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    Gran Torino Movie Themes

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    Gran Torino The movie Gran Torino shows the dangers of gangs and the tension of racism. Both are a fatal are a fatal combination. The two downsides of society Gangs are a rag tag of group involved in crime and illegal activity. Racism is discrimination between two or many cultures or races. No strangers and certainly no Pleasants both from the past and all the way to the present. After a glimpse it’s easy to see the two themes addressed. How it’s been addressed throughout the movie is one can divide

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    Pro-Gran Torino The Hmong community has been left out of history texts‚ movies‚ and almost every aspect of life up until now. The movie‚ Gran Torino has changed the way we look at Hmong people because‚ for the most part‚ people don’t even know who they are or why they are here. Despite all the negative remarks made by people against the movie‚ Gran Torino‚ I will show how the movie was actually a positive influence for the Hmong community. To illustrate this I will first look at how the Hmong

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    Gran Torino Film Review

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    Gran Torino Gran Torino is an American drama film‚ released in 2008 film directed and produced by and also starring Clint Eastwood. Set in Detroit‚ Michigan it was the first mainstream U.S. film to feature Hmong Americans. Gran Torino was a critical and commercial success‚ grossing nearly $270 million worldwide and is also said to be Clint Eastwood’s most successful film‚ but as like many films Gran Torino received both praise and criticism. “Gran Torino” tells the story of Walt Kowalski (Clint

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    Gran Torino Film Review

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    Gran Torino Review Directed by and Starring Clint Eastwood Co-starring Bee Vang 2008 A mint condition vintage 1972 Ford Gran Torino is the symbol of Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood)‚ an old man past his prime‚ frozen in time‚ bitter at everything that has changed around him. Walt is a Korean War Vet left alone in a rundown Detroit neighbourhood full of Hmong (South East Asian) immigrants after his adult children stop visiting him‚ and his wife passes away. Despite initial resentment and race

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    making meaning out of texts. Not only the context of production matters to the making of the meaning‚ the context of reception is also important as everyone has different values and experiences that influences the meanings they derive off texts. Gran Torino is directed at older Americans and Hmong people. The meaning that the target audience of the text will derive will be different to the meaning that‚ for example‚ a teenager from Italy will derive. The main characters in the text are predominantly

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    Gran Torino Film Analysis

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    Gran Torino Film Analysis Norma J Morehead Intercultural/International Communication 10 June 2012 Cultural conflict and popular culture are two experiences in life that assist in defining intercultural communication and how its influence affects our daily intercommunication. Cultural conflict is inevitable as we live out our daily lives in the identities we have selected for ourselves‚ the identities relating to our ethnicity and in those identities others have selected for us. These identities

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    Grand Torino was a film released in December 2008. The film was directed‚ produced‚ and starred by Clint Eastwood. "Nick Schenk’s screenplay wasn’t written specifically for him‚ but after seeing the film it’s impossible to imagine it with anyone else." (Charity) Schenk became acquainted with the history and the culture of the Hmong in the 90’s working in a Minnesota factory. In addition‚ Schenk learned how the Hmong had sided with the South Vietnamese forces and their U.S allies during the Vietnam

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    Gran Torino: Film Review

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    Gliederung: 1. Einführung 2. Kurze Inhaltangabe 3. Charaktere Nebencharaktere Walt Kowalski 4. Background information Detroit City Hmong in Detroit 5. Message of the story 1. present the movie Gran Torino released 2008 Produced‚ directed by and starring Clint Eastwood 2. The movie Gran Torino deals with the story of Walt Kowalski‚ played by producer and director Clint Eastwood. Walt is a crabby‚ lonely and conservative widower‚ who fought on the side of America in the Korean War. Now he

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    Gran Torino: Walt Kowalski

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    As shown in the beginning scenes of one of the older racial cinemas Gran Torino‚ Walt Kowalski‚ the movie’s hero‚ is the most Scrooge‚ Grinch like character you can think of. Walt‚ played by the notorious Clint Eastwood‚ smokes on his porch‚ mows his lawn‚ drinks excessively‚ and cares for his dog. He is an old‚ bitter‚ and grudge-like Korean War veteran with a recently deceased wife. Ironically‚ his old Polish neighborhood is taken over by Hmong people in the middle of the Detroit ghettos. When

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    Gran Torino Movie Themes

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    The film‚ Gran Torino‚ directed by Clint Eastwood is a film about Walt Kowalski played by Clint Eastwood‚ an old racist American man‚ and Thao Vang Lor played by Bee Vang‚ who is a very shy Hmong boy‚ that is being pressured into joining the local gang by the Hmong teenaged boys. Set in the 21st century‚ South Detroit‚ with a large number of Hmong people moving into the neighborhood‚ we see that Walt’s opinion of the Hmong changes‚ as Walt is getting to know the Hmong people‚ and forming a relationship

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