The Grand Canyon, directed by Lawrence Kasdan in 1991, is a film that involves many life lessons. The characters in this film all have many different lives but they are all located in the same city, the city of Los Angeles. The characters come from different backgrounds of life and live in different classes. Some are rich and live in a safe area, where majority are white. For example, all the neighbors are friendly and they are comfortable with being outside. The others live in a poor unsafe area where majority are colored. For example the neighbors are never outside because there’s gangs and many police around and in the beginning of the movie helicopter flashes the light around the neighborhood. The film shows how each character has a life …show more content…
Mack (Kevin Kline) was leaving a basketball game when his car broke down in an uncomfortable area. Mack called a tow truck but while he was in his car waiting, a group of colored guys approached his car harassing him. The guys made Mack get out of his car and he thought his live was over but then Simon (Danny Glover) the tow truck driver arrived. Simon took control of the situation and saved Mack’s life. The film had many elements, one being dialogue especially in that first scene. Kasdan had the guys who approached Mack just being them self’s and saying things how the normally would in a real life situation. “Do you respect me, or do you respect my gun” says one of the guys to Simon. Another element was the camera shots and sound effects that made me feel the way the characters did. Like in this first scene the way the camera paneled around the car as the guys were harassing him showed how over whelming the situation was. Then when you could hear the tow truck coming down the street showed a sense of …show more content…
Claire (Mary McDonnell), Mack’s wife was out jogging one day and heard a baby crying in the woods. She found the baby placed right in the sunlight, wrapped in a blanket like it was placed in that exact spot for a reason. There was background music that made the feeling mystical. She took the baby home and fell in love with her. Mack then came home and told her they had to call the police. A few days later Claire was jogging again, observing her surroundings. As she was jogging she ran into a guy with a beard, they made awkward eye contact. Kasdan used a close up shot of their eye contact to show that there was a reason they ran into each other. While Claire was discovering miracles there is a transition to a different scene when Simons sisters house was being shot at during a drive by shooting. Kasdan used the camera speed to emphasis the emotion in the film when she was crying. Simon is concerned about his nephew and his involvement in gangs. As Claire was expressing her feelings about poverty and the unfairness in the world to Mack, Simon was expressing his concern about his nephew to Mack. Mack started to realize things are unfair and that he wanted to help. Mack told Simon about a place near his house for sale so he could move his family to a better neighborhood. Claire expresses how she wants to adopt the baby and how it was meant for her to find the baby just like it was meant for Simon to show up at the right
Times got harder and more rough over time. Josh begin to worry about Joey, thinking he was going to get sick. Surprisingly Joey’ health was better than Josh’s health. Josh came down with a bad cough with everyday it got worse. Joey was the one who spent money to buy cough syrup for his brother. He would go to soup kitchens and beg to and bring the food back to his brother. It became harder and harder for them to stay alive each day. The only thing keeping them was that they were getting closer and closer to Lonnie. It was pretty risky for them, but
The luck of the town finally changes and everyone starts acting better. Mack and the boys again decide to do something ni...
The aspects of the movie that were brought out, for me, were the individual characteristics of each of the individual characters. They characteristics are drawn out and over dramatized, some came from generalities made by the Anglo-Americans but some were real aspects of the people. Most of the characteristics that came out were unfavorable but they did what they were supposed to. They told of the generalities that the groups place upon one another.
This demonstrates to us that no matter how much your legal or moral laws are violated, what matters is how you as an individual react to the situation, justly or unjustly. This movie is centered around the notion that if you are a person of ethnic background, that alone is reason for others to forsake your rights, although in the long run justice will prevail
Crash is a movie that had several detailed events of sociological concepts. The movie Crash showed that everyone created has good intentions and good hearts but unfortunately they may grow up and learn the prejudices of the world. "Crash" is a movie that brings out racial stereotypes; as the movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a diverse race of every nationality. The movie starts off with several people being involved in a car accident. We are then taken back to the day before the crash, where we are shown the lives of many of the characters, and the difficulties they may encounter during that day. An LAPD cop is trying to get medical help for his father, but he is having problems with an African American receptionist who won't give his father permission to see another doctor. He in then turns around and takes out his anger on a black couple during a routine traffic stop. A socialite and District Attorney are carjacked at gunpoint by two black teenagers. The socialite takes out her anger on a Hispanic man who is changing the door locks to their home. After the Hispanic man leaves he is robbed of his dignity by a Persian store-owner.
Tension between the African Americans and Caucasians have been present in America since slavery. In the movie Crash (2004), race and culture are major themes that can be seen in the lives of the characters in the film. One character in particular, Cameron, a prestigious color vision director, displays the friction between two cultures. He belongs to the educated, upper class of the Los Angeles area. He is also an African American, yet he seems to have no ties with that class. He has a light-skinned wife, attends award shows, and it appears that his acquaintances are predominately white. When he and his wife, Christine, get pulled over by a racist cop, he experiences emotions of powerlessness and helplessness that he never knew he would experience due to his upbringing and place in society. Cameron goes through a radical transformation where he comes to grips with his background and how he fits into these two clashing cultures.
