The five films I would

use to teach this

class.
Jeremy F. Davis

8/4/2014

Jeremy Davis
6/14/14
First film choice.
Forest Gump
If I were to chose the movies for this film and culture class the movie Forest Gump
would be one of the movies I would have everyone watch and discuss. I love this move and
believe everyone should have to watch this move or really could use the life lessons taught
in this movie.
Forest Gump came out in the United States on July, 6 1994 it is a romantic, drama
filled with comedy and lots of life lessons and serious life subjects. Forest Gump was based
on a book that came out in 1986 it had the same name and was wrote by Winston Groom.
There were major stars that played in this film including Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary
Sinise and Sally Field.
The story line of this movie is interesting to watch and everyone seems to have their
own opinion of the lessons and meaning of the different events that occur in forests life.
It starts out with forest Gump as a young boy having to wear leg braces. That made
him the center of attention and got him picked on by many of the kids throughout his
school years. When he starts school and gets on the bus for the first time he ends up
meeting the love of his life. She is the only kid on the bus and in his school years that is nice
to him.
Later on he is able to break out of his leg braces and run, he ends up being the best
at many things even though he is very slow and innocently naive. Somehow he is a part of
many historical events during that time frame and touches many lives. He meets 3 different
presidents. He is sent to Vietnam and saves his lieutenant life in the war. Jenny goes
through a self destructing phase where she ends up addicted to drugs. Forest meets up
with her and finds out he is a father to her son, he marries the love of his life and she dies of
Aids. The movie ends with him sending his son off to school on the same bus at the same
spot his mother sent him to school on.

Second Choice
South Park; Bigger, Louder & Uncut
I picked South Park the movie bigger, louder & uncut as my second most important
movie that I would show and discuss in this class because it pushes every bad word &
taboo subject to the limit.
This movie is a perfect example of going the distance. I dont think I have seen any
animated film in theaters this vulgar & rude. The writers that worked together on this film
and the many little shows that came before it are Trey Parke and Matt Stone, reading some
back ground info for this paper I discovered how hard they had to work to keep the film as
it was before it was shown in theaters.
Also in every country this film would come out in there was a huge amount of
underage fans that were caught trying to sneak in to watch this film. That sounds funny
because that is really how the beginning of this movie is stated.
The 3 boys Kenny, Kyle, and Eric go to the movies to watch a film that they are not
old enough to watch so they end up paying for a bum to buy them tickets and sit through
the film (asses of fire) with them. The boys love there favorite Canadian comedy duo
Terrance and Phillip. The boys pick up lots of bad words and phrases from the film Uncle
Fucka, and then they go around and make all the other kids want to see the movie.
The parents are fed up. One mom in particular Kyles mom Sheila she wants to
blame all the issues there kids are having on Terrance and Phillip. She goes out of her way
to get all the parents into this big war, causing satin to arise and rule the earth.
Satin rising from hall is a way of representing the apocalypse. This film goes so far
as to have satin and saddam being lovers.
The reason I feel like this film is worth watching and discussing is just the bold,
crude, and crazy stuff that someone would come up with and actually be able to show the
world legally. It is a perfect example of freedom of speech and in many of the rating factors
the main thing people were having a problem with was the swearing. The vulgar them and
the violence was not a problem. I guess to me that is just strange. Many people thought this
movie was funny and used its bold jokes, and ruthlessness to make it popular, there was
tons of debates and controversy over this and I believe pushing censorship is the most
entertaining thing about the film.
Third Film
Godfather
This movie makes my top 5 films because of the true stories it resembles and
how the mob had had a huge part in our society. Without us even knowing. The godfather
was released in 1972 the story is through the times of 1945-1955 and it was based on a
book The Godfather.
This story is about the mob and the film gives the audience the perspective and
insight into mob life not from the outside looking in but the view of the families and the
gangster life inside the mob.
After this film came out the real life gangsters responses to the film were very
positive. They said as crazy as the movie was that was there life back then and really even
took personal looks at themselves in the film. According to Anthony fiato after seeing the
film, patriarca crime family members Paulie Intiso and Nicky Giso ended up changing the
way they spoke. Intiso would swear and had a habit of using poor grammar, but after
watching the movie he stated to articulate and really think about what he was saying.
Four Film
New Jack City
This movie shows what the city life was like young black teens and adults and how
becoming a PIMP and drug pusher what became every young intercity kids dream this
movie shows the life of a junkie and everyday drug use from pimping them self to the drug
dealer with sex, letting the dealer use the house as a crack house all to get hi, they get real
close to real life in this movie all of the storey told in this movie was from a under cover cop
who was at the top of it all know that he was a cop that could do nothing to help the addicks
with their drug addictions
Film Five
Colors
This movie about how the biggest Mexican gang in LA came fourth this movie about
a white boy growing up in a city of Mexican youth and how they took him in and he became
the leader thought the steps that lead him in and out of prison were he started the gang
named V.L.T this gang is still one of the largest gang in LA today they still run most of the
drug and guns in east LA this movie show how much bigger this Hispanic gang is three time
bigger then the blood and crip in all of californa making this movie a most watch in the
class the history on street gangs are storeys we need to see today