A Fighting Chance: Film Analysis

Analytical Thesis: Get Out is a psychological thriller that analyzes the racial issues in modern America through the use of visual rhetoric: such as film noir, symbolism and metaphors.

A League of Their Own (Marshall, 1992) explicitly characterizes an American era when a woman’s place was in the home. Even our modern perspective implicitly follows suit. Although women have gained rights and freedoms since the 1930’s, sexism remains prevalent in America. This film offers an illustration when men went to war and big business men utilized women as temporary replacements in factories, sports, and so on. Here, course concepts, such as gender socialization, gender expressions, role stereotypes, emotion expressions, and language, correspond to the film’s characters and themes.

Everyone has their own way of achieving victory: scoring the winning point in a sport, getting chosen for a job or acing a test in school. A writer for Sport Illustrated's, Rick Reilly, tells Ben Comen’s story, a teenager with cerebral palsy who runs for his high school’s cross-country team, in his article “Worth the Wait.” In the article, Reilly informs the audience of the previously mentioned situation that Ben is in, while also mentioning Ben’s process of overcoming all odds and managing to finish the races with the entire crowd cheering him on. Reilly establishes a triumphant tone with the aid of pathos and arduous-like diction to make light of people with cerebral palsy and to show how they can accomplish goals in life like everyone else

Wrestling. Literally one of “The toughest division sports” out there. So tough, it can’t be compared to football. With heart rate upping to its max, so fast it feels like your heart is literally about to burst. It’s you vs someone you don’t know, nor their intentions.

Some runners fear the possibility of injuries such as shin splints, twisted ankle, etc. But imagine running a 5k with these injuries- along with cerebral palsy. Renowned sports writer Rick Reilly captures the moment Hanna High junior Ben Comen, who’s body is wrecked by cerebral palsy, crosses the finish line of his cross country race in the piece ”Worth the Wait”, written in 2003. Flagged by his teammates opponents, and even the girl’s team Ben tumbles in a last ditch effort across the line to the screams of the crowd. It’s near impossible to imagine what it’s like to not control your body for such a long distance, enduring the adversity along the way, but Reilly pushes the reader to run alongside Ben throughout the story. He paints an image

During the end of the 3rd Century, the Playwright Plautus wrote many of the first Roman comedies. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical comedy film adaptation of Plautus's comedies.Set in ancient Rome, many aspects of Roman theatre, including stock characters, were included in the film’s production. While the film is based off of multiple comedies, Plautus's Pseudolus character Calidorus is nearly identical to the film’s Hero. During the time Pseudolus was written, the Crisis of the Third Century led to up to 25% of Roman population being comprised of slaves(Southern). Of the many stock characters Platus included in his comedies, Calidorus/Hero, the son of Pseudolus’s owner and the stock character adulescens, best

In chapter two of No Pity, the author Joseph P. Shapiro brings to life the story of Ed Roberts. Ed Roberts was just your everyday kid, who had a passion for sports. When he was fourteen though, he was diagnosed with Polio. The Polio left him in an iron lung and in the hospital for twenty months. During this time, Ed really struggled with himself. Eventually, he realized even though he now had disability, no one could take away his education and intellect. Ed later attended University of California at Berkeley, where he created innovative programs to help individuals with disabilities. When Ed attended the university, he had no other option but to live at the university hospital. Here, Ed met another quadriplegic named John Hesser. Together, through the “Rolling Quads” club, they fought against stereotypes and wanted to change the way individuals with disabilities were treated. Even making significant progress by putting ramps up on campus. Additionally, the created the Physically Disabled Students’ Program. This program advocated for big issues, such as individual rights, independance, and a better standard of living for individuals with disabilities.

