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In the Pixar film, Up, one of the main characters is the grandpa. His name is Mr. Fredricksen. He is a stubborn old man and is even more stubborn/mean since his wife passed away. He decides to live one of his life-long dreams and ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the South American wilderness. But Mr. Fredricksen’s worse nightmare comes true. Another main character, Russell, is aboard his house and is flying with him. Russell spends the rest of the movie slowly getting to know Mr. Fredricksen peeling one layer of his stubbornness at a time. He shows that older people may be mean/stubborn for a reason and not older adult is stubborn. 2.) a) This movie sets the younger people to believe that old men act mean and stubborn. Everyone is the neighborhood is afraid of Mr. Fredricksen since he is so stubborn and acts as if he hates the world. …show more content…

Due to the fact that he lost his wife, I would portray him to be down to earth and live for the memory of his wife. I would want this character to be loving and have a heart of gold just as his wife would want him to do.
3.) a) The negative explicit that this movie communicates to the audience is that older men are men and grumpy all the time. They portray Mr. Fredricksen has an unapproachable old man. b) They make it seem that all old men are grumpy. Viewers may not want to approach older men or help them due to the fact that this movie portrays Mr. Fredricksen in a very mean way.
4.) Marie, Raymond’s mother in the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond plays a very upbeat and sassy older lady. She is the true definition of what every older woman should be portrayed as. She is the total opposite of the average stereotypes that elderly play in every other media such as “stubborn, helpless and

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