Gran Torino

Contents : The film - The making of Gran Torino - American originals: Clint Eastwood and Walt Kowalski - The plot: an overview - The characters: a first analysis - Das Unterrichtsmodell - Vorüberlegungen zum Einsatz des Films im Unterricht - Konzeption des Unterrichtsmodells - Klausur - Kommunikationsprüfung Component 1: Presenting the film : How to analyse: plot - characters - themes and motifs - cinematic means Component 2: Walt Kowalski: No country for an old man : Out of touch with the family - A stranger in his own neighbourhood - A relic of distant times Component 3: Thao: What it takes to be a man : Pacific by nature - At the crossroads - Riding off into the sunset Component 4: Separate but unequal: Life in modern suburbia : Your porch or mine? - Moving in, moving out - Choose to love thy neighbour