Review Of Martin Weltz's Film 'Stand Up'

Ah, The Sandlot. A movie full of fifth and sixth grade boys playing baseball in the Summer. If you think it sounds boring, you're wrong. This is an excellent movie. It starts with a boy, named Scotty (Tom Guiry) who needs friends. He needed friends so bad that his mom was even concerned about him being cooped up in the house for a quarter of the summer. One day, he wanders to a baseball field and his want to have friends and be a part of something comes true. He even got a nickname, "Smalls". The boys did everything together, even got into and out of trouble together. But the number one important thing all nine of the boys did, was meet at the baseball field every single day.

First impressions are not always right. This is what this essay is about, and my opinion is that you should not judge even though it's hard not to. I've stereotyped and judged a person by their looks, but I was wrong and it made me feel bad. He was a good guy and he became one of my best friends. This is a 12 Angry Men essay about all the stereotyping and judging someone by their looks that is on trial in the

Everyone has a chance to succeed; it might be harder for some, but easier for others; but with hard work and dedication, it can happen. In the book called “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore, he explains why The Other Wes More was not successful. The book is about two children named Wes Moore. They both grew up with similar backgrounds with both of their fathers never around. However, one became successful because he had a supportive family who pushed him through his limits to succeed; while the other spent the rest of his life in prison because of not having good family examples and support.

2. Friends and family are supposed to helpful during a break up. In this movie Gary and Brooke’s friends and family were supportive and non-supportive. Brooke’s sister was her main support during the break up. Even though her brother did stop over to the condo with his singing friends, just to add fuel to the fire. Gary had his bar buddy to support him; yeah his ideas were not the greatest, when he mentioned they need to get someone neither of them knows to “handle” the problem.

In the documentary film “Fed Up”, sugar and the sweeteners in our food or beverages is featured to be the prime ingredient that is making the most of our adolescents obese. It tells of a few families struggling with obesity, and how these families have been trying to do everything they can to help their children lose weight. It shows what kind of food that they are eating at home and the weight problem that most of the family is struggling with. The food that is being served at schools and also the thousands of products that contain sugar, everywhere groceries are bought; sugar is the main cause for obesity. It tells that low wage earners have no choice, but to buy unhealthy food, because healthier food cost more. “The bottom line: cheap, unhealthy foods mixed with a sedentary lifestyle has made obesity the new normal in America. There is no single, simple answer to explain the obesity patterns in America, says Walter Willett, who chairs the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health” article in the U. S. News. Although it does cost more, a school of public health wrote in an article, “While healthier diets did cost more, the difference was smaller than many people might have expected. Over the course of a year, $1.50/day more for eating a healthy diet would increase food costs for one person by about $550 per year. On the other hand, this price difference is very small in comparison to the economic costs of diet-related chronic diseases, which would be

‘Black Robe' is the story of a young Jesuit Priest from France who embarks on a religious journey to convert, to Christianity, the Aboriginal tribes of New France. Set primarily in Ontario during the mid 1630's, Father Lafargue travels from Quebec via the Ottawa River to the home of the Huron people in what is now referred to as the Simcoe Region of South Central Ontario. He is aided by a band of Algonquin-speaking people, numbering roughly 20 and a young Frenchman with aspirations of Priesthood in the motherland. Blackrobe offers an intriguing insight into the relationships between the French and the Aboriginals. That being said most of the background for the movie is taken from a massive archive of

During the Vietnam War in the 1970s, hard drugs, especially heroin and cocaine, became a major source of crime and, therefore, police and legal system involvement. Was this involvement always a good thing though? The 2007 movie, American Gangster, addresses this very question by looking at law enforcement agencies during the 1970s, along with the corruption involved with police departments at this point in history. The particular corrupted agency focused on in the film is the New York Police Department, of which dirty detective, Nick Trupo, is a part of. The short clip shown from this movie makes the argument that although not all cops during this time became involved in the very crime they were supposed to be stopping, a large percentage of them did, which hindered the true “good guys,” like detective Richie Roberts, from keeping cities clean.

