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...Review of Finding Forrester Brandon 12-1-12 The movie Finding Forrester is about a young sixteen year old African American boy named Jamal Wallace, who one night accepts a challenge from his friends to break into the apartment of a man who they refer to as The Window. It is soon revealed to Jamal that The Window is actually the famous author William Forrester and not only that but Forrester agrees to help Jamal with his writing as long as he never takes anything out of Forrester’s apartment and as long as he never asks Forrester about himself or his family and friends. This is great for Jamal because around the same time, due to his test scores and basketball skills he is accepted into one of the top private schools in New York. However, at the new school Jamal has a whole new set of problems; not only does he have to deal with sharing the spot light with the school’s star basketball player, but he also has to put up with a teacher who insults him and questions his writing abilities because his writing just seems to be too good. The movie was directed by Gus Van Sant and it received 7.2 stars. However, unlike most modern movies that receive a lot of stars this movie did not star any really famous Hollywood actors, for example, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, or Adam Sandler and it did not include a lot of special effects. The movie also did not vary its locations that much either; about 75% of the movie took place in the school, Forrester’s apartment, or Jamal’s...
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...The American drama film entitled Finding Forrester is directed by an award winning director Gus Van Sant and is written by Mike Rich. It was released in theaters on December 2000 and it garnered mostly positive feedbacks. The two stars of the film was Sean Connery, who played as William Forrester, and Rob Brown, who played as Jamal Wallace. Sean Connery was also the film’s producer. The film was about William Forrester, a reclusive writer, who wrote “The Great Twentieth Century Novel”. This earned him a Pulitzer prize but after gaining fame he shut his world to the public and settle in an apartment in South Bronx, New York. He was befriended by Jamal Wallace, a talented basketball player and an intelligent sixteen year old teenager. Jamal hides his intelligence in writing from his friends because he fears that they might make fun of him and put him out of place. One night, Jamal sneak into the apartment of William. Out of fear he accidentally left his bag in the apartment. Jamal talked to the delivery man of the apartment and showed his knowledge discussing the history of BMW. The delivery man left and his bag was dropped down from the apartment. He finds that the man read his journals and made notes in them. He asked the man to help him in his works, but he was told to write 5000 words on why he should stay out of his home, which Jamal completes and submit to the man. That’s when he started going to the man’s apartment. A...
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...FINDING FORRESTER TEACHERS’ NOTES Finding Forrester is a film about the inspirational relationship between a street-wise black teenager and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. This study guide is for pupils of GCSE and A level English and Media Studies. The areas of study include starting points for creative writing, writing a critique, what makes great writing, representation and mise en scène. SYNOPSIS He was a vibrant personality who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel four decades ago. And that is the last word heard of William Forrester (Sean Connery). That is until Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), a brash sixteen-year-old with writing aspirations of his own, cracks the veneer of Forrester’s sheltered existence and re-ignites the dreams of this literary legend in the winter of his life. Known as the neighbourhood recluse, silver-haired Forrester is a man whose mystery and eccentricity border on the mythical. When he discovers that Jamal - a talented African-American scholar-athlete who is recruited by an elite Manhattan school for his brilliance on and off the basketball court - has sneaked into his apartment and left his backpack full of writings behind, they both get something unexpected in return. Forced to look past skin colour and suppositions, Jamal encounters not only his first fan, but a mentor who will challenge and change him forever, and Forrester has his first reason in years to emerge from his self-imposed solitude. Visit www.columbiatrlstar.co.uk/forrester...
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...Secondly Jamal’s relationship with Forrester also grew because they were each able to have a voice and were actually able to talk to each other. No one voice would overpower the other voice it was an equal friendship. Though they did still have some tough moments. As I said in my last paragraph Jamal lashed out on Forrester and it ended up helping their friendship and made the movie even more enjoyable. This movie had real emphasis on a new life and starting over. Jamal had to do that exact thing he had to start a new life at a new school. That is difficult for everyone especially when you’re new school is full of white kids and you’re an African American. It was also a new life for Forrester once he got involved with Jamal it really helped...
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...genres don’t have rigid structures that the movies within them must comply with. Children’s-Adventure movies, for example, are usually animated films that have a plot based on some type of journey or adventure that is taken on by the main characters (Dirks, 1). There is almost always some great obstacle or challenge that the main character(s) must overcome, and usually good trumps evil. These films generally contain light humor, and teach some sort of life-lesson, or have a recurrent morale to the story. Methodology I analyzed three movie posters from the Children’s-Adventure genre to explore the similarities and differences movie posters from the same genre may have. The three movie posters I chose to analyze were from the movies Finding Nemo, Up, and Ice Age. My first step in analyzing these posters was to familiarize myself with the genre, so I used the internet to search multiple definitions of Children’s-Adventure films. After I felt that I had a pretty good grasp on what encompasses the genre, I used Google image search to find images of...
