Movie: The Power of One Essay

The director John G. Avildsen has made the design blastoff unforgettable from the film The Power of One which was set in apartheid time in Africa by u chirp many visual and verbal techniques such as lighting, music and dialog that support completely the argueions that the scene makes. These techniques make this scene and film memorable.During the project scene Peekay conducted a group of non-white African pris iodiners to sing for the commanding officer. Peekay was proven to be smart and determined in this scene because he translated the guards speech to the prisoners incorrectly to encourage the tribes to unite. The Guard told Peekay to translate sorriest prisoners in whole of Africa but Peekay translate it to Let us be one beneath the African Sky. The prisoners sang a song about the guards they fertilize this way, they run that way, they are afraid, they are cowards.. in Zulu. Sergent Boreman cornered Peet and made him rank what the words to the song meant and then beat him to death because he was aggravate about what the prisoners were apprisal. Peekay got to Peet in time for him to say his last words totally the tribes as one, thanks to you rainmaker.A visual technique which made the concert scene memorable was lighting. The nighttime dim lighting suggested that the conditions of the prison were harsh. An recitation of this is when Geil Peet is beaten to death by Sergeant Boreman, the lighting was harsh, artificial and federal agency lighten which made Boreman look evil. The lighting gives the audience clues about the dark emotions experienced by Geil Peet in this scene.Another technique used in this film is the music during this scene. There were only two types of music, the piano and the emphasize singing of the African prisoners which suggest a lot of things, for example the prisoners singing from different tribes could suggest co-operation and equality between tribes and the singing in Zulu meant that the commandant and Sergeant and gu ards could not understand what the tribes were singing about the guards being cowards and afraid. Alyea Olyeah mon is what one of the prisoners was shouting out. Peekay in this scene translated the commandants speech incorrectly which gave the prisoners encouragement to introduce honor totheir tribe.The dialog also made this scene memorable in this film. The dialog was very moving and powerful. The speeches were moving because the verbal and visuals at distributively part of the scene were supporting each other to create something graceful even though Geil Peet was dieing in Peekays arms saying rainmaker the everyplace narration when Geil dies is also moving for a brief moment he was a freeman. This suggest that Peet had a hard life onwards if he was a freeman just before he died. The essential English speech of the commandant suggest that he hated all black people and thought that whites are superior which also suggest racism.I believe that this film The Power of One is a bo ld, operose and moving film and many memorable and important scenes like the concert scene. The Director John G. Avildsen has attempted to recreate what apartheid was like in Africa and I strongly believe that this film has captured that image.