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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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    limit their experience of belonging. Discuss this statement with detailed reference to the prescribed text and ONE text of your own choosing. It is arguable weather an individual’s interaction with others and the world around them either enriches or limits their experience of belonging. In Peter Skrzynechi’s anthology “Immigrant Chronicle” this statement is explored via two of his poems‚ “Migrant Hostel” and “In the Folk Museum”. Clint Eastwood’s 2008 film Gran Torino also demonstrates similar

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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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    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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    [You’re Name] [Course Name] [Professor Name] [Date] Extra Credit Film: The Hmong in America Film: Gran Torino The Hmong cultural group is always targeted as the racial discrimination especially by the white people of the America. The same concept is shown in the film Gran Torino where the white American Walt who is actually an overt racism personality makes fun of the people that are belonging to other race and his main focus is always his neighborhood Hmong family. The family shown in the film that

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    Gran Torino starring Clint Eastwood was about a man’s struggle in adapting to the changes in his environment when confronted by unfamiliar exposure to cultural differences. The film was chosen because it told a story about one’s struggle with traditional practice‚ cultural diversity‚ gender roles‚ and the acceptance of others. In terms of culture‚ there was an abundance of traditional practices related to the Hmong community. The screenplay was written by Nick Schenk and the movie was filmed in

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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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    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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    a broader historical context‚ our attitudes toward belonging adjust. It is through the embracement or rejection of these adjustments to our relationships with the others‚ the world and our own self that our experience of belonging is enriched or limited. Thus a sense of belonging or not belonging can determine our attitudes and values throughout the entire course of our lives. This can be seen within Raimond Gaita’s 1998 memoir ‘Romulus my Father’ and William Wordsworth’s 1978 poem ‘Tintern Abbey’

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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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