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The Blind Side come across like a movie about how the rich helped the poor. It just so happens that the poor is black people and the rich is white people. However, when looking at the film a little deeper, it exposes a bias idea that strengthens the notion that whites are better than blacks. First, it is made to seem as if the film deconstructs the stereotype of the two races. Mike as the representation of blacks and is made to show that he can ignore the “good for nothing” ghetto traits of youth

Based on a true story, The Blind Side which was released on November, 20th 2009 is arguable one of the top 10 sports movies of all time and is a must see for any sports fan. Directed by John Lee Hancock “The movie stars Michael Oher as “Big Mike” who was born Michael Jerome Williams Jr. on May 28, 1986, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was one of 12 children born to Michael Jerome Williams Sr. and Denise Oher, who provided their children with little to no support. Michael Sr. was frequently in prison,

depending on everything from location, race, beliefs, and economic status. Psychology looks at how individuals come out of these specific environments and how they transform into an adult through the trials and tribulations of their growth. In The Blind Side, director John Lee Hancock focuses on an athletically skilled African-American teen, Michael Oher, who is transformed from a homeless orphan from the projects into a highly sought after college football prospect through a positive change in family

The movie The Blind Side starts off with a women talking about football, all though football is a large part of the movie, it is not the main focus of the movie. The main focus is a young man’s story. This young man is named Michael. Michael grew up in a very bad side of town he struggled through life from day one. His mother was a drug addict, his father left two weeks after he was born, his child hood consisted of foster home after foster home and no one caring enough to help him. Michael struggled

The Blind Side was written and directed by John Lee Hancock, based on the book, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. The movie is about a middle to upper class family that takes in Michael Oher, a teenage african-american, who at the time is homeless, and help him turn his life around to success, specifically leading to his very successful football career. Throughout the movie, the family helps Michael more and more as he starts becoming more and more a part of their family. The director’s apparent

Looking at Sean Jr. from The Blind Side Introduction In this paper, I will be looking at the movie The Blind Side and analyzing the character of Sean Jr., known in the movie also as S.J. I will be looking at S.J.’s development in Sigmund Freud’s latency period and Erik Erikson’s stage of Industry vs. Inferiority. I will discuss the traditional and alternate paradigms that relate to this character in the movie and the risk and protective factors that affect him. At the end of the paper, I will

The Oscar award winning film, “The Blind Side?, directed by John Lee Hancock used the techniques of editing, dialogue and camera work to show an important idea of family. I think the idea was important because it showed that people who like, Michael, have been adopted into a home, can still live a happy life. This idea of family showed that you don’t need to be blood-related or come from th3e same environment to be part of a warm family. Michael Oher was a homeless boy who was adopted into a white

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs has five simple tiers that each human being needs in their life. No one can have one without the other. In the Blind Side this is shown through out the movie. As Michael Oher goes through his life with the help from the Tuohy’s he is given each level of the tiers. The first level Michael must get to reach the next four is psychological needs. This is met when Lee Ann first takes Michael into their home and gives him a place to sleep and food. The next level is safety

Introduction “The Blind Side” is a movie based on a true-life story of how Michael Oher goes through the difficulties in his life before he becomes one of the best defensive players of the NFL football team. Growing up in a broken family; where he had a drug-addicted mother, the father being in the prison and he, himself was always going in and out of the foster homes, as the audience, we all probably have already expected what will happen to this young man. However, his life came to a twist when

The Blind Side is a movie based on a African-American teen named Michael who is a homeless teenager who is constantly in and out of the school system for years. Then Leigh Anne Tuohy and her husband Sean take him, eventually becoming his legal guardians. Michael's size and protective instincts make him an excellent force to be reckoned with and with help from his new family and devoted tutor; he realizes his potential as a student and football player. The scene that I choose to analyze from this