Team Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

The primary goal of any surgery is to prevent infections to the patients. It is thus important for medical personnel to ensure the operating room is sterile and clear of any micro-organisms (Couture et al., 14). This paper will briefly discuss principle of aseptic and sterile techniques. The paper relate the practices of these principle with the movie, scrubs season one.

As mentioned earlier, maintaining a sterile environment in the operating room is the main priority for surgeons. This is important because any activities relating to aseptic and aseptic techniques have a direct effect on the success of the surgical team. ...

Introduction

“Invictus” is a film that shows an inspirational story of how Nelson Mandela united his fellow countrymen by using rugby team as a catalyst, subsequent to the end of apartheid. During this time Mandela was serving his term as president and as he campaigned to host the Rugby World Cup in 1995, he used this opportunity to unite divided nation. After the apartheid, the white minority fears vengeance while the black majority seeks revenge. The movie portrays the racial trapping that prevailed in South Africa through the almost all-white rugby team, Mandela’s security and the divided nation to narrate ...

Invictus (2009) film

The film talks about the inspiring life of Nelson Mandela and how he worked in unison with the captain of the rugby team of South Africa to bring the country together. The new president knows that his country is in a state of disintegration because of the discrimination and all forms of apartheid. He believed that he could use sports to unite his people in the Rugby World Cup Championship tournament.

Mandela is released from the dungeons of prisons and his rise to power to become the president of South Africa indicates a form of radical change. Because of apartheid, the ...

Virginia and Successful High School Football Coach

The four stages with which to develop a good team were proposed by Bruce Tuckaman and came to be known as the Tuckman’s stages of group development. They are evident in the Titans high school team in every aspect of making the football team work. These stages may occur cyclically for a team. It happens when a team moves ahead from one stage to the next and is faced with a challenge reverts it back to the previous stage. As teams develop through these stages they become more effective and independent of supervision. The Titans initially had developed past the storming stage ...

Hell’s Kitchen is an American reality tv cooking competition, and it has been running on Fox since 2005. The show became rather popular among the audience and it is oficially extended for a new season.
I decided to watch the first episode of the last 13th season, which was originally aired on September 10, 2014 called "Top 18 Compete" and included all the chefs, who are going to try to win the main award - $250 000 and the possibility to work as a chef in one of the fanciest restaurants in Atlantic City. Gordon Ramsay, a famous British restaurateur, ...

South Africa in the 20th century had many words to describe it but none were flattering. Words like hate, suffering, anguish, separation, ignorance and apartheid. Apartheid is best described as government institutionalized racism and is Afrikaans for apartness. The South African government disfranchised black voters and non-white citizens. An American example that is similar is the Jim Crow laws in the south While there was wide spread racism in South Africa for several years before that, it was made into law in 1948. It took the resolve of Nelson Mandela to guide the country in a new direction.
Nelson ...

INSIDE NORTH KOREA

Introduction
The video ‘Inside North Korea’ is a documentary from VBS TV, and it is precisely what the name suggests. Hosted by Shane Smith, it shows the different aspects of North Korean society as Shane and his team are conducted through a sightseeing bonanza, planned for them by state guides. The video provides a wealth of information on Kim Sung Un’s North Korea, from its cuisine to its subways, the education system to the protégé training program, etc. An added bonus is the festivities in Pyongyang on the 60th birthday of the party.
The video starts with the ...

Introduction

There are several sociological processes that are exhibited in the movie, Remember the Titans. These processes have the aim of exposing the poor relationship that exists between the thought of the humans and the social context provided. The extent and the limits of the social influence which is displayed on the people’s lives in the movie and the social-cultural basics are also displayed. In achieving to put across all this information, several theories have been employed in an intertwining manner. Among the theories that have been employed are the conflict theory and the critical theory (Bankston, 2000). Several ...

Movie review Hoosiers

Based on a true story of the Milan High School basketball team that won the state championships in 1954, the movie Hoosiers is a sports film that recounts the story of achievement in a small town basketball team in Indiana High School. The group of underdogs the ‘Hickory Huskers’, was able to become champion under the leadership of a hardworking basketball coach, Norman Dale. From the movie, significant lessons are learned on the importance of effective leadership and management for the successful coordination of groups, organizations and teams. Although Dale faces resentment from within the team and the town, he is still able ...

