Essay #2 [revised]

Most of the time when we hear the word Hero we imagine a strong guy, good looking and with a good moral. The media plays an important role in the community because through the media we know who that hero is. The media has a strong social and cultural impact upon society. This is predicated upon their ability to reach a wide audience with a strong and influential message. However, what is the message that the movie accidental hero portrays? The movie also shows how a low class man save many lives. Both character Bernie Laplante and John Bubber has different qualities but also they have something in common as well.

The media control what we see. The reporter Gale Gayley and her cameraman recorded a office man who jumped off the roof. When the man jumped, the reported asked her cameraman “did you got that?”. That scene shows one thing, the media only care to portray its message not matter the circumstances. The news reporters have the ambition to report the best news ever. Gayley, who was in the hospital after the plane crashed was told that a unknown character saved her life and the rest of the passengers'. Immediately the media entitled the issue as the angel of the flight 104 they name the angel to make an impact and to make a public reaction toward that incident. To be hero is not necessarily to be famous, I agree with Bubber when he said that a hero is a symbol of good personality that everyone has. That is true, it does not matter whether you are poor or reach or whether you belong to a low class society, if you help others [like Bubber does in the movie] then you are a hero.

The music plays a good role in the media. While Gayley was interviewing the survivors the instrumental music was heroic to manipulate the audience. For instance, when Bubber, a homeless decided to show up for the interview and he said that he showed up because the money the instrumental music was a little sad because he Bobber was homeless. The media is powerful, it can make you famous like Bubber in the movie Hero. On the other hand, Laplante a selfish man, he was the one who committed the heroic act [he saved fifty four passengers]did not received any credit at all. Why? Because the media focuses in good images like Bubber.

The media have the potential to control the readers, the viewers and the action. Nowadays we can see how the media portrays the message when something wrong happens and how they try to manipulate the viewers. I consider the media as a two edge sword, it can make you famous but also it can destroy you like the scene when Gayley was talking about the onion metaphor. The movie has a meaningful message; it shows the good qualities that human beings have [when Laplante saved a bunch of people]. The movie also portrays the role of the media and how journalists can make a person like bubber who was a homeless into a rich celebrity and the miserable life of the man who suicided when he jump from the building. That could happen in real life and that is why I consider the movie Hero a good movie .