Analysis Of John Lee Hancock´s The Blind Side: Evolution Of A Game

The film The Blind Side was based off of the book written by Michael Lewis and was directed and written by John Lee Hancock. The movie premiered on November 20th, 2009. Warner Brothers Pictures produced the film for a general audience over the age of thirteen because of language, violence, drugs, and sexual references. This is a story of a young African American boy, Michael Oher, and his struggle through life to become a successful human being with the help of the people around him. The Tuohy family, teachers at Wingate, and his tutor, Miss Sue, all worked together to help make Michael the professional football player and writer he is today.

The movie The Blind Side was released in 2009. It is about a young man, named Michael Oher, who grew up in a poor environment. In the beginning of the movie, Michael was homeless and not currently attending school. All of that changed when a woman, named Leigh Anne Tuohy, offered Michael the chance to stay with her and her family. The Tuohy family was well off, unlike Michael, so it was an adjustment for both the family and him to live together. However, the family was very warm and welcoming to Michael, which differed from many of the other people Michael encountered. In the movie, Michael experienced racism, discrimination, and prejudice towards him from a variety of people.

This film essay will be about the 2009 Oscar Award Winning film “The Blind Side”. “The Blind Side” was directed by John Lee Hancock and is based off real life events. This film essay will cover how the use of two different camera shots/angles created a purpose, how characters attitudes tell us about today's society and how this is developed and how the use of lighting manipulates the audience.

Throughout the movie, The Blind Side, directed by John Lee Hancock, Michael Oher, an unprivileged African American teen from the streets has a sudden life changing experience once he meets his new, family whom openly invite him to join theirs.

The Blind Side is based on a true story about a homeless boy named Michael Oher (Big Mike) who has been living with different people until the Tuohys take him in. Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy eventually become his legal guardians and the story is about how his life improves while playing football at Wingate high school in Tennesee. It shows his struggles with grades, and how the family and Michael are affected by the other. Because of his giant size he goes on to get a football scholarship for the University of Mississippi. The story is about his journey.

The movie “The Blind Side” originally written by: Michael Lewis is about a highschool boy named Michael Oher who gets adopted by the Tuohy family. The family financially help Michael with his school grades in order to play football, after his grades went up Michael got the proper training to play in his school team. Eventually, he struggles but Sean motivates Michael training him using Football strategies. Sean recorded a video of his sports performance Therefore it made him famous and received a scholarship.

In The Blind Side, filmed by John Lee Hancock, he describes a black man struggling to fit in with white society. Michael Oher, the main character shows the audience how he gets mistreated and discriminated from his hometown community. The director shows that the Tuohy family accepts Michael for who he is and what he wants to be, they are Michael’s enduring power, armor and salvation for when he faces his new path of transformation. Michael has lived in many different foster families, but decides to leave them, which is because he feels like he does not fit in by the families’ different situation, status and lifestyles. When he is “adopted” by the Tuohy’s he detaches himself from them because he is Black American and the Tuohy’s are rich, successful

Michael Oher is a complex character, this is mostly due to the fact that he speaks very little, and so in order to understand him better we must look at his actions. In the movie After watching the movie The Blind Side it is easy for one to see that at the beginning of the film Michael struggles with internal conflict, specifically about school and his living arrangement with the Touy family. The first time we see Michael really open up about his internal conflicts is when we hear his poem entitled “White Walls”, in this poem Michael talks about how he does not want to listen to the teachers and that he feels out of place in this new school. With the Touy’s Michael also feels out of place, this is shown the first night he stays with them,

The Blind Side was released on November 20, 2009 by Warner Bro. Pictures, and directed by John Lee Hancock. The film is based on a book, “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game” and a true story. The Blind Side is a semi-biographical sports drama film about a neglected and troubled African-American boy named Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) growing up in the ghetto with his drug addict mother. Due to his mother’s drug abuse problem, Michael is forced into the foster care system. Michael would always run away from his foster home leaving him homeless. One night, while Michael is looking for a warm place to sleep, Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) an upper class Caucasian female finds Michael and decides to give him a place to sleep in her home. Although many of her friends and family judged her for her decision of taking an African-American child into her home, Leigh Anne provided Michael with an education, home family, food, and clothes. She gave him the opportunity to have a future and to become his own person. Adults from the age range of thirteen and older will enjoy The Blind Side because of its cast,

A young boy who grew his life up with nothing, found a family that changed his entire life by making him apart of their life. If it wasn’t for the Tuohy family, Michael Oher would not have been able to pass high-school and college or play football in the NFL. The director of this film made changes in the movie from the real story to make the film more interesting and compelling. In the movie, The Blind Side, director John Lee Hancock kept some of the details that were similar to Michael Oher’s life but changed others to make the movie more interesting.

The Blind Side is a 2009 American semi-biographical drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock. The film took place at Memphis, Tennesse and featured Michael Oher, an offensive lineman who played for the Baltimore Raven of the NFL. For most of his childhood life, 17 year old Oher has been in foster care with different families yet runs away every time he was placed in a new home. His life change when his friend’s father asks Burt Cotton, coach of Wingate Christian School, to help his son and Mike enrol. Impressed by Mike’s size and athleticism, Cotton gets him admitted despite his abysmal academic record. At his new school, Oher was befriended by a boy named Sean Jr. “SJ”. One cold night, SJ’s mother Leigh Anne

“Yesterday is a history, tomorrow is a mystery” ― Bill Keane; American cartoonist .As individuals that live their lives, everyone has or is going to encounter significant experiences that will change their identity forever. In the 2009, American biographical sports drama film The Blind Side directed by John Lee Hancock, the main character Michael Oher, a black teenage boy goes through many ups and downs through his life to finally become a successful NFL football left tackle player. The director of this film chose this story because it exhibits the importance of the experiences we encounter in our lives and how they can be life changing. Momentous experiences and exposure to various situations in life impact an individual to transform because

The Blind Side was written and directed by John Lee Hancock, based on the book, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. The movie is about a middle to upper class family that takes in Michael Oher, a teenage african-american, who at the time is homeless, and help him turn his life around to success, specifically leading to his very successful football career. Throughout the movie, the family helps Michael more and more as he starts becoming more and more a part of their family. The director’s apparent purpose in creating the film was to describe the social issues that Michael Oher went through during his life and display in a more visually appealing way. Some of the social issues that are displayed throughout the movie are drug use, racial equality, housing, child care and social class. All of these issues are strongly displayed throughout the movie. I believe that the film’s ideological viewpoint was to show how the Tuohy family went out of there way to give help to Michael Oher, and the enormous impact that it eventually had on Michael Oher’s life, as his life would have never been the same without their help. It just goes to show how doing something so easy and little can have the biggest, positive impact on someone’s life.

The world is full of struggles, but simple acts of kindness and determination can change the lives of many. This is one of the many lessons that The Blind Side tries to teach its audience by telling the story of Michael Oher, a teenager who knows little about having a home and much less a family. When Leigh Anne Tuohy and her family open up their home to Michael, his life and future are forever changed. Not only does Michael gain courage and determination, but Leigh Anne and her family learn the valuable lesson of the bonds that tie family and friendships forever. The Blind Side shows viewers that a person’s social class doesn’t necessarily define his or her character, racism can have negative psychological effects on a person, and one can be part of a loving family without any biological ties.

The Blind Side, directed by John Lee Hancock, is a true story about Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), a African American homeless boy who is taken in by an upper-class white family and faces the challenges of stereotypes in their society. Oher’s story has reached millions through the book The Blind Side: Evolution of the Game, written by Lewis Michael, and its movie adaption The Blind Side.