Forrest Gump and the Blind Side both have strong characters, inspirational moments, and incredible hardships. The movies show two very smart people who are misunderstood by many. Forrest has an amazing life surrounded by people he loves and cherishes. Forrest grows up in southern Alabama. His house has a southern-style look and feel. The scenery looks very realistic from his hippy girlfriend to the men in uniform serving their country. The Blind Side is inspired by a true story featuring Michael Oher who is a homeless young adult who struggles with a hard life not having the education he needs, or his parents to support him. He grew up in the inner city housing projects in Memphis Tennessee. Forrest has a hard time through his life by people telling him that he would never make anything …show more content…
of himself. Forrest had a very caring mother who pushed him to never quite and a true love named Jenny who he never quite loving and fought very hard to keep her in his life. In my own personal opinion Quinton Aaron (Michael Oher) played the part very well, I feel like he was emotional with his part and brought it to life. On the other hand Tom Hanks also did a very good job with the acting taking into account of the southern accent and the culture of a southern boy to an adult. I believe that Michael Oher is a more likable character in the Blind Side due to the emotional aspect and it being a true story. Forrest Gump and Michael Oher are both misunderstood men who have the potential to succeed in their life.
Forrest Gump is uneducated and acts if so he was a teenager. He does not think of what he is doing most of the times. Forrest had a hard time from when he was a child with braces on his legs to being bullied by other students. No one takes Forrest seriously and it goes on throughout his lifetime. Michael Oher is a young black African American who was abandoned by his drug addicted parents and left him alone to defend for himself. He does not have the proper education to be successful in life. He goes through hard times by going back to school and trying to make himself successful and two adults with a family of their own take him in as their own. In the end both character’s make out rich. Michael and Forrest never seemed to give up on what they believed in. The Blind Side is more of an emotional back and forth of failing and succeeding. Forrest Gump is more of a comedy going through important parts of history but also has a heartwarming touch to it. Both movies are very inspirational and teaches you never to give up on things that you do not realizing you could achieve
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The book The River Between Us by Richard Peck was interesting, it talks and describes the different events that happened to Tilley the main character. The movie Gone With the Wind was easier to understand because it showed the different characters. Just as the book, the movie Gone With the Wind also describes the different events that happened in the life of Scarlett, the main character. Even though the book and the movie are different because they describe the life of two different women, they are similar because their lives were effected by the Civil War.
A trait that makes Forrest Gump a great hero is that he is protective, of his friends & Jenny. Jenny was constantly being mistreated & hurt. Whenever Forrest was there & saw this, he punched that guy right in the face to defend her. Jenny also had a horrible childhood & was abused by her dad too. Her house reminded her of what ruined her life, so Forrest had it bulldozed. She never had to look at that awful place ever again. After Jenny died, Forrest looked after Forrest Jr. He taught him to read & do many other things. He cared for & protected his family to the
The film, Finding Forrester, characterizes the unlikely relationship formed, between a withdrawn, hermit writer William Forrester, and Jamal Wallace, a basketball star from the Bronx, through their mutual proclivity for the art of writing. The plot of the film revolves around Jamal’s transitions to a highly prestigious private school and the events that led to Forrester becoming a mentor towards Jamal’s writing. Both reclusive in nature, for Jamal his academic endeavors, and Forrester nearly all aspects of his life; together, their shared bond opens them up further to the world. The title, Finding Forrester, refers to the mutualistic beneficial nature of their friendship, in that Jamal helps Forrester find himself, in addition to Forrester
The Sandlot movie made millions of dollars. Why? Because like the movie the kids had a childish belief that dog crosses the fence was a big, scary, and savage dog that would eliminate anyone who dares to cross its path but they come to realize that the dog was a kind loving dog it only harms to them was his licking. To grow up soon or later and lose our childish beliefs it’s human nature. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, By Harper Lee Scout can be seen as a tomboy as she does not act as our world believes a girl should act like. Scout changes from innocence to experience because her way of looking at world changes as she matures as the years passed by.
