Essay # 3

Million Dollar Baby is a film which was released in 2004 and is based on various short stories entitled, "Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner" written by F.X. Toole . It was directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. The film is about an underappreciated boxing trainer, the mistakes that haunt him from his past, and his quest for atonement by helping an underdog amateur boxer achieve her dream of becoming a professional.

Over the past eighty years movies have entertained us on many different levels. Movies are often inspirational, sad, funny, or just plain out weird. More often than not, movies relate to us and illustrate psychological principles in our everyday lives. The movie Rain Man illustrates many psychological principles like autism with savant syndrome, aggression, and conditioning just to name a few.

“Hello mother, father, this is your Louie talking. This will be the first time in two years that you’ve heard my voice. I am now interned at a Tokyo prisoner of war camp and I’m being treated as well as can be expected under wartime conditions.” As a viewer we can see the look of pure disgust and longing upon Louie’s face. It was evident that he wasn’t eager to read what was prepared for him as it depicted a false perception of what his wartime conditions were truly like. The fact that he had to make it seem like he was well when in fact he was anything but. I am now able to understand that what those in society often herd about their captured soldiers was quite often incorrect. The enemy wanted to portray an image that hid the true conditions and circumstances the American soldiers were subject to. I not only found this film inspiring as it showed the resilience American soldiers had whilst confined in the prisoner of war camps but also found it interesting as it showed the truths of war so vividly in way that could never be achieved through the use of written words. As a result of this film I am able to see how much we owe these men for our freedom, we were never truly able to appreciate the sacrifice made by those men and women until viewing this incredible film. They went through so much to ensure the freedom of many generations to come and if it wasn’t for these men who knows what our lives would be like today.

Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood’s latest movie as a director has been getting more and more positive reviews recently and it is even better than Mystic River. At first glance, the film looks like another boxing-movie cliché. However, Eastwood has succeeded in creating a compelling and moving story about the intricate world of human relationships, the price of success and the realization of dreams. The movie explores many different subject matters. Million Dollar Baby is about friendship and respect. It is about love and it is about dreams.

The film Baby face, follows a woman by the name of Lilly Powers, who leaves her dreary small town in Pennsylvania and heads to New York City in hopes of making something of herself. Throughout the film, Lilly explores and uses her sexuality to manipulate men and build her way to the top. Her character faces limitations but succeeds in challenging presumptions of women during this time period.

For this report I choose the movie Seven. This movie was released back in 1995 and stars Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gweneth Paltrow, R. Lee Ermey, John McGinley, and Kevin Spacy. Seven was directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew K. Walker.

She didn’t complete the sentence. Levi sent a volley of threatening invisible arrows in her direction. Her recipe for intimidation -- she aborted.

The movie Parenthood is about family and the struggles that follow. In every family there are complications to maintaining stability and happiness. There are times where you may think that you have lost control of your relationship and your own life. This film showcases reality and life without retakes. Not everything is going to go the way you planned, thus causing you to think your whole world is coming down on you. The main points the director emphasizes that caught my attention in this movie were adversity, denial and exhaustion.

This is no ordinary movie, you see the men dress up as girls just to save their own jobs. In the movie White Chicks two FBI agents are in charge of transporting the Wilson twins to the Hamptons for the weekend. On the way there they get into an accident, and the Wilson twins get tiny little scratches on their faces and then refuse to go to the weekend, because that would then ruin their social status, so in order for the agents to keep their jobs, have to impersonate the girls for the whole weekend. Needless to say they end up getting caught but through their expenses they learn how difficult being a women can be in this modern day society. You see in this this movie the guys are forced to over come sexaul obectification and defy gender streo

The author develops the theme in the short film “The Descendants” by sharing the feelings of the main character and using the setting vivid images to capture the viewer's attention. In which both give the viewer a glimpse of what the theme may be like. The theme of the film was all about the two divergent flower, one was very old, wrinkly and wiser, while the other one is beautiful, youth and innocence. But when a visitor, a deer came, who started the conflict. The young flower was falling for the deer, however, the old flower was furious to hear that, all she has for the wild beast is hated because it killed her family. This pointed out the conflict that led to the red flower expressing her emotion and her feelings toward the character. The

