Cool Hand Luke: Failure to Communicate

After being incarcerated for a petty crime and sent to a chain-gang jail, Lucas Jackson (Paul Newman) has risen up the ranks of the establishment and become the prisoners’ idol as well as the guard’s enemy. Jacksons’s contrasting relationship with the guards and the prisoners is an important

The movie the Shawshank Redemption, based on the book by Steven King, I believe is one of the best movies ever made. The portrayal of prison life in the movie is the best I have seen and a star-studded cast including Morgan Freeman supports the characters and brings to life the everyday struggles of life behind bars. In this paper I will relate topics from class to the movie and discuss information we have learned through out the semester.

Cool Hand Luke The film Cool Hand Luke, written by Donn Pearce, directed by Stuart Rosenberg and released in 1967. This film is taking place in a prison and it talks about the main character, Lucas Jackson, played by Paul Newman, which is a former soldier but sent to prison for two years since cutting the heads off parking meters while drunk. This setting of the film is petty irony a soldier was sent to jail because destruction of public property. Through the character of the Boss, Luke, Dragline (George Kennedy) and other prisoners, the film Cool Hand Luke demonstrate the social psychological themes of obedience to authority, conformity, and non-conformity.

Starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, the 2001 film Training Day focuses on the portrayal of two Los Angeles Police Department officers.The story begins with Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, a rookie narcotics detective on his first day of assignment. Jake is in a 24 hour period of field evaluation under the reins of a fellow respected and decorated narcotics officer Alonzo Harris, who is portrayed by Denzel Washington. Jake Hoyt is the ideal “white knight of justice”, an individual who is morally incorruptible, and a person who seeks to defend what is morally correct and to eliminate injustice through proper practices set under federal and state laws and standards. On the other side is Alonzo Harris, a ruthless, selfish, and corrupt narcotics cop who will do whatever it takes to complete the task, whether it violates the procedures and policies. Through the entirety of the film, the concepts of moral ambiguity in situational ethics towards institutional justice and the ethical dilemma of power and corruption amongst enforcement agencies are throughly stressed, analyzed, and reflected. The film illustrates and advances the implicit message of the misrepresentation of the criminal justice system, deception of the effectiveness of institutional justice, and corruption of crime enforcement agencies through the observation, analysis, and deconstruction of numerous examples in normalization to ideologies, and formal elements as suggested through the duration of the film.

This book presents two individuals, named Richard and Perry, who strived to do a few things once they were out of prison that were very horrific, and unbearable which by any means is not permissible. During and after the killings of the Clutter family, Perry comes to his senses and speaks on the aftermath of what these killings have brought upon him. “The sounds of breathing, the gasps, the hysterical inhalations of a man with a severed windpipe. When Perry said, “I think there must be something wrong with us,” he was making an admission he “hated to make” (110). Criminals who admit on their behavior. The position becomes, are they human beings anymore, or are they dehumanized? The fact that Perry Smith comes to the realization that they are demented, should they be given a chance? The level of detail that speaks

First and foremost, The first thing that is going to be addressed within prevalence in the film is obedience to authority. Obedience to Authority can be defined by looked at two terms discussed by Dr.Glavin in lecture. First is Compliance “when the target’s behavior conforms to the source’s requests” (Glavin,2016) and Authority “the capacity of one member to issue orders to others by invoking rights that are vested in their role”.(Glavin,2016). In The movie, there is set rules for all of the prisoners to follow to be considered keeping up to the prisons standards of what is considered to be ideal. The prison establishes these rules to enforce their authority over the prisoners and show that they have the upper head inevitability leading to obedience by the prisoners. At the beginning of the movie when Luke

Mahatmas Ghandi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the South Africans all have used disobedience in order to change an unjust norm or law(s). The most common form of disobedience which have been used in history is to simply not obey the officials of higher authority and protest in order to get the point across. These protests have been successful because of the mass numbers of supporters but also because they set out to change an unjust rule or norms. In the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke featuring Paul Newman, Lucas (Luke) has been sent to jail for "beheading" parking meters while intoxicated. During his time in jail, he disobeys both the de facto inmate leader and the wardens simply because he did not like to conform to their rules. Luke's,

This book is an honest account of life in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas based on interviews with notorious inmates and numerous other individuals. The book begins with introducing inmates such as Carl Bowles, Dallas Scott and William Post and offers insight information on the cultural aspect inside the prison itself. Once the basics are known to the reader, the author Pete Earley, develops the character of the prisoners and thus of the penitentiary as a whole.

Luke and three other prisoners are brought to the prison and made to line up in front of the main prison guard, Captain (Strother Martin): "You call the Captain 'Captain'...and you call the rest of us 'Boss', you hear?" (Rosenberg, 1967) Captain has coercive power, which is defined as the potential to influence rooted in the ability to physically or psychologically punish. (Kathleen S. Verderber, 2001) The prison also exhibits a high power-distance culture, which is a culture in which both high- and low-power holders accept the unequal distribution of power. (Kathleen S. Verderber, 2001)

In the case of the California’s Corcoran State Prison the prisoners were being mistreated. The situation that brought this case to the forefront was Dryburgh (2009) found that “Preston Tate was shot and fatally wounded by a corrections officer after Tate and his cellmate fought against two rival Hispanic gang member. Tate death was at the hands of a prison guard prompted two whistle – blowers to approach the FBI with tales of abuse and brutality toward inmates by correction officers”. Moreover, this was not the first time that an inmate had been shot by a correctional officer.

“The Transformative Power of Holocaust Education in Prison: A Teacher and Student Account,” is an article written by Anke Pinkert and the Co-Authors Michael Brawn, Jose Cabrales, and Gregory Donatelli. Anke Pinkert is a professor of undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Illinois. She has specialization on various topics such as memory studies, holocaust representation, and mass incarceration in films and media. In this article, Anke Pinkert shares the experience that introduces an artifact that is presented on the use of class readings and discussion on Holocaust in developing a critical engagement with the past and present imprisonment, and confinement discourses in the United States. It notes that this commitment challenges the stereotypes of incarcerated people as dimensional survivors, victims, convicts, or criminals. She begins building her credibility with the personal facts and reputable sources. Towards the end of the article, her attempts to appeal readers’ emotions strengthen her credibility and eventually, her argument.

“VIOLATION” is the first thing seen when watching the screen, setting the theme right off the bat for the movie “Cool Hand Luke”. Lukas Jackson, a man introduced to us by cutting the heads off parking meters, is sent to a chain gang for two years as punishment. After watching the film, and reading the reviews, it is obvious that there are several pertinent ideas that characterize the film’s central theme-Luke’s question of his faith, his keen smile that tells all, how he is neither a hero or an anti hero, and how ironically he is a Christ like figure himself.

How can somebody spend so much time in prison, and come out with a great attitude with the world? I watched the movie Invictus. Recently I watched the movie Invictus and then after I done research on the true events, time period, and people. In this paper I will prove that the film, Invictus, was mostly historically accurate by discussing the true historical people and events, summarizing the movie, and comparing and contrasting how the movie portrayed the true people and events.

A very popular 1995 film involving crime is “Bad Boys” directed by Michael Bay. Michael Bay and his team of writers were able to film a highly intense action-comedy based around two detectives fighting organized crime. By examining distortions, crime causation theories, and the image portrayed in “Bad Boys,” the viewer is absorbed into the Hollywood perspective of our justice system.

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