movie response

Hawley Conger
King Gimp and Gahanna Bill Movie Response

In the short film King Gimp the main character Dan Keplinger the main character is followed from the time he was twelve through his college graduation. He is in a chair and he has a hard time with fine motor skills. He become very frustrated with people who tell him he is not capable of doing things. He makes it through public high school and graduates with his fellow classmates. Dan then proceeds to move out of his house and live on his own. He also attends college and becomes an art major and he graduates with a degree in art. Dan now has well known paintings displayed in such places like New York.
In Gahanna Bill the main Character Bill Withrow can understand what people are telling him he just has troubles communicating things back. He grew up with a very supportive mother and father. He was very into his high schools sports and he loved to be as involved as he could.
As he grew older he got into a routine. His father would make him breakfast and then take him to work at the Sprite factory. He would then go help out at Gahanna High School in the sports department. It was his favorite thing to do he was very passionate about the sports there. When his father passed away he was devastated and he moved in with his sister. It was decided that Bill was going to work at the high school. It was the one thing that made him very happy and everyone there enjoyed him and his company.

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a. In king gimp and Gahanna Bill they are both social models of disability because they are trying to just fit in with day to day society but due to the way they communicate it is difficult for them to. People shun them and tell they cannot do things and both of them live productive successful lives.b. To me King Gimp was more empowering because I felt as though Dan himself was really trying to send a message to the audience. He had very empowering lines in his story. Talking about being alone his whole life and the way completely expressed his life and his feelings with his artwork and his writing. He made himself completely independent and reliable just on himself and it was extremely empowereing