FILM ANALYSIS The Blind Side is a 2009 American semi-biographical drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock. The film took place at Memphis‚ Tennesse and featured Michael Oher‚ an offensive lineman who played for the Baltimore Raven of the NFL. For most of his childhood life‚ 17 year old Oher has been in foster care with different families yet runs away every time he was placed in a new home. His life change when his friend’s father asks Burt Cotton‚ coach of Wingate Christian School
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childhood‚ 17-year-old Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) has been in foster care with different families throughout Memphis‚ Tennessee. Every time he is placed in a new home‚ he runs away. His friend’s father‚ whose couch Mike had been sleeping on‚ asks Burt Cotton (Ray McKinnon)‚ the coach of Wingate Christian school‚ to help enroll his son and Mike. Impressed by Mike’s size and athleticism‚ Cotton gets him admitted despite his abysmal academic record. At his new school‚ Michael is befriended by a boy
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idea in the film would be the change of character after he meets the Tuohy’s Michael meets the Tuohy’s‚after he meets the tuohys and when he plays football.These all display the idea of family. Another important idea in the film would be when he plays football.At the start of Micheal’s football practice‚Micheal was not doing well.In his school records he was found to be outstanding in protective instincts‚ Michael scored in the 98 percentile.Leigh Anne watches him and approaches him.Since Micheal
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The Blind Side: Making All the Right Calls When asked to think of an inspirational drama in recent years‚ one movie comes to mind projecting lives of people that follow their dreams from a under privileged lifestyle to a well known role model. An inspiring movie has to give the audience that unique sense where they themselves have a different outlook on life. That outlook hits them right in the heart where some people leave the movie theaters with tears of joy in their eyes. In John Hancock’s “The
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Michael Wright The Blind Side‚ Movie. November 17‚ 2009 released. Micro Summary: The blind side follows the story of Michael Oher‚ a boy from‚ ‘Hurt Village’ in the lower side of Memphis‚ who lives a life of poverty until he is taken care of and then adopted by the Tuoheys‚ a rich family who own a chain of Taco Bells. They help him improve his grades and develop his NFL skills until he earns a scholarship to Ole Miss University which helps him become a professional NFL player. Belonging in The
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Obviously‚ the movie I am going to write about is The Blind Side (Hancock‚ 2009). There are four psychological issues that I am going to talk about in this paper. They are going to cover the stages that Michael Oher faces in his life all while trying to achieve his dream‚ playing college football. He tries so hard to reach his dream while trying hard to achieve in academics during high school. The four psychological issues that I am going to cover are his abandonment issues‚ racial issue‚ social
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Hancock’s “The Blind Side” explores a diverse range of aspects and notions of belonging through the techniques presented in the text. The characterization of the central character Michael Ohers being a big illiterate black African American teenager coming from a broken home and family sets the context for the rest of the film where he is faced with many barriers restricting his comfort and pushing him towards his total disengagement from the “White” Society. After the Touhy’s accept Michael into their
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The Blind Side An African american teenager named Michael Oher was spotted by Leigh Anne Tuohy wearing nothing but a t-shirt and shorts in the dead of winter. Without hesitation Leigh Tuohy invites him to stay in the Tuohy home for the night. What began as a kind gesture turns into something bigger as Michael becomes part of the family despite their differences. As the family helps Michael to fill his full potential on and off the field‚ the presence of Michael in the Tuohy’s lives leads them to
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‘The Blind Side’ directed by John Lee Hancock is based on a true-life story of Michael Oher or as he is better known‚ “Big Mike”; an African-American teenager who drifts from home to home has very little knowledge of the education system with no stable aspects of his life. Coming from a world of drugs‚ violence and alcohol abuse Mike finds it difficult to transfer into this ‘new world’ while attending Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis. A prestigious white American family‚ the Tuohys‚ take Michael
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confidence‚ and concern from their leaders than do out-group followers.” (Northouse‚ 2016). In‚ The Blind Side‚ the coach relates to players that understand his logic. When a player does something improperly‚ he grabs them and demonstrates what he means. This works with players that follow his sense of logic and are better taught by being shown. This method however doesn’t work with one player‚ Michael. He grabs him while he talks to him and says‚ “If you grab him outside like this or that horse collar
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