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    The movie “Radio” is the tale of a young African-American man who suffers from severe mental retardness and his journey to fame from football in the small South Carolinian town of Anderson. James “Radio” Kennedy is befriended by the T. L. Hanna High School head football coach, Coach Jones, and begins to help as an “assistant coach” of some sort. Eventually, James begins to attend Hanna High as an eleventh grade student due to the persistent efforts of Coach Jones. The movie opens up as James,

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    Radio Movie Review

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    The Movie “Radio” is said to be based on a true story, and although most of the story was true, there were quite a lot of differences between the movie and real life events. There were changes that had to be made simply because of the time period that the movie was set in. There were things that had to be left out or condensed in order to keep the story short enough to make it into a film. There were also events added that did not actually happen but were used to create a more exciting movie. Many

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    Radio Movie Analysis

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    The movie review that I am doing the rationale on is called Radio. Throughout the movie it ranges from many aspects of human characteristics and how characters acted with other characters within the way they spoke or what their actions were in the film. The content of the movie review connected well with the stylistic and aesthetics of the dialogue in the movie. Most of the dialogue was interesting for the audience to interact in a way to express what they feel about each character. I decided to

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    In the movie Radio starring Cuba Gooding Jr. that was made in 2003 which portrays a man that is mentally retarded. This movie is based on a true story about James Robert Kennedy who was known as Radio. He got that nickname because of his liking of collecting and listening to them. The events of the this story take place in the time of 1976. He was often seen pushing or riding a grocery cart down the street. He never talked to anyone but football players at the local high school picked on him because

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    Radio Movie Analysis

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    The movie that I have chosen for this assignment is the movie Radio. The reason why I pick this movie is because it is one on my favorite movies of all time and the main character suffers from a mental disorder. It does not say for what the mental disorder is but I believe it is a form of Autism. Another reason why I picked this movie is because I have had multiple friends that are suffering with Autism and they have the same problems as the character has in the movie. This movie takes place in the

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    many different good and bad examples of characters in this movie. Coach Jones had to be the one that stood out the most, he was the one who took Radio in and made him feel at home and try to educate him. Coach Jones showed most all of the character traits throughout the movie, he showed caring by helping Radio when the football team had locked him in the shed tied up and were throwing footballs at the shed to scare him. When he was taking Radio home one day he met his momma and showed respect by introducing

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    Radio Movie Analysis

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    I watched the movie Radio which is a film set in South Caroline in the late 1970s. The main character is a young man named Radio who has an intellectual disability. He spends his days pushing around a shopping cart full of random things all over town. On his daily trip he passes by a high school football field where the team practices every afternoon. One day a football flies over the fence and near where Radio is standing watching the team and he picks it up and puts it into his cart totally ignoring

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    The film Radio is a true story about James Robert Kennedy who is a mentally disabled man. James is nicknamed Radio because of the fascination that he has with them. Radio’s day consisted of pushing or riding his grocery cart around town and listening to his radio. In the opening of the movie, it shows the abuse that he encountered from society every day. It seems he cannot walk down the street without receiving strange stares from the locals and rude remarks from the football players. This is the

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    Radio Movie Analysis

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    Radio is a film based on a true story of an Anderson, South Carolina native James Robert Kennedy, aka Radio. This film is dramatic and inspiring starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ed Harris. Cuba Gooding Jr. played the character of Radio, a mentally retarded young African American who spends most of his days pushing a shopping cart around on the streets, collecting junk and old radios (Radio 2003 film). Radio is a teenage boy with special education needs. He is fully a grown man but has a child mind.

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    The movie Radio depicted the life of James Robert “Radio” Kennedy’s life. In the opening of the movie, Radio’s daily routine is pushing a shopping cart through town. It is almost as if he is homeless because his cart contains a radio and old random things. The town people of Anderson, South Carolina do not appear to be fond of Radio, this is especially obvious after the football team tied him up and locked him in a storage building. When Coach Jones rescues Radio from the shed, it is the formation

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