#Movies about change movie
In one fell swoop, the movie laid to rest the myopic canards about the limited appeal of films starring women, people of color, and featuring frothy, escapist romance and light comedy. So when the film - the first about Asian-American characters to be released by a major studio in a quarter century - came out in August to universal acclaim and record-setting box office, the sigh could be heard across continents. Chu’s adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s novel about the cross-cultural romance between a Chinese-American economics professor and the heir to one of Singapore’s largest fortunes. The world held its collective breath in advance of Jon M. Presenting USC’s first annual MISC LIST: The 15 Most Significant Social Change Films. We rank 15 that manage to balance excellent filmmaking, entertainment value, and social impact and did so in a way that was singular, creative and inspiring. This year, there was a plethora of examples of films that embody the ethos that MISC was founded on.
It has to be able to expand our understanding, to change our perspective, to challenge us to do something.īased at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the Media Institute for Social Change (MISC) was created around this very idea - that media can be entertaining while also inspiring positive social change. These are the elements that can make for a good or even great movie, but can they make that movie matter? For a film to have real social impact, it has to be more than just technically proficient. The shared moment between two characters that sums up their strange and complicated relationship, framed in a perfect two-shot. A far-away world meticulously crafted in CGI.