INVICTUS (2009)

Introduction

Nelson Mandela unites with the Springboks captain Francois Pienaar in an attempt to unite the South African country a country that due to apartheid is divided across racial and economical aspects. The two presume the roles of the heroes in the movie Invictus in an endeavor that they end up uniting the country through the love of sport. The entire movie has employed Campbell’s concepts and ideas of how a hero comes to being, how he is nurtured, designed and prepared to be termed as a hero in society. As it will be noted in this discussion, the journey ...

Introduction

In his book, Pathway to Bliss, Joseph Campbell talks about the journey that a hero must go through before he or she can be considered to be a true hero. According to Campbell, a hero’s journey is comprised of 12 stages. These stages test the strength, ability and motivation of the hero/heroine and it is only at the final stage that the hero gets rewarded for his struggle and attains ultimate success.

Question 1

In the movie Invictus, the hero is Nelson Mandela. There are several scenes that depict his heroic journey in this movie. Having just been released from, Nelson Mandela faces ...

Part 1

Patrick Lencioni, a renowned leadership and team-building consultant, presents an analysis of how to build effective teams in three videos. These videos are examined as below. In the video Building and Leading a High Performance Team, Lencioni examines the need for a leader in a team. He goes ahead to state the characteristics of a good leader. As discussed in class, Lencioni also points out that the most important character of a leader is to maintain contact with his team. The team can maintain a charismatic relationship with their leader but they should also be free to communicate with ...

The film “Remember the Titans” was released in 2000. It is best known as a Sports Cinema. The main profession of the main characters is associated with the football. Both of the main characters are football coaches. One of the highlighting factor in the movie is the perfect and vibrant professional relationship between the two coaches of football; Herman Boone and Bill Yoast. Their professionalism lies in their initiative to remove the racial discrimination among the team members and establishing a team spirit among them regardless of race. The team spirit is very important for the accomplishment of the team objectives. ...

The movie “Glory Road” elaborates different pertinent aspects in sports management. Essentially, the movie reveals how a rookie coach having a weak team manages to apply sport management principles and finally comes out successful. Moreover, the manager operates in a sports environment characterized by racism and internal wrangles within the team. The manager, Don Haskins masters very well all his managerial responsivities and overcomes cultural and stereotypic notions to beat a very strong opponent. The movie reveals many aspects of sports management such as decision-making, leadership, problem solving, sports culture, and diversity, among others.
While the movies revolve around the ability of underdogs ...

The movies Mr. baseball and Gung Ho are very insightful as far as cultural interaction is concerned. The movies provide a clear and vivid description about the differences between American culture and Japanese culture.mr. Baseball is basically the embodiment of American culture trying to coexist with Japanese culture while gung ho is the mirror opposite in that it is the depiction of Japanese culture trying to inculcate itself into the American culture. Both movies are very important in terms of understanding both American culture and Japanese culture. These movies present the perfect juxtaposition of these two cultures that exist at ...

Abstract

The ‘Prime Suspect’, is an exceptional television series movie analysis, that provides a deeply profound and insightful picture of how a female officer, handles a murder investigation, with a murder squad of male comrades or counterparts on her team.
In this movie, we find that DCI Jane Tennison, is the first available female officer of her rank, who is summoned by the higher authorities of the Metropolitan police force, to take charge of a murder investigation case, due to a crisis, where her superior DCI John Shefford, suffers an immediate cardiac arrest. In this review, we come across the ...

Remember the Titans (2000)

What does this statement mean to you – “Attitude reflects leadership?” Explain your answer!

ANSWER: “Attitude reflects leadership,” in the movie “Remember the Titans” (Yakin), mean that dispositional beliefs, values, and feelings of players was dictated by their leader’s own attitude. In the directive (task) dimension of leadership, a leader helps his team players achieve their goal through one-way communication using motivational speech, for instance. Examples include giving direction, defining goals, attaining a goal, and evaluating an outcome. In the supportive (relationship) dimension of leadership, a leader assists his members by means of two-way communication to feel comfortable among themselves. In the effective dimension of leadership, a leader ...

