... Denzel Washington “I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.” – Denzel Washington. Some may say he is intelligent, while others may say he is courageous. Big words are just insufficient to describe this actor/director/screen-writer/producer. This two-time Oscar winner and nominee of numerous awards, has proven that Hollywood is not just a money making workshop, but it offers well profound characters that deserve the attention of connoisseurs. More importantly, his efforts have done much too dramatically expand the range of dramatic roles given to African-American actors and actresses. In most every aspect of his appearance and activities, Mr. Washington is perfectly decent and very sophisticated; thus, it came as no surprise when he was named Best Actor. Denzel Hayes Washington Jr., Nicknamed “D”, was born around midnight on December 28th 1954 (Capricorn). He was born in Mount Vernon, at the north end of the Bronx in New York City. He was the son of Denzel Washington Sr. (named after the doctor Denzel who delivered him), a Pentecostal minister with the Church of God in Christ who is from Buckingham County VA, and Lennis “Lynne” Washington, a beautician and former gospel singer from Georgia. Other children born to the Washingtons were David Washington and Lorice Washington. He was the brother-in-law...
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...Denzel Washington The person who got my interest in the list that was provided was Denzel Washington. The reason I chose Denzel Washington out of everyone on the list because I’ve always had liken to Denzel, I love the way her act, I love his movies and her has a great personality. He is an interesting individual. Some interesting facts about Denzel are, “Graduated Fordham University with his B.A in 1977” (Britannica biographies paragraph, 2). He made his screen debut in comedy Carbon copy in 1981. He was a very smart and talented man that worked to achieve his goals as an actor. He won an Academy award and only 2 years later he won an Oscar. The movie that made me fall in love with Washington was “American Gangster” I enjoyed his role in that movie. When Denzel was growing up her had to face some tuff things in his family like his parents’ divorce. When his parents had their divorce they sent Washington away to boarding school. After getting sent away that’s when her later went on to be a student at Fordham University. “Washington went to Fordham University, but he proved to be a poor student initially” (Bio.com paragraph, 3). After Washington attended college and didn’t do well he got accepted into “American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco” (bio.com paragraph 3) and later with worked with Shakespeare. Learning more about Denzel didn’t motivate more to succeed only because I already know what I want in life, and I already know what I want to accomplish. Denzel have...
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...Washington, Denzel: (born December 28, 1954, Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.) American actor celebrated for his engaging and powerful performances. Throughout his career he has been regularly praised by critics, and his consistent success at the box office helped to dispel the perception that African American actors could not draw mainstream white audiences. After graduating from Fordham University (B.A., 1977), Washington began to pursue acting as a career and joined the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. After several successful stage performances in California and New York, he made his screen debut in the comedy Carbon Copy (1981). He first began to receive national attention for his work on the television drama St. Elsewhere (1982–88). For the film Cry Freedom (1987), he portrayed South African activist Stephen Biko, and he received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. Two years later he won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his performance as a freed slave fighting in the Union army in the American Civil War film Glory (1989). 93444.jpg Denzel Washington in Malcolm X (1992). David Lee—Warner Bros/The Kobal Collection Washington’s skill as an actor and his popular appeal as a leading man were firmly established in the 1990s. He gave memorable performances in the romantic comedy Mississippi Masala (1991), the Shakespearean comedy Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the courtroom drama Philadelphia (1993), the hard-boiled mystery Devil...
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...levels of emotion are those such as hate, fear, and lust and these are easy to interpret and most people know them. Some higher levels of emotions are ambivalence, angst, and confusion. The third standard category is moral, the ability to infer the values underlying the messages. Moral is concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character. Lastly, the final standard category is aesthetic, which is the ability to enjoy and appreciate from the artistic point of view. Antwone Fisher is an autobiographical drama written by the real life Antwone Fisher. Denzel Washington makes his triumphant directorial debut, and also introducing actor Derek Luke. This film won a few awards including Black Reel Awards, such as best breakthrough performance and best actor won by Derek Luke, and also best director by Denzel Washington. This film is about a young man who is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins. Antwone Fisher is a young man who is serving in the U.S Navy, having a troubled past he has quite a temper and doesn’t know how to socialize very well. His father was killed by an ex-girlfriend before he was born, and his mother...
