If someone did you a favor, something big, something that you could not do on your own, and instead of paying it back, you paid it forward to three people. Imagine the next day, they each paid it forward to three more people. And imagine the day after, those 27 people each paid it forward to another three people. Then each day afterwards, everyone in turn paid it forward to three more people; in two weeks that comes to 4,782,969 people. This is the idea that gives the movie Pay It Forward such persuasive appeal. The specific persuasive purpose is to get people to think how such a simple idea can make a big difference. Another persuasive goal of the movie was to get people to not be afraid to help others, and tell those people to help other like they were helped. The idea must follow these three rules: First, It has to be something that really helps people. Second, It has to be something they can’t do by themselves.
Lastly, if I do it for them, they do it for three other people (Pay It Forward 2000).
The title of the movie is Pay It Forward; it was released into the theatre on October 20, 2000 nationwide. The director was Mimi Leder who did other films such as Peacemaker and Deep Impact. The screenwriter was Leslie Dixon, known for Overboard, That Old Feeling, Mrs. Doubtfire, Look Who’s Talking Now; co writer of The Thomas Crown Affair and Smoke & Mirrors. The basis of this movie is from the best-selling novel Pay It Forward written by Catherine Ryan Hyde. The movie received mixed reviews from film critics the most common was the one written by www.rottentomatoes.com, which said, Pay It Forward has strong performances from Spacey, Hunt, and Osment, but the movie itself is too emotionally manipulative and the ending is bad. This is not to say the movie is bad at being persuasive just because the movie is emotionally manipulative, and the fact that the ending is bad is purely opinionative.
English Pay It Forward Movie Review
Trevor introducing his revolutionary idea to his classmates My class and I walked into the classroom and soon realized we would be watching a movie today. Since the teacher was suggesting it, most of expected the movie to be a cheesy drama that would teach us “an important life lesson”. The stuff that most teachers would have never been able to explain to us herself. After the initial round of eye ...
This shows the movies good use of pathos by using strong acting and a persuasive plot. The plot of the movie is a school social studies assignment leads to acts of kindness that spread from city-to-city. When assigned to come up with some idea that will improve the world, a seventh grader boy Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) decides that if he can do three good deeds for someone and they in turn can “pay it forward” and so forth, then the world might be a better place. Initially the plan appears to fail, but it is indeed a success that is not immediately known by Trevor. The plan was traced back to it original source by a reporter (Jay Mohr) who received a brand new jaguar as a pay it forward gift when his car got totaled. The initial people Trevor tries to help are a heroin addict (James Cavaziel) whom he brings home, lets him sleep in his garage, and gives him a little money to get his life together. The second is Mr.
Simonet (Kevin Spacey) a badly scarred teacher who cannot accept a change of routine in his life. He then tries to help his poorly recovering alcoholic mother Arlene McKinney (Helen Hunt).
Lastly, he tries to stand up for his schoolmate who gets beat up after school on a daily basis. Both Mr. Simonet and Trevor share the same problem abusive fathers who beat their spouses, so they have common outlooks on life. Trevor fears for his mom, particularly because of his brutal alcoholic father (Jon Bon Jovi) who tries to move back in their home. Arlene also has mental anguish from her childhood with a homeless, alcoholic mother (Angie Dickinson), who helped the reporter trace the good deeds back to Trevor.
In one of the beginning scenes, Gene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) is a seventh grade social studies teacher. He asks the class, What does the world want from you? Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) answers, Nothing. Mr. Simonet replies, You are absolutely right, you are in seventh grade you cant drive, cant vote, heck you cant even go to the bathroom without a pass from me, but not forever, one day you will be free. He continues, But what if on that day your free, you havent prepared you are not ready and then you look around and you dont like what the world is. What if the world is just a big disappointment? One of the kids in the class replies, Were screwed! Mr. Simonet says, Unless, you take the things you dont like about this world and you flip them upside down on their ass.
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The World and Ideas of Karl Marx The latter part of the nineteenth century was teeming with evolved social and economical ideas. These views of the social structure of urban society came about through the development of ideals taken from past revolutions and the present clash of individuals and organized assemblies. As the Industrial Revolution steamed ahead paving the way for growing commerce, so ...
You can start that today. This is your assignment extra credit it goes on all year long. On the board written in chalk it says: Think of an idea to change our world and put it into Action! Everyone in the class complains about how weird, strange, and hard it is. Mr. Simonet then very slowly replies, How about possible, its possible. The realm of possibility exists in each of you. So you can do it or you can just sit back and let it atrophy.
This is where Trevor gets his motivation. The first persuasive purpose was to get people to think how such a simple idea can make a big difference. Trevors idea of paying it forward to change the world is an example of logos. It says if we pay it forward to three people, those three pay it forward, and so on, then theoretically it could change the world. Trevor establish ethos not by being some great thinker of his time, or by winning an award, but by getting derived credibility. He does it by being a truly caring and honest person who wants to change the world. Audiences trust a young innocent kid more than anyone else because he appeals to their ideas of good. This shows how pathos is being used to affect the emotions of people.
Lastly, the other persuasive appeal being used is the narrative sequence of the film. The movie starts off with the reporter receiving an extraordinary gift in time of crisis, and he wants to find out why? He then tracks it down to a social studies assignment done by a seventh grader. This helps show that one small idea and act of kindness can spread so widely if people were just more aware and helped those in need. Later in an interview with ….
