"The Blindside" is a sports/comedy film directed by John Lee Hancock. Warner Brother’s Productions released the film in 2009. The movie is based on the book "The Blindside: Evolution of the Game" (2006) by Michael Lewis. The movie depicts Michael "Big Mike" Oher (Quinton Aaron), a sixteen-year-old homeless African American teenager wandering the streets of Memphis, Tennessee. He is six feet tall and weighs about two hundred pounds. He is the youngest of twelve children and was raised in the projects. He meets Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra bullock), a wealthy white woman, who along with her family, accept Michael as one of their own. The Tuohy's adopt him and with their help he becomes an All-American Football Player and first-round NFL draft pick …show more content…
Her husband, Sean Tuohy (Tim McGraw) is a sports commentator and a business man. They have a beautiful daughter named Collins (Lily Collins) and a smart cracking son named S J (Jae Head). Collins and SJ attend Wingate Christian Private School. The school’s head football coach is named Burt Cotton (Ray McKinnon). Burt sees something special in Michael when he spots him one afternoon at a local boys and girls club playing basketball. Michael amazed him by his size, he towered over all the teenagers that were playing against him. After speaking to Michael, he finds out that he does not attend school and lives on the streets. He encourages the school’s principle to give Michael a chance to attend Wingate because of his athletic potential. The principle agrees and gives Michael a full scholarship to attend Wingate. Leigh Anne and Sean first spot Michael picking up leftover popcorn off the gym floor during one of Collins volleyball games. On their drive home, they see him again, walking in the rain looking for somewhere to sleep. Leigh Anne offers him to stay the night in their upscale home and he hesitantly accepts. They discover that Michael has been living in the street since the age of seven when child protective services separated him from his crack-cocaine addicted mother. Immediately after being put in a foster home, he ran away to live on the streets and spent his time begging …show more content…
They both depict stories about African American troubled teens who are rescued by kind strangers. Both directors depict their movies with intimate, real, emotions. They are heartwarming tales about overcoming difficulties in life and acquiring a stroke of good fortune from some helping hands. They are unashamedly, tissue hugging movies that anyone can appreciate. They have perfect balance of compassion, comedy, and drama. Although the films do have cliché, familiar moments which get annoying they still encompass Michael's and Precious’ special
Being bold is crucial when exemplifying heroism. Leigh Anne Tuohy steps out of her comfort zone multiple times in the movie The Blind Side to positively affect Michael Oher. Michael Oher is a homeless African American teenager who grew up in the projects around Memphis, TN. Micheal comes from a drug centered and broken family, which lead him to be controlled by Family Services. SJ Tuohy, the son of Leigh Anne, formed the first relationship with Micheal when they bonded over their grade school habits. One
Leigh Anne leaves her Ordinary World by Crossing the Threshold into the Special World, where she must overcome a series of challenges. Leigh Anne’s journey begins when she helps out a juvenile in need. As a wife and a mom of two Mrs. Touhy seems to live a normal life in her Memphis, Tennessee home. Ole Miss graduate Leigh Anne Touhy and husband Sean Touhy run a fast- paced and hardworking household in their quaint Tennessee home. A Campbellian Hero must have an Ordinary World that she is able to leave in order to get to the Special World. Heroes do not always look the same, or even appear as a Hero, “Heroes wear many faces because of their responses to the numerous needs of individuals” (Brown). Young Michael Oher is trying to find a place where he fits in and is accepted, when the Touhy family welcomes him with open arms. She soon realizes that Michael in is need of help and she says herself, “I just think Michael needed somebody, and it was so evident that there was nobody in his life. And it just broke my heart” (Touhy). Leigh Anne reacts to her call to adventure briskly and almost without second thought. Leigh Anne Touhy is the matriarch of the Touhy family, and she is the one that runs things. She does not have a mentor, no...
These two films come from entirely different genres, have entirely different plots, and are even based in entirely different galaxies, but the share the theme of the hero’s journey. This concept can be equally applied to nearly every book, movie, and other such works, as long as you dig under the surface and find the meaning beneath. The elements of the hero’s journey are found in both films, and with a critical eye, can be found all around us. This is the classic story of the hero; in every shape and form an author can apply it too.
Overall, both of these stories are wonderful. They really get you engaged as a reader to understand the concept of the story and find the moral meaning of why the story is being told. These stories really helped me understand why it is so important for me to search for my meaning because I will never know where I am going if I don’t suffer and understand the bad things in life before receiving any good things in life. I would recommend any and every body to experience both of these magnificent stories because they are both extremely powerful and joyful to comprehend.