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...“Glory” & “Paths of Glory” Film History Justice Dominique October 7, 2014 In "Paths of Glory" war is observed in positions of command. This film about an accurate affair in World War I mingles the idea that status differentiations are more significant than nationwide differences with the way soldiers were viewed or treated as dispensable in combat of war, the philosophy that soldiers are simply ragdolls in the paws of generals who put on a production of what war is if it were just a mere game, and meant absolutely nothing. In the whole film, it seems that the only upper class officer who even cared about his men was Col. Dax, who even spoke for the three men that were about to be put to death, for no reason at all. In “Glory” Captain Robert Shaw, 23, was an officer in the Federal Army throughout the American Civil War who came forward to lead the first establishment of colored soldiers. Shaw was compelled to go through with the prejudices of both the rival (who had commands to execute commanding captains of the new colored recruits) and of other officers who were even on the same side as himself (when the blacks were not allowed to fight or even own a pair of shoes), until Shaw, once again, stepped up. To prove his recruits had what it took to fight, Shaw sacrificed the 54th regiment to lead the charge on the impenetrable Battery Wagner, located on Morris Island. The characteristics of war are seen in moth of these films. In “Paths of Glory,” the common enemy...
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...Remember the Titans is a sports film directed by Boaz Yakin starring Denzel Washington and Will Patton. The film takes place in the early 1970’s in Virginia during the time of racial integration in schools. In the movie, T.C. Williams High School is about to begin its first year with both white and black students and the football team has a new head coach who is black. This movie depicts the struggle of football players as their lives completely change with Herman Boone, their new coach. Coach Boone knows that if his team is divided racially that they will fail and not perform well during the season so he forces the teammates to get to know each other at their summer camp and eventually it works. When the players get back to campus, the white...
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...Sports https://hwguiders.com/downloads/soc-318-week-5-final-paper-movies-and-sports SOC 318 Week 5 Final Paper Movies and Sports Our society has historically and still to this day dealt with a multitude of issues that profoundly divide cultures, institutions, organizations and more importantly people. Sports can instantly be placed in this category when matters related to segregation, race and ethnicity are interrelated. I have selected the movie “Remember the Titans” to discuss the impacts of the aforesaid as they pertain to sports throughout this paper. In 2000, Remember the Titans was an American sports drama motion picture centered upon legendary African American football coach Herman Boone who was portrayed by mega-star Denzel Washington. (Wikipedia, 2015 ) This movie was not only one of the best-selling and entertaining movies of its year, but offered audiences a comprehensive representation of communal actions and conducts in the lives of people similar to themselves. I will dissect Remember the Titans via credible arguments (realistic conflict theory), various social approaches (cultural theory) and the fundamentals of racial discrimination (racism).(Coakley, 2014) Realistic conflict theory “is a social psychological model of intergroup conflict.”(Baumeister & Vohs, 2007)“it illustrates how intergroup conflict can arise as a result of conflicting goals and competition over limited resources, and it also offers an explanation for the feelings of prejudice and discrimination...
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...The film opens to a young woman recklessly driving a BMW down a mountain highway. After being hit by two trucks, she dies (this whole ordeal is interspersed throughout the movie). John Quincy Archibald (Denzel Washington) and his wife Denise witness their young son Michael collapse at his baseball game. After a series of tests at the hospital, John is informed by Dr. Raymond Turner (James Woods) and Rebecca Payne (Anne Heche), a hospital administrator, that Michael has an enlarged heart and will need a transplant. However because the company he works for dropped John from full-time to part-time, his health insurance has been changed and the new policy does not cover the surgery, leaving them to raise $250,000 in order to get their son's name on the donor list. The family tries to raise the money but are only able to come up with a third of the necessary payment. Eventually the hospital gets tired of waiting and decides to release Michael, leading Denise to tell John to "do something." Unwilling to let his child die, John walks into the hospital ER with a handgun, gathers hostages, and sets demands: his son's name on the recipient list as soon as possible. The hostage negotiator, Lt. Frank Grimes stands down to let John cool off. Meanwhile, John and the 11 hostages communicate and learn more about each other. They begin to understand John's situation and support him a little as he ensures each of them receive the treatment they came to the emergency room for. One of them, Miriam...
