Movie Review - the Blind Side Essay Example
Movie Analysis
The Blind Side
John Lee Hancock
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Redeem B. Tamayor
BABA-1 A
Summary
The Blind Side was a 2009 American semi-biographical drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock, and based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. It featured Michael Oher, an offensive linesman who played for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL. Homeless and traumatized, Michael “Big Mike” Oher was absorbed in Wingate Christian School through the help of his friend’s father who talked to Burt Cotton, the coach of the said school, who was fascinated and impressed by Mike’s size and athleticism. Sullied and underprivileged as he was, most of the students shun him except a boy named Sean Jr. “SJ” who befriended him. On their way home after a late night Thanksgiving school play, Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy, SJ’s parents, spotted Michael walking on the road, shivering in the cold. After learning that he has no place to stay, intends to spend the night outside the school gym, and is one of her daughter’s classmates, Leigh Anne eagerly offered him – wearing shorts and a t-shirt in the dead of winter- to spend the night in their house. Michael has been in foster care with different families throughout Memphis, Tennessee. He was considered a runaway. Well, that’s how the state called him. Asked to spend the holiday with Leigh Anne and her family, he slowly became a part of the family tree. Bashfulness and introversion gradually left the frame of his mind. Leigh Anne’s rich friends wondered what she was doing and much more bothered of the reason why. Apparently, they were protesting against the fact that Leigh Anne sought for being Michael’s legal guardian. As Leigh Anne continued ascertaining more about Michael’s identity, she discovered his pitiable upbringing. She learned that he was separated from his drug-addict mother when he was seven and that no one knew her whereabouts. Rummaging more on his school
The Blind Side
John Lee Hancock
Submitted by:
Redeem B. Tamayor
BABA-1 A
Summary
The Blind Side was a 2009 American semi-biographical drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock, and based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. It featured Michael Oher, an offensive linesman who played for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL. Homeless and traumatized, Michael “Big Mike” Oher was absorbed in Wingate Christian School through the help of his friend’s father who talked to Burt Cotton, the coach of the said school, who was fascinated and impressed by Mike’s size and athleticism. Sullied and underprivileged as he was, most of the students shun him except a boy named Sean Jr. “SJ” who befriended him. On their way home after a late night Thanksgiving school play, Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy, SJ’s parents, spotted Michael walking on the road, shivering in the cold. After learning that he has no place to stay, intends to spend the night outside the school gym, and is one of her daughter’s classmates, Leigh Anne eagerly offered him – wearing shorts and a t-shirt in the dead of winter- to spend the night in their house. Michael has been in foster care with different families throughout Memphis, Tennessee. He was considered a runaway. Well, that’s how the state called him. Asked to spend the holiday with Leigh Anne and her family, he slowly became a part of the family tree. Bashfulness and introversion gradually left the frame of his mind. Leigh Anne’s rich friends wondered what she was doing and much more bothered of the reason why. Apparently, they were protesting against the fact that Leigh Anne sought for being Michael’s legal guardian. As Leigh Anne continued ascertaining more about Michael’s identity, she discovered his pitiable upbringing. She learned that he was separated from his drug-addict mother when he was seven and that no one knew her whereabouts. Rummaging more on his school