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The Great Debater
-Who is the judge?
-The judge is God.
-Why is he God?
-Becau he decides who wins or los, not my opponent.
-Who is your opponent?
-He doesn’t exist.
-Why does he not exit?
-Becau he is merely a disnting voice to the truth I speak.
This movie is adapted from the reality. Melvin Tolson was an American poet, educator, columnist, and politician. He worked as a debate coach in Willey College (a black school), a
nd he led the team to defeat white college in the gregated South. At that time, it was a few years before the civil rights movement, and black people were still gregated from the white. There was someone that had been awaken and fought for their rights. This can foreshadow the civil right movement,
In this movie, Mr. Tolson is a talented teacher in Willey College. In the new mester, he decides to recruit three new members in the debate team. Henry Lowe, he is not a typical good student and is traitorous. He has the courage to question the teacher and puts forward different ideas. He is somewhat like an adult, but a little more impetuous. James Farmer Jr., he is kind of cowardly but he has his own thought. Although when he firstly debated, he was so afraid that he couldn’t speak fluently, he finally helped the team to succeed. Samantha Booke, she was the only female in the team. She was a brilliant girl as well as very brave. She had her explicit goal at the beginning that she wanted to be a lawyer, and finally she succeeded. So Mr. Tolson and his three students defeated many teams and finally defeated Harvard.
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So next I want to talk about some details that I think is very attracting to me in this movie.
1.The Complexity of Human Nature
In this movie, there is another character named James Farmer. He is the father of James Farmer Jr. He was the headmaster of the college, and we could e in the movie that he loved reading and there were many books in his hou. When he first appeared, he murmured “埃及女神Driven by the wind and tosd by the wind.” So from this point, he derved to be called as a gentleman and get the respect from others. However, his son just thought he was somewhat cowardly. And all this becau once he drove his whole family out of the town, they accidently hit a pig. The owner of the big is a white farmer, he asked for 25 dollars as compensation. However, that pig didn’t derve so much money that was almost equivalent to Mr. Farmer’s mensal salary. James Jr. wanted to argue for their benefits, but his father just shouted at him and let him to go back into the car. And then he signed a check for the white, picked up the check that the white threw on the gro
und in order to humiliate him and even helped the farmer lift the pig on the truck. Jr. saw all of the in the car, and he felt very ashamed. So when he cretly went to Mr. Tolson’s asmbly and went back home late, his father asked where he had been, he had an argument with his father and shouted back “Why should I apologize? Like you apologized to that pig farmer?” From this we could e his discontentment of his father. In every boy’s heart, father is the model and like the pillar, father is like a concentration of fortitude, justice, brave and all of the good merits. So we can imagine how disappointed James Jr. was when he saw his father apologize to the fig farmers in a humiliating way and a weak position.
However, the human nature is complex. When Mr. Tolson was arrested, becau in the asmbly, he told the farmers to fight for their rights, Mr. Farmer came to the police office and talked to the police in a firm and tactical way to persuade the police relea Mr. Tolson. What left a deep impression on me was that he said “An unjust law is no law at all.” 肯佩斯He showed his own bravery and mended the relationship with his son. In Jr.’s heart, he was still an admirable father.
So human could be weak, but also could be brave and firm. It depends on what is valued more. When facing with the white who had guns, he need protect his family, so he just bent down. When facing with the police, his own faith is valued more than his safety. So he could negotiate with the police and even threat the police. Although he made different decisions, what he did was to protect the much more important thing in his heart, he always stuck to his rule. So the human nature is complex, becau before we do something, we always need to value a lot more in our heart, and the concerns always lead to different results.
And another character is Henry Lowe. At the begging of the movie, many things happen in different place are mixed together. And the disordered scenes show the three students’ conditions. James Jr. was listening at his father’s speech, Samantha was on the bus to Willey College, while Henry he was in a bar and flited with a woman and finally had a fight with her husband. It is ironic that he fought with that husband in a low bar while Mr. Farmer said ”We must impress upon our young people that there will be difficulties that they face.… Education is the only way out of ignorance into the glorious lig
ht.” Maybe this wants to show a comparison and indicates that how young people like this could realize his responsibility. Actually, Henry was not a good student. He is the kind of person that is lf-conceit and insolent on account of his ability. At first, he went to lection of the debate team becau Mr. Tolson asked him to go. And I think he decided to join the team becau he wanted to draw the attention of Samantha. And I think at first he didn’t have a rious attitude to the debate.
But he had his own faith in his heart. He would feel sad about the black people suffered from abu and wanted to save him. And at last, he took up his responsibility. As Mr. Tolson didn’t go to Harvard with them, he took the role as a captain. Finally, he let James to debate and he just watched as an audience. At that time, he was somewhat like Mr. Tolson, a firm backup, a trusted leader.
So in him, we could e his frivolousness, impetuous, traitorous and we also could find his responsible, firm and brave. So this also shows the complexity of human nature. As the old saying said 内部客户>减肥最有效方法“Never judge a book from its cover”, human nature showed its differences in different pages.
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2.The Law and The Segregation
In this movie, the law has been mentioned for many times. I think this shows a contrast and sarcasm. We can e in the movie, the white people respected the law that had already existed, and they claimed that we should obey it, but the black people respected a fair and equal law becau in the gregated south, there weren’1938年属什么t any real laws.