Background

This is a short clip barely fifteen minutes long and is purposely meant to usher in the audience to the boxing match that is to follow. The film is set on the 2009 Tokyo world boxing competition. The match in the movie is that against an Italian one Andrea Baldini a veteran boxer who has been in the boxing circles for years and currently is ranked number seven by the world boxing governing body. Baldini is up against Benjamin Kleibirink another boxing veteran from Germany currently ranked fourteen by the very body.

The clip begins to play with the scene all ...

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The Express: There’s So Much More than Just a Football Game
The face of American sports would not be what it is today if it weren’t for the huge contributions of many real sports’ heroes. In true American tradition many movies are made to honor these heroes lives and acheivemeents. The Express is a movie based upon the true story of Ernie Davis. The movie depicts Ernie Davis’ extraordinary life as a gifted African-American athlete and a reknown football hero. Ernie Davis was portrayed by Rob Brown in the film. Ernie Davis was the first African-American to win the Heisman ...

Moneyball is a film that highlights the stages through which a football manager took a baseball team from a despised to a respected level. Billy Beane has an ambition of bringing up a baseball team yet finances limit him. Apparently, he cannot afford the minimum amount required to pay a player. This did not hinder him from pursuing his dream even as he sought advice from his friend Peter Brand who also becomes his close associates. They decided to hire players who would not mind playing at a lesser fee. This made his team to be the most despised as it was considered that with less remuneration, ...

In this video, Leonard Mlodinow discussed the incorrect conclusions about events that many people make because of the misunderstanding of randomness. We process information based on our own experience rather than through the use of statistical theory, and we are unaware of the effect uncontrollable events have on our lives. Mlodinow described research studies that have shown people need to feel they have control over events in their lives, even when they consciously know they do not. People’s perceptions are also influenced by expectations. Because you may expect one thing to happen, you may think it does, even ...

‘Startup.com’ is a 2001 documentary film that features Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman. The film documents the rise and fall of GovWorks, an e-commerce website founded by the above mentioned characters. Kaleil and Tom created the website GovWorks just when the internet phenomenon had begun to pick up speed around the globe. The purpose of their creation was to allow the government to carry out business transactions such as filing building permits and payment of parking tickets with its constituents. The business idea aimed at making it easier for constituents to avoid the hassles of interacting with their governments ...

Fencing

Background

This is a short clip barely fifteen minutes long and is purposely meant to usher in the audience to the boxing match that is to follow. The film is set on the 2009 Tokyo world boxing competition. The match in the movie is that against an Italian one Andrea Baldini a veteran boxer who has been in the boxing circles for years and currently is ranked number seven by the world boxing governing body. Baldini is up against Benjamin Kleibirink another boxing veteran from Germany currently ranked fourteen by the very body.

The movie begins platy with the scene all ...

The ‘fast five movie’ commonly known as the Fast and Furious 5 is an American action movie written by Chris Morgan and directed by Justin Lin. The following describes the plot of the movie; with the help of his sister and friends, Dom is rescued from the hands of the authorities. The team is the pursued hotly by Hobbs, who follows them to Rio de Janeiro in South America. Hobbs is caught in between two gangs fighting each other i.e. Dam’s team and Reyes’ team. Although the movie has a lot of action and heavy compact, it presents clear ...

There were a wide range of personalities at play in Armageddon. Harry Stamper, was the primary leader within the story, with AJ the ambitious next generation aspirant, his daughter Grace embodied the strong, supportive and determined woman of the modern era. The various personalities of his crew aptly represented the various excesses of the common man. Rockhound loved women, brilliant yet needing leadership and adventure. Bear was a tremendous physical presence, yet very much a member of the team. Max portrayed the troubled first mate that sought to make good for his children. Dan Truman the NASA leader, led the government forces, yet ...

