I found Sam L. Jackson did a great job in this movie ,butI didnt want him to kill himself because he showed a great faith in God and he was such a strong guy that can handle it buy any other way ,dont u think?
shareif you remember in the movie, he says something about if he has to kill himslef to teach the students then so be it. thats why he killed himself, to teach Cesar a lesson.
"Fo i snatch that leather wig off yo head, and dem suede sideburns!"
It's kinda one of those things that yeah, suicide isnt the way to solve things, but sacrificing your own life so that those kids have the chance of being saved meant a lot more to him.
sharewell heres what i wrote about that some time ago, i think there are two main aspects about his suicide:
"the loss wasnt his life in the first place, the loss was his idealism, his professional ethics, the basic attitude of being a teacher which is the most important thing in his life, he lost his way, the way he has become before his suicide he wouldnt have been a good teacher anymore, he was broken,
i liked the final, this last scene is very important, he gives his life on the one hand because meanwhile he thinks if he cant teach those boys he has failed and all his affords were useless and on the other hand because he feels guilty, he crossed a line, he knows that, he feels that he owes his pupils not to give them up, still what he does in the last scene isnt really heroic, but at least its kind of desperate last penance and the last gleaming of his teachers idealism"
I thinking there is more to it. His life was over. He was stripped of everything. All he wanted to do was teach. He tried and tried hard, and teh system failed him many times. Which if you are not a teacher you will never understand what that is like.
I for one have taught now for 6 years. Think of a job where you put your total life into. Day and night you struggle with giving your fullest potential. Then your superiors sh!t all over you. Your job is your life when you are a teacher. Its not some job that you do just for the holidays and summers off. Try it and see what happens, many won't last.
That part of him was dead, but in his last effort he tried to his dying day. He tried to reach Ceaser and show him that his machismo attitude was *beep* He tried hard but could never get through to him. So he took Ceasar's turn to out wit him. He dies, and to the teacher dying wasn't that big of a deal because he already died earlier when he was fired.
Ceasar, as usual, doesn't learn his lesson and decides to try to be th etougher guy and out with the teacher so he can say that he took his chance also. But in stupidity he dies. Ceasar dies for no reason other than being an idiot. That's why Stevie says What's the point. Mr. G died because he was trying to help Ceasar.
Vinni, viddi, pinche.
What you want, and what the world gives you, is two different things
shareYes, it's tragic, especially when Cesar breaks down and says 'no' just before the bullet rumbles. It may have seemed if Cesar understood the logic he was missing the whole time.
share Best "teacher in a hostile environment" movie I have seen and I believe I have seen them all: Dangerous Minds, The Principle, Stand by Me, ect. This one steps out of the box a lot more than the others and shows a teacher who cracks under pressure. Samuel L Jackson was perfect in this and deserved a lot more credit as did the whole movie.
Yes, he was definitely trying to teach Cesar a lesson in the last scene and felt his life was over anyway. He really didn't care about dying at that point. He was probably welcoming death.
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I wouldn't really call Samuel Jackson's actions killing himself. He had guns pointed at his head and their holders telling him to point a gun at his own head and pull the trigger. He was pretty much screwed. Even if he didn't shoot himself in the head and their leader ended up killing himself, they probably would've shot him anyway.
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