A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband.
A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers.
An African-American TV director and his wife.
A Mexican locksmith. Two carjackers. A rookie cop.
A middle-aged Korean couple...
They all live in LA.
and during the next 36 hours,
they will all collide.
STEP 1: THE TITLE: CRASH
The introductory monologue pretty much summarizes most of what happens in this movie.
People in L:A: move back and forth in their cars, without any kind of human contact.
They need to collide in order to make that necessary human contact everybody needs...
WHAT DOES THE TITLE CRASH MEAN?
Crash means that people of different cultures have different stories that are happening just relate to each other so that as a clash of cultures
STEP 2: THE OPENING MONOLOGUE
Read the opening monologue.
Graham has just crashed.
The car is now stopped.
This is what he says:
“It's the sense of touch. Any real city, you walk, you know?, you brush past people.
People bump into you.
In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass.
I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so that we can feel
something.”
The film website
STEP 3: WRITING A SUMMARY
Jean: Jean is Rick's wife who is pampered and irritated and feels she needs a change when she sees that she's alone.
Graham: Graham is police detective who is in love with police detective Ria, he's looking for his lost brother Peter and has to take care from his mentally incapacitated mother.
Officer Ryan: A racist police officer who has to face his more idealistic partner, officer Hansen he's trying to help his father who has a urinary infection.
Ria: She's a police detective who is in love with Graham a man troubled by his family. Together they will have to solve a murder.
Rick: A district attorney who's car is hijacked by black people is worried about the effects on the black vote, and wants to be a good example to black people.
Cameron: Cameron is a Hollywood director who will have to face his wife, Christine, while he ties to show that he's not black.
Anthony: A very idealistic car hijacker who will steal Rick's car, together with his companion Peter.
Christine: The wife of Cameron, she's angry because his husband ties to pretend that he's not black in any means necessary after she's molested by officer Ryan
Officer Hansen: The younger companion of officer Ryan is shocked after witnessing the racism of his partner and will ask for a change.
Daniel: A Hispanic locksmith will try to start a new life with his daughter with in a less problematic neighbor.
Farhad: A Persian shopkeeper who will fall in distress when his shop is regularly attacked at night.
STEP 4: WRITING THE STORY
Choose 1 of the stories in the film and
4.1.write a summary.
The stroy is the story of officer Ryan, a policeman who's having problems with his father to enter an hospital, an dhe starts to get angry and be racist. First, talking for the phone after when he stops a dark skined coulpe and molests the woman.
4.2.describe the characters:
How do they look like?
What's his/her personality? naïve, responsible, ambitious...
What's the relationship between them?mother-son, husband-wife...
How do they feel at the beginning?
How do they react in the story?
Do they change? Why? Why not?
I choose officer Ryan, a policeman who is having problems with his father to enter a hospital and because this is starting to get very angry and starts to be racist. He looks like a man of 40 years old, with the short dark hair. He is responsible and eficient, but as seen in the film is also racist. He is the son of a retired concierge who took de work a skin darked persons. At the beginnig is very angry and racist for this reason upsets a couple of skin darked person and molests the wife. Finally, he saves the wife who molests before from a car explosion after a car crash.
STEP 5: CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
Choose one character you like
- physical description
- personality
- evolution in the story
I choose officer Ryan, a policeman who is having problems with his father to enter a hospital and because this is starting to get very angry and starts to be racist. He looks like a man of 40 years old, with the short dark hair. He is responsible and eficient, but as seen in the film is also racist. He is the son of a retired concierge who took de work a skin darked persons. At the beginnig is very angry and racist for this reason upsets a couple of skin darked person and molests the wife. Finally, he saves the wife who molests before from a car explosion after a car crash.