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...good taste in their mouth as they finished the movie. Through years of directing, this may come more easily to Scott, but the untrained eye would have no idea where to start if they were to put together this last scene. Many factors are working together here that need to be broken down to experience the full effects of what is going on. The multiple forms of rhetoric, with addition to other factors such as camera angles, target audience, and word choice, built a scene that can be analyzed from the inside out. The use of rhetoric here is different than how it may be used in a commercial. Instead of persuading someone to purchase a product, the main character Ryder (John Travolta) is persuading the other star of the movie Garber (Denzel Washington) to take his life. This carries much more weight than a normal request or favor, as it has to do with the murder of another human being. The police are coming, Ryder is up against a fence, and there is nowhere for him to go. Instead of going to prison, he convinces Garber...
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...In the movie “Remember the Titans”, Coach Boone, a Southern black head football coach, played by Denzel Washington, delivers an unforgettable speech to his team about the racial tensions in society that are breaking up his team by making them wake up at breaking dawn to go for a run into the woods while attending football camp, The clip starts off where Coach Boone tells them they are going to all follow the rest of the coaches as well as himself through the woods and if they are to get lost, not to go back to camp, to go straight home. After taking them across rivers and tress they come to a stop where Coach Boone asks them “anybody knows what this place is” (Remember the Titans) and then tells them that they are standing where the Battle of Gettysburg was fought. He begins with a brief history of what happened at that time, by stating, “50,000 men died on this field, fighting the same fight we are still fighting amongst ourselves today” (Remember the Titans). He references this battle to them because they are aware of the event and know exactly how it is to live in a segregated state, where race differences is at its highest point and is not only affecting their life but their performance as a team in football, since their team makes up both blacks and whites. He tries to reach out to them by bringing out their heritage and how even though the battle has ended the terrible hatred and fights amongst themselves is still happening. As the Battle of Gettysburg becomes the basis...
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...Decoration by: Clive Thomasson Costume Design by: Beatrix Aruna Pasztor Produced by: Mark Burg and Oren Koules Co-executive producer: Howard Burkons and Dale De La Torre, Executive producer: Michael De Luca, Avram 'Butch' Kaplan, and Richard Saperstein Co-producer: Mathew Hart, James Kearns and Hillary Sherman Throughout my life I have watched numerous movies and only a few of them have really caught my attention. The movie that I have chosen to critique is called John Q. This movie was released in Feburary2002 (IMDB, 1990-2012) and has a little bit of everything in it: drama, suspense, and a lot of emotion. The main actor in this movie is Denzel Washington. In the movie, “written in 1993 during the Clinton health-care-reform battle (Kluger and Bjerklie (2002)” as a nation were struggling with everything, especially health care. Denzel portrays a dad that cannot afford a heart transplant for his son and under all of the stress he snapped. In order to get what he wanted he took all of the people in the emergency room hostage. This movie is filled with emotion and it leaves me thinking, along with others, about what I would do in that situation. Would I let my child die or would I do anything to save him? John Archibald is a struggling father that is trying everything to make his families lives better. He is tired of his family having to struggle in order to live day to day. Despite the financial hardship, they are a loving and happy family. One day it all came to a hault. While...