A short film “Ghost Recon: Alpha” is the background to the game “Ghost Recon: Future Soldier”, released in 2012 (Alaux et al.). The French company, engaged in the video games production, Ubisoft performed the adaptation of the given film. After a bad start of the game Prince of Persia on the big screen, Ubisoft came to a more serious approach to this issue. Ubisoft decided to perform shootings of the acclaimed video game series “Assassin's Sreed” through its own efforts and at its own expense, thereby fully preserving copyright movies. Such a move is quite expected, as this will ...

Essay 1: Auteur

X-Men series of film is an institution in its amazing way. Bryan Singer pioneered this popular comic characters and brought them to the silver screen. It is a very gigantic task to convert the fictional fantasy of an existence of a superhuman into a realistic visual treat. However, highly creative mind of Bryan Singer is capable of this task. The history is the evidence (The Usual Suspects) of the mastery of Bryan Singer in direction and storytelling. The thesis statement of this paper is the powerful auteur of the directorial team of the movie to bring his vision into reality.

Very few ...

Interview One Report

The first interview I conducted was with Joseph Morgan, a young man from my neighborhood who recently cleared high school. He is currently in the process of looking for a suitable college which he will attend during the fall. My interview with Joseph was centered on his general outlook on life and his future dreams and goals.
The first thing I wanted to know from Joseph was the role or impact that both his parents had on his life that now that he had cleared high school and he would soon be an independent man in college. Joseph was very ...

Full Metal Jacket, produced in 1987, is a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, which highlights the experiences of Vietnam War soldiers. The title of the movie depicts the metal jackets worn by foot soldiers. Through the film, the director seeks to showcase Gustav Hasford’s novel (The Short-timers) by following a platoon of U.S marines. New recruits undergo a rigorous training under the command of a drill instructor, Sergeant Hartman, who prepares them for grueling combats ahead. Full Metal Jacket earned rare plaudits from the Academy Award after its nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, and after the American Film Institute put the movie ...

Introduction

On the wake of 20th April 2010, the deepwater oil rig of the coasts of the Venice exploded and caused a huge fire. In what could later be termed as the BP Crisis of 2010, about eleven of the workers who were at the plant at were burnt to death. In addition to the death cases, the explosion led to flow over 4.9 million barrels into the sea for three months. Upon expansion, the spill expanded to cover an area of over 70,000 square miles of the sea surface. The BP crisis has been considered as one of ...

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Introduction. The traditional model of end-of-life (EOL) care is not adjusted to the needs of patients with life-limited conditions other than cancer. By presenting a case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patient, Taylor (2011) develops representation of common patterns of dying in terminal stage lungs disease, and focuses on such patients’ needs to elaborate the optimal care model. This paper discusses the case presented in the video by Taylor & Trotman (2011) summarizing its key points and concepts.
Legal Considerations. ACP made by hospice team together with Martin, under New Zealand’s common law, should be logically followed by ...

The film Aguirre, The wrath of God, is a 1972 German film. It is an adventure art film that was directed by Werner Herzog. The central character in the film is Klaus Kinski. The film gives the tale of a Spanish soldier who guides a team of conquistadores along the Orinoco and Amazon River in South America looking for a mythical city of gold. Through the use of a simple story and conversation, the film builds an image of madness and folly, counterpointed by the luxuriant but harsh Amazon jungle.
The film brings out a number of themes that depict the main issues affecting ...

This movie revolves around a murder case where one Fredrick Manion is charged with a first degree murder. He confesses and agrees he committed the crime but he defends himself claiming he did so because he had suffered from mental break down because the victim had raped his wife. His lawyer Paul Brigler who comes from upper peninsula in Michigan likes to spend his time fishing, playing piano, and hanging out with his friends who over drinks. His lawyer is also a former attorney who lost his bid for re-election. The lawyer one day received a call from the wife of the United ...

Movies have become better sources of information today. Many learning institutions teach history with movies being the aid materials. Movies provide a clear understanding of a particular concept being derived. They provide real historical events of a given society. Movies capture attention. They are a symbolic representation of the real events in the society. A movie review provides brief-detailed information about a film. The review then illustrates the relevance of that particular movie. This work focuses on a movie about the U.S history. The movie is titled “Lincoln.” The historical events illustrated in this movie are also outlined.
There ...

