Monday, March 23, 2015

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks Parts 3 and 4

1. My definition of successful is having achieved all your goals in life and being able to support yourself at the same time.
2. In order to be successful, I have given up my free time.
3. Parks gave up his hometown to be successful. He left his home when he was just fifteen years old and ever since worked to become a photographer in order to provide for himself.
4. Genevieve Young's father was Ambassador V.K. Wellington Koo.
5. When Gordon parks wrote Choice of Weapons, he received $10,000 for the first seven pages.
6. Elijah Muhammad offered Gordon Parks $50,000 to do the story.
7. Parks refused the money because he wanted his film to say something and leave an impression on the viewers. He didn't care about the money.
8. Gordon Parks's movie, The Learning Tree, was important to the Hollywood film industry because it was the first movie written and directed by a black man.
9. Shaft was a young black superhero, and one of the first.
10. Gordon Parks's Choice of Weapons was an autobiography published in 1966. It was about how he resisted the use of weapons like guns and knives. Instead he used his pens, cameras, and paint brushes.
11. The couple divorced because the slightest thing would become a problem. Genevieve couldn't live in the spontaneous world that Gordon was a part of. The turmoil in his life and her trying to keep it controlled wore her out.
12. 12 Years by Steve McQueen and released in 2013 told the same story.
13. Gordon Jr. was Parks's first son, who ran out of money in attempt to make his film. He was the director of the movie. He was very much like Gordon Parks, always out. He died in a plane crash.
14. My favorite Gordon Parks photo is from his Segregation Story of a white woman and her black maid holding a white baby on a train.
15. In ten years, I will remember Gordon Parks' success, his movies in specific. 

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