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...Denzel Washington has a much busier acting career than directorial. Nearly a decade has passed since he directed “The Great Debaters”, and fourteen since his directorial debut “Antwone Fisher”. In “Fences”, a wonderfully acted drama written by the late August Wilson and adapted from his own play, Washington maintains the tradition of taking over the leading role on every film he directs. He not only demonstrates his sturdy guidance with this challenging project but also delivers a great performance as Troy Maxson, an intransigent garbage collector who’s finally enjoying some stability in the aftermath of a complicated past. The film is set in 1950, Pittsburgh, where he owns a good house purchased with the compensation money consigned to his...
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...you do have. Is it fair? Not at all, but looking at this situation from a pro side when it comes to major surgeries you have to the amount of money to get a major procedure, I say this in a way to me that healthcare is important and I think that some individuals should think more about setting aside money to be able to afford things in this case; $15,000 is a lot of money, but there a many options as well to be able to get assistance with funds like that. It’s not a fair situation but the government does make everything about money in this society and even when it comes to healthcare procedures money always plays a factor. One might object to selling organs because of the price range for them. For example, “John Q” the movie with Denzel Washington in order for his son to survive he needed a transplant and John Q could not afford it. He was a hardworking man and money was still a factor. Since he did not have the money for a major surgery his son was put on the bottom of the list and he was already fighting for his life. So another family might object to selling an organ(s) because there are some people that might think that is unfair to charge someone a ridiculous amount for an organ, but the hospitals say that they cannot do a surgery because they need an organ. No one knows people’s financial status, but that should not affect someone able to get an organ. Do I think it should be right to sell organs, no, but from a pros standpoint? I would have...
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...• 1) Discussion forum 1: Challenging the process Please review this clip (approximately 10 minutes) from the film, Remember the Titans. Coach Boone (Denzel Washington), the new head coach of a recently integrated high school football team in Virginia, challenges his team to get to know fellow teammates of another race. Until they do, they will undergo increasingly intensive practices. Coach Boone was determined to use the “ challenge the process” practice to bring about change among his followers. In contrast to Coach Boone, for this post, scour the Internet and find an example of someone who “challenges the process,” but, according to Lencioni/Kouzes and Posner, uses the wrong approach. This can be based on a video, news article, magazine article, etc. Identify what this person is doing wrong and offer advice on how he or she can properly implement this leadership practice. Include a link to the web resource you are referencing in your post. 2) Discussion forum 2: Christians and Culture For this forum, select one (1) of the discussion topics below and respond in the Unit 3: Group Discussion 2 - Christians and Culture forum. a) Why we can’t change the world (?) Considering all you have read this week, thoughtfully interact with Crouch’s proposition in chapter 12, “Why we can’t change the world.” What is Crouch’s position? Do you agree or disagree with his position? Given what you have read so far, would Schmidt disagree with Crouch about the influence of Christianity in...
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...Sports https://hwguiders.com/downloads/soc-318-week-5-final-paper-movies-and-sports SOC 318 Week 5 Final Paper Movies and Sports Our society has historically and still to this day dealt with a multitude of issues that profoundly divide cultures, institutions, organizations and more importantly people. Sports can instantly be placed in this category when matters related to segregation, race and ethnicity are interrelated. I have selected the movie “Remember the Titans” to discuss the impacts of the aforesaid as they pertain to sports throughout this paper. In 2000, Remember the Titans was an American sports drama motion picture centered upon legendary African American football coach Herman Boone who was portrayed by mega-star Denzel Washington. (Wikipedia, 2015 ) This movie was not only one of the best-selling and entertaining movies of its year, but offered audiences a comprehensive representation of communal actions and conducts in the lives of people similar to themselves. I will dissect Remember the Titans via credible arguments (realistic conflict theory), various social approaches (cultural theory) and the fundamentals of racial discrimination (racism).(Coakley, 2014) Realistic conflict theory “is a social psychological model of intergroup conflict.”(Baumeister & Vohs, 2007)“it illustrates how intergroup conflict can arise as a result of conflicting goals and competition over limited resources, and it also offers an explanation for the feelings of prejudice and discrimination...
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