Description

Contents:

The film - The making of Gran Torino - American originals: Clint Eastwood and Walt Kowalski - The plot: an overview - The characters: a first analysis - Das Unterrichtsmodell - Vorüberlegungen zum Einsatz des Films im Unterricht - Konzeption des Unterrichtsmodells - Klausur - Kommunikationsprüfung

Component 1: Presenting the film: How to analyse: plot - characters - themes and motifs - cinematic means
Component 2: Walt Kowalski: No country for an old man: Out of touch with the family - A stranger in his own neighbourhood - A relic of distant times
Component 3: Thao: What it takes to be a man: Pacific by nature - At the crossroads - Riding off into the sunset
Component 4: Separate but unequal: Life in modern suburbia: Your porch or mine? - Moving in, moving out - Choose to love thy neighbour