LEAN ON ME - REVIEW

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LEAN ON ME - REVIEW 

BARATHBALA B

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Movie Name: LEAN ON ME

A. Introduction

·       Directed by : John G. Avildsen

·       Produced by :Norman Twain

·       ScreenPlay by :Michael Schiffer

·       Based on: Joe Louis Clark, a real life inner city high school principal in Paterson, New Jersey, whose school is in danger of being placed into receivership of the New Jersey state government unless students improve their test scores on the New Jersey Minimum Basic Skills Test. 

·       Starring: Morgan Freeman as Joe Louis Clark

Beverly Todd as Mrs. Joan Levias

Robert Guillaume as Dr. Frank Napier

Alan North as Mayor Don Bottman

And many more…

·       Cinematography:Victor Hammer

·       Edited by: John G. Avildsen

John Carter

·       Gener:  Biographical drama 

·       Theme: A disciplinary process

·       The Story: Joe Louis Clark, a real life inner city high school principal in Paterson, New Jersey, whose school is in danger of being placed into receivership of the New Jersey state government unless students improve their test scores on the New Jersey Minimum Basic Skills Test.



B. Mise-En-Scene (Select an important Scene and explain): The scene where clark asks sams and his friends to sing the school song in the restroom and he was shocked and surprised on listening to the new updated version of the school song by ms.powers and appreciating her in the music room.

.       Set: Music room

·       Light: Daylight from the right side

·       Colour: Pleasant Brown

·       Props: Keyboard,black board with notes,lyric paper

·       Costume: Casual wear for students and formal wear for clark and ms.powers

·       Composition: clark enters to the music room with sams and the boys,appreciates ms.powers for the updated version of the school song,ms.powers and the other students are excited on hearing that.

C. Visual Grammar :(Select an important Scene and explain): The same scene as mentioned above

·       Shot: Medium closeup

·       Focus: Deep focus

·       Angle: Medium

·       Camera Movement: still

·   Texture: 

D. Editing Style & Sound effect (Select an important Scene and explain): The same scene as mentioned above

Editing style: The scene has been cut by three different angles. One from clark’s point of view.Second with ms,powers’ [point of view. And the third with the students’ point of view in the music room.

Sound effect: Door opening sound

Keyboard sound


E. Performance by lead roles

Morgan Freeman as Joe Louis Clark stole the show with his wonderful acting. He just nailed his character as a strict,disciplined,inspiring and motivating principal.His dialoge delivery,expressions and attitude takes the clark character to the next level. Whenever freeman scores in the movie the very next scene Robert Guillaume as Dr. Frank Napier remainds freeman that i’m not letting you steal the show. He also performed very well and yes the combination scenes between these two were so good. Kaneesha and Sams also did a excellent job. 

How has this film affected you?

Sams character was very relatable to me and every dialogue which was said by Clark to sams was like it was directly said to me. Importantly the dialogues were very clear and perfect. I enjoyed the movie very much as i’m in my teenage and this movie gave me an another layer to be disciplined on studies and sports.

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