“Cool Hand Luke”:
How does the movie reflect the time period (the 60’s)?
1. Research economic, social and political issues of the year or two before they produced the movie. Choose the three major issues for each of these and use those to write the topic sentence for that section. Each of these categories is worth 23% of the paper.
Then, discuss how the movie reflects each of those nine issues. Consider plot, character, setting, music. Was one issue more prevalent than the others? Did one of the issues enable the movie to remain a classic?
Develop a thesis which discusses the findings.