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    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

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    Blind Side Camera Angles

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    The Blindside is a exceptionally good sports movie that is based on a true story the movie is directed by John Lee Hancock. It is about a poor black teenager whose life takes a brand new direction thanks to the wealthy Tuohy family. The film has lots of good camera angles and settings It also makes really good use of costumes as well. The main story is about Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), he is a really poor black teenager whose life is going no where until his life takes a massive turn for the better

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    The Blind Side Analysis The movie, The Blind Side, directed by John Lee Hancock, is known as a heartwarming film about a privileged white family taking in a black boy from off the streets, named Michael Oher. While The Blind Side is seen as an inspirational movie about Michael Oher rising against social and economic challenges to become a football player, the director centers the story around Leigh Anne, the white woman who took him in. Rather than displaying Michael Oher’s perspective of the

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    In this paper I will be discussing and contrasting the differences between Prairie Style architecture and Hi-tech architecture. We will go over the origin, the years it was used, the main components and characteristics, some of the architects that used these design types, a few real=-world examples, and we will compare them. Prairie School was a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common to the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat

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    and Soul Surfer are both Hollywood movies that are based on actual events that had happened to Michael Oher and Bethany Hamilton during their teenage years. Furthermore, "The Blind Side" is a 2009 American biographical sports film directed by John Lee Hancock and based on the 2006 book "The Blind Side" by Michael Lewis, which describes the true story of Michael Oher, a homeless teenager who was able to overcome great obstacles in order to become a first round draft pick in the NFL. Whereas "Soul Surfer"

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    thoughts gravitate to one place. That scene. Oh my gosh, that scene. And we will talk about that scene more in a moment. What you find with Atomic Blonde, director David Leitch's first credited feature as director (after uncredited work on 2014's John Wick), is an often entertaining, messy, and unnecessarily complicated story featuring Charlize Theron ruling the screen in an impressive, go-for-broke performance, introducing Lorraine Broughton as the centerpiece to a potential new franchise for the

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    Introduction The movie “The Bind Side,” directed by John Lee Hancock is based on the life of Michael Oher, the ___________. The movie follows his life from being a homeless African American boy in the projects going to a primarily white school. Through this he meets the Tuohy family who change his life. They give him shelter and become his family all while improving his talents with football and his education. In the end he chooses to go to the college his new family, the Tuohy’s, have gone to for

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    The Blind Side Sociology

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    The Blind Side The 2009 John Lee Hancock film, The Blind Side, tells the story of Michael Oher and the Tuohy family. The Touhy family took in Michael, who was a homeless African American teenager who had befriended the Tuohy’s young son SJ, after Leigh Anne realized that the boy was homeless. The Touhy’s are very well off family in Memphis and are able to give Michael a better life than he could ever imagine. The Tuohy’s eventually become Michael legal guardians and push him to see his potential

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    Introduction The movie of The Blind Side was a remake from a book called The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, originally released in 2006 by Michael Monroe Lewis. It is an American semi-biographical sports drama film, written and directed by John Lee Hancock in 2009. The original book was more emphasized on two aspects. First is the American football’s importance evolution and another point is about the Michael Jerome Oher’s early years’ story, which is the main charter in the film of The Blind Side

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    “The Blind Side”, written and directed by John Lee Hancock, is about football star Michael Oher. Michael overcomes many obstacles throughout his life, including overcoming poverty with a drug addicted mother. Through the support of many people in his life, Michael can develop the skills needed to complete high school and move on to college. While Michael has always been a creator, he learns through school how to create inner motivation, emotional intelligence, and rely on a strong support system

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