AUSTRALIAN....

AUSTRALIAN....

From the movie 'Australian' that I had watched, the character that I like the most is Lady Ashley or normally known as Mrs. Boss. This character was played by Nicole Kidman.

Sarah Ashley is a beautiful lady. She travels from the Great Britain to Australia to meet her husband, Maitland Ashley in northern Australia. the husband's drover comes to the city of Darwin to bring Sarah to their farm, however, when they reach Faraway Downs Farm, they find that Maitland was murdered. Sarah befriends Nullah, who tells her that the administrator Neil Fletcher is stealing her cattle, has killed her husband, and is working for the cattle baron, King Carney. Sarah fires Flether and his men and together with Drover, Nullah and a group of loyal employees, they ride together to take the cattle to supply the army and win a tender in times of war. But the ambitious Fletcher has other intentions and uses Nullah to press Sarah.

Sarah Ashley is a very nice character. She is a loving and caring person. She willing to take care of Nullah after his mother dead. Eventhought Nullah is a black kid, which is at that time, there was a discriminant against the skin colour, but Sarah just ignored it because of her sympathy towards Nullah. She does everything to make Nullah happy and always cheer up after his mother dead. She sang a song to Nullah went Nullah ask her eventhought she do not know how to sing. When Nullah and some other boys were send to the Mission Island, she was the most person that worried about that. All this situations clearly showed that Lady Sarah is a loving and caring person.

Beside that, Sarah also a strong lady. Even her husband was murdered, she does not give up easily and she try to fulfill her husband mission which is wanted to bring all the cattles from the Faraway Downs. On their way to send all the cattles, they faced such a big problem. Fletcher and his workers were trying to kill all the cattles but fortunately they manage to safe all the cattles. Besides, one of her loyal worker was killed when trying to gather again all the cattles. But all this problems does not effect her instead she still with her planned; bring all teh cattles out of Faraway Downs.

She also a brave and determinant person. Even she is only a lady, but it is not an excuse to her for not to take the cattles from the Faraway Downs. At first, Drover refused to help her but her willingness to learn and her determinant to take the cattle from the Faraway Downs finally had changed the Drover's perspective and he finally helped Sarah.

Based on the above reasons, I choose Lady Sarah as my favourite character in this wondeful movie...

COACH CARTER...

COACH CARTER

Coach Carter is the movie that was inspired from the real story that happened in the poor area of Richmond, CA. The main character in this movie was played by Samuel L.Jackson as Ken Carter who was the basketball coach of Richmond High School. Rob Brown, Rick Gonzalez, Ashanti and others characters are also the important characters that helped a lot in this interesting movie..

In 1999, Ken Carter, a successfull sporting goods store owner, accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA, where he was a champion athlete. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both. He immediately imposes a strict rule typified in written contracts that include stipulations for respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades as requisites to being allowed to participate. The initial resistance from the boys is soon dispelled as the team under Carter's guidance becomes a undefeated competitor in the game. However, when the overconfident team's behavior begins to stray and Carter learns that too many players are doing poorly in class. He takes immediate action. To the outrage of the team, the school and the community, Carter cancels all the team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement. In the ensuing debate, Carter fights to keep his methods, determined to show the boys that they need to rely on more than sports for their futures and eventually finds he has affected them more profoundly than he ever expected...

This story line of this movie about how a new coach set up a new strategies to trained his basket players to become a successful player in overall aspects; sports, academic performance and also their attitudes. Even his new strategies faced a lot of problems from the parents, the players itself and also the teachers, but he just ignored it and accepted it as a challenges for him. Finally, all the players realise something and they with fully heart followed all the rules that was stated by their Coach. At the end, everyone of them become a succesful player that perform very well in their academic performance.

There are many social issues related to the teenagers that the director try to show up in the movie. The first one is about the attitude towards others. Coach Carter try to build up the trained all the players to respect the others with the such word 'Yes Sir'. Drugs abuse also one of the social issue that happened among the teenagers. Peer pressure is one of the factors that cause this problem. In this movie,one of the player of the Richmond was involved in the drugs abuse and after his cousin dead, only then he realized that there is no point for him to get involve in this problem. Beside that, the diretor also try to focused on the the issue of sex before married. This social issue then related to the other issues such as abortion, money problem and many more.

From my opinion, Coach Carter's movie is the best movie that sholud be watch by everyone. So many moral values and interesting storyline that we can learned from this movie..enjoy yourself!!!

'COACH CARTER'

Director : Thomas Carter

Genre : Biography

Distributor : Paramount Pictures

AboutMyself...

Name : Syazana Bt Zainol..

D.O.B. : 6 February 1991..

Place of Birth : At a small district...Baling,Kedah..but now live happily with my
family at Kg.Padang Kota,Pengkalan Hulu,Perak..

Email add: syaz_damsel1728@yahoo.com

Hobby : Love reading very muchh.. especially novels..

Ambition : actually I want to be a teacher since i was in 'tadika' but sadly i
can't..I choose not to accept the offer because of this scholarship.I
hope that my choice now will give me a better life in future..AMIN!!

Others : I hv 4 siblings and I'm the 2nd one..three girls and only one boy..