What's in a picture?

I chose this old man, who I'm going to name Leonard because he looks like a Leonard to me. Leonard looks like he's in his mid-70's…maybe, I'm really bad at determining age. He's wearing a vintage light orange-brown blazer as well as a pair of dark brown trousers. His collared shirt is a somewhat beige color and he has a yellow and brown print tie. He is also wearing a different lighter brown bowler hat. He has a ticket in his hand and he looks a bit weak. he's quite short. It looks like Leonard is pushing through the turny things to get through airport security. He has a piece of paper that looks kind of like a ticket. So he's probably boarding a flight. His skin tone is quite light. Maybe an average American senior citizen? I'm unsure. His posture is somewhat slouchy so he might have back problems, most old people have health issues of some sort anyway. There is no visible hair, he could be bald. His facial expression looks somewhat awestruck and innocent. Like "What the..?" Lost in thought, clueless. Or...whatever. I don't know why this picture "struck" me. In my opinion, this old man Leonard looks like a pretty funny guy. I think he reminds me of the old guy from the six flags commercials. Or maybe I just think all old people are funny. Yet again, I don't know. If I had to come up with EXACTLY what Leonard was doing, it would be that he is retired and decided to go visit...Jamaica where his daughter lives. Leonard's a pretty cool guy. He used to work at Microsoft, actually he was the first Bill Gates. But of course, he didn't get any credit. He retired about 3 years ago and decided to visit his only daughter before his time had past.

MAYBE
Leonard is heading to the funeral of his best friend Jeffree. He was asked to make a speech infront of everyone at the funeral. As he was heading to the train (not an airport, a train station) he was thinking of what he should say and suddenly FLASHHH!!! A blinding light struck this senior citizen into shock.He has no clue that his picture got taken and posted and Bill Sullivan's Turnstyle Project website or that it's on my blogger. He was just minding his own business.

Mulan

While watching Mulan I have to say there were a LOT of values portrayed in this movie. Through out only three scenes from this movie I found 72 obvious values that were shown. But are these really Chinese values or American values with some Chinese culture? In my opinion, Chinese culture and values were appropriately presented in this movie. But of course, I have never been to China and therefor have no right to critique. But in the end, after the reading the articles written by Katherine Kim and Andrea Quong, I realized that Disney was WAY off when they tried to show Chinese culture. First off, and the most obvious, more than half of the characters in the movie don't have a Chinese accent, yet they are from China. Second, Disney tends to show a lot of the negative sides of Chinese culture (with the whole sexist issue) failing to realize that if your part of that Chinese culture, it's common and not as big of an issue. Also, it explains quite clearly about the beauty in China being expresses through make up and kimono's but, oddly, not through the binding of feet. But then again, I thought deeper into it, and the movie seems to have a lot of truth as well. The story of Mulan is a legend and legends are parts of culture. They exemplified very well what Chinese men found "beautiful" and their view on woman back then. Not only did they show the attitude towards people and issues back then but they included how they ate and how they dressed. In this sense, Disney was very accurate in sending out the message on how China is, or at least how it was back then. But really, this movie was made by Disney people, most likely Americans getting some ideas from Chinese people. I have to agree with Katherine Kim when she said that Mulan was more accurate then previous Disney movies (i.e. Pocahontas, Aladdin etc...), but I think that Andrea Quong analyzed it way to far and in that effort, forgot this movie is meant to appeal to the younger persona.

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