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Before he lost it and had a “conversation” with a chair, Clint Eastwood was one of my favorite actors. Clint was the man and he had memorable lines in his movies. I don’t need to list them because we know them. I was reading about Philando Castile who like Alton Sterling had his life stolen by a trigger-happy pig cop and as I felt anger, sadness, disgust, torment…every miserable emotion known to man I thought of Absolute Power which Clint Eastwood starred as a thief who witnessed a murder and the

and produced by Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood also plays the lead role as William Munny. Unforgiven revolves around a pig farmer who has long retired from his outlaw and killer ways; however, due to the daily struggles of the west, Munny needs money to support his children. Unforgiven is relevant to the class due to our studies of the settlement out west. The three literary devices best captured in Unforgiven are setting, plot, and characterization. The first literary device Clint Eastwood effectively

I enjoyed your post Lori, Philadelphia is a great movie. Like you, I have already watched quite a few on the list. As per our instructions I will compare the attitudes, beliefs, understandings, and acculturative experiences inherent in Philadelphia (1993) and Gran Torino (2008). In Gran Torino (2008) the main character, is a Korean War Veteran and has an obvious bias towards those of Asian descent. He also harbors guilt from killing a Korean soldier who had surrendered while in Korea. His neighbors

Dr. Avila English 104 Composition and Research 10 July 2015 Title Gran Torino is a 1999 film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, a movie that demonstrates racism and gender stereotyping and reaching across cultural barriers that can be overcome with understanding. The masculine protagonist know as Walt Kowalski is decorated Polish Korean War Vet who carries the burden of things he did in war, which will affect him for the rest of life. He is portrayed as bitter, grumpy racist old man

Gran Torino Gran Torino is a 2008 film directed and produced by legendary actor Clint Eastwood, who also stars in the film. The story follows Walt Kowalski, a recently widowed Korean war veteran who lives in a crime-ridden Hmong neighborhood in Detroit. The film takes up issues anyone with an aging family member confronts, including widowhood, isolation and the meaning of work and retirement. Gran Torino opens with the funeral reception for Walt’s wife. His family thinks he is grumpy, bitter, and

In the opening scene, Chris is shown killing a boy and his mother because of their attempt to murder a group of U.S marines surrounding a tank with a grenade. This was false information as well. His first kill was an Iraqi man who attempted to kill a group of marines in a tank with a grenade (IMDb). This was altered in the movie in order to catch your feelings and sympathy in the opening scene. That scene really set the tone for the rest of the movie. Another decision the movie falsified was that

The Million Dollar Baby was one of the most anticipated movies for the year as the movie was based around a female boxer, and at the time this wasn’t very common. I was also very excited to watch Clint Eastwood as he is one of my most favorite actor/director. The movie was not directly relatable as in I have not gone through a similar experience. Although, many of the emotions the characters were feeling and the different situations they were put through were relatable to me, to a certain extent

en elements which display the story and the significance of the theme redemption and violence. The three mise en scene elements which empathise on the factors of the theme redemption and violence are lighting, camera angles and props. The director (Clint Eastwood) also known as the star of the film, highly utilised the vast elements of mise en scene, which is portrayed though scenes one and the whole film. In addition, the mise en scene elements

Most likely among the most popular and famous kind of meditation occurs to be transcendental meditation, likewise common as TM. Maharishi began a tour worldwide in 1958 coaching this method to those in the Far East. Eventually he would provide lectures in Europe and the USA also on this technique of meditation. Celebrities have been embracing the positive aspects of meditation for years. It all started when Paul McCartney, and the rest of The Beatles, looked into meditation with Maharishi Mahesh

The text Gran Torino directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Nick Schenk tells a story of a widowed Korean War veteran, Walt Kowalski, who despises his Asian neighbours. Whilst the world move and change around him, Walt finds himself the only American living on his street amongst other cultures as well as not being able to escape from his traumatising experience in war. Through Walt’s character development, variation of usage of camera and symbolism the text are able to effectively represent ideas