In the film ‘Ant-Man’ directed by Peyton Reed, an interesting character is Scott Lang aka The Ant-Man. At the start of the movie his criminal record is making it difficult for him to get a job in San Francisco. To make ends meet Scott decides to try his luck and break into a house, which doesn't work. The owner of the house (the old Ant-Man) doesn't press charges and instead hires Scott as the new Ant-Man. The main plot of the movie is to destroy the replicated Ant-Man suit to save the world. Scott is an interesting character because he is a nice and upbeat guy, even though he was a criminal, he is willing to risk his life for others and he is an unusual hero.
Firstly, Scott is an interesting character because he is a nice and upbeat guy, despite the fact that he was a criminal. For example at the start of the movie the director Peyton Reed used closes ups and low angles of Scott punching Peachy as a part of the leaving prison ritual. Near the end of the fight, Peachy says, "I'm going to miss you, Scott". The director has done this to confuse us and make us have misconceptions about what is going on. This shows everyone likes Scott and he is respected by his fellow prisoners, which therefore means if he
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can get on with the roughest and toughest people he must be pretty easy to get on with. From that example, we can already tell he has traits of a hero because it not only showed he was likable it also showed he is was brave. Peyton Reed has done this to show us there must be something unique about Scott. This makes us think about the idea we have of criminals and just because they have done something bad doesn't mean they are still bad. Secondly, Scott is an interesting character because he is willing to risk his life for others. For example near the end of the movie Scott knows the only way to destroy the replicated suit is to go into the quantum realm and risk his life. During the scene, the director has used extreme closes ups of Scott's eyes and dialogue of his thoughts to show scott is deciding what to do. Before he goes into the quantum realm he says, "I love you Cassie" inside his head. Soon after that Scott shrinks down and goes inside the replicated suit to destroy it. This shows Scott is brave and daring to risk his life for others regardless of the fact that he knows the last person that went into the quantum realm never came back. This links to the idea of what is right isn't always easy and how heroes put everyone else before themselves. This makes us think about the nature of heroes, which makes understand that anyone can be a hero as long it's for good, but then the real question is who decides what is good and bad? Which then also links to the idea of the nature of good and bad. Thirdly and finally, Scott is an interesting character because he is an unusual hero.
For example, Peyton Reed used cross-cutting and dialogue in Scott’s first fight scene while he was fighting the Falcon. During the fight Scott started saying, “sorry ” every time he punched, bumped or even touched the Falcon. This makes him an unusual hero because not often do you see a hero saying sorry as he is going along punching people. This means that Scott is done with his days as being a criminal and doesn't just want to punch for the fun of it anymore. The director has done this to make Scott seem different to all the other superheroes out there. This makes us think about how not any two people are exactly the same. If every person was the same the world would be
boring. In conclusion, Scott is an interesting character because he is a nice and upbeat guy, despite the fact that he was a criminal, he is willing to risk his life for others and he is an unusual hero. Overall he helped highlight and give us a better understanding of criminals and heroes. This teaches us that we shouldn't judge
The Shawshank Redemption is an inspiring story about Andy Dufreine and his efforts to maintain hope in horrible situations. The directors used many effective methods that displayed signs of hope in such a horrible place. Andy maintained hope by distracting his mind and always staying occupied. Andy was also inspired to survive by helping others find hope in life.
The story starts off with Scott saying, “we plunged toward the future without a clue. Tonight, we were four sweat guys heading home from a day spent shooting hoops. Tomorrow, I couldn’t even guess what would happen. All I knew for sure was that our live were about to change” (3). Scott was indeed right, his life was about to change when he entered high school. This clearly ties in with the theme of growing up, because entering high school and going through major changes is all part of growing up, and growing up is inevitable. Scott has to grow up no matter what so he has to somehow learn to deal with the changes he will be faced with. It is clear that Scott knows he has some growing up to do when he states, “Freshmen? Unbelievable. Fresh? Definitely. Men? Not a clue” (4). This shows how Scott starts off the year knowing that he has a lot of maturing to do, because high school is not at all like middle school, it is way harder. Lastly, by the end of the book, Scott wrote in his journal, that he plans on giving to his baby brother, “And, wow, I’m not a freshman anymore. I’m a sophomore. Imagine that. ‘Flux rox,’ Scott said, conclusively” (279). This demonstrates how Scott recognizes that changes will still be happening, but he can do nothing than to make the best of those changes and go along with it. Overall, it is clear to see
At the beginning of the book, Scott had three best friends, Kyle, Mitch, and Patrick. His friends slowly drifted away for different reasons. Patrick had to move to Texas.. Mitch started dating a girl and spent all his time with her. Kyle joined the wrestling team, became a jock, and started bullying Scott. Despite losing all his friends, he made two new ones, Lee and Wesley. In the text it states that, “Wow. Two small words that meant a lot. My friends” (Lubar 275). Lee was a new girl at school who was labeled freaky and weird, even by Scott himself, became she had dyed hair and tons of piercings and loved everything to do with death. Despite her appearance and interests, Scott and Lee were brought together by their love for books. His other new friend, Wesley, was one of the scariest seniors in the school. They met when Scott had to bring something to the office and Wesley had gotten in trouble. Wesley started driving him to school and they became friends shortly after. This showed that Scott changed because he realized his old friends weren’t true friends. He was also able to look past the appearance and interests of a person and be friends with them simply because he knew that they would be true
"The Shawshank Redemption" is a compelling film about two imprisoned convicted murderers. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), is innocent, however. Convicted of killing his wife and her lover (a crime for which he clearly had a strong motive), he really "didn't do". Of course, as his jailbird friend "Red" (Morgan Freeman) puts it, "Everybody in here is innocent." Well, Red is "the only guilty man" in Shawshank Prison. As their friendship develops, Andy learns the ropes of prison. Meanwhile, the warden (Bob Gunton) decides that Andy, a well- educated former banker could carry out something more useful than laundry. So, he places Andy as the prison librarian, and later, as his an accountant (he does taxes for all the jail's employees). Andy also assists the warden in money scams (as he tells Red, "I was always an honest man - I had to come to jail to become a crook!")