The beginning of the movie starts with a footage of football player Mike Webster (played by David Morse), showing his plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers, as well as the man speaking in a conference. This all took place in September 2002, Mike is homeless and living in his car, suffering from dementia. Nigerian pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu (played by Will Smith) is giving a testimony in court over a murder case. He works at the coroner's office in Allegehney county where he has an odd habit of speaking to the deceased. Webster visits Dr. Bailes over his condition. He appears to be getting worse. Webster is visited at his car by fellow football player Strzelczyk, who is also suffering from a similar condition. Webster complains that he doesn't want to go to sleep, so he is seeing tasing himself to stay awake. He is later found dead and it shocks everyone. His body is brought in for Bennet to examine. Bennet takes a look at Webster's brain and discovers severe head trauma that led to his mental problems. He furthers his research by studying football videos and noticing the amount of times he took serious blows to the head. After this Strzcelczyk is seen ready to attack his wife and children, claiming that the voices in his head are telling him to kill them. His wife screams at him to get out, and he drives away and ends up dying. Bennet examines them as well and concludes that the men suffered from CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy). After word of this gets out, it is believed that Bennet is trying to talk badly of the sport and is told to take back what he says. Meanwhile, Dave Duerson is approached by fellow

The movie “Friday Night Lights” is based on a book by author H.G. Bissinger. It takes place at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas in 1988 when tension between races was still strong in some areas of the south. There is a focus in some areas of the film having to do with the racial tension and ongoing conflict between the student body and the city as a whole. Even though desegregation had happened by the time the book was written and the film was made, schools sometimes were still racially divided. I also felt the movie showed how this football program exploited their black athletes. Of interest to me was, the following of two of the main football players who are black. Boobie Miles and Ivory Christian. They are as well respected as their white equivalents on the football field but, it illustrates how attitudes change when the players walk off the field. The movie touches on the many controversial subjects like, racism, hypocrisy, and failure where as the book is extremely socially-oriented, and centered primarily on racial issues and educational priorities. The film touches on these issues, but, as I wrote, it is not the focal point of the movie.

When I first viewed this movie, I already knew some of Jackie Robinson’s history, but I was still moved by this revealing depiction of his life during the years 1945-1947. This true story, which was released April 12, 2013, followed what I had learned about Jackie and stayed accurate while still being extremely entertaining. Jackie Robinson’s number on his jersey was 42, he wore that number his entire Major League career with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The movie “42” is a biopic of the legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson, when in 1947 Jackie became the first African-American player to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier. The great directing, acting, and writing made this film enjoyable to watch. This

“Hollywood usually ends up swallowing people and eating them alive”, are some of the beginning words in the National Geographic docu-series Drugs Inc... The documentary is rightly names “Hollywood high” because of its raw footage. This film is a chilling depiction of drugs and Hollywood. Its uncut material shows the reality of how drugs can affect people of every walk of life. A person doesn’t have to be rich or poor to become drug dependent. The film goes on to say how “fame hungry wannabes” and the “panhandling homeless” are two of the main populations to be affected by Hollywood’s thriving drug trade. Some of the other populations affected by Hollywood’s thriving drug trade are those who want to “stay up” and “be thin”. This film is not only about the populations affected by the thriving Hollywood drug trade but also the drug dealers and doctors who provide the drugs to that population.

The film Walkout!, acknowledges how Mexican-American students were treated throughout public high schools in East Los Angeles during 1967 and 1968. Lincoln, Roosevelt, Garfield, and Wilson are just a few of those public schools in East L.A. that received unequal education compared to those schools in the wealthy Westside communities. This lead to low expectations as well as lack of encouragement among students. In addition, it caused them to have limited futures ahead of themselves such as cheap unskilled labor like mechanics or bakers. So, the students decided to take the matter into their own hands with the help and leadership of Sal Castro and Paula Crisostomo. They planned and organized the walkouts that took place in March of

Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" celebrates an American life that began in sorrow and bottomed out in prison before the hero reinvented himself. Watching the film, I understood more clearly that people really do have the power to change their own lives, how fate does not deal all of the cards, and that we have strength within us to be the change that the world needs - we don’t always have to rely on a hero to come along, we can be that hero ourselves.. The film is both inspirational and educational while also very entertaining, something movies must be before they can be anything else.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a film that will surely make you want to fall out of your chair laughing, and make you want to get up and dance. This film is an absolute classic. It is hilarious, adventurous, and makes you feel good about yourself. The most unique thing about this film is the main characters break out of jail for the wrong reason, and then go on a wild chase trying to get home. Another unique part about this film is that the main character is currently divorced and wanting to remarry his ex-wife. The film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a classic comedy because it has well-rounded characters, adventure, and a little bit of love.

This paper will be explaining the different types of leadership skill that I notice in the movie Stand and Deliver. The movie is a true story about a teacher who fought against all odd to help poor Latin students to pass the advance placement test in calculus. He motivates the students with everything that he could think of. The students received such a high test score that the testing center though they had cheated.