ghostsvv A good movie which takes tends to avoid the caricatures that Hollywood regularly likes to use to represent inner city youth. This is perhaps the films biggest strength. The process of change which students go through from being lethargic to being vested in their academic futures was not some that the director chose to belabour. The time jumps are relatively significant but well chosen.The film has inspiring moments without being to quixotic and well worth a watch.

sketchyshadydude Any movie can be viewed a portal, a portal that can transport viewers to faraway places, alternate universes, or distant time periods. Although these movies started out as simple black and white projections, they have evolved into masterful cinematic experiences that defy the limits of the natural world. Today, a "good movie" typically boasts mind-blowing special effects, a deep plot line, well-known actors, or a combination of the three. These are just of few of the standards set by film-makers in the 21st century. However, I feel that it is worth recognizing films that were revolutionary in their time, not just films that live up to today's expectations. One of these films, "Stand and Deliver," is about a Calculus teacher at a local high school who turns a rag-tag group of seniors into excellent mathematicians. These students go on to take the AP Calculus exam, all earning passing scores. Although this movie is not impressive to modern-day standards, it is worth noting that at the time, passing an AP exam was very difficult, at any school. This simple, yet tremendous feat helps me appreciate the worth of the movie, despite it being outdated. Overall, "Stand and Deliver" is a likable movie because of its charismatic characters that are easy to relate to.Likable characters are important to a successful movie because they allow viewers to either relate to them or idolize them. In the case of "Stand and Deliver," there were both types of characters. Jaime Escalante, the teacher of the high school, was by no means a perfect teacher. Throughout the movie he made many mistakes, such as making a rude comment about a student's love life. He also had a heart attack just weeks before the students' exam. These downfalls show that Mr. Escalante is by no means a god or someone we are any greater or less than. He also showed his down-to-earth personality through his fun, charismatic teaching style. In one such instance Mr. Escalante created a simple algebra problem by replacing the variable "x" with the amount of "girlfriends" someone had. This did not only cause his students to like him, but the audience as well. In this sense, both parties develop a sense of respect towards him; it is very difficult for a teacher to educate and appeal to his/her students. Although Mr. Escalante is a likable main character, the supporting characters in "Stand and Deliver" demand viewers' affection as well.Likable supporting characters only add to the main character's charm because it shows how he/she affects them. For example, one of my favorite characters from the movie is a boy called Angel. Although Angel is involved with delinquent gang activities and smokes cigarettes, he shows viewers his soft interior when he is at home taking care of his sickly grandmother. On top of this, we later find out that Angel is an intellectual man who cares about his grades; although he doesn't want his friends to know this, he asks Mr. Escalante for extra textbooks so he can study wherever he is.Although movies can take us to amazing places and can let us travel with amazing heroes, but sometimes the best movies are the ones we can relate to. Although I have seen some exciting films, it's always nice to relax with one of the classics. "Stand and Deliver" is my favorite movie because it has likable characters that I can relate to. I hope reading this review will inspire you to watch the movie, as well as enjoy it as much as I did.

