The Great Debaters Vlog

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This link is for our vlog on the film The Great Debaters. Enjoy

Best Films

1. V for Vendetta
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. The Graduate
4. Psycho
5. The Simpsons
6. Cinema Paradiso
7. The Great Debaters
8. Gone With The Wind
9. Ben-Hur
10. Citizen Kane
11. Rumor Has It

My Top All-Time Films

1. V for Vendetta
2. Step Brothers
3. Talledaga Nights
4. Superbad
5. Land of the Lost
6. Watchmen
7. Avatar
8. Forrest Gump
9. Toy Story
10. The Lion King

-Nick Carignan.

Shawshank Redemption

Shawshank Redemption

“9 out of 10”

I don’t know how much more clever of a movie there can be. This movie has everything; It has a guy who didn’t do it, did do it, crooked guards, and a warden hell bent on looking like a good Christian while he embezzles money and accepts bribes.

Tim Robins played Andy Dufresne, which he did amazingly. In some scenes he had such a creepy sad man. He also was very believeable even in his lies. Morgan Free played the kind, wise Red. Red was in jail for killing someone, yet he was the nicest guy in the movie. My favorite scene is the one where Andy approaches the mean guard on the ceiling out of pure manliness and says he can get him 60,000 dollars tax free, so then the gets them all 3 beers each for the rest of the day.

This movie was Independent film so it pretty much told it like it was in a prison; Andy got raped furiously weekly until his favor with the guards drives them to beat the living hell out of the saudamist. Another thing was how crooked a prison can be and how this stuff is really going on. The best part of the movie though was the ending. It made me so happy when that happend that I just got the biggest smile while watching a movie. It was a little weird.

I rated this movie a 9 out of 10 for great acting, an awesome twist, great plot, feel good ending, and just an overall good feeling when i was finished. This would rank as my second favorite movie ever if I had to rank my movies. Please go out and watch this movie if you are old enough to understand bad things. I would recomend this movie for 16 year olds and on. Thank you and I hope you have a nice movie day!!

PHS Paradiso

We recently watched Cinema Paradiso. This is my Cinema Paradiso

This is a friend by our school mascot

An angry teacher

One of the many parking spaces where people like to leave school

I hang out in this courtyard a lot before track practice.

V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

“9.5 out of 10”

“No one escapes their past; no one escapes fate.”  This is an ironic quote and is just one small example of one of the governments ‘faith’ in their government and how in a fascist state how they have one faith, one government, one people, and most of all one idea. The irony is that they believe in whatever higher power is for them, but on the other hand a fascist state tries to downplay religion so you will only believe in the government.

In this movie there are two big roles that of Evee and V. Evee is played by Natalie Portman and V which is played bye Hugo Weaving. They both were very believable in their roles in the movie almost as if it were real life (In a crappy time period in England). The overall plot of the movie was really cool because it reminded me of like a modern day Hitler type thing. Just how in crisis he rose up and eliminates all other competition so he can stay in power. Another thing is his secret police of “Finger Men”

I noticed in this movie there was a lot of oppression. Which made me just think about how some people can be just beaten down and restricted so much that they think what they have is a good life, when all they have is their little hamster cage of a house and their dead end job. Again with the Nazi thing, I feel like Chancellor Sutler slowly took away peoples liberties until they expected nothing from their government and they feel that they as a people have no power.

There were a ton of symbols in this movie that I noticed. The chancellors’ small group of brain washers there was 5 of them which is ironic because he has five men after “V” which is the roman numeral 5. There is also a thing called a iambic pentameter which stresses a specific word every 5 words which Shakespeare used in his plays. I know this is very obvious about how he got his name in the movie because he was in cell number “V”. In the movie when both V and Evee were cleansed away from their fear they had the exact opposite. V was cleansed at the Hospital through fire and Evee was cleansed with the rain. Earlier in the movie she said “My mother told me God is in the rain.”

I gave this movie a strong 9.5 out of 10 because it has strong actors, strong plot, and its message is right on for what things would be like. This is actually my favorite movie and I’m glad I got a chance to review it. Thank you for your time.