After Hancock saves Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman) at the cost of derailing the train and damaging other cars. Hancock is jeered by the people involved in the accident for causing more destruction but, Ray steps in and thanks Hancock for saving his life and offers to improve Hancock’s public image. Ray is a public relation spokesperson who is trying to help the word whit his project “all-heart” which did not work very well for ray. After Hancock turn himself into jail the criminality increases in the city of Los Angeles, the law decides to release Hancock to safe a group of prisoners in a bank robbery.
Hancock is applauded for handing the bank robbery and becomes popular again. Later on Hancock finds out that Ray’s spouse is like him. Mary (Charlize Theron) explains Hancock that they have lived for 3000 years with their powers, explaining to him that every time they come together they loose their powers. They start a fight in the middle of the city destroying everything in their way. Hancock becomes more human because of the connection with Mary, and is attacked for the same guy how robbed the bank.
To help Mary and himself Hancock decides to fly away trough the moon. Hancock is now living in New York City, working as a superhero there. To show gratitude to Ray, Hancock paints Ray’s All-Heart logo on the moon, to give an advertisement to his cause. I chose the movie “Hancock” because it has a variety of scenes that shows comedy, drama, action and adventure. In this film I found some related psychological concepts studied in the classroom. I decided to use the following items to provide a symmetry from a psychological standpoint.
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The first concept is the Classical conditioning and its theories. The second is the Contemporary Approaches to Psychology and its theories of approach. The Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov’s research demonstrates that neutral aspects of the environment can attain the capacity to evoke responses through pairing with other stimuli and that bodily processes can be influenced by environmental cues. “Classical Conditioning. ”(A. King p. 157) this theories are related with the unconditional stimulus, unconditional response, conditioned response and conditioned stimulus.
In the movie “Hancock” demonstrates that certain scenes Pavlov’s theory is applied. An example is used when Hancock saves Ray from being run over by the train, after the accident people start insulting Hancock for destroying the train, when he could just fly above the train without causing any damage. The reaction that takes Hancock is to listen to the insults that people do to him (Unconditioned Stimulus).
Upon hearing the insults are more aggressive and personal Hancock becomes irritated and tries to react against people who yells at him (Unconditioned Response).
The answer that Hancock has towards people yelling is automatic. This unlearned reaction is automatically triggered by the unconditioned stimulus. Another example that can demonstrate this theory in the film is when Hancock is on the way to rescue people who were kidnapped in the bank. As Hancock takes care of the assailants one by one until MOVIE REVIEW: “HANCOCK” 3 it gets to the last man, the leader of the band called Red, who begins to sue his release by having a detonator in his right hand to detonate the bombs placed in the bodies of the hostages.
Red begins to insult against Hancock with vulgar words, which lead to Hancock to act in the same way that people acted on the train, listening to the insults (Unconditioned Stimulus) and the reaction Hancock’s takes is get irritated in response to the insults (Unconditioned Response) But on this occasion there is a neutral stimulus (CS) that leads to a conditioned response (CR).
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When Red pronounce the word asshole Hancock has another kind of reaction, anger (Conditional Response).
Then whenever Hancock hears the word asshole (conditioned stimulus) his reaction is the anger and attack the other.
According to the text read in class, the movie Hancock has shown exactly the concepts studied by the behavior of the actors. Hancock has shown clearly the classical conditioning when they hear the words “asshole” for Hancock and “crazy” for Mary. Using the conditioned stimulus (CU) and conditioned response (CR) after conditioning the neutral stimulus plus UCS and UCR. These concepts have been demonstrated by examples made ? on parts of the movie that clearly match the example given in class about the dog that salivates and relates the food when he hears the bell.
Other concept is the “Contemporary Approaches to Psychology. ” This concepts are briefly survey in seven different approaches that represent the intellectual backdrop os psychological science: biological, behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, evolutionary and sociocultural (A. King p. 8).
Hancock did not understand that was what happened in his past. Eighty years ago. Hancock woke up in a hospital with no memory of anything that had happened at the time. The punishment that he had since then was not knowing who he really was? What had happened to him and why?
These questions filled him with bitterness and disappointment which led him to alcoholism. The only reward he had was to be an embittered superhero (Behavioral Approach).
Since then the only memory that Hancock had was a little box with a pair of tickets to the movie “Boris Karloff, Frankenstein” and a bubble gum. Each time Hancock watched that little box his hands were shaking from fear to know who he really was (Biological Approach).
In addition, the behavior that Hancock ended up having after people started to love him did not match the cultural context he had.
Hancock had a different cultural environment, their attitudes and manners were inconsistent with the scope of a person famous and beloved. Moreover, the cultural environment of celebrities was totally different, extravagance, lust and popularity were the area where famous people live (Sociocultural Approach).
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Another example to show the contemporary approach can be shown by the performance of Ray (Jason Bateman).
Ray is a public relations spokesperson, that his only intention is to make this a better world, for that Ray has a campaign that is planning do it.
His project is called “all-heart” which aims to help people in need. This project is led a group of pharmaceutical businesspersons. Despite the rejection received by pharmaceutical businesspersons. Ray does not give up having a positive attitude that someday he will achieve its desire to help others MOVIE REVIEW: “HANCOCK” 4 (Humanistic Approach).
When Ray invites Hancock to eat meatballs which was the favorite of Ray’s family, he saw that Hancock could be the first person that could help be changed.
Ray began to persuade Hancock inducing ideas on her mind about the goodness and generosity, Hancock trying to teach how to give compliments to the cops and say thanks After receiving something in return (Cognitive Approach).
When Hancock surrendered to the justice to face the charges that he were indicted for the damage he did to the city. Hancock decided to make a change in his life and adjust to this new lifestyle which would cost a lot, because he had to deal with people that had waxed and by logic did not like him at all. These ideas induced in the head of Hancock helped him to evolve his levels of aggression, fear and think. Evolutionary Approach).
Through these methods used in contemporary approaches to psychology the movie “Hancock” has shown a similarity in psychological approaches used in the book. The approaches shown in the film are similar to the examples given in the book, such as when we relate memories with our attitudes, or where we seek a reward for something for a punishment or vice versa.
