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    The Blind Side is based on a true story of Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher. The movie was shot in 2009 and is rated pg-13 for brief violence, drug and sexual references. The movie faithfully represents the real life experience of the famed football star; it did not fail to raise eyebrows from both movie fans and critics. John Lee Hancock wrote and directed a box office hit that will have you crying with laughter and reacting with sorrow to every twist and turn along the way. Bring

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    1 - Explain the potential significance of Shirley Temple to "The Blind Side." The relationship between Michael and SJ was very similar to the idea that a small white child had more authority that a grown black man, that was seen heavily in the Shirley Temple films. This film portrayed Michael as an unintelligent, little wimp in a way, because of how SJ and Leigh Anne were the only people to get him to play to his ability. I read an article after watching the film when it first came out talking about

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    THE BLIND SIDE Movie Review ‘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. What makes ‘The Blind Side’ such a compelling story is the fact that it tells the true life story of a boy with little or no prospects. It is a film about human relationships, the

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    “The Blind Side” is a true story about a young black teen named Michael Oher, who went through things that most teens don’t go through in most movies. His home life was a very rough home life and most of the time he had no mother, she had abandoned him. As the movie goes on it shows how he was accepted into not only a family but a very wealthy family that did numerus things for him. Michael was an extremely good athlete in the movie, he loved sports and football as much as anyone. During high school

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    The Blind Side, directed by John Lee Hancock, is a true story about Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), a African American homeless boy who is taken in by an upper-class white family and faces the challenges of stereotypes in their society. Oher’s story has reached millions through the book The Blind Side: Evolution of the Game, written by Lewis Michael, and its movie adaption The Blind Side. Throughout the movie, you watch Oher face multiple social standards and overcome them. Oher struggles with not

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    and the adult backs away from the youth instead of getting closer to them. Abandonment is a serious issue that everyone should be aware of and how much it can affect people. In the movie The Blind Side there are examples of both abandonment and also adults helping the main character, Big Mike or Michael Oher. The movie starts off with a man named Big Tony going to a private Christian school trying to get his son and Michael enrolled in school. Big Tony mentions to the administration that Michael’s

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    Movie Analysis The Blind Side John Lee Hancock Submitted by: Redeem B. Tamayor BABA-1 A Summary The Blind Side was a 2009 American semi-biographical drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock, and based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. It featured Michael Oher, an offensive linesman who played for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL. Homeless and traumatized, Michael “Big Mike” Oher was absorbed in Wingate Christian School through the

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    The movie The Blind Side came out in 2009, written and directed by John Lee Hancock. This movie is based off a true story that has a lot of great lessons with in its. There are quite a few famous people within the movie starting off with one of the main charters Sandra Bullock, and even the likes of Tim McGraw and Kathy Bates. The movie deals with several different issues including race and parental involvement to point out two. This movie has a great deal of football and family which is why it helped

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    The movie The Blind Side starts off with a women talking about football, all though football is a large part of the movie, it is not the main focus of the movie. The main focus is a young man’s story. This young man is named Michael. Michael grew up in a very bad side of town he struggled through life from day one. His mother was a drug addict, his father left two weeks after he was born, his child hood consisted of foster home after foster home and no one caring enough to help him. Michael struggled

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    The Blind Side was written and directed by John Lee Hancock, based on the book, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. The movie is about a middle to upper class family that takes in Michael Oher, a teenage african-american, who at the time is homeless, and help him turn his life around to success, specifically leading to his very successful football career. Throughout the movie, the family helps Michael more and more as he starts becoming more and more a part of their family. The director’s apparent

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