Day 12 Assignments

[Laura Hyler]

Laura Hyler’s Seabiscut Analysis 4/16/22

What I learned from this lesson is that the exercise gave me a better understanding of profound moments, and how the character’s actions can lead to insights in character behavior and choices.

Seabiscut Profound Moments-Action Leads to Insights

1) When Johnny (Red) is handed over to Charles to have him train as a jockey. To me, it was very profound because of the sacrifice on behalf of the parents (but later, almost seems as though they didn’t care-but who knows their story?) and the absolute horror for a young child to have your parents essentially give you up. The action of Johnny (Red’s) parents gives you an insight on how he became who he is.

2) When Charles loses his own son. Contrast this with Red’s parents giving him up. One set of parents lose a child, the other set of parents willingly give a child up. I believe this qualifies for a living metaphor. This event and his subsequent divorce could have been the undoing of many people, but Charles perseveres. In this regard, Charles has something in common with Red and Seabiscut, and is part of their bond.

3) The square toy that Charles’ son first plays with, then Charles. This gadget serves as a metaphor- possibly three or so metaphors. One, it may act as a metaphor for loss, which transforms to a metaphor for hope and not quitting. Lastly, as a metaphor for the father son-relationship and letting go. For this reason, I think the script took a wrong turn when Charles’ new wife mentions that she also plays with the gadget. To me, this object really was about Charles’ relationship with the son he lost, his new “son,” letting go, and hope. This may not be an action that leads to insights, but I think it is and interesting motif.

4) When red tells Charles that Seabiscut and Charles saved him. This is significant to me because they did develop a father/son type of relationship, and it is the first time that Red is able to articulate his appreciation of Charles.

5) When Red was fighting some guys, and the horse was fighting the trainers. The scene shows that they are kindred spirits. They understand each other.

6) When Tom Smith tells Charles that “You know, you don’t throw a whole life away just ’cause he’s banged up a little.” And then later, when Tom Smith is infuriated with Red for not disclosing that he is blind in one eye, and recommends that Charles fires Red, Charles repeats back Tom’s own words to him.

7) When both the horse and Red are injured and in casts. Once again, we see the parallels between the horse and rider. Their casts/injuries are a living metaphor of just how much these two are of one spirit, and their response to adversity in their actions. This enabled them to race again.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by  Laura Hyler.

[Edward Brown]

Edward Brown assigment 1 Sea Biscuit

I learned how action speaks louder than words, that having long goal journey keeps story in focus, sports like Queens Gambit show this, also impressed by gradient of stronger reclaiming of not killing severly injured horse to again winner

Side note: real untold story is book was written by cast off writer who could not fous to write on her own long book narrative. She researched and perservered.

short hand notes:

Adaptive: Spokes to own bike shop

Adaptive Fix steamer and improve > car biz witch is growing bigger than bikes

Vision Big: Buy large farm > bold dreams of possibilities

Reclaim talent overlooked: Warren sees horse mender > hires him gets advice heart counts more

Adaptive and care mate restores :Woman sees broken man charms him into restored life marriage

Recognize spunk: Adaptive Horse and jockey both alike and joined both reclaimed

Adaptive: Secret bell training

Don’t scape out lives: Loses race by nose because can’t see and not fired or scrapped out

Little horse symbol of little guy that beaten folks and audience relates: Big vs little horse vs rich establishment vs little guy

Promote and build fans when things go bad: Open in field and crowds swarm in

When down, don’t give up: Red heals Biscuit and wins from way behind

[Sherwen Moore]

Assignment 12 part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is to look for profound moments. Some may suggest that profound can be subjective, but if you find them, they must have the potential to be of major influence in thought or action from the thought.

Sherwen Moore- some profound thoughts from the movie, Seabiscuit

1. Red as a child was having dinner with his family. His father was reciting poetry from Dickenson. He paused for Red to finish a line…’We never know how high we are until we are called to rise…’

That was profound for me because of two quick thoughts; 1) Many are called, few are chosen. and 2) Sometimes, you don’t know just how great you are until it is time to show it.

