The movie I chose that kind of resembles the theme or story line of Hotel Rwanda is Boyz N the Hood Directed by John Singleton. Boyz N the Hood is a story of a young boy( Tre Styles) who lives with his struggling professional mother, Tre is a troublesome young boy who got into a few rifts at school with a few kids and begins to show signs of trouble. As soon as his mother notices the trouble, she sents him off to his fathers house, Who is a strict, hard headed, and disciplinarian. There while living with his dad, Tre befriends a few boys Ricky the Football player and Doughboy the Drug dealer. Soon when they grow older, they choose different paths... Tre decides to go to College, Ricky wants to pursue the football career and go to school, and Doughboy decides to stick to be a gang-banger,drug dealer, and in-out of Juvie. One day Tre and Ricky are walking until a rival gang chases down both of them, with tragic results. Once Doughboy heres this news, he immediately prepares for revenge and asks Tre to choose whether he chooses his future of becoming something in life and making clean money or takes the path of taking revenge on the rival gang and gain self respect from people in the hood. The movie portrays the life in the "Hood" how boys and men are struggling to escape the violence and drugs, and the poverty life. This is some what similar to the movie because alot of violence and killing was involved between the SAME COLOURED PEOPLE! They were exactly the same people killing eachother for what power? Thats exactly what happens in the "GANG" world they kill eachother for the power and respect or even revenge for a irrevelent reason. I chose this movie because, i have now watched it 4 times and everytime I see it I always have the same reaction... the "WOW" reaction, this movie had portrayed the hood life so well and the argument of why are we killing eachother for power and respect, when you can get that with doing good deeds. It also shows how some men are pressured on their man-hood when it comes to tough and traumatizing situations like this... Alot of songs have been written after this amazing movie.
Monday, 6 May 2013
18. Find a song, poem, or story about any one of the themes from our Hotel Rwanda discussions. (propaganda, lack of education, prejudice, social circles/creation of outsiders, calls to violence, or genocide). Link or post (giving copyright credit where due) and write a post about why your selected that piece and what it says to you. Then read and comment on others posts.
The movie I chose that kind of resembles the theme or story line of Hotel Rwanda is Boyz N the Hood Directed by John Singleton. Boyz N the Hood is a story of a young boy( Tre Styles) who lives with his struggling professional mother, Tre is a troublesome young boy who got into a few rifts at school with a few kids and begins to show signs of trouble. As soon as his mother notices the trouble, she sents him off to his fathers house, Who is a strict, hard headed, and disciplinarian. There while living with his dad, Tre befriends a few boys Ricky the Football player and Doughboy the Drug dealer. Soon when they grow older, they choose different paths... Tre decides to go to College, Ricky wants to pursue the football career and go to school, and Doughboy decides to stick to be a gang-banger,drug dealer, and in-out of Juvie. One day Tre and Ricky are walking until a rival gang chases down both of them, with tragic results. Once Doughboy heres this news, he immediately prepares for revenge and asks Tre to choose whether he chooses his future of becoming something in life and making clean money or takes the path of taking revenge on the rival gang and gain self respect from people in the hood. The movie portrays the life in the "Hood" how boys and men are struggling to escape the violence and drugs, and the poverty life. This is some what similar to the movie because alot of violence and killing was involved between the SAME COLOURED PEOPLE! They were exactly the same people killing eachother for what power? Thats exactly what happens in the "GANG" world they kill eachother for the power and respect or even revenge for a irrevelent reason. I chose this movie because, i have now watched it 4 times and everytime I see it I always have the same reaction... the "WOW" reaction, this movie had portrayed the hood life so well and the argument of why are we killing eachother for power and respect, when you can get that with doing good deeds. It also shows how some men are pressured on their man-hood when it comes to tough and traumatizing situations like this... Alot of songs have been written after this amazing movie.
The movie I chose that kind of resembles the theme or story line of Hotel Rwanda is Boyz N the Hood Directed by John Singleton. Boyz N the Hood is a story of a young boy( Tre Styles) who lives with his struggling professional mother, Tre is a troublesome young boy who got into a few rifts at school with a few kids and begins to show signs of trouble. As soon as his mother notices the trouble, she sents him off to his fathers house, Who is a strict, hard headed, and disciplinarian. There while living with his dad, Tre befriends a few boys Ricky the Football player and Doughboy the Drug dealer. Soon when they grow older, they choose different paths... Tre decides to go to College, Ricky wants to pursue the football career and go to school, and Doughboy decides to stick to be a gang-banger,drug dealer, and in-out of Juvie. One day Tre and Ricky are walking until a rival gang chases down both of them, with tragic results. Once Doughboy heres this news, he immediately prepares for revenge and asks Tre to choose whether he chooses his future of becoming something in life and making clean money or takes the path of taking revenge on the rival gang and gain self respect from people in the hood. The movie portrays the life in the "Hood" how boys and men are struggling to escape the violence and drugs, and the poverty life. This is some what similar to the movie because alot of violence and killing was involved between the SAME COLOURED PEOPLE! They were exactly the same people killing eachother for what power? Thats exactly what happens in the "GANG" world they kill eachother for the power and respect or even revenge for a irrevelent reason. I chose this movie because, i have now watched it 4 times and everytime I see it I always have the same reaction... the "WOW" reaction, this movie had portrayed the hood life so well and the argument of why are we killing eachother for power and respect, when you can get that with doing good deeds. It also shows how some men are pressured on their man-hood when it comes to tough and traumatizing situations like this... Alot of songs have been written after this amazing movie.
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I really like the idea here but you seem to have done more of a summary than an analysis. What motivations are similar in the movie and the situation in Rwanda? Can you find specific connections between the causes of violence?
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