FILM 3: CRASH

FILM 3: CRASH

A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers. An African-American TV director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two carjackers. A rookie cop. A middle-aged Korean couple...

They all live in LA. and during the next 36 hours, 
they will all collide.

CRASH, a Paul Haggis movie

STEP 1: THE TITLE: CRASH

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.

1. WHAT DOES THE TITLE CRASH MEAN? CRASH in the film has the meaning of some families or groups that they aren't known, but doing their own lives, at the last they crash, they match their lives, for something.

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.  

The persons must nhave the touch with other persons. 

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

 Because there are too much people in LA. this problem affect the touch of the people.

1.3.The woman sitting next to Graham leaves the car and goes to where the police officer and 

the other driver are.  What kind of problem do you perceive in the conversation you hear?  

 The principal problem is the racism

Choose one and explain.

-       an age gap problem

-       a racial issue

-       tension due to unsolved problems these two women had before

 A kind of a problem they have the diferent race when convince together, you can see this problem in the film.

1.4.Graham goes to where his colleagues are working. 

 What have they found?  The shoe 

How does Graham react to that? He rect very sad because is his brother shoe. Then, there's a flashback wich explain crime of 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. True

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 False

 the film website

STEP 3: WRITING A SUMMARY

Write down the characters' names

and the different stories in the film.

Graham waters and his partner  Ria.- They are investigating a crime scene.
Ferhad a Persian shop owner and his daughter Dori.- There have a shop. Farhad guy a revolver. Farhad has a door hroken and he coll a locksmith. He tell tohimthat he have to change the door. Farhad didn't change the door and they attckhis shop.

Anthony and Peter.- They are Carjakers.
Daniel Ruiz.- He's the locksmith who try to fix the locker of Ferhad. He have got a daughter.
John Ryan and Tom Handsom.- There're policeman and they save Christine.
Rick Cabot and Jean.- Anthony and Peter stole their car, Jean is very racist.
 


STEP 4: WRITING THE  STORY
 Tv director Cameron Thayer and his wife Christiane, to exit. Cameron is cooperative, but christine has had a few drinks and is argumentative. This annoys Ryan, who sexually molests Christine uder the pertenece of administering a pat-down, intimidated, Cameron says nothing. the couple is relased without a citiaon.

Choose 1 story IN THE FILM and write a summary in the  

CRASH WIKI 

instructons:
You'll have 1 of the stories.
Write a summary of the story.
Describe the characters in the story:
How do they look like?describe them using adjectives like: naïve, responsible, ambitious...
What's the relationship between them?mother-son, husband-wife...
How do they feel at the beginning?
How do they react in the story?
Do they change? Why? Why not?

Give your opinion.

Describe one character in the story.

Describe the story  
using past tenses and expressions: past simple, past continuous, present perfect.

OPTIONAL:
Podcast your story.