mehdirahbar Stand and Deliver movieDirected by Ramón Menéndez Produced by Tom Musca Written by Ramón Menéndez, Tom Musca Film Genre: dramaCast Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante Lou Diamond Phillips as Angel Guzman Rosanna DeSoto as Fabiola Escalante Andy García as Ramirez Ingrid Oliu as Lupe Will Gotay as PanchoMusic by Craig Safan Cinematography Tom Richmond Edited by Nancy RichardsonRelease dates March 11, 1988 (United States) Running time: 102 minutes Country United States Language English Box office $13,994,920"Stand and Deliver" is a 1988 American Biographical-drama film and based on a true story about Jaime Escalante, a Bolivian Math teacher in Garfield High School (Los Angeles, California). The school is full of Hispanic students from immigrant working class families living with lots of social problems and poverty in Los Angeles. The students also are below their grade in terms of academic skills.At first he was expecting to teach Computer Science. When he arrives, he instead finds is that there is not computer department, and he's stuck teaching basic math to students. Most of the students especially boys smoke, drink and are part of vandal groups. When Mr. Escalante wanted to talk to one of the boys in private at the first days in High School, other boys come to the class to support him and threaten the teacher. Mr. Escalante instead seeks to change the school culture with lots of energy and enthusiasts to help the students excel in academics. He soon realizes the potential of his students and sets a goal of having the class taking AP Calculus. For encouraging 18 Hispanic students of his class, he said in the movie: "Did you know that neither the Greeks nor the Romans were capable of using the concept of zero? It was your ancestors, the Mayans, who first contemplated the zero. The absence of value. True story. You "burros" (donkeys) have math in your blood." What adds more drama to situation is the fact that each and every student in the class Mr. Escalante teaches has their own peer pressures to deal with. Some students have unsavory friends who would laugh at their taking a class seriously. And some of the students have to deal with parents who don't understand why their education should come before taking care of their own family. Jaime Escalante in the middle of the film said in the class that: "There will be no free rides, no excuses. You already have two strikes against you: your name and your complexion. Because of those two strikes, there are some people in this world who will assume that you know less than you do. "Math" is the great equalizer... When you go for a job, the person giving you that job will not want to hear your problems; ergo, neither do me. You're going to work harder here than you've ever worked anywhere else. And the only thing I ask from you is "ganas"! And he continued to say to his students that: "If you don't have the ganas, I will give it to you, because I'm an expert." Mr. Escalante instructs his class under the philosophy of "ganas", roughly translating into "desire" or "motivation". As the movie progresses Mr. Escalante announces to the board that he wants to teach Calculus to his best students. The students begin taking summer classes in advanced mathematics with Mr. Escalante who has to withstand the Pessimism of other faculty, who feel the students are not capable enough. At the same time Mr. Escalante help some of his students to face their social problems and gets involve of his students' problems. Even he talks to the manager of his best student in the class to let her have more time for AP calculus exam. The students pass the AP Calculus exam but the Educational Testing Service questions the success of the students and emphasizes that they cheated. One of the reasons was most of the students have the same mistake in AP Calculus. All the people at Garfield High school believe that the students cheated and one of the colleagues tells Mr. Escalante that because they want to please him for his energy and enthusiastic teaching them. But Mr. Escalante doesn't disappoint and protests to the investigators from the Educational Testing Service questions. He defends his students and argues angrily that all the allegations are based on racial and economic perceptions. So he said to the investigators that "if the high school was in Beverly Hills no one would send you here to investigate!" He offers to have the students retake the test months later and the students succeed in passing the test again despite only having a day to prepare, dispelling the concerns of cheating. Twelve students retook the exam, and most of them got 4s and 5s on the 5-point exam. In 1987, 27 percent of all Mexican Americans who scored 3 or higher on the calculus AP exam were students at Garfield High. The movie shows students moving from struggling with fractions to mastering calculus in one year, although in reality it took Escalante several years to build a progression of classes that prepared Garfield students for calculus. "Edward James Olmos" who played Mr. Escalante role in the film, received a nomination for Best Actor at the 61st Academy Awards. In December 2011, Stand and Deliver movie was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The Registry said the film was "one of the most popular of a new wave of narrative feature films produced in the 1980s by Latino filmmakers" and that it "celebrates in a direct, approachable, and impactive way, values of self-betterment through hard work and power through knowledge."

monahajijoo Plot This film, which Escalante himself said that was 90% truth and 10% drama, is a biopic of high school teacher "Jaime Escalante" whose method is to teaching his students and colleagues. He left his job as an engineer in private industry, a better paying one, in order to get a job at Garfield High School. The school is on the edge of being decertify due to poor academic results by the school district and Escalante's viewpoint is that students will appreciate the opportunities and those at the school are so dejected that they behave poorly. What does Stand & Deliver Stands for? According to Wiktionary, which is a dictionary belongs to Wikipedia, "Stand and Deliver is a phrase traditionally used by a highwayman commanding victims to hand over their valuables". We can compare Escalante and a highwayman in two negative and positive aspects. Perhaps, the reason behind choosing the name is because Escalante was performing similar to a highwayman telling the students to give him their most valuable thing which it could be called 'Time'. If the students wanted to pass the "road", which was an exam to pass in the movie, they had to hand over their valuables which was their summertime. Summer is the most pleasurable time for all kids, moreover because of the poor conditions they had to work as well so if they accept to attend the summer classes they had to surrender. The second aspect (the positive one), which was contradictory to the highwayman act was he gave them, with training them during summer, a chance to attend the collage and change their poor conditions to a better one in lieu of the leisure, fun, diversion, job and to sum, their summertime. But in return he gave them the most valuable thing they could ever achieve. As far as I understand, the writer was too intelligent to choose the name Stand and Deliver of this true story.Fight against Racism Ethnic and Racism discrimination in the United States has been a foremost issue since the colonial and slave era. Legally sanctioned rights and privileges were given to white American which were not granted to African Americans, Native Americans and Latin Americans, and even non protestant like Irish people, Italian and poles. Stands and Deliver seems to portray this racism within the educational system. When Educational Testing Service department have announced that the Garfield High school student cheated due to a same mistake that all had, Escalante did his best to prove that this is a sort of racism which accused his students and call them cheaters. In one scene he expressed that "in this country one is innocent until proved guilty, not the other way round and if this was Beverly Hills High School they wouldn't have sent the investigators" and he continued "no one would have questioned the scores if my kids didn't has Spanish surnames and come from barrio schools! Something is going on that nobody is talking about and you two (investigators) know what it is! I thought this was over long ago. Why do this to my kids? One of them said "there are two kinds of racism: singling out a group who are members of a minority and not singling out a group who are members of minority and continued "No one has the right to accuse me of racism. NO ONE HAS THAT RIGHT! This conversation revealed that there was something behind all this happening and this was Racism which all know it occurred within the country that has a long history in this field. At the end Escalante and his students surrender to accept the retest. It divulged that there is no simple way to fight with this system. Unfortunately, similar story was happened to a Hamedany student who could pass the University Entrance Exam successfully in two subject and then Ministry of Science, Research and Technology announced that there is a suspicion about his test so it is decided for him to do the test again. During that time many believe that if he is from Tehran the result never been questioned. Maybe we can consider this as a kind of discrimination.