The Stories Behind Movies

Bethany Hamilton is an American surfer born in Lihue, Hawaii. Her story captivated me because she endeavored a shark attack on her left arm in 03' and had to learn to adapt and overcome the challenges of life from a different perspective and show resiliency when there are difficulties in your life and you're not so sure where the outcome is going to lead you to. She is now a mother of two (tobias and wesley) and still persists to surf and inspire millions of people around the world that anyone can achieve their dreams. Bethany Hamilton  began surfing when she was 8 years old and gained her first sponsorship when she was 9 by (Rip Curl) and that was the start of her successful career as a professional surfer. She developed a passion for surfing from her parents (Thomas and Cherilyn) they were both surfers, not professionally as a hobby. Hamilton's mother used to sell magazines all around the island of Maui, so Bethany would surf among all the beaches of the island inde...

The Imagineering Story is a documentary on Disney Plus directed by Leslie Iwerks. The essence of the documentary is a narration about the development of the Disneyland amusement park and Walt Disney's idea of the park and his journey as an entertainer and philanthropist with animation movies and his amusement park. He is an entertainer that has captured the hearts of his audience for generations and made his mark by shaping the world of beloved storytelling and innovation. Walt Disney came up with the idea of Disneyland from his daughters. He would take his daughters to a carousel on his days off with his daughter in a park with citrus groves in California, Burbank outside his studios enterprise WED (Walter Elias Disney) . He proposed the idea to his wife Lillian and his brother Roy and they put down his idea to create the theme park to protect him from failure and from creating an unwanted carnival environment to the city like environment. The surroundings were composed of p...

Hedy Lamarr was an actress in the "Golden Age" of Hollywood during the 30's and early 40's. She was debuted the title of "the most beautiful woman" in Hollywood. Although she was given this "Bombshell" outlook there was more to her than her appearance, her mind was beautiful as well she had a secret hobby of inventing that was overlooked in her time by both the Navy and the fame valuing "looks rather than intelligence" Her persistence in her early invention of "Frequency Hopping" in spectrum communications is what would led to the current inventions of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies.  Lamarr was born in Vienna, Austria in 1914. She developed the passion for "tinkering" from her father in his interests of "machinery" and the intricacy of how things worked. Her father would take her on walks and discuss the printing press or street cars. This embodied her intuition towards an inventive mindset...

George Lucas is a well known director and producer of movies. It took him a long journey to be able to produce the movies he had envisioned in his imagination. That's why he has the creativity and perseverance to invent the technology in order to produce the special effects for his best known movie "Star Wars" in 77'. This technology was called "Industrial Light and Magic" it illuminated objects to appear larger than they actually were like putting a ladybug under a microscope. This earned his title as a philanthropist and innovator of modern cinema. What made George Lucas' movies brilliant was that he was able to incorporate the essence of "anthropology" and "universal messages" in his films that stood out from other movies in Hollywood. Lucas actually intended to be a professional car driver until a fatal accident occurred before graduating high school. That's when he accidentally entered the industry in film-making, his...

What impacted my interest in movies is the first major movie that impacted my interests with cinema in the first place. The first major movie I remember watching is the hit blockbuster "Spider-Man" that was released in the early 00's that influenced my interest in comics, superheros and movies. My father bought me a DVD- player that was popular at the time before the invention of DVD's were released around '04. I would take that DVD player with me everywhere, I would always go to my local burger joint restaurant in town and watch movies wherever I went. It was the only activity that can calm children down in public, similar to the modern day i-Phone does for kids today. I would go to that restaurant every weekend with my family and the staff that works there got the "epiphany" to install televisions inside booths to resolute to a "family-kid friendly environment" You could suggest I influenced the idea to spoil kids in public wit...