Both Fargo and Mr. Robot have been discussed in the media spotlight as two television shows being ground-breaking, not only for their storytelling and scriptwriting, but due to the sophisticated cinematography and sound that they incorporate. These elements add a dramatic flair to the shows, which infuses them with meaningful depth. In order to emphasize the importance of these characteristics, the current paper explores the cinematography and sound design present in both Fargo and Mr. Robot.
Considering the plot of the show, it is worth stating that the protagonist of it is a young technical engineer, responsible for cyber ...

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San Andreas: A Movie Q & A

Q1: Dr. Lawrence Hayes replied to his student that California supposed to get an earthquake every 150 years (San Andreas 00:11:07).

Q2: The Caltech seismologists are measuring the magnetic pulse rate at the Hoover Dam in Nevada, which may predict earthquakes (00:12:28).

Q3: The first measured magnitude of the earthquake at Hoover Dam was 2.2, which quickly developed into a major earthquake measuring 7.1 (00:16:10).
Q4: The geographic feature that Dr. Hayes of Caltech used to connect Nevada to California, and which he called “natural deformation” was the leading edge of the marked “plate boundary fault” (of the Garlock Fault) (00:27:30).
Q5: Seismologist Dr. Hayes of Caltech instructed the female reporter to hide under ...

Roger Spottiswoode’s film And the Band Played On, based on the book of the same name by Randy Shilts, is a tremendous drama that touches on many distinct issues that were present at the time of the discovery of the AIDS virus, as well as the curious resistance medical and disease experts experienced from affected populations, the government and even other medical professionals. Chiefly following a team of researchers at the CDC, led by Don Francis (Matthew Modine) and William Darrow (Richard Masur), the film follows the attempts of this organization and others to track the spread of the disease, ...

SYNOPSIS OF THE MOVIE

In the late 1960s and the beginning of 1970s, Steve Prefontaine was a distinctive and unique personality. He was an athlete who revolutionized his running career and managed to bring his sport in the headlines. The movie majorly focuses on Prefontaine aggressive personality and his constant refusal to pace himself. The only way Prefontaine was interested in winning was by “flat-out leading” in the whole race. He was undefeated in the US and acquired all of the American records between 2000-10000 meters. At the Munich Olympics, he ran one of the most memorable races. Prefontaine was greatly favoured to attain ...

Fixing the Law System In the U.S. Activists can do
Fixing the Law System In the U.S. Activists can do
There are three videos concerning fixing and reforming the legal system in the United States that I want to discuss and analyze in this paper. They all depict people who care a lot about what is happening and who have a lot of ideas and proposals of solving the actual problems. These people are Philip K. Howard, Jeffrey Brenner and Marc Micozzi.
The first video is the speech of the founder of the Common Good, Philip K. Howard, ...

Drag racing refers to a form of motor racing where automobiles and motorcycles prepared for the task, two at a time, to cross the finish line first. The race uses a short and straight strip from start, over a measured distance. The most frequently used distance includes the quarter mile range of Nitro methane powered vehicles. The competitors use electronic timing and speed sensing systems to record race results. The origin of drag racing could have started on the dry lake bed. Racers congregated since the early 1930s and raced at speeds of up to 100 mph.
In the early 1940s, the ...

"42" Jackie Robinson

Brief overview of the film's storyline
“42” is a biographical American sports film released in 2013. It was directed by Brian Helgeland and it dwells on the racial integration in the professional baseball teams of America. The film captures the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season and tells the story of Jackie Robinson, a baseball player who wore jersey number 42 (giving the film its ultimate name). The major character in the film under the guidance of the team executive became the first African American to break the color barrier that existed in the American baseball teams. The film records the battle ...

Invincible

Invincible is a reflection of a true story of Vince Papale who is a 30-year-old part-time bartender and a substitute teacher who signed to play for the Philadelphia eagles when they were in a poor run of form in the 1976. Papale is a better player than most of his neighborhood players. Whenever Papale participates in the matches in a dirty lot that he and his friends consider their field, the team always win but the rest of Papale’s and his buddies lives is a dilapidated. Papale experiences a life characterized with hardships and relationship disappointments and at the age of 30, he realizes that he has ...

