Movies that made an impression on me

[Particle_Man]

Fresh - for what a young boy in a bad neighbourhood decides to do, and about his relationship with his estranged father (and his father's unwitting advice). Brilliant.

 

[Particle_Man]

The Usual Suspects: I think I watched this two or three times just absorbing the details. This is one of the few movies that ever kept me totally guessing right to the end. Great story.

Really? I would have thought that you would be able to guess the ending pretty easily when you saw it for the second time.

 

[Silver Moon]

I teach college level Management and Leadership classes and have incorporated a number of films into my classes.

Apollo 13 - A masterpiece about leadership in action, and not just the obvious Jim Lovell character played by Tom Hanks but also Ed Harris as Gene Kranz running ground contral at Houston, Gary Sinese as Ken Mattingly in the simulator and Kathleen Quinlan in a phenominal "leadership" role as Marilyn Lovell. The other part that is priceless to show students is the fitting the square peg in the round hole scene.

Crimson Tide - Examples of dysfunctional leadership and the near disasters that it can bring about. Both the Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington characters should have been court marshalled.

Norma Rae - Used to illustrate mentorship.

Mary Poppins - A wonderful example of transformational leadership. At the start of the film the father is a workaholic who barely knows his own children. By the end of the film he's skipping work to go fly a kite with them. And all due to the influence of a nanny, which in the traditional English manor house was a rather inconsequential role.

 

[Particle_Man]

Norma Rae - Used to illustrate mentorship.

What is this one about, loosely? Was Norma Rae a real person?

 

[Harmon]

I must be retarded I didn't get the "thing" until the end when they smacked you in the face with it.

It was the fact that Bruces character never spoke to anyone that seemed to notice him other then HJO's character, that Bruce rode the bus instead of drove to the girl's house (he was a pretty successful psychologist and didn't have a car?)

I have read your posts and trust me you aren't in any way mentally challenged. Movies and TV writers are just predictable to me.

 

[Harmon]

What is this one about, loosely? Was Norma Rae a real person?

Yes.

Have not seen the movie in a long time, but what I recall was she organized a union in somekind of plant, got the employees reasonable work hours, pay, and benifits (like a retirement, health care, etc.).

 

[Kesh]

Did you read the short story that this was based on by any chance? I was extremely disapointed with what they did to it in this movie. There were some great ideas that failed to make it into the movie entirely.

I read it afterwards. Quite a striking contrast between the two.