In the spirit of being fair I want to admit that there were times that i genuinely enjoyed Luke Cage, well kind of. I didn’t hate it right away. I was perplexed at times, but I could still watch it. There were a few problems that I noticed early like the tone was too somber at times and with the exception of the main villain Cottonmouth, played exceptionally well by Mahershala Ali, the acting wasn’t Emmy worthy by any means. The first six episodes of the show were shaky at times, but still watchable. My fiancé, who hates superhero flicks but still dressed as batgirl when I took her to see Batman vs Superman (story for another day), loved the first six episodes we watched. She thought Colter was a hunk (I’m speaking for her as she never outright …show more content…
I’m not going to outright say that Mike Colter’s performance was terrible but it was lacking. At times I forgot that this man even had super powers. He came off as a very weak and timid individual on way too many occasions. In Jessica Jones, Colter was a much more convincing as Luke Cage and I am still confused at why he went left field with his performance in his own show. I didn’t believe that he was as smooth with the ladies as the show was trying to force me to and a large chunk of his dialogue suffered from the same corniness that plagued the show throughout. Colter was completely outshined by Ali for the entire first half of the show and it left me rooting more for the charismatic and complex villain than our square peg hero. Ali made the first half of the show enjoyable, but once he was unexpectedly (and in my mind idiotically) killed by his much less interesting cousin, the show nosedived. Diamondback, the villain who took Cottonmouth’s place, was downright dreadful. I don’t mean dreadful as in his personality and actions, I mean dreadfully acted, dreadfully written, dreadfully motivated, and dreadfully dressed. Who the hell made this
The film that we screened in class was titled the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and was directed by Ang Lee. The beginning of the film, Bai returns from meditating and decides to give up his sword. Once the sword is transported to Sir Te's, it is stolen by a masked character in all black, who is revealed as Jen later on in the film. Mu Bai, Shu Lien and Tsai go out searching for the sword and encounter Jade Fox, which is then followed by a battle; however, the masked character helps Fox escape. During that night Lo, a former lover of Jen, comes back to return her comb and then there is a flashback on how they met. After their encounter, Lo leaves Jen; however, comes back and tries to thwart Jen from getting married. In the end, Fox dies
Jasper Jones was written by Craig Silvey, a Fremantle-based writer. The story revolves around two young boys Charlie and Jasper Jones who live in a small town in Australia. One day Jasper find Laura bruised and hanging form the tree. He is the rebel in the town, people think he murdered Laura regardless of the truth, so he asks Charlie to help him and they work together to find the truth behind Laura’s death. During the long summer, Charlie witnesses racism, brutality and hypocrisy. He is forced to rethink his ideas about morality and ethics. In the end of the story, Charlie has completely changed his mind about how to distinguish right from wrong. I identify with Charlie as I am an Asia girl that who sometimes is treated differently from
A father can have the greatest impact on his son, acting as a role- model and has a strong influence. Arnold Junior was named after his father who took a larger part in his life. If somebody read this book once and just skimmed through it, they would probably just think of his father as a crazy alcoholic who sometimes forgot about his son. There was more of a role that Junior’s father played in the book. The small details Sherman Alexie expressed really helped us see the impact Junior’s father had on him. For example, Junior wore his father’s suit to the Reardon dance, and that made him feel more confident and better about himself. In the book, there is this theme about how the young and the old have their own different takes on hope.
I feel that family and friends were important to the killer angels and the character, even the outcome of the war. Longstreet and Lee were good
I liked Maz Jobrani, I thought that the use of comedy and describing the racial problems him and his family faced was a good idea in order to keep the audience attention and from them jumping to conclusions about the message he was trying to convey. I think if he used other examples beside himself, of other people, i don’t think the message would have been as strong. I think that he has a lot of points about the racial discrimination in america, even though in the constitution it says all people are created equal. One point he made that stuck in my mind is the part he talked about the only parts the movie industry gave him were all terrorist roles. I think that if we stop generalizing a race/ethnicity/culture of people in movies as terrorist or
I was pleased with how Blackish presented the word nigger. As in the real world everyone in this episode didn’t agree on whether the word nigger should be used. But mostly everyone in the show had a similar understanding of the history of the word, or different meanings of the word or the many different uses
Most of the characters were believable, yet Haley's portrayal of Ouiser was not very believable. There was no big flaw,
Even with the major flaws in the operations execution the idea of the operation was a good idea. Operation Fast and Furious was an operation with a good thought process behind it but with poor execution. The goal of the operation originally was to place trackers in guns and then to supply these guns to mexican cartels and work side by side with the mexican government to bring down the cartels. Operation Fast and Furious was never going to work it was a flawed operation and a way for the U.S. to give weapons to the mexican cartels. Operation fast and furious was not a flawed operation, but rather it was an operation in which the execution was everything but flawless.
