Richard Attenborough 's Film Gandhi

The movie Gandhi starts in 1893, where Gandhi was riding in a first class train carriage but was told to transfer into the third-class carriage, even though he was holding a first class ticket. Gandhi refused to move to a different carriage, so a policeman arrived and literally threw him out of the train. This was the defining moment of Gandhi that changed his life forever: he would dedicate his life to fight for equality and independence for his people the Indians, nonviolently.

Gandhi is a biopic produced by Richard Attenborough whose lifelong dream was to make the story of the national independence leader’s life into a movie. The movie starts with Mohandas K. Gandhi, played by actor Ben Kingsley, rejecting all material possessions in pursuit of India’s independence. The storyline plays out to highlight important aspect of Gandhi’s life and ends with his assassination, where he utters the famous lines “Oh god.” Critics claim the movie is over exaggerated, however Attenborough does a fine job of bringing a visual of Gandhi’s life into Western eyes. In addition, what could be a bad thing ends up being a good thing for the layman who watches this movie. Attenborough oversimplifies Gandhi’s perspectives and ideas on social justice and religion, which leads to a very simple explanation of Gandhi’s philosophy.

Gandhi, in the story showed how if people can come together, how strong we could be together.

I have always heard about Gandhi in school but never learned about him. I have always heard the famous Martin Luther King Jr. mention Gandhi in his speeches, but never knew who he was. After watching the movie and finding out who Mohandas K. Gandhi really is I have a whole new outlook on who he is. The movie made him seem like the great man that I have heard about him being. Since watching the movie I see him as a man who lets his actions speak louder than his words. Rarely did I see him speaking in front of a crowd. He lead by example for the people who believed in him, he stood up for his country and would not let the people or himself be controlled by an outsiders. Now I see where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. got his idea of a nonviolent protests

He married at the early age of 13. Once he finished elementary school, he attended an all-boys high school. After high school, he decided to leave India and went to study law in London. After finishing the 4 years and passing the bar exam he went back to India. He was first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident nation community struggle for civil rights. Gandhi’s goal was for India to gain independence from the British Empire. He fought British tyranny. Although fighting for the independence of India, this wasn’t the only civil rights movement he was involved in. He spent 20 years in South Africa opposing institutional discrimination against Indians. Following Indian independence in 1947, Gandhi attempted to mediate the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal. He was assassinated in

Gandhi, the civil rights leader was a racist neo-nazi. This leader born in 1888 to a family of three siblings in New Delhi, India(Doeden 9). He worked as a civil-rights leader where he gained popularity and publicity. “All that changed at 9:20am on 31 October 1984”(Singh 1). When Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a right-wing activist shot and killed him. The assassination of Gandhi was just because he was a racist and neo-nazi who wanted Hitler to rule; however, many see him as a saintly civil-rights leader.

Gandhi had to deal with a lot of things in his lifetime. He was born in October 2, 1869. He studied law in London but in 1893 moved to South Africa, where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. He had lots of names for himself

Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India in October 2, 1869. He was raised to be kind and nonviolent. Gandhi was the youngest child of his father’s fourth wife. Gandhi was very intelligent he attended and graduated high school at Alfred High School. He later proceeded to go to college at the “University College London” he studied a major of UCL Faculty of Laws he later

This film is an epic tale that spans over 50 years, from 1893 to 1948. It begins with Mohandas Gandhi’s (Ben Kingsley) nonviolent civil rights movement in South Africa. This period takes up the opening forty minutes or so of the film, then Gandhi goes to India, where local leaders persuade him to help India in its cause for independence. The rest of the film chronicles Gandhi’s

In the story, Gandhi is presented as one dedicated to equal rights for all throughout his work in South Africa and India.

The final objection is that people are praised for being intelligent and become beloved speakers of their times. In response to this objection, there have been individuals who were assassinated for sharing their intelligence with the world. Mohandas Gandhi moved from India to study law in England. He used his knowledge to help India become independent. It is unsure if Gandhi went into debt for his education but he did spend a lot of money to move from India to London, England for his education. Gandhi was a lover of knowledge and did return to help the hoi polloi, but the people did not like the messages he shared so they killed him. Another example would be Martin Luther King Jr. he was assassinated after trying to share his knowledge during

Mahatma Gandhi was once a symbol of change for India. His goal was to free Indians from the rule of the British so that India could become an independent state. Gandhi became a hero in the eyes of many because he attempted something different from the rests and showed that cultural barriers could not stop one from reaching his or her goals. His actions later resulted in an improved quality of life for many of his country’s people. Likewise, Junior, in the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, becomes a hero through his ability to change his life although he faces many obstacles. Throughout the book, Junior fights with problems such as deaths in his family, health issues, and racial discrimination. However, he pushes through

After watching the movie and seeing what Gandhi did to help and to inspire others really made me think and I realized that Gandhi started out as just a normal man that was a lawyer but a man who inspired people to stand up for themselves, not to fight back but to take it and show that they weren’t backing down. Gandhi helped people and then lived like the people including wearing their simple clothes and doing the chores to show that he was one of them and was willing to help.Gandhi inspired the people to march for the right to make their own salt and to show an act of disobedience from the British. Gandhi also leads the Indian’s on a march for the coal miners.

The first image, image I, is a depiction of a scene during a short clip from the movie, “Ghandi.” This particular scene represents the phenomenon that Europeans had developed a sense of racism that overtook cultural chauvinism. The colonial people experienced a new European conventional wisdom which entailed the idea that cultural characteristics were determined by someone’s race, or biology, and not by their education, history, or the environment. They were seen as unequal by their white leaders no matter their abilities. The Europeans looked upon the idea of race as the determining factor because biological characteristics could not be altered or changed whereas education, history, and the environment had this capability. In this scene

The 1982 movie Gandhi, starring Ben Kingsley and Candice Bergen had both strengths and weaknesses. One of the movies weaknesses was that it left a lot of gaps. It is understandable why they had to leave a lot of gaps. The movie was supposed to depict the whole life of Gandhi. If they had of put every detail of Gandhi’s life, every year of every sentence he spent in jail, the movie would be way longer than three plus hours. I just think that they could have better picked and chosen which parts to leave out because at times it left you confused, which leads me to my next weakness. At times it was hard to understand what exactly was going on. As a person who is not as familiar with Gandhi and what exactly he stood for, it was very hard to