Clint Mansell

Director Clint Eastwood’s powerful film, “Million Dollar Baby” is deep, emotional, and powerful film about a southern girl who believes she can be a boxer, an old, rough edged boxing trainer, and the boxing trainer’s longtime friend. Clint Eastwood character is the aging trainer Frankie, who own a boxing gym in Los Angeles and has been training boxers all of his adult life. Hilary Swank character is Maggie, a women from Mississippi, who has been serving tables since she was a teenager to get by and

The 1992 American western film Unforgiven, is directed and produced by the leading role in the film, Clint Eastwood. The film exemplifies many plays upon notions of ideology. In order for the film to be valid, the viewers must examine and understand the differences and similarities between the historical and cultural aspects of the American West. Hollywood portrays the West to be adventurous, action-packed, mysterious, and the opportunity for freedom and profit. Unforgiven is a film that portrays

Grittiness play a key aspect in the story of Million Dollar Baby. It takes a person with authentic strength and the mindset to overcome and achieve some of the obstacles that are presented throughout this storyline. Maggie Fitzgerald and Frankie Dunn are the two main characters that make this movie intense and engaging. Although both characters are very gritty and have similarities, only one holds the title to be the grittiest. Maggie Fitzgerald is gritter than Frankie Dunn because she exemplifies

Unfriended Starring: Shelley Hennig, Renee Olstead, Matthew Bohrer, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki Unexpectedly unnerving, but unlikely to be remembered with the same fondness as the films that so clearly inspired it Unfriended is a horror film played out in real time, solely through social media on a teenagers laptop screen. Sounding like the worst sort of millennial-bait, it’s undoubtedly an eye-roll inducing premise, especially after the volume of lazy found footage films we’ve been inundated with

together to create a riveting story as viewers dive through different emotions alongside the characters. Through the use of precise lighting and camera angles, director Clint Eastwood and cinematographer Tom Stern reach beyond standard film techniques and bring the cinematography to life. Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood, is a story of a woman’s quest to reshape her life through the art of boxing. The film follows the life of Maggie Fitzgerald through her efforts to persuade coach

Films represent groups to differ from one another due to their physical characteristics. This is especially true in Clint Eastwood's f2008 film Gran Torino. The film follows the changing attitudes of Walt Kowalski, as he learns that cultural difference between himself and his Hmong neighbours are only surface deep. Walt's friendship with his neighbours evolves into a need to save them from the Hmong gangs who harass them, and in doing so, find his own salvation. The characterisation of Walt challenges

and social diversity(Karen K. Kirst-Ashman,1970). Which it means the social worker is responsible to be respectful and open minded about other cultures because social workers work with all kinds of people of all ages with different beliefs(Eastwood, Clint, 2018). As a social worker you have to learn how to put your values and beliefs to the side and respect the other person who you are working with even though you may not agree with them or it may be hard for the social worker to wrap their head around

‘Gran Torino’ is a film directed by Clint Eastwood who also plays the main character, Walt Kowalski. The film is set in Detroit, Michigan where a car manufacturing factory has just closed, therefore, former workers moving away and immigrants such as the Hmong people moving in. Walt is a veteran of the Korean war where he won the silver star medal in 1952. The penultimate scene is the climax of the film where Walt confronts the Hmong gang, this holds a lot of significance. The gang has been hassling

The scene I have chosen to analyse from gran Torino directed by Clint Eastwood is the end scene where Walt sacrifices his life for his neighbours. Visual and verbal features such as camera angles, dialogue, props/symbolism and sound/music were used in the scene to show the change and redemption in Walt Kowalski throughout the film. Camera angles in the scene helps give an understanding of the characters in the scene usually Walt always looks dominant in the camera angles, but in this scene it shows

Informative Speech Outline General Purpose: To inform the class Specific Purpose: To describe to the audience a brief history of Alcatraz. Thesis: Alcatraz has been a popular social topic because of the mystery that surrounds it and the stories exaggerated in movies and television shows. INTRODUCTION I. If you disobey the rules of society, they send you to prison; if you disobey the rules of the prison, they send you to Alcatraz. II. Alcatraz has been a popular social topic because of the