The general is driven by desire to serve as seen where he bombs the northern territory of Germany. The general allows every member of the group to air their grievances. Breakage in the communication channel is observed between the generals and the senator during the decision making process. General Frank Savage has a duty of serving his country, members of his unit and the interest of the mightier people in the society such as the senator. The different groups have different opinions on how the war should be conducted. The general faces the problem of providing a negotiation platform with the ...

For André Bazin, the famous film critic and theorist from France, cinemas were a realist medium. This is why majority of film theorists would perhaps argue that that if he got a look at the computer-animated film WALL·E (2008) by Disney/Pixar, he would turn over in his grave. His theories revolved around the notion that there is always a mummy complex underlying the origin of any form of art, including cinema. Bazin’s notion suggests that art struggles to immortalize the mortal, to preserve the physical existence on screen. According to Bazin, the medium that eliminates most of the distance between ...

No other American film auteur in the modern era has had a greater impact on the industry than Steven Spielberg. The man who created E.T. and Jurassic Park has personalized the art of filmic storytelling to a greater extent than any other director. In fact, it could be argued that Spielberg has so popularized the auteurist tradition that directors who have been inspired by the Indiana Jones movies and Poltergeist believe putting their personal stamp on a movie represents the height of the director’s art, the norm rather than the exception. Contributions from the great European directors of Francois Truffaut’s ...

Movie Reviews

This 2011 sports drama follows real-life coach Billy Beane (an entertaining Brad Pitt) who decides to take a different approach to assembling sports teams; unlike the old-school approach that divines players through straight play history, personality and likability, Beane consults Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) to come up with a new way to find good players - sabermetrics. The sabermetrics approach applied in the film is a way to objectively assess sports players and their records in baseball; with this, the only factors that matter are baseball statistics that analyze activity within baseball games. Instead of factoring in the subjective elements that many ...

Business

Organizational Structure
For the CEO position, I choose “Gordon Gekko” from the movie “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”. This is because Gekko possesses the qualities of an organizational leader who can make everyone in the organization move with with just a snap of the finger. In the movie, Gordon was able to get the attention of the people after imprisonment by writing a book. Even though Winnie did not accept Gekko, Gordon never stops to please Winnie with the help of Jacob. However, there is an instance where Gecko needs to cheat Jacob because Gordon wanted get the money which ...

The movie We Are Marshall features the events culminating the ill fated Southern Airways Flight 932 that crashed after clipping trees just a mile off the run away as the West Virginia’s Marshall University football team was returning from an away match. 75 people lost their lives including 37 players and all of the coaching staff on board.
The community in Huntington West Virginia is devastated by this loss. It struggles between accepting the events leading to this accidents and putting things behind them. Being a very closely knit community they are in a position to decide on whether to ...

The basic premise behind Director Judd Apatow’s comedy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, is obvious from its title: its main character, Andy (Steve Carell), is still a virgin and his friends at work want to help him remedy that “problem” by attempting various schemes to help him lose his virginity. As with other comedies, Andy experiences many pitfalls, embarrassing moments, and humiliating situations before finally marrying an understanding woman, Trish (Catherine Keener), and having his first sexual encounter with her.
A good comedy is difficult to make, but because the directing and acting in the movie is superb, The 40-Year-Old ...

Introduction

In 1998, Steven Spielberg directed a World War 2 film showing the events that happened during the Normandy invasion. The film was called “saving Private Ryan” and was based in Normandy and some parts of France. Screen play for the film was done by Rodat Robert with main actors being Tom Hanks as Captain John Miller, Tom Sizemore as Mike Hovarth, Barry Pepper as Daniel Jackson, Adam Goldberg as Stanley ‘Fish’ Mellish, Vin Diesel as Adrian Carpazo, Giovanni Ribisi as Irwin Wade, Jeremy Davis as Timothy Upham, and Matt Damon as Private James Rayan. The movie was produced to depict a ...