Movie Report On ' August Sky '

The film Moonlight was released October 21, 2016. Moonlight is all African American cast, and was awarded over 25 awards including the Academy Award for best picture. This film is a coming of age story that follows the dramatic ups and downs of the life of Chiron, a young Africa American man growing up in Miami. The plot begins from the time he is in elementary school to the time he reaches adulthood. The plot is structured in three stages of the life of Chiron and touches on the topics of the struggle of dysfunctional households via socialization, sexuality and sexual identity, physical and emotion abuse, and the process of accepting ones self.

This is a criticism of Moonlight, a film directed by Barry Jenkins. It is a coming-of-age story, telling the journey of a young gay black man named Chiron. Through linear character development the film follows a young Chiron from adolescence into adulthood while growing up with alpha males in Miamis black ghettos. The Story is told in three parts, with a different actor playing the lead role in each section: a young Chiron named “Little”, as a teen named “Chiron”, and an adult named “Black”. Despite a compelling lead performance by Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris, and its great soundtrack, Moonlight falls flat and never gets out of the shadow of its typical cliche plot, all the while, the film continued to never overcome the obstacle of

Homer Hickam was a teenage boy from a mining town in West Virginia called Coalwood. He inspired to build rockets when he seen the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, streak across the stars. With his friends and the local nerd, Homer sets out to do just that but with many errors and trials. Along with the town, Homer's father thought they were wasting their time with their rockets. He wanted Homer to be a coal miner just like everyone else but Homer knew he didn't belong there. As time went on, some people from town became interested in seeing the homemade missiles launch into the sky. The boys became popular and were known as the "Rocketboys" around town.

When you educate a young girl, she has fewer children, she takes better care of her children, she marries at an older age, and she also contributes to her country's economy. Therefore, why is the education of women so greatly underestimated in many parts of the world? This is a question that has caused many individuals to take action against the act of prohibiting a woman the right of receiving an education. To begin with, education enables parents, and the rest of society, to see the value of a girl. As stated in the film Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, "Educate a girl, and she can change the world around her." Education acts as a safe haven for many young women and as an opportunity of having an advancement

Reaching for your dreams is like looking at the Sunday newspaper comics, if you look from a far, you see the big picture, but if you look close, all you see are a bunch of dots put together. October Sky is a film based on Homer Hickam’s determination to win a national science fair. He is constantly ostracized by his community and family and does not have much money to support him either. Homer clearly doesn’t have a good chance at even getting to the science fair, let alone winning it. Many obstacles are in his way and he can’t even see his goal with all of them in the way. Somehow, he perceivers and finds a way to reach his goal. His friends did not believe in him, but later started to really believe and they all

The movie was set in 1939 at Hamburg, Germany in Bismarck. Peter , Thomas , and Arvid, three innocent teenagers interested in the music as a common interest and became friends. There was a swing club, where Peter and Thomas enjoy dancing. Peter goes home and found his mother in an argument with a Nazi officer. Herr Knopp,head of the local Gestapo comes in and dismisses the officer. One day, at Arvid’s house, Thomas accidently scraped Arvid’s record, getting mad, Arvid told them to get out. Then, Peter and Thomas felt bad for Arvid so they decided to steal a radio from a bakery. The owner yelled and the HJ caught Peter and Thomas escaped. Herr Knopp, who likes Peter’s mother, sends him home but in return, Peter must join the HJ.Thomas, as a

The Rocket Boys began to publicly announce when their rocket launching was to take place “because I [Sonny] had promised Mr. Dubonnet and the other miners at the tipple I’d let them know when there was going to be a launch” (Hickam 129). From then on, as the rockets advanced technically, the Rocket Boys’ recognition increased. And, as time progressed and more and more notices about the BCMA [Big Creek Missile Agency] were posted around town, more and more people began to make an appearance at their rocket launchings. One person in particular was Basil Oglethorpe, a news reporter for the McDowell County Banner. Now, just like the majority of Coalwood, he found the Rocket Boys interesting. So, interesting, in fact, to write a whole article about them which read, “If you have any hope of understanding what the grand and glorious future holds for all who dare seize it, you must come to see the rocket boys of Coalwood” (Hickam 139). Obviously, Basil was quite impressed with what he had experienced, but he wasn’t the only one who wanted to publicize the Rocket Boys. Sonny’s teacher, Miss. Riley, was also informed of the Rocket Boys’ growing success, and even suggested they enter the National Science Fair. And, after a great period of contemplation, they ultimately agreed, winning state in the

