The Natural
The natural is a movie that is talking about a baseball player who is called Roy Hobbes who wanted to be the best and break records but he had some obstacles that delay his dream as he is meeting with many different persons that are some of them are evil that are getting him down and some are good that helps him to improve. Roy Hobbes was very talented but he was shot by a fan and after 16 years he came back to a professional career and after some conflicts with the coach he became the best player on his team and led them to win the championship and helped his manager Bob to save his club.
Roy left his family to start chasing his dream of being a professional baseball
The main character, Malik, is a cocky African American track star that thinks everyone has it easier than him. He feels that the world owes him something, but almost everyone in it will work to hold him down. Epps has made a living portraying one type of athlete or another, but this is probably his best work because he creates a character that can be very accurate and likeable one minute, but totally juvenile and wildly frustrating the next. He struggles throughout the movie, but like the Fredrick Douglas quote used here says, "without struggle there is no progress." Malik really grows up a lot because the three main people around him are good influences. Malik Williams (Omar Epps) fits the traditional athlete type: cocky and arrogant. An urban black male on a partial track scholarship, Malik is at school to run, not learn. His attitude is that the world owes him, not the other way around. The reality that he can lose comes as an ego-bruising lesson.
More than any other sports, baseball sits highly on the throne of America. The heroic sport calls for fond memories from stacking tiny baseball figurines to betting large sums of money on the winning player. Behind every swing of the bat lies the recorded scores, broadcasted reports, tales, and legends that all American boys and girls hear. During the 1900s, baseball was everyone's favorite sport and source of entertainment. Films, documentaries and short stories rose to display the magical American love for baseball. In one case, W.P. Kinsella illustrates the prominent theme of love in the baseball fan favorite novel, “Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa” and its film adaption. Ray Kinsella, through his love for baseball and receiving support from his family, is transformed from a mundane farmer into a baseball hero that drives Archibald Wright into discovering a critical passion.
The Natural, a sports drama created in 1984, narrates the story of Roy Hobbs, an individual who possessed great talent for baseball. The movie encompasses several decades of his life from pre-transformation until the pennant. Roy Hobbs had one goal on his mind: to be the best there ever was. He wanted people to recognize him for his talent and praise him whenever he walked down the street. On his journey, much like other heroes, he encounters many obstacles that attempt to deter him from his destined path.
I watched “42” this weekend. The movie is based on a few years in Jackie Robinson’s life as the first Black man to enter Major League Baseball. It was amazing.
"Rudy", set in 1975 is an award winning drama in which years of effort are rewarded by a brief moment of glory. The movie is based on the true story of Daniel Ruttiger, but was also known as Rudy among his family and friends. Rudy was five foot and weighed in at a hundred nothing. People around Rudy looked at him as a person without a spec of talent, but what those people failed to notice was his true talent of determination. Rudy was determined to live out his childhood dream of playing football for Norte Dame and nothing was going to stop him. Family, friends, and educational institutions put down Rudy for believing me himself. This was because in the people's opinion Rudy was too small, dumb, and poor to attend Norte Dame and
Spike Lee’s film ‘Do The Right Thing’ displays the spectacle of black discrimination and racial altercations in the 80’s in Brooklyn, NY. After watching the film, I noticed W.E.B. DuBois’ concept of double consciousness being displayed through the film’s main character Mookie. Mookie handles the terms of his relationship with himself, his boss Sal and his sons, and the neighbors within the community. This reflects the way people of color have always been able to balance the notion of the ‘color line.’ This term originated by W.E.B. DuBois was a way to show the struggles of Black Americans to see themselves outside of the normative of value that is put out on white dominant culture. Based on DuBois’ double consciousness he also speaks about the clash of ‘twoness.’
In this movie, one may observe the different attitudes that Americans had towards Indians. The Indians were those unconquered people to the west and the almighty brave, Mountain Man went there, “forgetting all the troubles he knew,” and away from civilization. The mountain man is going in search of adventure but as this “adventure” starts he finds that his survival skills are not helping him since he cant even fish and as he is seen by an Indian, who watches him at his attempt to fish, he start respecting them. The view that civilization had given him of the west changes and so does he. Civilization soon becomes just something that exists “down there.”
