Master / Little Narratives

In the movie "Remember the Titans" we see examples of both types of narratives. We see the little narrative in the relationship between Gary and Julius. They hate each other in the beginning of the story and learn to get along and put their differences aside. They become best friends by the end of the movie and set an example for their teammates. We see the master narrative in the relationship between the white and black players as a whole. By the end of the movie the players put their differences aside and come together to win the state championship.  

Stay Strong

I believe that in every movie there is some hidden meaning that we can take and apply to our everyday lives. In the movie "Coach Carter" we see a perfect example of how to stand your ground. In the movie, Coach Carter must overcome multiple obstacles to break through to his troubled players. The school board doesn't even support his decisions and they threaten to terminate his employment if he doesn't change his ways. He refuses to do so because changing his ways would kill the message he was trying to send to his players. The message that we need to take from this movie is that we need to be strong like Coach Carter was and stand up for what we believe is right.

How Families Are Portrayed In Film

In my group we talked about the different ways that families can be portrayed in film. We came to the consensus that family can be portrayed in two ways, one being a "healthy" family and the other being "unhealthy" families. Healthy families have good relationships between all of the members, for example , a child could come to the parents to talk about a problem and feel comfortable doing so. Unhealthy families do not have this, the children either do not have good relationships with their parents or the parents do not have a good relationship with each other making a bad situation for the child. Both of these types of families can be seen in the TV show "Friday Night Lights" it can be seen in this show because the main family is an example of healthy relationships and the "perfect" relationship between parents and their children. Whereas the unhealthy relationships can be seen by almost every other family in the show, whether its an abusive relationship between father and son or an unfaithful marriage, it is seen on this show. In sum, on modern day TV we can see all sorts of examples of family. We see good examples and bad examples of how families should function and we can potentially learn from them and apply things we learn to our everyday lives.

The Believing Game Response

What I got from the "Believing Game" is that it is good to go back and analyze your work. Doing so can help you find your identity as a writer and allow you to shape that identity into whatever you want it to be. Analyzing your past writings will allow you to identify your weak points and knowing your weak points is good because it will allow you to work on them and improve them. In sum, everyone should go back and read a few of their old writings and try to identify things that they would like to change. Changing these things will allow you to form your desired identity as a writer.