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    Million Dollar Baby is a movie produced by Clint Eastwood and stars Eastwood, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman in lead roles. In this movie we see, Maggie Fitzgerald portrayed by Hilary Swank is a boxer in the lightweight category who breaks her neck during an unfair fight. She ends up being in the hospital with a severed spinal cord leading to quadriplegic state and kept alive on mechanical ventilation. Her coach Frankie, played by Clint Eastwood goes through the different phases of grief. While

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    Carlin he makes Nelson's Mandela's accomplishment of ending the apartheid more strategic and political unlike the film but kept to Mandela's character. Clint Eastwood showed Mandela as powerful, yet approachable and humble leader who strategically used the popular universal language of sports to unite post-apartheid South Africa. Director Eastwood balanced the historical significance of South Africa's struggles of the time and was yet able to make the film into a classic hollywood sports drama. When

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    ourselves others take the contrary view. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly are a movie that shows a complicated friendship in the storyline. Directed by Sergio Leone, this movie was pioneer of spaghetti’s western movie during 1960’s. Starring Clint Eastwood (Blondie), Eli Wallach (Tuco) and Lee Van clef (Sentenza/Angel Eyes), this movie is one of the best and listed on the top ten ranks in IMDB. Tuco and Blondie in the

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    Gran Torino Analysis- A Reflection on Cultural Conflict and Redemption The 2008 movie “Gran Torino” starring Clint Eastwood is filled with an abundance of cultural diversity, which is met with much resistance, stereotype, and prejudice by the movies’ main character, Walt Kowalski. Walt’s world is changing; his wife dies, his Detroit neighborhood is decaying, his relationship with his sons is distant, and his Korean War memories continue to destroy his ability to fully enjoy life. Through

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    Individuals venturing into new transitions could confront obstacles but may also gain significant rewards. Barriers often obstruct the achievement of goals which bring about growth and change within oneself and their surroundings. Billy Elliot is a film set in an English town of Evirngton, England during the 1985 mining strikes. The film depicts a young boy facing the challenge of overcoming traditional gender stereotypes to pursue his love for ballet. Billy faces extreme adversity from his family

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    One of the main things that intrigued me in Gran Torino (Eastwood, 2008) was the culture of the Hmong males. It surprised me was when Sue stated “Hmong girls fit in better here. The girls go to college and the boys go to jail.” (Eastwood, 2008).  I was not aware that there were gangs and high crime rates in the Hmong culture. I am interested to learn about the Hmong way of life and to try to discover why Hmong males are prone to decreased success and gang activity. Another thing that intrigued

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    Violent 1900’s Clint Eastwood, one of the most famous actor and directors of all time born on May 31, 1930. He has been known for a long time in Hollywood and around the world. He has been especially known for “For a few Dollars More” and “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” which are all played by him. Bounty Hunting was one of the roles that was most played by him in all the movies that were either directed by him or was the protagonist himself. All the Clint Eastwood movies show revenge

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    Gran Torino

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    Introduction Gran Torino is a film filled with conflict; there are age related conflicts, cultural conflicts, religious conflicts and value based conflicts. These conflicts continuously erupt in a working class Michigan neighborhood, which is dominated by immigrants. Walt Kowalski, a Polish American, is the main character who is a retired Korean War veteran and Ford automobile assembly line worker who has just lost his wife. He is a very embittered man haunted by memories of his past. Walt lives

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    The opening sequence of Spaghetti Western film, Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968), showcases how director, Sergio Leone, utilises the formal properties of the medium of cinema to produce meaning for the audience and foreshadow later events and themes which arise throughout the development of the plot. The film opens with a single scene of a mysterious, harmonica-playing gunman (Charles Bronson), embroiled in a showdown with three men that have been drafted to kill him (Jack Elam,

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    Gran Torino Sociology

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    Racism is a big 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

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