“Mo Cuishle”
Anxo Cabrero Fandiño Carlos Maceiras Fernández Noa Fresco Polo
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
3
Information about the film
3
Movie poster
4
Movie trailer
5
Individual project Synopsis Characters
6 6 7
Video
11
Conclusion
13
Bibliography
14
1. Introduction In this project we are going to talk about cinema. We chose the film “Million dollar baby” and we have to analyze it, to talk about the director, explain how characters are and analyze the movie poster and the trailer. Also we will give our point of view of the film and we will choose a character to describe it. Finally, we are going to record a short video with a phrase which our teacher chose.
2. Information about the film We are going to talk about the film “Million Dollar Baby”. It is an american drama shot in 2004 by the director Clint Eastwood (born on May 31, 1930), who is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. Also, he played one of the main characters. The other main characters are Maggie Fitzgerald, a female boxer played by Hilary Swank, she is the protagonist of the story; Morgan Freeman who plays Eddie Dupris, an old boxer who is the only friend of Clint Eastwood, who is the boxer’s coach in the film and his name is Frankie Dunn. This film received more than 25 awards.
3. Movie poster
This is the movie poster we chose because it has more information than the rest, but it is not the original. We know this because it is written that the film is the winner of 4 Academy Awards and, if it was the original we couldn’t know that. We can see the principal characters stand in order of importance, that’s it, in the foreground, we can see the girl who is the principal character, then, the coach, who is less important, behind her. In the background it appears the third most important character, the narrator.
At the top of the poster you can read the three real nouns of the principal characters. In the right corner you can see the awards of the film. In the lower left corner there is a catchy phrase to attract people, it is: “Beyond their journey there is a love”. The photo is in black and white to give it drama and the words are in red and white to give importance to some information.
4. Movie trailer At the beginning we can see the coach who is talking with his “God”, about one of his problems, but we don’t know anything about this problem and this intrigues us to know more. Then, the productors appear and The principal song of the film sounds. Then, Maggie tries to train with Frankie but he doesn’t train girls. In the first minute we see that the manager is rejecting Maggie and his attitude is cold with her, while this is happening the main song of the film, which is sad, sounds. But this changes totally in the second part of the trailer, this part starts when they do the pact to train together in the gym, with a handshake with the sack among them, because he decides to train Maggie and they start to win combats, here we can see a sequence of images of their experiences together and the change in their relationship which now is essential for both of them. In the second part Irish music sounds, bagpipes music which is funny. Finally Frankie appears praying principal characters.
and the trailer presents the
5. Individual project a. Synopsis The film is about a girl, Maggie Fitzgerald, who is a waitress with little money, we know this because she must save all the money of her salary to pay the assessments of the gym and she steals some food in the cafe where she works, but with a big dream: she wants to be a good boxer, she perseveres all the film in the idea that she could be a very good boxer. To get her dream comes true she talks with the famous coach Frankie Dunn, who has a gym, to be trained by him, but he doesn’t want to do it because he tells that he doesn’t train girls. She goes everyday to his gym to convince him. The worker of the gym Eddie Dupris, the only friend of Frankie, starts to advice the girl. Then, Frankie accepts to train her, thanks to Eddie. She trains a lot and she becomes a good, famous boxer. They have a very strong relationship. One day, in a very important fight, she receives a big hit and she can’t fight anymore because she stays paralytic. Some time afterwards, she orders her coach to kill her, because she is suffering. The film is narrated by Eddie Dupris in a voice over and we can know the three character’s lives, which
is basic to
understand some parts. The action normally happens in the gym, in the ring and in the hospital.
b. Characters Anxo The protagonist
is a very strong poor girl, a fighter and
dreamer. She always
wears
tracksuits, sport shoes and
long hair. She is blonde with black eyes, strong and tall. I learned that you have to fight for your dreams, never give up and be strong but in your heart, she is important because of her fighting style and
her personality. The boxer is very
believable. It reminds me other boxing movies because most of them, deal with poor people who want to get a title.
