Jim Braddock In Cinderella Man

Identity Achievement occurs when someone makes a personal decision or commitment after going through a crisis and exploring his or her option.

Wealthy lifestyles during the 1920s influenced Americans to spend big, and left them unsuspecting of incoming struggles. In the early minutes of the film, The Cinderella Man, Jim Braddock was living a happy and successful life alongside his family. The first scenes of the movie depicted Braddock winning his twenty-seventh fight as a boxer, and going home to a happy family. Similarly, in the lives of many other Americans,

Cinderella Man came out in the year 2005, it is a non fiction movie directed by Ron Howard. It is based on the story of a boxer during the Depression, James J. Braddock. Braddock had to over come many adversities such as the economical and societal conditions. Another adversity he had to overcome was living in the Depression and all the things that go along with that. Braddock’s character traits shown in the movie are all important and appropriate due to the harshness of those times.

The main plot of the story starts with a successful boxer in the roaring twenties. James J. Braddock fought his way to becoming the best-known boxer ever. He is a very well known boxer in his day. The Great Depression takes a toll on everyone in the country. James has lost pretty much everything he worked his life for. This did not stop James from trying his best to provide for his family and even got the chance to fight in the ring once again. This has become the best comeback in the face of great hardships. He never gave up to shoot for his goal to beat the best-known boxer at the time, Max Baer. No matter how hard it was back home he fought his best to get his life back. He then got the nickname of “The Cinderella Man” for his comeback

The Hollywood movie Pretty Woman (1990) is about a prostitute in Hollywood, marrying an extremely rich businessman, in spite of her mutual distrust and prejudice. The movie contains the basic narrative of the Cinderella tale: through the love and help of a man of a higher social position, a girl of a lower social status moves up to join the man at his level.

The film Cinderella Man was about a boxer name James Braddock and his struggles through the great depression. Through boxing Braddock gave hope to the people who faced the great depression just as he did. He gave them a type of hope that nurtured them to thinking that they would persevere through the hardship just as he did with his boxing career. From an audience perspective this film earned a 5 out of 5 stars rating because director Ron Howard served his purpose well by not only developing a boxing film that did not just only acknowledge the perseverance about the sport side of things. The director Howard showed adversity and many aspects in the film such as Braddock’s struggles with his wife, kids, career, and friends. In essence Howard was able to incorporate how the great depression played a magnificent role in everything that occurred.

What people see is not necessarily all they get; there are more significant aspects that encompass what people use, hear, or see, besides the obvious messages employed throughout popular culture. It is not uncommon to find hidden messages within our culture today, especially in the context of movies. One movie in particular, the newest Cinderella, is full of these hidden messages. Besides the common message that is employed throughout Cinderella over and over again, the message to “have courage and be kind”, there are several hidden meanings that are often not discovered by viewers. These messages include “being a light” when surrounded on all sides by darkness, believing in the unbelievable, recognizing the fact that parent’s greatly influence their children, and seeing that it is okay to want a happily ever after kind of love.

When childhood and adolescence meet, people are forced to make difficult decisions. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck decides to leave his hometown, and he makes a journey with a runaway slaves that helps him create a moral code for himself. In The Member of the Wedding, Frankie has to make the bridge between childhood and womanhood, and she learns from the mistakes that she has made. Huck and Frankie have matured throughout these novels in many ways through their experiences.

Throughout the film Little Miss Sunshine, Richard Hoover and his children Dwayne and Olive learn about themselves and develop psychologically during the ride to the beauty pageant.

Andrew Clarke is the second main character in this movie “the breakfast club.” Andrew would be classified as a jock. He is the number 1 Athlete in their school. He is really popular because of all the sports he does. He ended up getting detention because he taped Larry Leister butt cheeks together. Larry was one of the nerdy kids who is usually gets bullied by the popular kids. Andrew never did anything like this before and that is why he was really annoyed about getting detention. Andrew despite his size he has a great appetite. We know this because in the movie the during lunch time he takes out 3 sandwiches, a big bag of crisps, cookies, a 1 litre carton of orange juice, an apple and a banana. This tells us how much his energy his body needs

When someone thinks of war, it is usually the uniform, the pride, that comes to mind. The aftermath of war, to those who do not know much about it, will come as a surprise. In the movie, All Quiet on the Western Front, the character, Paul Baumer, enters the war as an innocent person; with no idea on the effects, it may have on him. In the beginning of the movie Paul is shown as an innocent eighteen-year-old teenage boy who likes to draw and read. It is when he enters military training that his innocence starts to wither away. During military training, Paul no longer does what he likes to do, and only spends his time training on how to become a good German soldier. During training, Paul is tortured by his training officer, Corporal Himmelstoss.

Preston Porter is depicted differently than if he was a white male. He is specifically mentioned to be a “negro” countless times. Not only that, but there are many clique, and completely racist, descriptions of Porter. His writing skills are described as “better than what would be assumed of a negro”. He is also, notably, the same weight as the girl he allegedly murdered. The murder victim, Louise Frost, is surprisingly less often described in many of these newspaper articles. Her funeral arbitrary did describe her as an inseparable companion to her also diseased friend and sister. Descriptions of the murder depict the event as “hideous” ¬ and “fiendish”. The Authority figures are depicted to be protecting Porter from the crowds and protests,

Each person in the world has heard of Cinderella, no matter what kind of version it may be. Cinderella is the one fairy tale story that has been popular and will always be the one tale that has to be told to children. Words and story lines might be twist and turn, but in the end the knowledge of the story will be learned in similar ways. As we all know when one story is told another is created, when one is at its best then another is at its worse. One version will always be better than another, but no matter what version it might be the story will be told.

Many traditional fairy tales have been remade into Hollywood movies. The fairy tale of Cinderella has been produced in movies many times such as Ever After (1998) and A Cinderella Story (2004). A Cinderella Story (2004) has an interesting storyline, cast, themes, and appeals to teenagers and young adults.

Although this is considered to be a more modern adaptation of the story of “Cinderella”, the protagonist is still written in with the standard fairytale themes of being weak and needing a man.