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...The movie “Finding Forrester” does a good job of defining what it means to be an outsider. There are many instances in the film where Jamal is shown to be an outsider by both his friends and his classmates and teachers. Jamal Wallace is a bright young black student from the inner city who is afraid to let his friends know that he is smart. He gets by with average grades but excels in basketball at his inner city school. Jamal and his friends pass the time shooting hoops and making fun of the reclusive man watching them through the window of the apartment above the court. One day, Jamal’s friends dare him to break into the man’s apartment. Afraid of not being liked by his friends, Jamal accepts the dare. After being caught by the man, Jamal leaves the apartment, forgetting to take his backpack with him. When he goes back to retrieve the backpack, an unlikely friendship begins to form. The man, William Forrester, soon starts helping Jamal with his writing. Jamal hides this from his friends. The film demonstrates that we often change our behavior in order to try to fit in, even though the behavior might not be a bad thing. Shortly after befriending Forrester, Jamal’s principal invites Jamal’s mother for a meeting at the school, she has no idea what to expect, fearing Jamal may be in some sort of trouble. She is surprised to learn that Jamal’s above average standardized test scores do not reflect his grades in school. When Jamal is offered a full scholarship to a prestigious...
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...on the road to success, there will be bumps and setback standing in our way. Only through perseverance can we conquer those obstacles that stand in our way. Perseverance is defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary to be: “continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition.” No matter ones culture or what factors life has thrown your way, perseverance is always the instinctual force that tells the subconscious to never quit. Perseverance through strength and determination can be seen in our countries early foundation. It was perseverance that led to westward expansion for inexpensive land, and leads in an age of manifest density and shaped our country. My favorite quote of perseverance is from Disney's Finding Nemo. Through perseverance the protagonist tries to get his son home and only succeeds because he continually reaffirms himself to “just keep swimming, just keep swimming”. With no way to avoid a challenge, you must continue and learn from the experience to become successful. Perseverance is fighting to be on top and achieve that goal to be number one. Perseverance is coming back from a torn ACL and MCL from playing football and becoming 2012 defenseman of the year award in lacrosse. This was won by me after a huge setback in the fall of my senior year in high school playing football. This injury happened when I was...
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...Finding Forrester addresses the lives of two people, Jamal Wallace; a brilliant young African-American high school student and basketball player, and William Forrester; an author who became reclusive after the death of his alcoholic brother and also his parents. Forrester is an award winning author who wrote only one book four decades ago before the incident that made him start living a reclusive life. On the other hand, Wallace is a high school student whom after getting high scores on his test and also his brilliance on the court gets noticed by an elite Manhattan prep school; Mailor-Callow who offers him a scholarship to study at their school and also play basketball. Wallace has a bad first encounter with Forrester after a challenge by his friends go wrong and he leaves Forrester’s apartment in a hurry out of fear and ends up forgetting his backpack in the apartment. His backpack is later returned to him and he sees that Forrester had put comments and reviewed his write-ups. Wallace decides to go to Forrester’s apartment to apologize and also to ask Forrester to review his works. Initially, Forrester is reluctant to help out the young writer but changes his mind after he tells Wallace to write an essay of five thousand words on “Why he should stay out of his house” and the latter actually writes it. The two quickly develop a bond which is easy because they both share a love for writing and Wallace associates the role of mentor, role model and friend...
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...Project Veterans Having Trouble Finding Jobs After the Military Mark Everhart Kaplan University Professor Sandra Fontana Veterans who have served this country by going to war are quickly realizing that America is not appreciating the sacrifices made for our service members. Veterans are being passed over for employment for many different reasons. Some of these reasons include Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), lack of job skills for performing civilian jobs, and the inability to cope with the transition from military to civilian life. The unemployment rate for veterans is 6.9 percent (Norman, 2012). The government and the employers need to work together to make the transition out of the military a smoother process. The Department of Veteran Affairs cannot process the applications for the G.I. Bill fast enough to accommodate the veterans. Veterans lack the job skills necessary to perform jobs in the civilian sector after the military. All military veterans should have special training, skill and mind set for the transition from military to civilian life, provided by the government and employers to ensure employability after serving their country regardless of how many years of service one has served. Veterans lack the special training and skills that are necessary to compete with the civilian population. Veterans often have jobs that cannot transfer to the civilian world (Hefling, 2011). For instance if they are an infantryman, they cannot get a job as a mechanic. Even as a Diesel...
