Victim and Creator



Victim and Creator

Movie using Victim & Creator

|Victim and Creator |

|Movie using Victim & Creator |

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|Movie using Victim & Creator |

|Apply the Victim & Creator philosophy to one of the movies listed in this module. Choose ONE protagonist and describe this |

|character's Victim behavior and how he/she transcended obstacles to become a Creator. Often times, there is a pivotal moment in a|

|character's life that allows him/her to rise above the struggle and shed Victim status and become a Creator. I would like for you|

|to recount this moment for me with descriptive prose and supporting examples from the movie. |

|Choose only ONE character from the movie (even if there are several). This character must change in a positive way and experience|

|a positive outcome. Use this chart to take notes during and after the movie. You will be turning in your notes for this |

|assignment. You can bullet point your answers. Your response does not have to be lengthy. Be descriptive, be specific and focus |

|on only ONE character. |

|Victim Behavior |

|Creator Behavior |

|Positive Outcome |

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|Self pity |

|Denial |

|Won't step up to challenge |

|Accept personal responsibility |

|Believe in him/herself |

|Achieve goals |

|Feel good about him/herself |

|Empowered |

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|"Life as a House" 2001 |

|George Monroe (Kevin Kline) is an unhappy architect whose life is unfulfilled. His ex-wife Robin (Kristin Scott Thomas) has |

|married another man and has a family of her own. George's son Sam (Hayden Christensen) hates his parents and just wants to be |

|alone. One day George is fired from his job of 20 years. |

|Understandably, he's not happy about this and he destroys all of the models that he's created. He takes one undamaged one and |

|leaves, only to have health problems and collapse outside. While at the hospital, George is told that he has cancer and is |

|expected to live for another four months or so. George, having a new outlook on life, wants to spend the summer with Sam and |

|fulfill George's dream: to build a house together. Sam has problems of his own, though: he is constantly pressured to be a |

|prostitute by Josh (Ian Somerhalder), he does drugs, he is anti-social, and he is emotionally cut off from just about everybody. |

|Sam, instead of spending the summer with his father, wants to spend the summer with his friend and get wasted. But George is |

|determined to complete his dream and practically forces Sam to go with him. |

|Sam hates spending time with his father, especially since they live in a shack adjacent to their future house. But while there |

|Sam meets neighbor Colleen (Mary Steenburgen) and her daughter Alyssa (Jena Malone), which prompts him to stay. For the next |

|couple of months, George attempts to bond with his estranged son and finally complete his dream house. |

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|"Monsoon Wedding" (2001) |

|This is the story of a 12 year old Maori girl who knows that she is born to the destiny her grandfather believes died with her |

|stillborn twin brother. I won't spoil the ending (which is hinted at early on) with specifics, but suffice it to say that the |

|story's ultimate lesson is that change is sometimes as necessary a component of living traditions as repetitive ceremony. And |

|that the Maori must ride that "whale" as bravely as their mythological ancestor rode the whale from Havaiki (a satellite island |

|of Tahiti, NOT Hawaii) to New Zealand. Not to destroy or denigrate their culture, but to ensure its vitality and continuity in |

|the cultural matrix of the modern world. |

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|A great lesson in true cultural diversity without preachy slogans or "politically correct" censorship. It should be shown in all |

|the world's classrooms. Keisha Castle-Hughes is unforgettable as the heroine, and richly deserves the Oscar for which she has |

|been nominated. |

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|"Crash" - 2004 |

|Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA |

|"Crash" brilliantly shows through intertwining vignettes, that are often blazingly funny in their brutal honesty and |

|fascinatingly gut-wrenching in their melodrama, how subtle racism (often guised in nervous humor) and overt prejudice (often |

|exasperated by sudden irrational violence and an overabundance of readily available firearms) completely permeate our culture and|

|everyday interactions within society. A hyper intelligent script showcases not characters, but brilliant representations of real |

|people, people we know and pass in the street every day, people not unlike us. People who at first seem to be lost causes in the |

|war against racism (witnessed in Matt Dillon's harried beat cop and Sandra Bullock's spoiled District Attorney's wife) can often |

|become the most unlikely solutions to the problem, while people who ride in on their high horse (witnessed in Ryan Phillipe's |

|noble young police officer) can turn against the tide in the blink of an eye. No one is immune to it no matter how hard they try |

|to rise above it (witnessed in Don Cheadle's quietly tragic detective). |

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|In the end, everyone is flawed, the racism is inescapable, and the audience feels a twinge of sympathy for just about everyone. |

|Perhaps that is what Haggis is hinting at to be our answer. Showing empathy and being able to relate even on the most remote |

|level to every human being out there is the first step to that true brotherhood of man. Because the film offers no real solution,|

|the discussion and discourse it creates in the minds of the viewers is the first step in solving society's ills. We can't tackle |

|everything at once, but we can open a dialogue, and hopefully, one person conversing with another will be the first step to our |

|salvation. It takes a bold film to raise such questions, and an even greater one to compel an audience to talk about the |

|potential answers, and that is exactly what "Crash" accomplishes. |

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|"The Stepford Wives" (2004) |

|Joanna (Nicole Kidman) and her husband (Matthew Broderick) move to the beautiful upper-class suburb of Stepford, CT, where she |

|soon starts to suspect something strange and artificial about her all-too-perfect female neighbors. Together, they discover that |

|the husbands have banded together to replace their human wives with cyborg copies who are more subservient, sexually compliant |

|and devoid of any distinguishing character traits. |

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|"Kite Runner" (2007) |

|There is a way to be good again." Based one on of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, THE KITE RUNNER is a profoundly |

|emotional tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love. In a divided country on the verge of war, two |

|childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are |

|bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful |

|act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after 20 years of living in |

|America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and|

|take one last daring chance to set things right.. |

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|Heres the assighnments 1: |

|First, Apply the Victim & Creator philosophy to one of the movie characters from the list of movies in this module. Next, go to |

|the Discussion Forum and post Victim, Creator and Positive Outcome information on this protagonist (main character). Illustrate |

|and describe this character's Victim behavior and how he/she transcended obstacles to become a Creator. |

|You do not need to include several characters. Only choose ONE character |

|Assighnments 2: |

|Apply the Victim & Creator philosophy to one of the movies listed in this module. Choose ONE protagonist main character) and |

|describe this character's Victim behavior and how he/she transcended obstacles to become a Creator. Often times, there is a |

|pivotal moment in a character's life that allows him/her to rise above the struggle and shed Victim status and become a Creator. |

|I would like for you to recount this moment for me with descriptive prose and supporting examples from the movie. |

|Choose only ONE character from the movie (even if there are several). This character must change in a positive way and experience|

|a positive outcome. You can submit your assignment in graph or outline form. You will be turning in your notes for this |

|assignment. You can bullet point your answers. Your response does not have to be lengthy. Be descriptive, be specific and focus |

|on only ONE character. |

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