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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

Torino” directed by Clint Eastwood, a character that has presented his/her attitude and view of the world is Walt. Throughout the film, we can see the expression and many changes of his attitude and view of the world over time. In the beginning Walt’s attitude was a grumpy. old, intolerant man who hated everything around him. Then at the end of the film he changed his attitude into a more forgiving, calm, and peaceful person and shared his love with people around him. Clint Eastwood has utilized many film

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

competence 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

‘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

human sacrifice and the racial intolerance that still exists in modern America. The film is set in a poor neighbourhood of Detroit. Clint Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, a war veteran who has brooded over his experiences in the war for decades. Past trauma has caused him to believe that he cannot trust anyone, and he has therefore developed a deep racism. Eastwood uses many different techniques, including lighting, camera angles, and dialogue to show how the man Walt Kowalski develops throughout the

Our experiences shape who we are. Gran Torino by Clint Eastwood is a moving film that depicts topics such as racism, mental illness and sacrifice in a modern setting without sugarcoating. In the film, korean war veteran and curmudgeon Walt Kowalski becomes an unexpected hero and father figure to nextdoor neighbour Thao Lor. Gran Torino begins in a funeral home, where protagonist Walt is mourning the death of his spouse, grimacing at the reality of being widowed and the disrespect of his children

Gran Torino To what extent has Clint Eastwood portrayed the struggle between different cultural groups within the film Gran Torino In the film Gran Torino the director, Clint Eastwood, has shown the immense struggle between the different races in such a way that is realistic to the modern day today. Strong wiled war veteran Walter Kowalski, played by director Clint Eastwood, is under going a major change in society. The neighbour hood in which he has always lived in is in desperate need of cultural

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