hands of superstitious old ladies and promise them eternity’ * After Walt unwillingly saves Thao during the fight with the gang‚ he gradually befriends him and starts to show concern for him‚ ‘I need to man you up a little’ Values * His Gran Torino- Walt is always seen cleaning/polishing/admiring his car ‘That’s right‚ ain’t she pretty’ he says to Daisy while the theme song softly plays in the background * Values privacy/his property –‘get off my lawn’ * Tidiness/maintenance – his
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Film Analysis – Grand Torino To give a bit of an overview‚ the movie “Gran Torino” was directed and produced by Clint Eastwood who also starred in the movie. This movie highlights the modern conditions surrounding many aspects of intercultural communications. Clint Eastwood plays Walt Kowolski whose wife just died and who is a Korean War veteran. He has a difficult time getting along with people do not hold the same views or values that he does. He lives in an era that he doesn’t understand and
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The movie “Gran Torino” involved a lot of ideas from class that we talked about. 1. Respect is displayed in the movie a lot as Walt is a highly respected war vet. 2. Respect is also displayed when Walt changes his views and begins to respect his neighbors. 3. There are several gangs in the movie. These include Asian or Hmong‚ Mexican and Black gangs 4. Where there are gangs‚ there will also be gang violence. This is displayed though when the gang shoots up Teo’s house 5. Another example of
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Netflix rental pattern in the Los Angeles area of the feature film Gran Torino one notices a number of spatial variations in the film’s popularity. There are a number of urban geographical variations that provide an insight into the possible reasons why the film would be more popular in one area as opposed to another area in Los Angeles. While there is not one single reason why one area would be more likely to watch the film Gran Torino‚ there are a number of reasons that different regions of Los Angeles
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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 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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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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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
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In the movies Up and Gran Torino‚ there are many reinforcements and resistments of ageist assumptions. While Up and Gran Torino both exhibit and defend against ageist assumptions‚ they do it in similar and in different ways. Both of these movies are stories about an older man who lost his wife and grow throughout the movie because of their relationship with a young boy. These men are portrayed as grouchy old men who are lost without their spouses. When the young boys come into their lives‚ they learn
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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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