“Without my name, I don’t have a life”
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Name is our primary identity. Some people tend to live their names unknown. They had this idea that they got from Shakespeare “what it is a name for?” According to them, name does not matter, what matters is our deed in life. On the other hand, in modern life, name can be a promising selling point. Some people such as celebrities use their names as the commodity to produce lots of money. Companies are competing to build their brands to be the best. The more people catch the name the more money flows into our pockets although we may sometimes lose our privacy. Relating to the quote above, and the modern life we are living, I think we will have a better life if more people know us and our name in every good job we do. Ultimately, everyday is the chance to build our character into a famous brand and a good name as well.
Summary of the Movie:
This Americanized remake of the French classic The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) transports the story's setting from the 16th century Gallic countryside to 19th century Tennessee at the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War. Richard Gere stars as Jack Sommersby, a wealthy landowner who returns to his small cotton farming town of Vine Hill three years after the Civil War's end. The defeated Confederate soldier is ready to resume his past life with his young wife Laurel (Jodie Foster). Thinking her husband long dead, however, Laurel has become engaged to Orin Meecham (Bill Pullman), an arrangement she quickly calls off, enraging and embittering Orin. Soon it becomes evident that his experiences have changed Jack thoroughly. A callous and cruel man widely feared before the war, he is now charming and sensitive, offering financial opportunities to an ex-slave and caring for Laurel and his young son. Jack even persuades the town's citizenry that he can rescue their fortunes by pooling resources and switching Vine Hill's chief crop from cotton to tobacco. Jack's scheme works, but Orin becomes increasingly convinced that Jack is in fact an impostor masquerading as the wealthy Sommersby, a suspicion that the smitten and quickly pregnant Laurel secretly shares. When Jack is arrested and charged with a murder he drunkenly committed years before, the court trial leads to some startling revelations about the past. (Karl Williams, All Movie Guide)
Name is our primary identity. Some people tend to live their names unknown. They had this idea that they got from Shakespeare “what it is a name for?” According to them, name does not matter, what matters is our deed in life. On the other hand, in modern life, name can be a promising selling point. Some people such as celebrities use their names as the commodity to produce lots of money. Companies are competing to build their brands to be the best. The more people catch the name the more money flows into our pockets although we may sometimes lose our privacy. Relating to the quote above, and the modern life we are living, I think we will have a better life if more people know us and our name in every good job we do. Ultimately, everyday is the chance to build our character into a famous brand and a good name as well.
Summary of the Movie:
This Americanized remake of the French classic The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) transports the story's setting from the 16th century Gallic countryside to 19th century Tennessee at the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War. Richard Gere stars as Jack Sommersby, a wealthy landowner who returns to his small cotton farming town of Vine Hill three years after the Civil War's end. The defeated Confederate soldier is ready to resume his past life with his young wife Laurel (Jodie Foster). Thinking her husband long dead, however, Laurel has become engaged to Orin Meecham (Bill Pullman), an arrangement she quickly calls off, enraging and embittering Orin. Soon it becomes evident that his experiences have changed Jack thoroughly. A callous and cruel man widely feared before the war, he is now charming and sensitive, offering financial opportunities to an ex-slave and caring for Laurel and his young son. Jack even persuades the town's citizenry that he can rescue their fortunes by pooling resources and switching Vine Hill's chief crop from cotton to tobacco. Jack's scheme works, but Orin becomes increasingly convinced that Jack is in fact an impostor masquerading as the wealthy Sommersby, a suspicion that the smitten and quickly pregnant Laurel secretly shares. When Jack is arrested and charged with a murder he drunkenly committed years before, the court trial leads to some startling revelations about the past. (Karl Williams, All Movie Guide)
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