Noa I’m going to talk about one of the characters. I have chosen Frankie, the coach, because it reminds me of my coach. He is an old man with white hair and wrinkles but he has a healthy, fit body, and his mind is very clear. This man normally wears comfortable clothes, but when the girl goes to the ring, they both wear a jacket with an Irish phrase. At the beginning he rejects her but at the end he can’t live without her. He is a man who appears like a strong man without feelings, but then we can see another type of person, who can love the girl like his daughter, because he has a daughter whom he writes letters everyday but she returns them. His friend was a boxer who lost one of his eyes in a fight run by him, and he never can overcome this. For this reason he is scared of the fights. I liked the film because it is different. Normally, films have a beautiful end or without problems, but not in this film, and this surprised me. I was anguished when I saw some parts because it reminds me of my coach and me and this made me think about our relationship. I know when the idea of the film touches me if it makes me cry or makes me feel a knot in my throat.
Carlos I chose this film, “Million dollar baby”, because I think that it has a difference between men and women. In the film there is a social problem between men and women.The film has a chronological order with a voice over (Dupris) and it has a dramatic style. The tension in the story is in the part when Maggie received the punch and fell. It has a closed final. The narrator, Dupris, tells us the stories of the characters. I don’t like the characters that make fun of Danger. The film has many soundtracks that are: “Blue Diner” by Kyle Eastwood, “Blue Morgan” by Clint Eastwood, “Boxing Baby” by Kyle Eastwood and “Solferino” by Kyle Eastwood. In the first moment there is machismo to Maggie from the trainer and other boxers because she was a girl and girls don’t play boxing. The character that I am going to talk about is Eddie “ScrapIron” Dupris (Morgan Freeman), in the film he is the narrator
and also he gets that Frankie trains Maggie. I chose this character because for me he is an important character who gives lessons and always tries to help other characters when they are in troubles. He is a calm person, before he was a great boxer but now he is a retired boxer that lives in a gym. This character does not change in a film because he is a man with much experience.
6. Video Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-E5-BxCyPo1Rc7tNnSkxJNNUr7FHpwe/view?usp=sharing They are in the gym. Frankie and Maggie are training. Maggie is very furious and frustrated. Frankie arrives and he sees that Maggie is training badly as if she was crazy. ● Narrator: Maggie is training as if she was crazy. ● Frankie: EH! What are you doing Maggie!? ● Narrator: Maggie always trains very seriously. ● Maggie: Leave me alone boss! ● (Frankie moves closer to her and he stops the bag which is being hit by her). ● Frankie: Tell me what is the problem please. ● Maggie: I can’t. ● (She starts to hit the bag again, but with less force, then she gives a very strong blow and she looks at Frankie) ● Maggie: My mother has died. And now I don't know what I’m going to do.
● (Maggie hits the bag again, she is furious and frustrated) ● Maggie: I need more fights, I want to be the best, it is the only way. If women are afraid, I will fight with men. ● (Maggie sits tired on the floor, Frankie is standing in front of her) ● Narrator: Frankie understands Maggie. ● Frankie: Darling, you aren’t thinking. I’m very surprise with this bad news, but you must remember why you started boxing and why you are a good boxer. I taught you that boxing is about respect. Getting it for yourself, and taking it away from the other guy. Now you can’t lose control. I’m going to be with you always. ● Maggie: Yes… you are right, but I’m going to miss her. ● Frankie: I miss some people too, but I’m alive. We are going to take it easy. ● Maggie: I love you boss. ● (They hug).
7. Conclusion In this project we learned to put on a script writer’s shoes, because we learned that colours and images, which are used to persuade people, are chosen by people who know how to capture public. We discovered new films and new emotions, and now we know that if we pay more attention when we see something we can understand more things. We enjoyed doing the video because we played the role of an actor but it was difficult to write another dialogue for the same film. We liked editing the video.
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