In 1994, Carson traveled to South Africa to separate a set of twin girls, but the procedure was not successful and both girls died. In 1997, Carson went to Zambia to separate infant boys who were joined at the head. Both of these boys survived and neither suffered brain damage. It was after this procedure that Ben Carson gained media

Billy Elliot is a 2000 British drama film directed by Greg Brenman and Jon Finn. The movie is about an 11-year-old name Billy, who comes from the County Durham, England. Billy lives with his narrow-minded father, Jackie, and a cold-hearted older brother, Tony, and also his maternal grandmother, who diagnostics with Alzheimer. Billy's father sends him to the local gym to learn boxing, but Billy does not enjoy boxing. Somehow, he is more interested in the ballet class next door. Billy hides his father to join the ballet class. When Billy’s dad finds out, he gets so angry and bans Billy to take the ballet class. But, Billy is so passionate in ballet; he continues the ballet class with the assist of his ballet instructor, Sandra Wilkinson. Mrs. Wilkinson notices that Billy has potential to continue his ballet in the higher level in the Royal Ballet School in London. Somehow, Billy misses the audition to enter the Royal Ballet School because his brother, Tony, arrests by the police during a skirmish. Mrs. Wilkinson has to come to Billy’s house and explains Billy’s potential in ballet with hope that Billy’s family would allowed him to enter the audition. However, the result is opposite. Billy’s family opposes to the idea that Billy would be a ballet dancer. They afraid Billy will be considered to be gay by the people around. On Christmas, Billy goes to hang out with his best friend, Michael, who is homosexual, but Billy is very supportive Michael. They go to the gym to do ballet. Fortunately, Billy’s father, Jackie witnesses his son’s ballet skill; he understands that his son is born to be a ballet dance. He comes to Mrs. Wilkinson to persuade her to let Billy enter the ballet audition and he is not poor and he does not need Mrs. Wilkinson’s support; he can take care of Billy’s ballet fee by selling Billy’s mother’s jewelry and his neighborhood and friends raise money for Billy’s audition. Billy is nervous during the audition but when the judges ask how is like when he dancing, he portrays it as “electricity”. Later, he gets the acceptance letter from the Royal Ballet School; his dream to be a ballet dancer comes true.

The movie “Nightcrawler” is a film that depicts a man that is a fast thinking, hard negotiating, never-give-up, criminal. This criminal, Lou, is bold enough to steal goods and then ask for a job while selling the goods he stole. His greatest desire is build a career for himself and learn a trade so that he can own his own company. Lou witnesses a horrific car crash where the car caught on fire and sees a videographer come in and video the scene and sell it. The videographer, Joe, tells him that he can sell the video to highest bidder and that it would be a top story on the news. Lou was intrigued and asked if Joe had a job, which he did not, and when Lou saw the work on the news he was convinced this was his new career.

From these estimations we can see that children create a large section of the Egyptian population. Since The Baby Academy’s services are designed to help educate and improve children with special needs along with normal children (children are the main focus and target market), the increasing number of children and the escalating rate of birth will positively benefit the organization. When looking at the Egyptians society we find that they are divided into three main classes: upper, middle, and lower (with the middle class being the largest section among the three classes). People of the middle class are characterized by having average incomes and living moderate lives.

Throughout the entirety of Task 1 I faced many challenges and I was also gifted with many positives. One of the first few things that went quite well for me was that when I was put into my group most of us had already worked together prior to this task. Also being that we had already worked together we knew what we were interested in, so this made choosing our topic rather easy. Then we decided which lense we would each be tackling this process went almost just as easily however we did have to do some preliminary research prior to setting our lenses in stone. This was because we wanted to make sure that when we did each choose our lense that we did not in any way overlap each other's information in what we were planning to discuss. So then