This movie takes place in Los Angeles and is about racial conflicts within a group of people which occur in a series of events. Since there are a wide variety of characters in this movie, it can be confusing to the viewer. In the plot, Graham is an African-American detective whose younger brother is a criminal. His mother cares more about his brother than Graham and she wants Graham to bring his brother back home, which in turn hurts Graham. Graham?s partner Ria is a Hispanic woman who comes to find that her and Graham?s ethnicities conflict when she had sex with him. Rick is the Los Angeles district attorney who is also op...
Colleagues and students . However , later in his life , he started to have bouts of psychosis , although the exact dis was not mentioned in the movie . Claire , Catherine 's elder sister was in New
The film that I will be discussing is called Malcolm X. It is also a very moving, touching, and scholastic film. It can be described as one of the best featured film memoires that was directed by Spike Lee. It has to deal with the all-inclusive sweep of an American existence that arose in distress and ended up out into the streets and in penitentiary before the situation of a brave man who became a hero redeveloped himself.
Claire's thought process though out the story shows her suspicion. This suspicion causes Claire to notice minuet details, which would usually be overlooked by the common person. At the dinner table she watches his every move, "he seems tired, edgy.... He looks at me and looks away again"(Carver, 278). These are usually the mannerisms of some one who has done something wrong, acting out of the norm and having shifty eyes is an unconscious way of showing guilt, but in this instance it could be Claire imagining these things. When someone needs to believe something so drastically, they can make things up to justify their thoughts. It is quite possible that Stuart was acting fine but Claire's suspicion took hold of her perspective causing her to see these characteristic ways of a guilty person. While on a drive with Stuart Claire thinks "so much water so close to home, why did he have to go miles away to fish?" (282) She believes the men went to the lake so far away so that no one would see them murder the girl. Even the husband notices his wife's suspicion, saying "don't look at me like that. Be careful now. I mean it. Take it easy, Claire"(280). Stuart says this because he can feel the distrust Claire has in him. Yet again, this is another instance that Claire is acting in suspicion.
At breakfast the next morning, REVEREND HOWELL suggests that Wilson read the eulogy at Jeff’s funeral. Despite his parents’ reluctance, Wilson agrees and arranges to meet with Reverend Howell the next day to discuss the eulogy. Wilson runs into an old friend from High School named MATT who informs Wilson that his high school sweetheart LIZZY has moved back to town and opened a law practice. Wilson goes to Lizzy’s office, and, as he works up the courage to talk to her, overhears Lizzy tell her assistant NATALIE that she had lost her date-book. Lizzy notices Wilson looming outside of her office and the two have an awkward, yet oddly comforting reunion. Wilson returns home to find Jeff’s wife, LUCY and their daughter, EMMA, in his parents’ living room. Emma whines about not having her favorite blan...
The film maintains the book’s cool tone by having characters rarely raise their voices or even show outward emotion. The film is less dry, with a clear, looming sense of doom that builds throughout. One advantage the filmmakers had in conveying the story is the ability to use visual effects to add to the plot and overall emotional aspect of the story. While it is difficult to convey emotion with written word, the film presents an amplified version of the characters’ emotions, giving them a presence and power that is not as readily observed in McCarthy’s book version. The book tends to explore the characters’ mental states in ways that film rarely can, save for devices like exposition, narration, and voiceover, which can sometimes seem awkward. The movie is far more action-based, focusing on what the characters do rather than their feelings. While the differences between the book and film ultimately are small, and the story mostly plays out in the film as it does in the book, there are occasions when the movie changes small facts or details to add to the visual elements and effects of the
Director Lawrence Kasdan's film Grand Canyon is centered around the lives of a few Los Angeles residents. Some of the individuals that are presented in the film belong in distinct social class in regard to each other. For instance, Mack is an upper-middle class lawyer; meanwhile, Simon is high-prole tow-truck driver. Fussell explains in his non-fiction text Class that there are many important elements that need to be taken into consideration when assigning a person to a social class. The elements that need to be taken into consideration include clothing, occupation and profession. Undoubtedly, Mark and Simon are a perfect example that reinforces the idea that their respective class standing can be accurately determined by these three
Action – when someone in today’s generation hears the word action, their mind probably thinks of explosions, car chases, or hellacious gun fights. This film is far from that. The action portrayed in this film caught me off-guard as I was expecting at least something along the lines of what I mentioned above. City Lights has action that is bland like a bar of soap. I had to pay close attention to every detail in the movie to catch-on to the details. There were details throughout the entire movie that a regular person wouldn’t catch on to. The specific details that I am referring to are the hand gestures of the characters. It’s a silent film. There are no words spoken. There’s only hand gestures and facial expressions. I paid close attention