FILM: CRASH

CRASH:

• Characters:
• Graham- Ria
• Farhad- Dorri
• Rick Cabot- Jean
• Anthony - Peter
• Dani R- his daughter
• John Ryan- Tom Hanson
• Cameron - Christine
• Chinese - Wife

THE TRAILER:



STEP 1: The introductory monologue pretty much summarizes most of what happens in this movie.  People in L:A: move back and forth in their cars, without any kind of human contact.  They need to collide in order to make that necessary human contact everybody needs.

• Why do you think Crash is the tittle of this film?

-I think Crash is the tittle of this film because it's about 8 different stories which finally become only one. It all happens differently but finally som of the stories finish in a crash, and the others in another. All goes around chrashes in LA. It makes us realize that LA is a distant city, all people are a bit mean. Crash means a shock between something and something else or someone or someone else. 

STEP 2: THE OPENING MONOLOGUE

1. (2.51 – 5.54) Read the opening monologue.

Graham has just crashed.   

The car is now stopped.   

This is what he says:

“It's the sense of touch. Any real city, you walk, you know?, you brush past people. 

People bump into you.

In L.A., nobody touches you.  We're always behind this metal and glass.

I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so that we can feel 

something.”

1.1.*Discuss the meaning of these words.  

 -I think this words mean that LA is a cold city. The people are very rude with everyone aand everyone don't trust with others. All people goes with an idea on their mind and no one wants to share with anyone. This is what I think.

1.2.*How do you think the woman sitting right next to him (the driver) is going to respond to this?

 -I think that maybe she is going to agree and reflect with herself.  Graham has exploded and this is why he is saying this. Anyway, she doesn't response.

1.3.The woman sitting next to Graham leaves the car and goes to where the police ofoficer and the other driver are.  What kind of problem do you perceive in the conversaction you hear?  

Choose one and explain.

-       an age gap problem

-       a racial issue

-       tension due to unsolved problems these two women had before

1.4.Graham goes to where his colleagues are working. 

 What have they found?  

 A shoe and a dead boddie

How does Graham react to that?

He doesn't react but in the end he realises that he was his brother. 

2. (35:01- 36:48) Check the problems these two men are having:

The locksmith doesn’t know how to do his job. False

The locksmith wants to overcharge for his job. False

The locksmith didn’t replace the lock for a new one. True

The store owner doesn’t understand English well enough. True

The locksmith cannot find a way to communicate effectively with the store owner. True

The locksmith has a friend who fixes doors; so, he wants to persuade the store owner to have his door fixed by this friend. False

The store owner has a door lock in his store that needs to be replaced. False

The store owner has a door in his store that needs to be replaced. True

The locksmith doesn’t want to be insulted any more. True

The locksmith leaves without getting any pay. True

The store owner believes he’s been cheated. True

STEP 3: WRITING A SUMMARY

Write down the characters' names
and the different stories in the film.

• Characters:
• Graham- Ria
• Farhad- Dorri
• Rick Cabot- Jean
• Anthony - Peter
• Dani R- his daughter
• John Ryan- Tom Hanson
• Cameron - Christine
• Chinese - Wife

Vocabulari:
epraved-depravat
Corrupt-corrupte
Criminal-Criminal
Degraded-Degradat
Rage-ràbia
Mean-significar
Compassionate-compassiu
Fear-por
Brave- Valent
Insane- dement
Coward- covard
Harm- dany
Despair- desesperació
Guilty-culpable
Enemy- Enemic
Fear- por

Summaries:

• Graham and his partner Ria

-They are Graham, a detective who is black and Ria, his partner, who's white.

Graham had some problems like racism problems with the people of his work. His mother is ill because of the droughts and his brother is a carjacker. Finally, his brother dies. 

• Farhad and his daughter Dori

Farhad is a gun's shop owner who has a daugher, Dori. Dori is working at his gun's shop too. They have a problem with a locksmith and someday someone destroys his shop. He thinks that it has been the locksmith and  he goes to kill him. Finally, he doesn't kill him.

• Daniel Ruiz and his daughter

Daniel Ruiz is an hispanian locksmith who's the one who tried to repair Farhad's door. He had a problem with Farhad and one day Farhad tried to kill him. He almost kill his daughter of 5 years old. Finally everything was allright.

• John Ryan and his partner Tom Hanson

John and Tom are polices. One day, John violates a black girl, Christine, touching her and Tom didn't want to do it. They separate and when the husband of this woman, Cameron, had a problem Tom helped her and when the woman had a problem John rescued her. 

• Cameron and Christine

They are a happy marriage and one day they have a problem with John and Tom, the polices. Then their marriage is not as happier as before the problem but they finally still love each other. They are 'brown' people.

• Carjackers Anthony and Peter

They are both black. They rob a lot of cars including Rick  Cabot and Jean's car. One day they casualy rob Cameron's car, who's like them. They find the police and one of them is Tom. Tom helps Cameron to scape and finally all goes good. They also kill a chinese boy.

• Rick Cabot and Jean

-Rick is the district attormy and Jean his wife. They've been carjacked by Anthony and Peter. They also have a racism problem and this makes Rick reputation goes down, so hi decides to do somthing about it.

• Chinese man and wife

-He'd been hitted by the carjacker's Anthony and Peter and they only drived him at the door of the hospital. The hospital helped him and Anthony robbed his truck. It was full of chinese people.

STEP 4: WRITE THE STORY

• GRAHAM AND RIA

-Graham is a detective from L.A. and Ria is his partner. His story begins with an investigation about a racist crime.  This crime was between a white man, and a black one. The white killed the black but Graham thinks that the black is  guilty. As Rick had a problem with the black carjacker's Anthony and Peter, he decides to make the white man feel guilty to make people see that he is with the black people also. They made blackmail to Graham to say that the black man is innocent including things of the crime historial of his brother. He accepts the conditions and makes what they say. After that, he wents to his mother house and thanks  this we know that she is between droughts. The only thing she asks for is about Graham brother, saying that if he sees him, just tell him to go home. Later, he descovers another crim and he realizes that his brother died.