Spanglish Movie Essay

With Film Analysis comes the analyzation of films and movies that depict narrative structure, cultural context, the evaluation of discourse, and many other approaches. The film, “Friday” (1995), is a comedy and drama that displays the relationship between two childhood friends growing up in an impoverished neighborhood. These two friends became affiliated with a neighborhoods drug dealer, and were startled and clueless as to how they were going to come up with the money they owed him by the end of the night! The characterization, setting, and conflicts are the three main elements, in which are portrayed can indicate the analyzation of contributing a larger meaning of this particular film.

Based off Charles Webb’s 1963 novel by the same name, The Graduate is an American romantic comedy/drama released in the United States on December 21, 1967 starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and William Daniels. The film was directed by Mike Nichols, produced by Lawrence Turman and the screenplay written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham. The film was produced by Lawrence Turman/Mike Nichols productions starting in March of 1967. Mike Nichols has also directed other well known films such as Catch-22 (1970), Working Girl (1988), and more recently Closer (2004). The film was distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures nationally and United Artists internationally. AVCO Embassy Pictures studio, founded by Joseph E. Levine, the films executive producer, also claims production/distribution for other hit films such as Godzilla, King of Monsters! (1956), The Fog (1980), and Prom Night (1980). The movie was well received due to its $104 million dollar box office opening tab. The score was produced by Dave Grusin and the songs written by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

This Movie shows the reality of how Mexicans are brought to United States to work for the big companies doing all the nasty work that nobody wants to do. While they get to United States they already have a job but no training and very low salary. As for the female they are constantly facing sexual harassment by their supervisor. Portraying the Mexicans women's as sexpots and the supervisors as Latin Lovers. Since there was another scene when Sylvia had to have sex with Mike inorder to get a job in the factory. However Mike had many girls in the factory which he was having some type of relationship with them.

A League of Their Own (Marshall, 1992) explicitly characterizes an American era when a woman’s place was in the home. Even our modern perspective implicitly follows suit. Although women have gained rights and freedoms since the 1930’s, sexism remains prevalent in America. This film offers an illustration when men went to war and big business men utilized women as temporary replacements in factories, sports, and so on. Here, course concepts, such as gender socialization, gender expressions, role stereotypes, emotion expressions, and language, correspond to the film’s characters and themes.

South of the Border is a 2009 American documentary film about Oliver Stone’s trip to Venezuela to meet president, Hugo Chávez. Oliver Stone himself directed it. The documentary examines how United States free-market policies have affected Latin America’s income. It also displayed how Chávez took a turn towards left wing governments in Latin America’s democracy. And due to such financial catastrophes, it has lead to a socialist uprising. In addition, the documentary included critical interviews with the president of Venezuela Hugo Chávez and Tariq Ali. Ali, who is also the screenplay writer of the project, seems to finds this documentary film to be a political pathway for power. When Ali was interviewed, he explained the importance and

The Frontline film Separate and Unequal discussed about creating a new school system; however, there are opposition by others who wants to maintain the current school system. If we look at the perspectives of the two groups, it is understandable in why there is support and opposition from the people of the city. The supporters of the new system wants a system that can provide better opportunities for their children without any violence. As the film claimed “the school was not teaching and were only babysitting the children”, which was likely a reason why there was a need for a new school system. With the chaotic and uncontrollable situation in the current system, many supporters have push forward the idea of a new system in a new city. From

Tinghir Jersualem is a documentary by historian Kamal Hachkar, a Muslim. It explores the relationship between the Jews and Muslims in Tinghir, Moracco both prior to the Jews departure to Israel and the aftermath of their leaving. Kamal interviews both Jews and Muslims from Morraco to get their own stories related to the departure that largely took place in the 1950s and 1960s. Kamal's approach of interviewing both Jews and Muslims helps present the unity that Jews and Muslims felt in Morraco prior the 1960s. Older Muslim and Jewish men spoke foundly of their neighbors and the many business transactions and card games that went on between the two groups of people. The Muslim and Jewish women simiarly excited when talking about their neighbors,

In a ground breaking documentary, that gained rotten tomatoes of 93%, The Hunting Ground, displays a monumental depiction of the rape culture on college campuses. This film spread like while fire and was highly talked about among college campuses. The documentary captures real life survivors known as “degraduates” because they are seeking not only their degree but justice (Dick et. al., 2016, p. 4). Some of the victims feel that justice still has not been served, which brings upon devastation on not only the victim but the victim’s families.

Overall, I enjoyed the film. My biggest issue was the formatting of the film and the medium that it was available. It would have been more enjoyable had the film not been broken up into segments that needed to load. Had the movie been available on DVD or in one longer segment, it would have been easier to watch. The continuous breaks in the action of

As I was watching the documentary, I learned so many things about this program called “ The Bracero Program”. I would never know that people would change their routine life to go through this horrible process to produce more money for their family such as wife and children to survive in Mexico. The reading that I choose for the assignment was “culture”, I saw the documentary “Harvest of loneliness“ and there was many connective point that were related points with culture and the documentary. In the reading “The Nexus of Language, Communication, and Culture” in the page 271 because in the reading it explains how culture differs people and make separating area or space for different type of people.( The Nexus of Language, Communication, and Culture,

“ Everything will be fine, you see they are fine” my mother told Jorge to calm him down. She knew that it was his first born. Since I was her only child she understood Jorge.My mother always told me how speacial your first child would be.That was also where I had realized that, during that moment Jorge and my mother had actually shared a nice moment. Jorge and my mother had not really gotten along. She thought no one was good enough for Rocio. I was kind of happy to know that my family was getting closer which was a nice feeling. After three days of observation and nursing Rocio and Lindsay came home.

Besides the interview where the real Whitacre appeared, I also retrieved a discovery channel documentary which incorporated the FBI agents Brian Sheppard and Dean Paisley who actively collaborated with Whitacre throughout the real investigation. However, Dean Paisley did acknowledge Mark Whitacre as a national hero regardless the fact no formal recognition have been presented to him despite his tremendous effort and cooperation which eventually deterred his former employer ADM and partners fraudulent activities (Undercover, 2010). So, when questioning Whitacre ethical behavior regarding the kickbacks and the numerous money laundering he pioneered, his misconducts was solely limited to his company whereas his employer ADM and the other competitors

Throughout this class, various discussions and blogs have been used to analyze the different elements of films such as theme, cinematic techniques and genre. It is time to bring all of these separate elements together in the analysis of one specific film, according to class text, “analyzing levels of meaning below the surface story can greatly enhance enjoyment as well as understanding of a film” (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014. p. 10.03). There are several different approaches to film analysis including formalist, auteurist, and generic or any combination thereof. Utilizing a genre theory lens, the 1956 film The Searchers will be analyzed addressing contextual information, story/plot, aesthetic choices, social/personal impact and how these areas come together to develop the film.

Carla faced the problem that her family might not understand her completely since she was sent away for

A movie highlighting societies’ issues, personal to political, that one faces from lack of knowing how to cross-communication throughout a variety of cultures. The film Babel, written by Guillermo Arriaga and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, depicts the failures of communication and the realistic effects that it has within certain cultures. The film reveals four different cultures: Middle Eastern, Hispanic, American, and Asian. The film expresses each character struggles with not only articulating their concerns but assertion problems they are facing thus making each one feel powerless in their strives. With the director focusing on quick judgement calls made by each character, he attempted to visualize the long-lasting holdings