Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Outstanding blog - Wed.

When we were kings -

  • 1996 film ( year I was born ) dir. Leon Gast 
  • Just as the movie Malcolm X this movie involves someone that people honor Muhammad Ali (& George Foreman) 
  • This movie also has James Brown, B.B. King, Spike Lee, Jim Brown, Thomas Hauser and Norman Mailer in it. 
  • Won Academy award for best documentary feature 
  • This movie also had a focus on african americans just as "Malcolm X" ( the movie) did. 
  • The african people enjoyed Muhammad being there in their presence.
The blind side-
  • more recent than the other two movies Im making this blog about, this came out 2009 
  • Is still one of my favorite movies 
  • This also involves a figure that people can look up to though , movie is very motivational 
  • it was based on the book "The Blind Side: Evolution of a game" By Michael Lewis 
  • The dir. & writer was John Lee Hancock 
  • This was about 17 year old Mike being basically just on the street coming from a difficult family and going through it and getting rescued by a nice family who were nice , inspirational, motivational and just as moving as the other two movies 
  • They all seem to also have a theme of like unity , community , appreciation and togetherness.

Malcolm x- 
  • People admire Malcolm for what he has done 
  • Just like the other two movies this movie has someone that is very inspirational 
  • directed by and written by spike lee ( he was also in it) 
  • Just as in the blind side Malcolm was presented with a rough life , and difficult things 
  • after seeing this movie I learned things I never knew about Malcolm X 
  • It also just has that theme of community and togetherness, Malcolm was an activist who brought everybody together. 
  • It touches on how Malcolm got into drugs and etc and How he got over it to become who he was. 

Indiana Jones 
  • Temple of doom (prequel) 1984
  • dir.- Steve spielberg 
  • Harrison ford 
  • Themes- Adventure / entertainment 

We may not have watched The blind side in class but it seemed to relate in a way so this how I did my post . 

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