H: “Bang! Bang!” The sound of gun shots during a war but surviving isn’t always guts and guns, there are many other things that people have to survive. B: Hyeonseo Lee in “My Escape from North Korea” has to get out of all of the troubles in Korea, and save her family. Aron Halston in “Trapped” has to survive through the grit and pain of having a rock stuck on his hand. Chris Kyle in “American Sniper” has survive the long and extreme war. T: During these attempts at survival each person had to use a different character trait, Lee uses perseverance, Ralston uses adaptation, and Kyle uses his focus skills.
holden Caulfield, the main protagonist in The Catcher In The Rye, is an unsympathetic character throughout the story. Holden being a young kid that was kicked out of his boarding school is trying to find his way back, but his life is complicated from traumatic events growing up like death and be shipped away to boarding schools. With the motifs reinforcing the the loss that affects Holden, and J. D. Salinger ideal of growing can be difficult. Holden is a unsympathetic chartier the novel The Catcher in the Rye.
It's not always easy being a teenager. For some, it can be a rather difficult time to connect to others and develop friendships. The awkwardness, insecurities and moodiness that the most of us have all faced contribute a substantial amount. Holden Caulfield is no exception, he too faces the problem of trying to fit in and make friends. The exception being that he has depression. The majority of the relationships Holden encounters in J.D Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye are ill-fated as a result of his lack of social skills, yet his depression also plays a pivotal role. This is demonstrated during his relationships with, Stradlater, Luce and Sally. In each of these relationships, Holden is partially responsible for their demise. However
In Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is an unreliable narrator who announces to the reader he is a liar; in spite of his claim, however, he establishes himself as someone we can trust. Even in the beginning, when Holden is introducing himself, and showing his qualities, he explains that he is, “the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life”(22). This shows to us that instead of lying to the reader in order to make himself seem like a better person, he says the truth, even when it depicts him as a less appealing person. This moment causes us to see him as someone trustworthy. While Holden makes out to be a trustworthy narrator, he also shares some of the past events in his life that cause his reputation to look much worse. Another time
The novel Catcher in the Rye by author J.D. Salinger illuminates the exploits and downfalls of the book's main character whose name is Holden Caulfield. Set in the mid twentieth century in a time when America was experiencing a post-war boom of both economic and social changes which included emphasis on wholesome family values and religion. In a time where anything other than the typical post-war American lifestyle was considered taboo, Salinger brings forth a young boy who is anything but adhering to the status quo of what society expects. While sixteen year old boys are always going to exhibit signs of trial and error as they find out who they are as a person. However, in the case of Salinger’s tale about the
Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye signifies to Charlie's character. They have their differences as Charlie grew up in normal household, in a public school, with good grades. Holden in the other hand was raised in a rich household, had trouble maintaining in school, and dropped out. However, they both suffered through depression, being socially awkward, and being judged. They explore their town, having thoughts about people, and their outcome. Charlie ponders why people go to the mall, and what type of stress does it release. Holden likes to retrace his memories back to the pond and think about how the girls would grow up, and how they will lose their innocence. With their mischievous minds, it makes them see the world as a cruel place
In the eyes of critics, Saving Private Ryan has been renowned to be the most iconic and well directed war movie in film history. However, the millennial generation remained uninformed of the magnitude of the film. Throughout the movie, soldiers sacrifice their lives to save the life of other men. However, some soldiers sacrifice by choice while others do under the influence of hierarchy. When the remaining soldiers out of the eight find Private Ryan, he refuses to go back home for “[he] was with the only brother [he] had left” (Spielberg). Ryan, under his own influence, decides to risk his own life to thwart off the Germans from the bridge with his remaining comrades. The bond of brotherhood with which developed between soldiers during the