On February 5th, 2017, a paralyzed man Adam Gorlitsky took a giant step in his life by competing in the Surf City Marathon. Adam was paralyzed in 2005, his life totally changed after he's paralyzed. Despite the fact the he will be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, he did not give up on his life, but instead he took actions to help people that are in the same situation as him. In the marathon on Sunday, he's walking with his aid of a Re-Walk Robotic Exoskeleton all day Long, he walked for 5 hours completing the last 5 miles of the race. He said to the interviewer that he’s punishing him to help raise awareness and raise money for his foundation “I Got Legs”, he has walked a million steps in races all over the country and raised at least

When Brent walked into our class room, you could not tell he had any type of disability. He began talking about his high school and college days, how he participated in all sports, played baseball at UNO as a pitcher, and eventually made it to the minor leagues. He decided that he was not getting anywhere with baseball, so he made his way back to Nebraska. One day his life completely changed on his way home from Lincoln to Omaha. When traveling home, the car in front of him spun out of control, and landed in the ditch. Brent got out to help, and on his way back to his car to call for help, another car slid of the road, and hit Brent, which threw him. After 10-12 surgeries and spending a month in the hospital, Brent now has a prosthetic left leg from the knee down, and his right leg is full of pins and his ankle is bone on bone. Eventually, he will have to get a prosthetic leg on his right as well. After the accident, he was tired of people feeling sorry for him, and tired of people trying to do everything for him, especially when he was

A most common stereotype depicted of disabled characters is that of a ‘super-man’ (Safran, 2000) or ‘supercrip’ (Harnett, 2000), where a disabled character overcomes massive odds to beat or succeed in defeating their disability to become ‘normal’. The character is often seen as a hero to have made such progress. Although Arnie does not reflect a hero status, his character is beating his disability by the very fact that he is still alive. In the opening scenes of the movie, Gilbert’s narration lets the audience know that “doctors said we’d be lucky if Arnie lived to be ten, well ten came and went” (Matalon, Ohlsson, Teper & Hallström, 1993), implying Arnie’s ‘triumph over tragedy’. He defies death that would be otherwise be brought about by his disability.

When it comes to the film industry, entertainment is the tool used to acquire what is desired, money. The main goal for filmmakers when they create a film is to attain money in addition to the money spent to make the movie. Therefore, in some films that they like to base off of true accounts, it is somewhat necessary to dramatize or embellish the story to really tug at the heartstrings of the films audience. They achieve this goal by the use of dramatic music, ambient lighting, and a small amount of tweaked diction. The Fighter is an excellent example of this dramatization in action because throughout the film the characters are faced with a multitude of decisions that must be made. The choices they make require the characters to choose

Mark O’Brien lived his life from the age of six almost completely immobilized after he contracted polio (Lewin, 2012). The effects of polio on his body not only left him mostly immobilized but also left him reliant on a device called the iron lung. This device helped O’Brien to breath by changing the pressure around his body; something his muscles wouldn’t allow him to do himself. He could only spend a few hours out of the machine, and during these hours he still had to have a respirator on hand. Despite his physical disability he managed to attend and graduate the University of Berkley with a degree in Journalism. He was a well-known writer and poet, and an advocate for people with disabilities. His life inspired several movies, one of which is The Sessions (Lewin, 2012).

Introduction The film Stronger (2015) based on the memoir of Jeffrey Bauman directed by David Green, focuses on his life after losing his legs in the Boston Marathon bombings. In the early scenes of Stronger, the movie shows Bauman’s life of recovery and adaptation to living as a disabled man. Bauman becomes a symbol of hope and inspiration to the people after the bombing. Bauman comes home to his mother and sees tons of care packages and thank you letters from people who believe he is an inspiring hero. The day of the Boston marathon, he was waiting for his girlfriend to cross the finish line while standing a couple inches away from one of the bombs.

At the end of the training, Emily, one of the other students on the team, came to the group with an idea for a documentary starring Archer Hadley, a senior at Austin High School who has Cerebral Palsy. Archer is a family friend of Emily’s but was known by most of us as “that guy in the wheelchair.” Archer was gaining local attention at our high school for his innovative “wheelchair challenge,” which dared students to use a wheelchair for a day. Archer launched this campaign after being stuck outside in the rain with no way of getting inside due to the school’s lack of wheelchair accessible ramps. The idea for the challenge was inspired by the viral ALS “ice bucket challenge,” and the campaign brought campus-wide attention to Archer and his cause. Thus, when Emily pitched her documentary idea, we all agreed that we wanted to be a part of this cause and make a

"It 's a very nice thing to do. I don 't think Kyle Snyder or [fellow 2016 gold medalist] Helen Maroulis wrestle for that kind of thing. People who put themselves through the hell of wrestling have a very different calling. It 's a Spartan lifestyle. It 's a brutally tough sport. It 's a real reward for someone who put themselves through that."