Shawshank was far from being a rehabilitative place it only ever managed to drag prisoners down a deeper darker hole, then the one they had gotten themselves into it the first place. People like Andy who had come to Shawshank innocent turned to illegal activities in order to stay alive and not lose their minds. Corruption of justice is still relevant in today’s society whether in court, at school, or even in your own houses. At Shawshank the cause of this corruption was the greed of the prison authorities, and the extortion and abuse they put the prisoners through physically, mentally, and emotionally.
The movie Shawshank Redemption depicts the story of Andy Dufresne, who is an innocent man that is sentenced to life in prison. At Shawshank, both Andy and the viewers, witness typical prison subculture.
... the prisoners direct involvement in the corruption, but a friend, lover, family member, et cetera, betters their life, and that wouldn’t happen had it not been for the corruption. The prisoners know the corruption in Shawshank well, and know how to use it to their advantage.
The characters react to each other in the way they speak and do. For example, Willy Russell uses language of the two main characters to reveal the difference in their upbringings and education.
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1997 drama film which takes place in a prison during the late 40’s. The film focuses on Andy Dufresne’s transition from his old life as banker to becoming a prisoner in the Shawshank penitentiary. The life shown in the Shawshank penitentiary is similar to that of normal society such as norms, economic transactions, and functions both prisoners and the officials. The roles the prisoners and officials take shows that Functionalism does not only take place in a normal functioning society, it also takes place in a total institution such as the prison shown in the film.
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For example, in the few minutes of the previous scene before Andy begins to escape we have a narration from Red telling the audience that he believes that Andy is going to kill himself from his recent behaviour when he left solitary after two months of being with his own thoughts. Red says “I’ve had some long nights… alone in the dark with nothing but your thoughts, time can draw out like a blade. That was the longest night of my life.” because of these specific wording of Red’s narration we as the audience automatically expect the worst. This narration and the character of Red is one of the most significant and influential elements of the film to manipulate the audiences emotions towards the one particular scene. The scene following Red’s narration is of the aftermath of Andy Dufresne’s disappearance from the Shawshank prison, we see the Warden unbox what he expects to be his black dress shoes, that he made Andy polish the previous night, yet opens the box to find a set of brown prisoner shoes. The audience then begin to see a flashback of what happened the previous night, and we see Andy switching the corrupt account books as well as dress himself in the Warden’s dry cleaned suit. This scene that follows Red’s night in his cell worrying about Andy is one of the best for
The film stars Tim Robbins as Andrew 'Andy' Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding. The film portrays Andy spending nearly two decades in Shawshank State Prison, a surreal house of correction in Maine and his friendship with Red, a fellow inmate, which gradually develops over the years. Consequently the three reasons that the director wanted to produce this movie are to reveal hope, despair and integrity. Red describes the reasons eloquently: “All I know for sure is that Andy Dufresne wasn’t much like me or anyone else I ever knew. . . . It was a kind of inner light he carried around with him.”
Scott flees to the cellar to protect himself. His wife, thinking that he’s been eaten by the cat, closes the door to cellar, trapping him in the littered room. In his time in the cellar, Scott creates shelter for himself and a source of water. He encounters a new foe in the form of a spider. After fighting it off and eventually killing it, Scott realizes he doesn’t fear shrinking as he once did. He has grown accustomed to the environment surrounding him. He makes his way outside and assures himself of his continued existence.
When first investigating Cordova, he got cocky. He accused Cordova on live TV based on only one anonymous phone call. It’s reckless and in return, his life is falling apart. That is not the only time he’s being reckless which almost botched his investigation. Scott has two sidekicks, a homeless yet optimist girl named Nora and a young guy named Hopper.
What ended Scott’s fight with the second evil ex, Lucas Lee, wasn’t another KO like with the first evil ex, but was because of Lucas Lee ending up in a horrible accident. This was a result from Scott taking advantage of Lucas Lee's inherent big ego by goading Lucas to grind his skateboard on ramshackle rails to his own death while Scott watched from afar. Another iconic moment of unexpected outcomes was Scott’s encounter with evil Scott Pilgrim, who was portrayed to be menacing at first, but walked out of the nightclub together with normal Scott as casual friends. Scott Pilgrim later remarked that evil Scott Pilgrim was actually a nice guy once you got to know him. This is a prime example of the metaphorical phrase: “don’t judge a book by it’s