Everyone was created for a reason. "Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter." - Real Michael Oher. In the visual text 'The Blind Side' the director John Lee Hancock presented to us, how Michael Oher was a positive influence on Sean Tuohy, the football team/coach and Leigh Anne. To display this to the viewers, Hancock used the film technique of low-key lighting in the scene where Michael was sauntering solo in the crisp, drenched night, long-shot in the scene where Michael was on the field with his football team/coach and dialogue in the scene where Michael graduates to Ole Miss University. Do you believe a young teenage boy can transform someone to become a better person? Well, start believing! Hancock used these film techniques to reinforce the way Michael was a positive influence on Sean Tuohy, the football team/coach and Leigh Anne and made them exceptional people. …show more content…
Through the use of low-key lighting, long-shot and dialogue, Hancock made me recognize the significance of friends and family by revealing to me the positive influence one young teenager can have on a range of people - in this case Michael is having a positive influence on Sean, his football team/coach and Leigh Anne. Not only did Michael influence these characters in a positive way, but they influenced him as well and changed him for the better. I'm concerned about the fact that our society is not improving instead it is becoming much worse with all the stereotyping that is rumoured. Avoid stereotyping others because you are not going to receive anything from it apart from putting others down. A million people did not believe in Michael at the start, but I am certain they changed their view on him
“You're changing that boy’s life, No, He’s changing mine” through this quote Leigh Ann Tuohy from The Blind Side is conversing with her friends at lunch explaining how Michael Oher is changing her life. The judgment of people before the initial connection is the core of prejudice. In the movie The Blind Side, Michael Oher is a young man who has a had a rough childhood with no stability. His life changes when a night’s stay is offered to get Michael out of the cold, leading to his new-found family and future. Kindness comes in many forms, but the results from the outcomes and the ripples these actions can create life-changing situations and benefit one’s future. From Protecting one’s family to teammates, perseverance of one’s learning, and the depth of caring a man can have for others.
After fulfilling his basic needs, Michael also achieved the safety needs where he had a sense of protection with his newly adopted family and environment that were surrounding him. According to Norwood (2009), living in a safe place and having protection from other is very important for human beings. In home, Anne treated Michael Oher as her own child where she always gives him support such as bought him some new cloths to encourage him to start a new life; she also brought Michael a trunk when he wishes for it. Besides than his adoptive mother, Sean Junior also plays an important role in the changes of Michael’s life. Because of the adoption, both of the boys had become buddies in a matter of seconds. After Michael joined the American football team in school, Sean Junior had became Michael’s personal trainer to brush up Michael’s techniques and physical abilities in football. Collins, daughter of Leign Anne also showed acceptance towards Michael when she ignores her friend’s impression towards Michael and chosen to accompanied Michael when she saw him study alone in the library.
The Blind Side is an entirely different type of movie, while still being a “heart-warming football movie.” This movie focuses on Michael Oher and how he overcame adversity in terms of not only lifestyle, but also educationally and athletically. Michael Oher’s story was almost the opposite of Rudy’s. Oher did not have a place to live, while in high school. His size was to his advantage and he easily learned how to use it as that in terms of football. His friend’s father pleaded with a Catholic school coach to accept both Michael and Steven into their school on
Michael can defeat these challenges by looking ahead at the positive things that will influence his life in the near future.
The Blind Side, directed by John Lee Hancock, is a semi-biographical motion picture sports film that is based off the book, “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game”, written by Michael Lewis. In both the motion picture and the novel, the true story of Michael Oher, a previously homeless African-American boy with a traumatic past turned professional football player is revealed. After having been sent foster home to foster home from a young age, Michael Oher was eventually taken in by the Tuohy’s, a wealthy upper-class white family who helped him overcome and reach his full potential to eventually become a well-educated, professional football player. The Blind Side was credited for amazing performances from Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock, as Leigh Anne Tuohy, and Quinton Aaron as Michael Oher. Through the deliverance of John Lee Hancock’s The Blind Side, numerous questions about the race and class
Introduction The Blind Side is a story based on Michael Oher’s life. Michael is a poor, homeless black teen that struggles academically. The Tuohy family, who are a rich, white family, end up taking him in, and they got him academic help so he could become smarter and continue on playing football. A lot of the Tuohy’s family friends judged the family for taking in a black kid, and when the Tuohy family sent of their Christmas cards, one person told Leigh Anne, “Y’all know there’s a colored boy in your Christmas card?” This shows that racism was alive and well in that lady.