2. Tom, the trainer was talking about Seabiscuit: “…you want something that is not afraid to compete.”

That was profound to me because a lot of people unknowingly play not to lose or they are intimidated by competition. Part of winning is not being afraid to compete.

3. Tom the trainer was talking about the greatness in Seabiscuit: “It’s not in his feet, it’s here…(patting his heart).

That was profound to me because you can have great talent or you can be very gifted, or practiced 12 hours a day but when everything is on the line and there’s no ‘heart’, there’s no victory. Also, what makes it so important is that you can’t measure how much heart is in the talent (that includes horses).

4. Charles was starting out his business as a bike dealer and later a car dealer in San Francisco: “I wouldn’t spend $5 on the best horse in America.”

That was profound because he later invested a lot of money in Seabiscuit. Maybe he was thinking cars were the new Iron Horse. But using a profound line to support this one: Ain’t nothing like the real thing…”

5. A guy describes Tom as different (weird). After watching him nursing a horse, Charles visits Tom at an undisclosed location. Charles asked him why he was working to rehab an injured horse.

Tom replied, “Because I can…you don’t throw away a horse just because he’s bang up”…and to that point toward the end, when Red and Seabiscuit were injured, Red said they would rehab, ‘Brick by Brick’.

That was profound to me because it is extremely hard to make a comeback from a serious injury. If you have the knowledge to do it and understand healing, that is remarkable.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by  Sherwen Moore.

[Laura Hyler]

Laura Hyler’s Turns Insights into Actions Assignment 12 (2)

What I learned from this assignment is that it helps to consider the actions of the character in response to their new ways. It is really only through this action that we can see the change in the character.

1) New Way and Insight:

Naomi learns not to be manipulated by Greg. She sees how he used to manipulate her in the past.

Action:

She refuses to continue a discussion that she believes is unreasonable. She cuts Greg off.

2) New Way and Insight:

Naomi is faced with doing something for her company that she doesn’t want to do. She gains insight from Jeanine’s reaction. She realizes this is something she should do for the good of the charity.

Action:

She learns how to be a good sport about it anyway and participates in the auction.

3) New Way and Insight:

Naomi works through her fear of relationships. She starts to see that she has something in common with Kofi.

Action:

Naomi goes out on a date in spite of her reticence.

4) New Way and Insight:

Naomi starts to stand up for herself. Her sister cannot affect her choices by being manipulative.

Action:

Naomi makes the best decision for herself.

5) New Way and Insight:

Naomi is not interested in other’s opinions.

Action:

She is no longer willing to allow others to force their opinions on her and speaks up. The consequences of other’s opinions do not influence her.

6) New Way and Insight

Naomi sees firsthand that we are NOT living in a post racial America.

Action: Naomi is no longer willing to remain silent about things that matter.

[Brenda Riolo]

Brenda’s Seabiscuit Analysis – Assignment 1

What I learned doing this assignment is profound moments in a movie seem to come from:

– when a line is said by a character that reflects something that happened to that character, and we as a audience can understand what the character feels;

– when we see something in the scene that reflects what’s going between two characters that can’t be explained in so many words but only in action;

– when the scene shows us something that is opposite that happened to a character in previous scenes to provide the contrast between an old and new way of being;

– when we see a character being challenged to look at their old way of behavior and to judge whether that old behavior makes sense for their new reality;

– when a character is forced to confront their old way and to give up the old way since it is hold them back.

Profound Moments in SEABISCUIT

1. “you don’t throw a whole life away just because you’re banged up a little” – This line was said by Tom Smith when he first met Charles Howard. Tom was talking about a horse he had who he saved from being shot. This was a profound moment in the movie for me because the line could have been said about both men in the scene. They’ve both been banged up a little and were down and out at this point in their life.

2. When Red Pollard first met Seabiscuit and said “I know, I know what you’re all about”. This moment was profound to me because I felt like Red saw the same things in Seabiscuit that he saw or knew about himself. Both the horse and man had become bitter and angry by their experiences in life.

