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    Movie Review on Gran Torino This paper will discuss how the movie Gran Torino portrays socialization. Gran Torino movie is about how people from two different culture get to socialize and it is about how to help the neighborhood in their happiness and sorrows. Walt neighborhood is an Asian immigrant and they both have totally different culture. Walt doesn't like Hmong family in the beginning because the culture was totally different and he found them noisy and disturbing. Hmong family was

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    Hannah Swartout December 3, 2017 COM 325 Analysis Paper Gran Torino Analysis After losing his wife, Walt Kowalski was left with spoiled children and grandchildren, cigarettes, Pabst Blue Ribbon and his 1972 Gran Torino. Walt was retired from the military after serving in the Korean war. In the beginning of the movie Walt appears to be disgruntled, racist and tough-minded. He was not ecstatic that a Hmong family was moving into his deceased neighbors house. Meanwhile, the Hmong family next door

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    Gran Torino: A Symbolism of Respect The influential motion picture performance Gran Torino represents a man’s excursion in a crime-harassed community. The character, Walt Kowalski, a racially prejudiced Korean War veteran living in a community where the greater part of the habitations were of Hmong Asian descent. Walt started to transform after the unsuccessful attempt of his teenaged neighbor Thao stealing his treasurable Gran Torino. Hmong tradition requires Thao to work for Walt as an act of penance

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    Film Review : Gran Torino

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    The movie Gran Torino, is an American film directed by Clint Eastwood, who also stars as the main character. The movie was set in Highland Park, Michigan which was a nearby suburb of Detroit. In prior years, Highland Park was populated by white families that had come to the area to work in the Ford car factories, but over time, “the damn chinks” moved into the neighborhood as Walt Kowalski would say. This show was the first American film to show Hmong Americans, which were war refugees that had resettled

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    Opportunistic Torino The American Dream is all about opportunity. This opportunity is either given or must be earned. Clint Eastwood knew exactly how to show example of fairness in The American Dream as an opportunity. The touching film Gran Torino shows a wonderful example of obtaining The American Dream, as well as how much opportunity is related to it. The film Gran Torino is much more than a simple message to it’s viewers. This wonderfully creative movie directed by Clint Eastwood completely

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    Gran Torino Sociology

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    problem in society today. In the movie Gran Torino, Walt Kowalski is an old, white, retired auto worker. He lives in a neighborhood, in which Latinos, Blacks, and Asians have moved in and brought teen gangs with them. In this change it brings out his prejudice views against everyone, specifically the Asian people due to his time served in the Korean War. This essay will utilize racism, class conflict and the sub Theories to analyze Gran Torino. In the movie Gran Torino, racism played a major role. Walt

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    Racism In Gran Torino

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    "Gran Torino," directed by Clint Eastwood, is a very moving and captivating drama. It's a simple story about tolerance and cultural differences, but also one of hope, self-sacrifice, and unlikely friendships. A former auto worker at Ford, Walt Kowalski has just had to put his longtime wife to rest when the story opens. From his scowl, it looks as if he would like to join her. Instead he sits on his front porch chugging can after can of cheap beer in the company of his yellow Labrador, Daisy, while

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    In the movie Gran torino there is an older adult who’s name is Walt Kowalski who just lost his wife. His family just think of the older adult as a annoyance to them. Walt Kowalski seems accustomed to his beliefs.In the beginning of the movie we tension between Walt and the house next door because of old beliefs they have about each other. A gang tries to get the boy next door into the gang his name is Thao. The gang tells Thao to rob the torino from Walt but Thao fails.The family finds out and as

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    Gran Torino, directed by Clint Eastwood, is a very moving and captivating drama. When the story opens we see Walt Kowalski residing on his front porch drinking beer, while simultaneously watching the world with a squint and a torrent of harsh criticism. Walt has essentially no remaining family members, as his wife had just recently passed away, and he wants nothing to do with his two successful sons. It's a story about tolerance and cultural differences, but also one of hope, and unlikely friendships

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    Gran Torino Sociology

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    Final Submission: Gran Torino Case Study For Milestone Two project, I have chosen the film Gran Torino starring Clint Eastwood to analyze, this film is brimming with cultural diversity, which is met with discrimination, contention, and stereotypical actions by the main character, Walt Kowalski. This film begins in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan where the grumpy widower Walt Kowalski is a Retired auto worker and Korean War veteran full of prejudice despising the many Asian, Latino and black families

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