern city, like Los Angeles, is “cold”. People are very indifferent and have a blasé outlook when they are walking on the streets. There are barriers among people. In this kind of society, it is extremely easy to “crash” and bump into other people. Not only crash physically by car accidents, but also crash mentally among people’s minds, like cultural, racial and class conflicts. The movie used several cars crashing to indicate the conflicts among different cultures and the complications of humanity. I can see people are struggling between conflictions and harmony.