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...Velasquez May 23, 2011 Comp & Lit “A window is not only a window but it’s the feeling of what you see and what you hope to see that signifies the beginning of what can become with the chances that come your way”. In the movie “Finding Forrester” there are many chances and times were there are bumpy roads that may take you one way or take a way where there is no change for the better. There are moment‘s were others try to prevent others from their success, but it is the way that it is handle that shows were your true destiny lies and this is what occurs to Jamal it is up to him to make the right decision as to where he belongs. The setting of this young man’s life is in a middle class neighborhood in the Bronx were many don’t live up to what life has to offer. It is a neighborhood where others don’t really expect much from them but Jamal prove the contrary he was a very intelligent, bright, and talented young man who had the abilities that many wouldn’t expect from a neighborhood from which he was raise. His talent lied far beyond the basketball court in lied in the love for writing and reading and he truly captivated many with his capabilities. In the movie “Finding Forrester” the meaning of basketball signified many things to me it signify escape, refuge, two separate worlds were life is different this was a sort of world for Jamal were he could bond with his friends and could have a connection between one another but to me it also...
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...Sports Fans Sports fans are a definitely a different breed of people. When their team or teams are playing their mentality is they better win this game and if they lose its then end of the world and puts a lot of the people in bad moods. This happens on the daily basis. Sports fans thrive for the excitement of the games. The excitement of the games and the atmosphere of the stadium bring them in to a whole different world. The fans that take it the most seriously are definitely soccer, baseball, hockey and football fans the most. The die-hard fans care about every game that is played by their team. Most of the time they will take the hard fought loss as if they are part of the team. People are crazy about sports, they’re die-hard fanatics, which sometimes care more about sports then their actual life. The biggest sports fans would have to be football; they go all out for their team. People plan their day around the game by getting to the field to barbeque and tailgate before the game. Most of the time it will be two to three hours before the game. Even some times people will just get to the stadium to tailgate and be in the atmosphere of everyone else and not go into the game because they don’t have tickets. Football fans are crazy they will throw parties in the parking lot before and after the games. They also have fans that paint their bodies and stand out in the freezing cold when normal people would be bulled up in cloths. Football Fans are crazy but that is just the...
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...Transformation is an amazing thing that could happen to anyone. Finding Forrester is a movie that was released on December 19, 2000. It is a movie about a young, black teenage boy, named Jamal Wallace. Jamal has the tendency to act unintelligent around his basketball buddies so that they will continue to accept him, even though he has outstanding test scores and is an amazing writer. While on the basketball court, the boys talk about the older man that stands in the window watching them, so they gave him the name “The Window” . Rumor has it that “The Window” has killed someone before. One night, Jamal’s friends dare him to sneak into the “The Window’s” house and steal something out of it, proving that he has actually completed the dare. As Jamal was in the apartment,...
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...Trust is a precious thing that many people are not so willing to give freely. In the movie Finding Forrester, William Forrester learns to share his trust with a boy named Jamal when they connect through writing. Forrester is closed off and mean at first, but slowly opens up to Jamal throughout the movie. When he finally lets Jamal in, he starts to teach him how to write and talks to him about his life before Jamal. When Forrester is able to do this, they form a trust and friendship that stays strong even when they are separated. Whether that is by distance, as they go their separate ways or in death, or when Forrester leaves this earth at the end of the movie. Due to the strong sense of trust they have, when Forrester dies he is able to leave...
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...Killa Tay-K Taymor Travon McIntyre better known as Tay-K is a seventeen year old rapper from Arlington, Texas. He burst on to the rap scene with his song “The Race”. Tay-K started his career by posting songs on Soundcloud. His songs got thousands of plays on Soundcloud and his music video posted on Youtube got 76 million views. Tay-K’s songs had violent and vulgar lyrics which reflected choices he made that landed him in jail. Tay-K has violated federal crimes and those crimes are murder and assault. On July 26th, 2016 Tay-k went and did a house invasion and homeowner Ethan Walker dead. Tay-K then found guilty and was arrested for murder and then let out and was put on house arrest. Tay-K had a separate killing in San Antonio, Texas and...
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