3. When Charles Howard tells Red Pollard to eat and says “I’d rather have you strong than thin.” We had seen in earlier scenes that Red had to keep his weight at 115 pounds and that to keep at this weight, he would make himself throw up before being weighed at races. The look in Red’s eyes was shock. The people in his life had only cared that he weighed a certain weight, and not about anything else. This was a profound moment for me because it was such a contrast to an earlier scene with Red when his parents abandoned him in an earlier scene, and he felt like no one cared about him except as a jockey rider.

4. When Charles Howard asks Red “What are you so mad at”, and we get a flashback scene of the anger Red had for his parents and he wanted to throw the books his parents gave them over the bridge. We didn’t see this part in in the scenes in the movie, but it was obvious that his parents never called him. This was a profound for me because we got to see in that scene the flavor for the backstory of Red’s life, and how anger had ruled his life and most likely accounted for some of the bad luck in his life. But we also saw Red remember what his father told him, that he had a gift for racing horses.

5. “You don’t throw a whole life away just because it’s banged up a little bit” – This line from Charles Howard came after Tom the trainer found out Red was blind. The line is an echo back to when Tom and Charles first met, and Tom said to Charles the same line about his white horse. Charles Howard took a chance on Tom and hired him as his trainer even though he’d been banged up a little bit by life. This was a profound moment for me because we see in Tom’s expression that he realized that he needed to give Red the same chance that Charles had given to him.

6. When Charles Howard is talking about Red riding in the race with Marcela his wife, and said “he could die”. This is profound moment for me because we can see that Charles has come to look at Red as his own son and is afraid Red could die like his son. Marcela convinces him to let Red ride Seabiscuit. We see Charles struggle with his fear and face his old ways which makes this scene very profound.

[Brenda Riolo]

Brenda Turns Insights into Action – Assignment 2

What I learned doing this assignment is action is a great way to deliver insights into a movie.

New Ways and the Actions that will Express Them

1. The New Way – The Child talks to the Mother character in a way that is more respectful and kind. For example, the Mother would make a suggestion to the Child and the Child would answer the mother with a sarcastic comment in her old way. When the Mother suggests something to the Child, the new action would be the Child would say “Good idea” or “Thank you.”

2. The New Way – The Child is more open to being friends with the other children in the hospital. In the opening scenes we the Child in the recreation area with the other children and keeping to herself, and not being very friendly when other children spoke to her which is her old way. In the New Way Action, we now see the Child trying to be more friendly with the other children and when she sees a new kid in the recreation room she will welcome her to the group.

3. The New Way – Instead of waking up and dreading the day, we will see the child wake up with a smile and seem very excited to start the day. In her old way, the Child is depressed in the opening scene and is sullen and angry which is her old way. Throughout the movie, we will see the child’s attitude about waking up changing.

4. The New Way – The child doesn’t have a fit anymore when she doesn’t get her way. We see that whenever the child doesn’t get her way, she has a tantrum. We will see the child experiencing setbacks and her attitude towards them will change to where she doesn’t throw a tantrum, and will instead brainstorm ideas on how to solve the problem.

5. The New Way – after the Treasure Hunt, the child tells the mother that she wants to create a new treasure hunt for the children in the hospital so they could have fun. In her old way, the Child couldn’t wait to get out of the hospital. Her New way will show the child wanting to stay in the hospital and bringing the same kind of joy she experienced from the Treasure hunt to other children.

[Sherri Coffee]

Sherri D. Coffee – Seabiscuit Analysis

What I learned doing this assignment was to demonstrate the insight of the transformation through action.

1. Action: Abandonment is evident in death of son; gives Red away; and loss of sight. Each man experiences abandonment and loss. Backdrop of the Great Depression also represents loss.

Insight: Bad things can happen, but the response and intentions will define your destiny.

2. Action: Horse runs fast and loses control just like the trainer.

Insight: Expression of anger in grief is part of the healing journey.

3. Action: Loses a few races and the stakes grow bigger.

Insight: Do not ever give up.

4. Action: Trainer is hurt. Horse is hurt. Both appear to accept fate.

Insight: Love can health. “Maybe it’s better to break a man’s let than his heart”.

