Once Were Warriors Analysis

Qi Cui APA 345 Oct 21, 2017 Movie Review: Once Were Warriors (Dir. Lee Tamahori, 1994) The Once Were Warriors is beautifully and powerfully casted film, directed by Lee Tamahor and casted by Temuera Morrison (Jake Heke), Rena Owen (Beth Heke) and Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell (Grace Heke). Jake is a man with high temper and his unpredictability in a number of issues is most fear-provoking thing concerning him. In many occasions, Jake play the character of the friendly, beer-swilling crowd as he plays

Film: Once were warriors. The tough, muscular characters in Lee Tamahori's ferocious "Once Were Warriors" are primed for fighting. And they need no battlefield: their hostilities are played out in the bedroom, in front of the children or in crowded bars. In his visceral first feature, Mr. Tamahori offers social realism with a savage kick, depicting Maori New Zealanders whose ties to their own history have been destroyed. Left floundering in an inhospitable urban world, they have lost touch with their

The Dark Horse. The movie’s focus is based on the life of Genesis Potini, a Maori speed chess player. Unlike Once Were Warriors it is a movie that rises above the negative stereotypes of poverty, gang culture and violence. There were a number of great reviews of the movie from both local and overseas papers and websites found by researching online. It was harder to find criticisms; some were aimed at the negative stereotyping. One was found in a media study paper and another on a personal blog. My

They're both good-looking people, and Jake, with his sunny, sleepy-eyed, self-satisfied smile, seems like he's brimming with confidence. He is not. Beer fuels his resentments and insecurities, and masks his strength. There is a scene early in "Once Were Warriors" where he gets into a

Description of Film The movie Once Were Warriors was released in New Zealand in 1994. The film focuses on an urban family of Maori descent, the Hekes. Within the family there is a lot of poverty and domestic violence, primarily from the father, Jake. The family also includes the mom (Beth), oldest son (Nig), teenage son (Mark aka Boogie), 13 year old daughter (Gracie), and a very young son and daughter. Although any family member would make for an interesting case study, I choose to focus on the

1. Introduction Alan Duff’s novel Once Were Warriors was published in 1990 and adapted to a film by director Lee Tamahori in 1994. The controversial story about a Maori family made Duff a best-selling author and was greatly discussed after its publication (Martens 22f). The Maori family from whose members’ points of view the story is told, is called Heke. Living in Pine Block, a fictional ghetto-like neighbourhood, the family’s greatest concerns are unemployment, the parents’ alcoholism, the children’s

The Great Motivator (An analysis of Beowulf’s Motivations) Are everyone's motivations to become a hero pure? This question can be hard to answer depending on the hero. Spidermans motivations for saving an innocent child were pure, but what about people suffering from hero syndrome? A syndrome, that has become a recent phenomenon. This syndrome makes people seek heroism or recognition by creating desperate situations that they resolve in order to become a hero. As common as this syndrome is today

Classical Greek Sculpture Analysis Riace Bronzes (Statue A) This classical Greek sculpture is titled the Riace Bronzes. The Riace statues are two life-size bronze statues each weighing nearly a ton. Statue A which is depicted above is of a young warrior, while statue B which is not depicted is of an older warrior wearing a helmet. In this analysis I will be concentrating on Statue A. The sculptor of this statue remains unknown; however most experts

into a literary work so that the culture can live on for thousands of years after its creation? One of these cultures that made a huge impact on a popular literary work would be the Anglo-Saxon culture in the epic poem, “Beowulf”. The Anglo-Saxons were a group of people who originally lived in Great Britain during the 5th Century. They practiced Paganism, believed in many different Gods, and had many superstitions. The poem “Beowulf” tells the story of a man named Beowulf, who goes out on adventures

Beowulf is a tale of the mighty acts done by warriors and kings, and throughout the poem, the traits that make up a good king and a good warrior are explored. Perhaps more importantly though, those traits are contrasted. Similarly, this contrast finds itself at its peak when the titular character, Beowulf, assumes the role of King of the Geats. "His transition demonstrates that a differing set of values accompanies each of his two roles."(Sparknotes) further showing how deeply dissimilar the two