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Alphonso Scott

University of Houston

Movie Critique; Gung Ho (1986) R

Movies are created to evoke our emotions on things unseen in our society, the director can be influenced by what is happening in their surrounding or even something that had affected their lives. Some movies are humorous, some are comedy like and tragic while some are real-life stories. Gung Ho 1986 is a comedian movie which was produced by Lowell Ganz in association with Thomas Newman. The movie illustrates how Japanese bought an American automobile firm, and it's advertised as a clash of cultures after the Japanese reopen the automobile factory. It has some characters like Watanabe, Keaton, Soh Yamamura (Umemura, & Slater, 2017). Comment by Mike Olson: This should be a new sentence Comment by Mike Olson: Either get rid of the 1986 or put it in parentheses.

The movie Gung Ho has various topics within it that make the film full and beautiful. The movie being in a work setting, it has some topics of work-related, like for instance, Emotions at work, performance appraisal and many more of woke related. There are five serious topics that have been illustrated in the movie Gung Ho 1986. Comment by Mike Olson: “Topics related to the workplace” Comment by Mike Olson: Remove and start new sentence Comment by Mike Olson: Same as above

Performance Appraisal

Performance appraisal is that method that many companies use to monitor, workers performance and it's being documented and evaluated. In the movie Gung Ho, the performance appraisal is based on the number of the cars, the workers make per month, Assan motors being the name of the factory that the Japanese have taken over from Americans in a small town called Pennsylvania (Daneshkohan et al, 2015).. To give a little brief about how the Japanese ended up in U.S. the factories in Pennsylvania were all shut down, and people were not on any pay slip which was a gradual development on poverty or even downfall of the town. Michael Keaton, being one of the former foremen in a certain company, travels to Tokyo, to request if they can reopen the automobile plant. He did this to save the town. His proposal was accepted, and Japanese moved to the U.S. Comment by Mike Olson: “a method” Comment by Mike Olson: Avoid using contractions Comment by Mike Olson: Japanese what? Should clarify who they are, businessmen, executives, etc. Comment by Mike Olson: Like above, clarify who this is

When the Japanese arrived in the U.S, they took advantage of the jobless situation in Pennsylvania, which they started imposing some difficult duties on the workers. The worker appraisal was brought by Gede Wannabes and Keaton, who was working as a mediator between Japanese and workers. Keaton told wannabe, that when 15000 cars are made per month then his people will receive salary increment and jobless workers would be employed. The failure to achieve this goal even with one car, then nothing will happen (Daneshkohan et al, 2015). Comment by Mike Olson: Capitalize this Comment by Mike Olson: Get rid of the comma Comment by Mike Olson: “15,000” Comment by Mike Olson: “If they fail to…”

Kaeton assembles the workers about this, and the workers complained a lot of work under short period which will subject them to work under pressure. Kaeton was forced to lie of at least 13000 a slight move will be given, which never happen and the worker went to go-slows. The Gung Ho performance appraisal was like a dictatorship or taking advantage of the people of Pennsylvania. This topic was well addressed in this movie because it was all about workplace and factory where performance appraisal is applied. Comment by Mike Olson: “13,000” Comment by Mike Olson: “never happens” Comment by Mike Olson: Would flow better if you eliminate this part Comment by Mike Olson: Needs a bit more discussion than this