5. Action: Seabiscuit becomes the symbol of the recovery from Depression; healing of the 3 men; and the restoration of hope across the country.

Insight: Believe. Have faith and hope for a better day.

[Sherri Coffee]

Sherri D. Coffee – Turns Insights into Action

What I learned doing this assignment is to brainstorm actions that would demonstrate new ways.

1. Action: Kathryn attends a morning boot camp and finally is able to complete. Before, she never is able to finish the runs.

Insights: Persistence pays off.

2. Action: Kathryn plays doubles tennis with a group and analyzes the game to win.

Insights: Strategic thinking pays off.

3. Action: Kathryn researches the politicians on the committee who voted no on the legislation. She uncovers some facts that are key to her success.

Insights: Information is powerful.

4. Action: Another lobbyist tests Kathryn to break the rules, just this once. She walks away.

Insights: Maintain self-respect and do the right thing.

5. Action: Kathryn’s research reveals a funding pattern. She attends a fundraiser and is able to read the room to gain information.

Insights: Understand the other person’s motivation and perspective. Put yourself in another’s shoes.

[Sherwen Moore]

Sherwen Moore Assignment 12a

What I learned from this assignment is the self-examination of my insights: did it match the actions that I tried to deliver.

Insight/New Ways: When freedom ain’t free, what’s next? Mark wants to be free to enforce the law on whoever breaks the law.

Action: On the way to lunch Mark receives an anonymous call (but he kind of knows who it might be) about a rape happening. It is close to their eatery so they stop to check it out. It is a small art gallery. Tom goes around the back. Mark walks in and hears faint sounds. He follows the sounds. He accidentally catches an alderman in the act of raping a young underage teenager in the back of the gallery. Mark reads him his rights and handcuffs him. Tom tells him, they have to let him go. This politician is well connected and the girl ditched school. Tom tells Mark, “It’s complicated.”

Insight/New Ways: Tables are tuned on both sides.

Action: After holding Mark hostage, Al escapes but learns that Mark is being set up for the ‘fall’. Al decides to help Mark clear his name and get rid of his new reputation as a corrupt cop.

Insight/New Ways: Mean Streets are not that mean. Mark gives 3 young teens a chance to stay free of arrests despite Tom’s request to arrest them.

Action: This was not a traffic stop, but because Tom was angry at Tyrone, he wanted stop any black kid walking the streets. He decided to pull over three teens and let Mark to do the dirty work. Mark had found a small quantity of marijuana in one of the youth’s pocket. He put it back in his pocket and told the young people “…be careful and be safe.” One teen said, “thank you sir.”

Insight/New Ways: Teaching innovative techniques. Al has an A☻ha moment.

Action: Al has a mental exercise that he feels will invigorate the young people. The students are analyzing some brain teasers. In the process of that, the students share some teasing strategies of their own taking the class to a whole new level.

Insight/New Ways: How do you keep a secret in a big city/small world?

Action: Mark’s mother (Penny) learns that her caterer’s son was shot by the police while having dinner. She was appalled to say the least. The police will not release the name of the policeman involved in the shooting. Mark normally tells his mother everything about the job, but this time he thought different, at least until he clears his name.

[Leanne Lucas]

Leanne’s Insights and New Ways

1. Insight/New Ways – Groups with opposing views can work together despite their differences. Action/When the Mayflower lands at Plymouth, there is dissension among the passengers. The ‘Strangers’ want to separate from the ‘Saints’ because they don’t share similar views. When Elder Brewster is told by Stephen Hopkins “we don’t believe in your bible or your god,” Brewster pulls a knife from Hopkins’ belt and puts it to the throat of William Bradford. Then he asks, “Do you know the person who forged this knife?” “No.” “What will happen if I thrust it through Master Bradford’s throat?” “He will die.” “So you trust the creation even though you don’t know the creator.” “I know from experience what it can do.” “And I know from experience what the principles in the Bible can do. They work every time they are used – whether you know the creator of them or not.” The Mayflower Compact is the end result.

