Comparing The Swimming USream (SUS) And Shine

In ‘Shine’ and ‘Swimming Upstream’, Scott Hicks and Anthony Fingleton explore the journey and challenges two Australian’s take, in finding themselves, dealing with success and failure, and discovering their purpose of life. Through a variety of filmic and language techniques, both film makers created captivating and relevant productions, that moved the audience to connect deeply with their characters.

The 1994 Documentary, Hoop Dreams, directed by Steve James, is a masterful display of human drama. The story-line is so captivating and theatrical that it seems crafted from fiction. The Documentary boasts cinematic techniques and private investigating that rivals most film of this time period. The film follows the high school careers of two boys from the Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago. The aggressive authenticity of cinema verite does not only peek through in character emotion, but film’s beginning came together naturally. James tells Robert Ebert in 2009, "A

Swimming upstream directed by Russell Mulcahy as a 2003 film and shine directed by Scott Hicks in 1996 were both inspiring award winning films. Shine tells the story of a famous pianist David Helfgott and how he was challenged by his father’s arrogance. Swimming upstream tells the story about an Australian swimmer, Tony Fingleton, and how he had to conquer the bad relationship that he had with his father to achieve success. They are both based on true stories that emphasize father son relationships and also are both told in the perspective of the son. Both main characters are very talented and in pursuit of their ultimate goals.

Introduction The Author of shine is Jan Sardi and is directed by Scott Hicks and the author of Swimming Upstream is Anthony Fingleton and the director is Russel Mulcah, each of these films are about a young talented kid that wants to go and live their lives and become famous but there is one obstacle standing in their way, their father. During the movies there are different scenes showing different facial expressions showing how much the father expects from their sons to be the best that they can be. In this assignment I will be talking about the different theme and film techniques used in filming these films. Paragraph 1:

In the article “Swimming for Her Life,” by Kristen Lewis, it describes the life of Yusra Mardini. When Yursa was 13 the civil war started. Yusra fled in 2015 when she was 18. Yusra faces many challenges. She faces being a refugee, crossing the Aegean sea and being smuggled into Germany and Greece. When the Civil war started it caused Yusra and Sarah to become refugees and get smuggled into Greece and Germany. They also were crossing the aegean sea when the mortar to their boat stopped and it started to fill with water. Yusra and sarah both hopped out of their boat and and swam for 3.5 hours saving 18 souls. Once Yusra made it to Germany she met a man named Sven Spannekerbs. She swam for him and he immediately recognized her talent for swimming.

‘Homecoming’ directed by Bruce Dawe has an effective illustration compared to ‘The Australian Dream’. It provides an

Swimming originally started at the Stone Age, but did not really become a proper sport until the early 19th century. In the 19th century, the National Swimming Society of Great Britain, or NSSGB began to have competitions.

Shine and swimming upstream are two very exciting movies. Muclahy and Hicks have created two extremely strong characters through using different camera angles, sounding, and lighting when they are on the screen. These two directors also created two intense action scenes through using those techniques. Even though both exciting films have different stories within them they still pose similar themes.

The purpose of this essay is to analyze the short story “The Swimmer” by Jon Cheever and it’s film adaptation. Overall, the film and the short story use different dialogue, different characterization, and different visual effects and imagery to provide the reader and the viewer with the allegory of Ned Merrill’s life. While both works focus on the fanciful nature of moving across an entire neighborhood using swimming pools, there are more differences between the film and short story than similarities. Firstly, I will begin by describing the usage of visual effects in the film and imagery in the short story. Secondly, I will describe the differences in dialogue. Finally, I will conclude by describing the ways in which both pieces leverage their characters.

In Frank Perry’s 1986 film adaptation of “The Swimmer”, Cheever, Neddy, an upper middle class man who decides to swim across his neighbors’ pools home only to discover that his house no longer belongs to him and he is no longer a part of his family, is characterized as a very suave and robust man. The first scene of The Swimmer emphasizes Neddy’s vitality by the ways in which the camera encompasses Neddy’s body and that of his friends, the addition of two characters as well as additional interactions between Neddy and the women in this text. This contrasts the characterization of Neddy in the short story in the sense that Cheever’s Neddy is not presented as this sexual and aggressively masculine figure.

There are many things you need to watch out for during the Summer. At the beach, rip currents are dangerous because they pull you far away from the shore and keep you there. There is also a lot of bacteria in the water that can be deadly. "The best place to swim is in a chlorinated pool," says Dennis Maki. Shark attacks are fatal but very rare. There is only a 1 in 11.5 million chance of being attacked by a shark. There are many ways to prevent being attacked by a shark such as not swimming while bleeding.

The film Floating Life directed by Clara Law depicts the difficulties of immigrating and assimilating into unfamiliar territory that the Chan family endures. Mr. and Mrs. Chan, an elderly Hong Kong couple along with their two youngest sons, immigrate to Australia to live with their daughter Bing who has been living there for seven years. While their eldest son, Gar Ming stays behind in Hong Kong to live a life of promiscuity and Yen the eldest daughter struggles in finding her own identity while raising her family in Germany.

Watching the screen, many children and adults are glued to the swimmers that race each other in the Olympics. The swimmers are young and strong, but many do not know who these swimmers are. Adding on to what they do not know contains the history of swimming in the glorified Olympics. The backstory of this sporting event shows the progression and improvement of swimming because swimming evolved through the Olympics. This includes the beginning, improvement, and modern Olympic swimming sport.

There are two different types of people that take different routes to adulthood, there are treaders (who become adults to quickly) and swimmers (who take their time to becoming an adult). Treaders have fewer opportunities in life because they started life earlier. Swimmers have more opportunities because they take longer to become an adult and get a higher education. Swimmers plan out their path to adulthood by getting an education, waiting to marry until they are financially stable while treaders don’t have a plan.

My hands dangle in mid-air, my googles snug against the border of my eyes, my mind empty as I stare into the sea of blue before me. The announcers voice echoes over the seemingly quiet deck. The faceless voice proceeds, “On your mark,” this sent the anxiety, and butterflies through my entire body as I gripped the rigged block. As my hands rest now on this pleated surface, I think of all the time and effort I had put in just for today. I knew that if everything went smoothly, I would drop a satisfactory amount of time. “Get set,” the changeless voice declares. My body now shifts my weight to my legs, my head moves into position, and my hands grip the block so bearish that my knuckles turn white. I repeat to myself, “two hand touch, it’s a