good luck. Being in the right place at the right time or genuinely striving for excellence‚ success is accessable to all. In the movie The Blind Side‚ success is portrayed to be accessible by simply knowing the right people. The Blind Side is a 2009 American semi-biographical drama film. It is written and directed by John Lee Hancock‚ and based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. The storyline features Michael Oher‚ an offensive lineman who plays for the Baltimore Ravens
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SUMMARY Seventeen year old Michael Oher‚ an extremely large‚ physically imposing black youth‚ grew up in Memphis. He is no longer living with his drug addicted mother‚ but is in a foster care when he isn’t running away to sleep wherever else he can find. Out of circumstances including Coach Burt Cotton’s belief that he would be an asset to the school’s football program based solely on his size and seeing him move‚ Michael is accepted into Wingate Christian School - an exclusive private school -
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Questions 1. What was the school that the Toughy’s who family attended to? 2. What were the two choices of Michael’s UC? 3. Why are the Toughy’s family accused of forcefully making him go to Ole Miss? 4. What is the name of the investigator who arrives at the Touhy home from the NCAA? 5. What was the name of Michaels tutor? 6. How much does Ms.Sue charge for tutoring? 7. When Michaels was reviewing colleges‚ what offer did the Touhy give him? 8. Who is Michael discussing
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Week Five Individual Film Critique Neil A. Burgheimer HUM/150 Week Five Individual Film Critique This week for the final film critique I chose to review The Blind Side (2009). In this film Sandra Bullock plays Leigh Anne Tuohy‚ a successful interior designer. Her husband Sean Tuohy played by Tim McGraw is the owner of over 85 fast food franchises including Taco Bell‚ Kentucky Fried Chicken‚ Pizza Hut‚ and Long John Silver’s. In the film Leigh Anne takes a boy named Michael “Big Mike” Oher into
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The Blind Side The Blind Side represents many characteristics of The Key and management leadership. The Law of Attraction is used many times in this movie. One example would be when Leigh Anne Tuohy is told that she is changing Michael’s life and she responds that he is changing hers. This shows that by the Tuohy family helping Michael Oher in return he is giving them benefits back. The Key is the basis of the leadership role the Tuohy’s found themselves in. They showed a genuine care and
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Literary Elements 1 The movie that I chose to write about is the Blind Side. What I think this movie is really about is‚ exactly what I watched. The movie is a true story about a real life event. It was about a white family taking in a homeless black boy that goes to the same school as her children. She feels very sorry for him‚ when she sees him walking in the pouring down rain in shorts and a tee shirt. She wants to help him and give him a better life. At first she has him sleeping
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Peter Shelton Film Case Study of The Blind Side The Blind Side was based on the life of Michael Oher a teenage African American boy whose mother was battling drug and alcohol addictions‚ in the projects of Memphis Tennessee. Mike as he is know in the movie was in foster care several times and always ran away to his Mother‚ thinking that no one could ever love him the way his Mother could‚ even with her ongoing addiction. Mike often slept at his fathers friends home‚ but even he could not give
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The visual text “The Blind Side” has many significant aspects that support the effectiveness of the text. This critical response will focus on the aspect of setting‚ character and costume. It is through these aspects that major theme such as differences in society are highlighted evidence from the text will be used throughout this response. The setting of the film “The Blind side“ is a very effective aspect in helping the audience understand the theme of difference in society. The first example
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with a heart of gold” truly is emphasized by his facial expressions and use of vocabulary. On the other hand‚ Sandra Bullock won an immense amount of awards for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in the beloved film‚ The Blind Side. Sandra really became her character in this particular movie by her reaction to realistic events‚ the ability to make the scenes believable‚ and the intensity she put into her emotions. Both actors have proved to be phenomenal in the acting world‚ but take on two very different
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The Blind side The Blind Side directed by John Lee Hancock was a visual text about a teenage boy named Michael. Based on a true story Michael‚ nicknamed Big Mike has grown up in a poor and broken family and goes to a public school where no one really cares about him. Growing up this way has left Big Mike emotionally deprived and lonely. Thanks to his Friend’s dad Michael gets the opportunity to go to a private school on a scholarship. Suddenly he has teachers that care about him and while his
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