Essay 2- Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke is an American movie that was made in 1967. The leading actor is Paul Newman. The stage of the movie is a prison in Florida. Donn Pearce was in charge of the scenario of this movie. Don Pearce had ever committed in the prison and this experience became this movie’s motif.

Luke Jackson fought bravely on the battlefield and he got many decorations but he was discharged. One night he was committed to a prison in Florida because he broke a parking meter. He received a sentence of hard labor and corporal punishment by the head and the warders but he revolted against the authority. Then the prisoners looked up to him and he became the significant figure for them. At the same time he was marked by the head and the warders. He tries to escape the prison many times.

After seeing this movie I longed for his life because he lives freely. I want to be like him because he was popular in the prison but I do not want to enter jail. He is a very brave and so cool.

I didn’t know this movie until the Writing IV class. I know the movie where the stage is in prison. The movie is “es”. When I watched this movie, I was so shocked because this movie is based on a true story. The man who saw the newspaper advertising is committed to a false prison at university in Germany. They participate in the experiment and they can get much money. They are committed to the prison as prisoners and they are divided into the warders and the prisoners and they live two weeks in prison. In the beginning they live without some problems but the little things start to make a conflict between the warders and the prisoners. Finally it becomes an accident where two people are dead.

I want to watch other movie that are set in prison after I watched this movie.

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