The Lorax, the movie of a young boy who searches for trees to impress his girl of his dream. In the movie, the boy went outside his geographic area to seek for a live tree so he can win the girl’s heart. In short, the boy was able to accomplish his wish by finding Once-ler, the man who is accused for cutting all trees and was punished by mother nature the Lorax who is knowing for speaking for the trees. It was hard for the community to accept trees again in the city, but the boy was able to convince the society and planted the tree.
The film starts off with the Narrator losing sleep, for what reason we aren’t sure. He then proceeds to tell us how he lived his life. He works a 9 to 5 job in a cubicle
The movie “Wild” is based on Cheryl Strayed’s autobiography about her trek along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. The story is set on the Pacific crest trail, including a wide variety of climates including: deserts, snow covered mountains, and tropical forests. Along her journey on the trail, the movie flashes back to several traumas that drove her into the wild, in order to reinvent herself as a strong independent woman once again, no longer bound by guilt, shame, and regret. This is a movie that embraces the healing values of nature and how it can help an individual gain a broader perspective on life.
The film wasn’t about that 13-0 record and winning a state championship, but the struggle that came with it and all the hardships they had to deal and get past. Racism, prejudice, compassion and love were all key aspects of this film as shown. The racism, prejudice of the team when they first met was severe and had been changed. The love and compassion came as the team grew to become one unit and love each other and be able to become something more powerful than they could be by themselves.
The movie the mighty duck is a very exciting interesting movie, I have watched this movie 4 times and every time I watch it I enjoy. It talks how people can change by knowing the value of their life and gain confidence. The movie is about a lawyer who was a hockey player when he was a kid and he quit because of the lack of confidence when he missed a winning shot and they lost the championship because of his miss. He was afraid to face the people around him and lost confidence and quit the sport. When he grew up he put this aside and he became a very successful lawyer. Once he won a court case and went for party and got cough by the police as he was drinking while driving. The court sentenced him to volunteer work and help the community by
First, it will describe about the movie. Nathan Algren is an American civil war veteran who carries moral scars of his victory against the native Indians. Because of that experience, he feels guilt and covers it by drink alcohol horrendous acts in society. Then, his old commander drags him into meeting Prince Mitsui, a Japanese
Human Nature, a state of dangerous and unpredictable practicality that intertwines within difficulties of our lives. Humans make mistakes not because we are programmed to do so, but because we have an analytical mindset to choose what best suits our self-interest . If you would ask me, Human nature is probably one of the most terrifying things of this Earth. Nevertheless, you can’t stand but to love humanism and the persona of one 's being. Pinocchio, a classic film directed by Norman Ferguson, reminds us how it is to be vulnerable, fragile, and human. Through the linear progression of choice and opposition, Pinocchio’s wooden heart has to learn the acrimonious trial of human temptation and deviance in order to become a real boy. Thus creating the theme, “you must go through trial, turbulation and experiences in order to truly appreciate humanity and others.”
Into the Wild is a documentary film by Sean Penn that follows the life of Christopher Johnson McCandless, a vagabond who tramped across the United States for two years before his journey led him to Alaska, where he lived in the wilderness, sheltered by an abandoned transportation bus, preceding his death. McCandless grew up with all the privileges of being raised in the suburbs by a middle class family, he later went on to graduate from Emory University in Georgia, and seemed to have his whole life stretched out in front of him. However, he did the exact opposite of what was expected, severed all ties with his family, and adopted a life of chosen homelessness, where his travels led him on wild adventures across the country. Many speculate that McCandless was pushed to do this in order to spite his overbearing and abusive parents who verbally and physically assaulted each other in front of their children, demanding they pick a side. Some say it was McCandless’s desire to free himself from all material constraints and the burden of societal pressures. Taking a psychological approach, McCandless