The movie The Rock is a great example of heroism through a patriotic act. Sean Connery in The Rock, is one of the most notorious federal prisoners of his time he is brought out of prison to help the Un

Throughout the entire movie there is one guy, Wolmac, who absolutely despises Sean Connery and the feeling is reciprocal. Wolmac was around during the time when they imprisoned Sean Connery for stealing some of America’s greatest secrets. He is one of the few men who knows that Connery is being held without trial and with out chance of ever leaving the prison system for the rest of his life. Wolmac is always stressing the fact of how dangerous and illusive Connery is but, the audience is still always seeing him as desirable because he possess these amazing skills that allow him to do basically whatever it is that he wants to do. Connery broke out of The Rock, the most extensively engineered prison of all times. This prison was specifically designed so that no man could break out alive. In reality, as far as we know, no man has ever broken out of Alcatraz. J. Edgar Hoover who was the director of the FBI at the time was busting down on the top criminals of the 1920s and 1930s but couldn’t keep them in jail because they would bust out as soon as they got in. He was looking for a solution to the problem and found Alcatraz. This prison was to be inaccessible and thereby inescapable (Alcatraz History). Just the fact that Connery broke out of Alcatraz in the movie makes him almost a super hero type.

Heroism is all over America right now because of our recent tragedy and people like fire fighters and policemen are being recognized as outstanding heroes all over but especially in New York. Everybody loves a hero, except for the villain, even Kate Kennedy, an editor of a Women’s Forum website says that she altered her views of men. “I’d marry any fireman or policeman right now…On the spot. We could go to Vegas.” (Wetzstein) Kennedy is one of the many that has fallen in love with heroism and its remarkable effects that it has on society. Travolta defiantly is not up to that stature of heroism that the real life heroes of New York are but there are plenty of women out there that would drop their ways to marry John Travolta if they had the chance.

Travolta drives an Alfa Romeo, which should say enough right there. “As it sits low to the road, the Alfa Spider’s dynamic shape stirs feeling of admiration and desire.”(AlfaRomeo.com) That is directly out of the first sentence that is the description of this Alfa Romeo car. The directors could not have picked a more perfect car to help portray Travolta’s image as this desirable person than the Alfa Romeo. That car is a unicorn to any persons who loves and appreciates cars but doesn’t have the extra hundred grand sitting around. They are incredibly elegant and as a result are hard to get, plus they aren’t easy to get into the states. Just the fact that he drives this car, shows the power that he poses. He has the ability to have this car and not care about it too. He gets into a gunfight while driving it and doesn’t give a crap about people shooting his car, plus he just leaves it when the gunfight is over. His paint job alone, on his already expensive car, is around twenty thousand dollars. If you watch closely you will realize that it is painted in a chameleon paint that changes colors in different lights. Again this paint job is reemphasizing the fact that it is a reflection of Travolta’s image and is demonstrating the uniqueness and uncanny ability to adapt to any situation with perfect fluidity and at the drop of a hat.

There is a particular scene that directly describes Travolta’s personality in Swordfish. This scene describes him as an untouchable godlike figure that can do anything he wants to. He has all of these gorgeous women just surrounding him and doing whatever he wants them to do, literally at the snap of a finger. Travolta is not only charismatic; he is rich, smart as hell, and just an all around guy that you want to be if you had the chance. He has everything; he plans every move and is obviously happy. He knows

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