One factor that stood out to me a lot that can be contrasted between the two texts is the image of family. In Cheaper by the Dozen you get the image of an all American kind of family. The kind you would see in magazines or on postcards. The movie gives off the façade of the ideal family. It shows you
They both depict man 's struggle between being inquisitive and gaining knowledge, show the consequences of gaining knowledge and of staying ignorant, and they both show why both gaining knowledge and staying ignorant help the oppressive forces gain power over the human race. “But why does it matter? Either way both the wise characters and the ignorant characters end up saddened from their knowledge of the despicable world or dead from their own ignorance,” a reader may ask. The answer is it shows humanity; not to stay ignorant to the world around, but do not stay pridefully ignorant with many
...ing both how ego's are built and torn down, and how people have to depend on other people. The movie received many awards and rightly so due to the great craftsmanship of the relationship ties and attributes each character was given. These two specific dramatic relationships are good in convincing the audience that these could be real situations and that they do exist.
Therefore, after analyzing the factors such as lack of support from family, poverty and discrimination, that the main characters of the two movies faced in order to reach their ultimate goal, we can say that the two films are similar and try to convey the same message. Furthermore, Maggie and Rudy both display the same traits, which helps them propel towards their goal. These traits of dedication and sacrifice certainly are the key to success and any challenge no matter how big it won’t be able to stop an individual from reaching their goal.
Animal Farm by George Orwell and the Truman Show by Peter Weir are very different texts but explore similar themes. Animal Farm is about a community of animals that overthrow a farm. The Truman Show is about a young man who was adopted at birth by a TV network and grew up in a reality Tv show. Animal Farm and the Truman show display three main themes through the two texts, They explore what a good life for an individual is and how the good life is displayed by them, It also explores what a good society is for a group and it finally explores the influence that power has through the texts.
Candide, which has been credited the base for the book and movie Forrest Gump, features a main character teeming with naiveté. Pangloss says all is for the better and Candide lives by this edict with unaltered optimism. Faced with death and fatigue, Candide is befriended only to be enlisted in the Bulgarian army. Escaping death a few more times, he sees the pains of war and masks the pain with philosophy.
In the movie “the curious case of Benjamin button”, it had many differences from the short story. In the movie Benjamin’s life was planned out differently from the short story, and had a better closure. “The curious case of Benjamin button” both the short story and the movie were great, but the story of the movie was completely rewired from its short story version .
The way they contrast is in the book The Plot has many little things that lead to one big thing yet the movie has a small amount of big events that lead into one huge event. this changes how suspenseful the story is and how curious you get as a reader. an additional thing that is unalike is that the book's plot has a lot of detail where as the movie is missing a lot of scenes from the book. This happens to many movies which makes the book The better choice. along with these differences are some similarities these being both plots create the same storyline. another is that both plots have some parts that are completely unrelated to others. To Kill a Mockingbird in To Kill a Mockingbird are different as well as the
These two movies can be viewed as a single movie much like The Godfather movies but watching two of them as one movie is more predominant. Watching them like this allows us to enjoy the invigorating spectacle of the two films' bold balancing act, as on the one hand there stands the optimism and hopefulness of the more conventionally romantic Before Sunrise, while on the other hand we witness the often savage skewering of same in the much bleaker and despairing sequel. The two films are more rewarding when consumed as one because we observe the counter-development of these films, as they effectively switch positions and the outlooks over the
...nd genuine kindness extend further than just treating the President of the United States like a normal person, even though Forrest Gump is ignorant of the ‘issues’ of different people. At the University of Alabama, two African American students are granted acceptance after an enormous ordeal on blacks going to colleges with whites because of the insane amount of racism the United States of America had. As the two African American students made their way up the staircase, one dropped a book and Forrest rushed through police officers and rioters to pick up the book and hand the book to the colored student who dropped it. Forrest’s ignorance definitely contributes to his selflessness and generosity towards people who are different (during the time period in American history the movie was based on), however, it is one of his traits that makes him a true unexpected hero.
Forrest Gump is a movie that goes over a man's life and how he exceeded many challenges with luck and perseverance and who just happens to find himself in nearly every major event of the second half of the 20th century. Below are is an summary of the movie and after that is and review of the review of the movie, arguing which point the reviewer got right and which are agreed upon.