In order to really learn and understand a person’s character, you need to take the people and occurrences that happened in their life and apply it to how they are.
In my opinion, the scene that reveals the most about Junior’s character is the scene where is father came to his hotel room to give him cuff links that his own father had once given him. I feel this was because I believe it reveals why George W Bush, or Junior, was so adamant on getting approval from the people around him and just being accepted. It’s also said that the people around you and the environment you live in shape who you are. Growing up, Junior never really got the approval he craved from his father. While this incident was the one time his father showed him any sort of approval, Junior still wasn’t satisfied. Instead of his father showing his affection verbally and affectionately, he wrote it in a note, which left Junior feeling a bit disappointed.
His want for approval from his father transcended in his want from approval from the community around him. Junior cared about what the people of the United States thought about him. He so desperately wanted people on his side to see that yes, he can do what’s right for a country and that no, he isn’t this huge disappointment that his father made him out to be. However, once he realized that his reason for going to war wasn’t there, everything just fell apart. At a press conference, he was asked if he felt there was anything he would have done differently. Junior struggles with this answer, stumbling over his words, clearly not knowing exactly how to respond without angering the U.S. even more.
In the end scene, we see Junior again, standing in the empty baseball stadium. There’s no applause, no screaming fans. There is nothing but pure silence. Once again, he’s left disappointed and alone with no approval from anyone.
In my opinion, the scene that reveals the most about Junior’s character is the scene where is father came to his hotel room to give him cuff links that his own father had once given him. I feel this was because I believe it reveals why George W Bush, or Junior, was so adamant on getting approval from the people around him and just being accepted. It’s also said that the people around you and the environment you live in shape who you are. Growing up, Junior never really got the approval he craved from his father. While this incident was the one time his father showed him any sort of approval, Junior still wasn’t satisfied. Instead of his father showing his affection verbally and affectionately, he wrote it in a note, which left Junior feeling a bit disappointed.
His want for approval from his father transcended in his want from approval from the community around him. Junior cared about what the people of the United States thought about him. He so desperately wanted people on his side to see that yes, he can do what’s right for a country and that no, he isn’t this huge disappointment that his father made him out to be. However, once he realized that his reason for going to war wasn’t there, everything just fell apart. At a press conference, he was asked if he felt there was anything he would have done differently. Junior struggles with this answer, stumbling over his words, clearly not knowing exactly how to respond without angering the U.S. even more.
In the end scene, we see Junior again, standing in the empty baseball stadium. There’s no applause, no screaming fans. There is nothing but pure silence. Once again, he’s left disappointed and alone with no approval from anyone.
proof read your blog. There are some very strange sentence constructions in it. the first sentence in the second paragraph is an example. Also, you do no mise en scene analysis at all. You need to look at the dominant in the scene, the lighting, character placement and proxemics, etc.
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