A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband.
A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers.
An African-American TV director and his wife.
A Mexican locksmith. Two carjackers. A rookie cop.
A middle-aged Korean couple...
They all live in LA.
and during the next 36 hours,
they will all collide.
and during the next 36 hours,
they will all collide.
CRASH, a Paul Haggis movie
STEP 1: THE TITLE: CRASH
The
introductory monologue pretty much summarizes most of what happens in
this movie.
People in L:A: move back and forth in their cars, without
any kind of human contact.
They need to collide in order to make that
necessary human contact everybody needs...
WHAT DOES THE TITLE CRASH MEAN?
STEP 2: THE OPENING MONOLOGUE
Read the opening monologue.
Graham has just crashed.
The car is now stopped.
This is what he says:
“It's the sense of touch. Any real city, you walk, you know?, you brush past people.
People bump into you.
In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass.
I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so that we can feel
something.”
Discuss the meaning of his words.
STEP 3: WRITING A SUMMARY
Write down the characters' names
and the different stories in the film.
STEP 4: WRITING THE STORY
Choose 1 of the stories in the film and
4.1.write a summary.
4.1.write a summary.
4.2.describe the characters:
How do they look like?
What's his/her personality? naïve, responsible, ambitious...
What's the relationship between them?mother-son, husband-wife...
How do they feel at the beginning?
How do they react in the story?
Do they change? Why? Why not?
STEP 5: CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
Choose one character you like
- physical description
- personality
- evolution in the story