...using flow to determine when to move from task to task. There was a correlation between the protagonist and chromonormativity as well. Both films showed very interesting family dynamics with All That Heaven Allows showing the children being very talkative and interested in their mother's dating and sex life. The other film had very little verbal interaction at all between mother and son, and he seemed completely clueless to his mother being a sex worker. Each showed a different kind of family domestic dynamics, with one having the mother take care of everything, without even a thank you from her son, and the other having one of the adult children making alcoholic drinks for everyone. I would argue that both films were solid choices relating to our keywords so far.
The main protagonist of the film, Scotty Smalls, is introduced as a straight-A, friendless young boy who has just moved into a new neighborhood in new state. While
Looking at each movie, the observer can see why Omar Epps was chosen for the main roles. He does a great job of presenting a college athlete faced with hardships and how to deal with adversity. His actions in both movies are comparable and because he plays an athlete, they have the same general theme. Each performance feeds off the other and after making The Program, Spike Lee and Sam Kitt probably thought Omar Epps would be perfect for Love and Basketball. In the end, he did a pretty good job.
Both stories deal with a young girl who, with the help of a little magic, is able to find her prince and live happily ever after. Needless to say on of these versions is much darker than the other, but the story sends an overall good message.
Precious is, in every sense, a film that pushes this country to eschew self-congratulation and forces us to really take inventory of how we live and function as a society. The final moments in which Precious escapes from her wrecked home to begin her life on her own, is the best part of the entire film; the hope that is rebirth and new possibilities spring forth like a Phoenix from her ashes. Those Marco systems that failed her as a child will now be her primary sources of support as an adult.
These two movies deal with many similar themes, even though the plots differ some. The difference in religions and culture make the movies more realistic and home-based. The main theme of searching for a real love is what makes the movies so romantic, even though they are both classified as romantic comedies. Whether these two movies make one laugh of cry they are two very similar movies. If one of these movies seems to grab one’s attention, more than likely the other will too. So, if it is crying or laughing one can not go wrong with these two movies; they both give a little bit of laughter and they can both cause a few tears.
To conclude that both movies have own special traits that attract a lot of audience to watch these movies even though in these movies have contained violence and sexuality scene that seemly not suitable for children to watch. Furthermore, I’m really thought that both movies are good suggestions to entertain people during free time as both are very interesting and nice to watch.
Both films focused on human rights and the lengths that people went to try to achieve their human rights. It is awful the torture people went through some people were even beat to death. It is truly terrible in some countries women are still viewed as property and must obey everything their husbands tell them to do. It is a tragedy when you walk down the street and are not sure if you will live to come back home. The saddest problem is that we Americans do not take full advantage of all the rights and privileges that we have. In other countries people will risk their lives and suffer pain just to have the same rights that we have.
This movie is a wonderful production starting from 1960 and ending in 1969 covering all the different things that occurred during this unbelievable decade. The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie portrayed many historical events while also including the families and how the two were intertwined. These families were very different, yet so much alike, they both portrayed what to me the whole ‘message’ of the movie was. Although everyone was so different they all faced such drastic decisions and issues that affected everyone in so many different ways. It wasn’t like one person’s pain was easier to handle than another is that’s like saying Vietnam was harder on those men than on the men that stood for black rights or vice versa, everyone faced these equally hard issues. So it seemed everyone was very emotionally involved. In fact our whole country was very involved in president elections and campaigns against the war, it seemed everyone really cared.
Herbert Blumer noted that people act toward others based on the meaning they give them. The meaning we assign to someone is shown by the language we use toward that person. Words we use have default assumptions, and people label others with words. Thought then comes into play as we modify our interpretation of what we see by our thought process. The thought process includes someone taking the role of the other. You imagine you are someone else who is viewing you, and sometimes act as that person would act. A lot of the people in the movie, The Blind Side, act differently toward Michael Oher based on the meaning they assign to him, and they give him different labels. Those labels are mostly negative because people see Michael him with ratty clothes, nowhere to live, and always failing school. Michael Oher’s mom in the movie, Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock), and her family represent love and caring. Michael starts showing love and caring. When he goes back to the “hood” with his old friends, they represent problems, and he doesn’t want to be problematic, so he stays away from
In the blockbuster movie The Blind Side, director John Lee Hancock brings to light an emotionally charged and compelling story that describes how a young African American teenager perseveres through the trials, tribulations and hardships that surround his childhood. The themes of class, poverty, and also the love and nurturing of family encapsulate the film mainly through the relationship that Mrs. Tuohy and Michael Oher build during the entirety of the movie. This analysis will bring together these themes with sociological ideas seen throughout the course.