Gran Torino | Oppgave

Innholdsfortegnelse
Before Watching the Film
- Setting:
- Title
- Background
- Race/ethnicity

After Watching the Film
- Characters – Static or Dynamic?
- Walt Kowalski
- Thao Lor
- Sue Lor
- Cars
- Masculinity

Utdrag
BEFORE WATCHING THE FILM
What do you know about the actor-producer Clint Eastwood? Look at the film poster, what do you think this film will be about?

Setting:
1)What do you know about Detroit? 2)Click on the link and skim-read the text.

Title
The Ford Torino is a car produced between 1968 and 1976 by the Ford Motor Company in the USA.

The main character in the film, Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood), owns a 1972 model called Gran Torino in mint condition.

He is a retired assembly line worker who used to work for Ford in Detroit.

The car is his prize possession; What do you think this car might signify and symbolize in this American movie?

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* Walt is a grumpy, growling, scowling, cantankerous old man, who is bitter at how the world around has changed.

He is also a racist and obsessed with what it means to be a “real man”. Do you agree with this characterization? Does he at all change in the course of the movie?

Why? He changes a lot aout his racial views. He becomes a lot kidner.

* The Hmong shaman says to Walt:” You have no happiness in your life. It’s like you are not at peace” Is he right?

Is Walt at peace at the end of the movie? In the beging they are right, but It seems like he comes to peace at the end

* Why does he give Thao his medal and his car and why does he sacrifice himself for Thao’s family? Because him and thao becomes friends, and he acts like a father for thao

* Walt does not respect people’s names, calling Thao Toad and Youa Yum Yum. Why? Is this consistent throughout the whole film?

Because of his expirences during the korea war

THAO LOR
* Is Thao a weak, insecure, effeminate, cowardly, nerdy kid who doesn’t dare stand up against his gangbanger cousin? Does he change in the movie? How?