The Blind Side, August Rush, And The Devil Wears Prada

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Films Have a Way Who we are as a person has a lot to due with the various kinds of influences that we may encounter through different events, personal experiences, stories, and by others. Surprisingly enough movies can have a large impact on us, that can really change who we are. The Blind Side, August Rush, and The Devil Wears Prada, are among the many different films that have had a significant impact me on how I live my life and see the world. Films have a way of influencing people into thinking and believing in ways they may have never thought in before. In “The Devil Wears Prada,” a young girl who just graduated college, seeks out to become a journalist. She lands a position in which “a million girls would die for” a job to work for a …show more content…

In the movie “August Rush,” a young orphan boy named Even has an amazing gift to hear music in everything, is often bullied because he believes he can hear his parents in the music the wild makes. One night he leaves the orphanage in hopes to find his parents whom he has never met before, by following the music he hears in the world around him. Soon after getting lost in a city he has never been in, he stumbles upon a kid around his age in the middle of the park making money playing the guitar. After following this kid around, the kid with the guitar takes Even to an abandoned theatre place where he stays with other musically talented homeless kids, under the watch of who they call the Wizard. The Wizard is a man that has taken all of these talented homeless kids and has used them to make money by performing out on the streets. The Wizard begins to call Even, August Rush after taking him under his wing and seeing his remarkable ability to create music. After a police raid at the theatre August seeks refuge at a church where his talents for writing and producing music is discovered. He is given the opportunity to attend Juilliard; a persitijust performing arts school, and is chosen to perform one of the works he composed in the New York Philharmonic in Central Park. He continues to believe if he plays loud enough then maybe his parent would …show more content…

At first some people criticized the family and him for being the opposite race and teachers at the school did not want to accept him because of his low academic background. Everyone soon overcome that, after they all believe it 's the right thing to do to accept him into their school. With the help from his new family, teachers, coaches and tutor Michael gets accepted to play football in multiple colleges, which later gets the opportunity of being drafted into the National Football League; NFL. The Blind Side showed me that you can not judge anyone on appearances or how you think they are without actually getting to know them, because you have no idea about their past and what they have been

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