2. Insight/New Ways – Separatists learned to see Native Americans as “equal but different.” Action/When Bess goes with other colonists to visit a Wampanoag village, she watches mothers in both groups compare their babies, children in both groups teach each other to play with different toys, and she meets a girl her own age who has similar interests

3. Insight/New Ways – Separatist women were capable of taking care of themselves. Action/Bess ‘forces’ the men of the colony to teach the women how to shoot. She later successfully shoots and kills a turkey for their meal.

4. Insight/New Ways – The Separatists were servants, willing to put the needs of others before their own. Action/After suffering verbal abuse at the hands of one particularly nasty sailor, Bess willingly cares for him as he lays dying. Much later in the story, one of the Separatists cares for the Wampanoag chief and many of his people when they are struck down by a repulsive infection.

5. Insight/New Ways – Human efforts are only effective when submitted to the will of God. Acceptance of the idea that God’s will might not be the same as your will. Action/Bess does everything in her power to make her crops grow, but the drought eventually brings her, literally, to her knees.

[Lisandro Boccacci]

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What I learned from doing this assignment is seeing how the new ways/ old ways is something that’s really important, and of course we learn best from seeing, instead of just being told, so yes through actions of the character and their failures or success… are also the audiences … through moments of action… i think in a more subconscious level pick up on the changes happening to the character throughout the story.

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The main character losing his son is not just a profound moment, but it really keeps are main character in a dark place which would make sense considering he’s looking for the light in the darkness that he dwells in… so i find it interesting that psychologically, he does all this to stay afloat and not be complete destroyed by the sadness of what happened to his son… and marriage.

This is a great line, really tells you here what the film is about, this is the character’s belief… but all of these characters had to really earn that belief in the course of the film.

one obvious important scene is when Red is fighting off a group of hostile guys, and across from him is the horse doing the same and the trainer notices this. he picks it up pretty quick, how these two souls, horse and rider… just might belong together… its a risk to put them together from his perspective too, it could south.

When the horse and Red first start to click and going through the ups and downs, but really their friendship is profound in itself.

Charles Howard: [speaking to the newsmen after the win at Santa Anita] Well, I just think this horse has a lot of heart. He may have been down, but he wasn’t out. He may have lost a few, but he didn’t let it get to him. I think I learned a lick or two from this little guy. Oh, and by the way, he doesn’t know he’s little. He thinks he’s the biggest horse out there.

[Lisandro Boccacci]

Lisandro Boccacci’s Turns Insights Into Action

What I learned doing this assignment is how to pin point the profound moments in the story… and really make use of scenes but setting up these moments, that are important to the development of the character… it really solidifies in my mind how good writing works, because we don’t just go to the movies to be entertained… we want to be moved and maybe along the way learn something new..

1. well them being taken off their home is obvious the most profound moment… it destroyed their peace, their slice of heaven, it put them in hell. its sets up the entire movie

2. when Silas realizes that there is no water no food, and he is facing death unless he does something about it… that moment…

3. the moment when he is digging for the roots to collect water, he fails the first time, he has to dig deep, and use his strength, a great metaphor for digging deep within

4. another moment is when Silas is in the forest and he encounters the wild boar and is forced up the tree.. in fear.. he could stay there or face his fear and face the animal which he does.. and kills it.

5. the moment when he sees his mom helping the now wounded soldier that pushed them off their land… is a moment that breaks Silas’s hatred for the soldiers.

[Edward Brown]

Edward Brown action speaks

what I learned is use chart of old vs new and make it action

Also, going thru script I spotted opportunities

So both strategies are fruitful

Here are some notes, more are on my script handwritten

George

Old way no daily grooming vs Grooming per Tanya inspection

Old way no pick up when drop. Leave me vs Tanya inspection

Old way: often do what woman wants vs assert male leads, male orders food

Old way: would have gone to Siberia vs assert Detroit settles for Moscow

Old way: would comply for sex vs other values more than sex

Old way would take time and dating to qualify woman vs playful bird test

Tanya

old way orders men vs now negotiates

old way: made man do proposing as woman disposses vs calls George to suggest Moscow