MEN OF HONOR

Men Of Honor

Men Of Honor

Q(1)Ans: Men of Honor tells the true story of Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a sharecropper's son who is forced to leave school at an early age to help support his family. Convinced that this life just isn't good enough for his son, Carl's father, Mac (Carl Lumbly), encourages him to enlist in the Navy as a way out of the crop fields.

From his first day in uniform, Brashear is met with both overt racism and the more insidious institutional bigotry systemic throughout America in 1948. But his father had instilled in him a fierce sense of pride and determination and, after his first glimpse of a Navy deep sea diver, Carl decides that he will do whatever it takes to join that elite group.( Bear, 1998)

Q(2)Ans: ASNF stands for A Son Never Forgets and it is related with Carl and his father. Eventually receiving the recognition of the ship's captain (a small bit part by the great Powers Boothe), Brashear is given the duties of white, enlisted men. Two years later, Brashear is accepted at the Navy Diver School run by that gruff, racist Master Chief De Niro. You can imagine what follows: The guilt-ridden drive to achieve the dreams of his father, the trials of acceptance into white society, the conversion of De Niro into a sympathetic character, the Oscar speeches about not giving up and striving forward, and the near-death of our young hero.

Q(3)Ans: Carl is forced to deal with Master Chief Billy Sunday (Robert DeNiro), the dive school master who holds a grudge against blacks. Sunday has the same roots as Carl - Billy, too, comes from a poor, southern farming family - but has a deep resentment of blacks stemming from his youth. For every obstacle Sunday and the school commander Mr. Pappy (Hal Holbrook) place before Carl, the young man hurdles past each, steadily earning the grudging respect of his chief. Eventually, the two men, Carl and Billy, develop a mutual bond and Master Chief Sunday pulls in markers from his comrades to help Carl achieve his goals - respected Navy diver and a Master Chief rating of his own.

Q(4)Ans: While Gooding does a good job in portraying Carl Brashear, Robert DeNiro stands out as the gruff, tyrannical Master Chief Sunday. Giving a perf that is a departure from what he's done lately, DeNiro plays the son of a poor white sharecropping family who escaped that plight and found a home in the Navy. A product of his upbringing and the prevailing mores of the day, Chief Sunday initially sees Carl's arrival as a threat to the status quo of his beloved Navy. Carl's determination, ability and dedication to the Navy slowly turn the chief and his attitude toward Brashear. The change is neither abrupt nor easy and DeNiro puts a convincing spin on his conversion.( Davis, 1991)

Q(5)Ans: Aunjanue Ellis, as Jo, puts a distinctive arc on her love interest role as she, first, ...