Homer H. Hickam Jr.’s memoir, Rocket Boys, focuses on the mine and its significance towards the lives of the people of Coalwood. The mine represents the life of the people of Coalwood. Homer Hickam Jr., also known as Sonny, has his life completely controlled by the mine. His dad, the mine superintendent, constantly pushes Sonny to pursue a job in the mine. Sonny’s future lies in his parents’ hands. His dad, aware of the popularity of mining in Coalwood, strongly suggests Sonny to start preparing for his future. On the other hand, his mother encourages him to pursue his dreams and follow his heart. His father has a good reason for wanting Sonny to follow in his footsteps. All the men that Sonny knows in Coalwood are miners while the women are

Sonny decides to make rockets to prove his intelligence and that he also has a future, despite it not being the common norm of mining. His inspiration comes from the Russians launching Sputnik into outer space. His friends pitch in and they form a team. Calling their rockets Auk, the team vigorously spent day after day trying to perfect their creation. Together, and with help from people in the community, the team finally gets their rockets into the air and reaches their goal. Following Sonny’s tremendous accomplishment, he gets his well-deserved award for all his hard work and patience. His team further attempts to perfect their creation, and they surpass their goals and win the science fair. Sonny realizes that despite his dream coming true, many dreams fail to come to fruition. “In all its history, I think it was Coalwood’s best moment, even though my dad lost to the union, and my mom was forced to stay a little longer in the hills. Jake had it right. There’s a plan. If you’re willing to fight it hard enough, you can make it a detour for a while, but you’re still going to end up wherever God wants you to be” (Hickam

In the bestselling memoir Rocket Boys by Homer (Sonny) Hickam, the setting, Coalwood, Virginia, is an important role in Sonny’s story. Coalwood is a small mining town that had a culture and common beliefs of its own because all of the residents had family members that worked for Olga Coal Company, which provided their houses and furniture. Everybody in Coalwood expected that as kids graduate from high school, they go to work in the mine. When Sonny started building rockets, it was a nuisance to the town because everybody (except his mother) believed he would only ever grow up to work in the mine, and “It didn’t take long before every missing thing in town was blamed on ‘those rocket boys’” (Hickam 146). Coalwood and its people were not supportive

Anne Frank once said, “The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” While their childhood and the opinions of others have some impact, a person has just as much power to decide who they want to be, as proven in the memoirs Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. These protagonists are validation that despite outside pressures, a person can grow up to be anyone they want to be. Similarly, for Homer “Sonny” Hickam of Rocket Boys, working in Coalwood’s coal mines seems essentially inevitable, since the town focuses on a small range of activities. Hickam states that, "Only coal mining was more important in Coalwood than high school football. Sputnik, and anything else, was going to always

A person’s childhood very often helps establish who they grow up to be. This idea has proved to be true in the memoir Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam. Coalwood, West Virginia was not only Sonny’s hometown, but also an influential character. Coalwood was very uniform and all the citizens took an interest in similar activities during the time-period in which he grew up. For example, "Only coal mining was more important...than high school football. Sputnik, and anything else, was going to always come in a distant third” (Hickam 27). This mentality causes an issue for Sonny, as he aspires to pursue an alternate career in rocket-building. While most of the townspeople are apprehensive of his plans initially, a majority begin to respect his choices

Homer Hickam Jr, also known as Sonny, was a boy with a dream. Sonny had many supporters and fuelers for his success. Sonny Hickam had a very interesting relationship with his parents. He and his mom, Elsie Hickam, were very close and she was always encouraging him. However, Sonny’s father, Homer Hickam, was a bit less affectionate. Sonny was always seeking permission and acceptance from his father, but he only rarely received it. Sonny also had encouragement from Miss Riley, his teacher at Big Creek High School. Sonny’s idol and mentor was a German scientist named Wernher Von Braun. These relationships sparked and fueled his way into sweet success. Sonny and his Rocket Boys were unstoppable.

Theorist Vsevolod Pudovkin claims that narrative films are mainly a “product of construction” and cautious compilations of “selections of images that have been shot” (Renée).

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder that is associated with reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and uncontrollable thoughts that drives the patients to repeat something over and over again. The Aviator movie is trying to depict this disorder through the character Howard Hughes. The story captures the real-life experience of Hughes who was a successful filmmaker and aeronautic engineer in Hollywood between 1920s and 1940s. He was both rich, talented and notoriously eccentric. Hughes showed symptoms of OCD which were very severe and incapacitating at some points. His conditions deteriorated progressively from bad to worst throughout his lifetime, though in most parts of the film he is depicted as functioning relatively normally. This paper will focus on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and how it has been depicted in The Aviator movie through the character Howard Hughes.