In the movie, The Blind Side, the movie-watcher learns the story of Michael Oher. Michael Oher has had a very difficult life due to his mother’s drug addiction and transition throughout foster care. Michael starts at a Christian school
Michael and his family would be placed under the sociological perspective of symbolic interactionism. In the beginning of the movie, Leigh Anne noticed Michael walking down the road while he was shivering in the cold. After talking to him for a short while, she learned about his situation and opened up her home to him. This interaction is when Michael first felt love and warmth from Leigh Anne. In the movie, Michael's background and family were driven by poverty. His mother was accustomed to drugs and alcohol. He did not know who his biological father was and he was homeless. Michael showed that he was very self aware; he was shy, distant and wasn't as open as other people. He knew that society viewed him differently and began to see himself
Michael’s rotten luck certainly didn't end when he was a kid. When he was a teenager, he became homeless. Again and again, life threw the worst it could at him, but he never let that define him. He always was very sweet and gentle, for example was when he said hello to those girls on the swings. Michael was in a very bad situation, but he never hurt anyone.
He was terrified of messing up, and disappointing his family. He cherished every moment he had with them, and gave them love in return. He took care of Leigh’s kids whenever she needed help. Michael was a good older brother, who had a big
The Blind Side is a movie which shows the main character, Michael Oher, going through many changes in a short amount of time. Oher starts out as a young homeless black man because of his mother’s drug addiction. For many years, Oher went through many foster homes but always found himself sneaking out of the homes. One night, Sean Tuohy and wife Leigh Anne Tuohy see Oher walking in the rain. Mrs. Tuohy demands her husband to stop the card while she talks Oher into staying the night at their house.
Michael grew up from a mother that neglected him because of her drug addiction, and she had no money to put him through school. When Leigh took him in to her home, she said that he is going to school. When Michael got to school, everyone stared at him, and he walked silently with his head down to class. He didn’t know how to read, and the
‘The Blind Side’ is the real life story about Micheal Oher, an Afro-American football player and his struggles from being an abandoned kid growing up in a foster home to a NFL (National Football League) player after being adopted by the family, the Touhys, who were white skinned Americans.
One misconception that people have about Michael Oher because they watched the movie but did not read the book, is that Michael had no experience playing high school football before meeting the Tuohy family. There are many other misconceptions about Michael Oher that people don't know the truth about. The director altered some scenes in the film, so a lot of people don't know all of the facts. The Blind Side is a story about an African-American boy who was living in poverty and had drifted away from the school system until a woman named Leigh Anne Tuohy and her husband, Sean, took him in. The Tuohys eventually became Michael's legal guardians, transforming both his life and theirs. In the film and the book, The Blind Side, there were several similarities between the movie and what happened in reality; However, some of the events in the movie were inaccurate.
The Blind Side" is the genuine story of Michael Oher, homeless teenager who was able to overcome great obstacles with a specific end goal to turn into a first round draft pick in the NFL. Michael Oher had a rough childhood as he didn’t know his father and his mother was addicted to drugs. He was in and out of foster homes and now and again living in the city. The football mentor at Wingate, a non-public school, saw football potential in Michael and got him conceded into the prestigious school. Be that as it may, he had learning inabilities and still did not have a perpetual home. Leigh Anne Tuohy, the mother of a Wingate understudy, Collins, and wife of the proprietor of a few Taco Bell eateries, gets some answers concerning Michael's problem and welcomes him to keep with it at their home. When Michael is in the Tuohy home, a cozy relationship creates in the middle of him and the Tuohys. The one night stay transforms into a lasting living circumstance for Oher. Leigh Anne makes it her own main goal to verify Michael has all that he needs candidly and scholastically to move on from secondary school and to get