8. Literature – Finding Forrester 2000
William Forrester [Sean Connery] challenges you with an ironic advice – that the first draft should be written with your heart, a re-write with your head, and that the first key to writing is to write and not to think. Studying literary techniques may feel like a power drill sucking into your brains. This discipline requires a demanding mind expansion. Jamal Wallace strives to understand the underlying meaning of it all as he explores his own voice. Do you think William Forrester is right?
Arguably, yes. Though not thoroughly significant in the film, the portraits of notable authors displayed on the classroom wall are there for a reason. They manifest symbolism of different voices. You have read their works, consumed them with passion, and wished to become like one of them even – but Forrester teaches you that you are in power to create your own literary technique yourself through the voice that gushes out of your heart, and that those portraits are simply other voices that the world has already heard and come to admire. And that’s exactly what Jamal Wallace has done.
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