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Walt Kowalski's Gran Torino
Context, purpose and audience are interlocked when it comes to 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 older Americans and Hmongs and therefore, by having older Americans and Hmong people as an audience, they will be able to relate to the story. Walt Kowalski is a veteran of the Korean
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