MEN OF HONOR

The film starts when Carl Brashear son of African American family farmers, whose
lives have been marked for being black. Decides to enter the army. Carl winds up
working in the kitchens on the USS Hoist in the South Pacific. He and the other
black officers joke about the so-called "bright future" the Navy promised them.
He is inspired by the bravery of one of the divers, Master Chief Petty Officer Leslie
William "Billy" Sunday. He is determined to overcome racism and become the first
black American Navy diver, even proclaiming that he will become a master diver.
He eventually is selected to attend Diving and Salvage School in Bayonne, New
Jersey where he arrives as a boatswain's mate second class.
He finds that Master Chief Sunday is the leading chief petty officer and head
instructor, who is under orders from the school's eccentric, bigoted commanding
officer to ensure that Brashear fails.
One weekend, on leave, Carl comes to a library in the hopes of getting a tutor to
help him. He meets a young woman named Jo who is studying medicine. She
thinks that Carl cannot possibly succeed, since he has only a 7th grade education.
Carl stays the entire night at the library reading and learning more about the Navy
program. Next morning, Jo is so impressed by his progress that she agrees to help
Carl.
Brashear proves himself as a diver by rescuing a fellow student whose dive buddy
abandoned him during a salvage evaluation that turns into a near disaster.
Unfortunately, due to the prevailing racism of the commanding officer the student
who fled in the face of danger is awarded a medal for Brashear's heroic actions.
Likewise, during an underwater assembling task where each student had to
assemble a flange underwater using a bag of tools, Brashear's bag is cut open.
Brashear nevertheless finishes the assembly and successfully completes the
diving school, earning the quiet and suppressed admiration of Master Chief
Sunday and his fellow divers. Master Chief Sunday is later demoted to senior chief
by the commanding officer for standing up for Brashear and allowing him to pass.
Sunday's career begins to wane as he continues to lose his composure around the
officers that disrespect his accomplishments, until he is finally demoted to chief
petty officer and relegated to menial duties.
The paths and careers of both Brashear and Sunday sharply diverge as Brashear
rises quickly through the ranks, even becoming a national hero in 1966 Palomares
B-52 crash (Spain) for recovering a missing atomic bomb and for saving the life of
Navy crew, while the latter becomes a brooding alcoholic and is displeased with his
low rank. The two eventually meet again after Brashear loses his left leg in the
atomic bomb incident and Sunday again trains Brashear and aids him in his fight
against the US Navy bureaucracy and an antagonistic Navy Captain in order to
return to full active duty and fulfill his dream of becoming a master diver. They are
successful and Brashear is reinstated
Text at the end reveals that Carl Braschear was the first African-American amputee
to assume Navy diving duty, and that two years after his reinstatement Carl was
promoted to Master Chief. Carl continued in his naval career for another nine years
before finally taking retirement








CHARACTERS

Master Chief Leslie Sunday
The Mississippi-born Sunday
It is a Master Chief Navy Diver whose exploits as a troublemaker
are as legendary as his accomplishments as a diver. Medically
disqualified from diving and removed from active duty, an angry
Sunday has been transferred to his current position as training officer for the Navy
Dive School.
Gwen Sunday
Gwen is the wife of master chief Navy Diver, she is a beautiful
woman who gets drunk because master chief oblivion that it was
their anniversary.

Carl Brashear
Carl Brashear son of African American family farmers, is a young,
black third-class sailor who has spent two years writing a hundred
letters to get accepted into the Navy Dive School program of the
newly integrated military. In addition to undergoing a punishing
physical training program, Brashear must study and excel in
physics, chemistry, diving, medicine and mechanics.
Mac Brashear
Mac, Carl's father, who works on a farm he is dead-set against
his son being "like him" and teaches very young to appreciate the
perseverance and overcoming obstacles that others impose their
dreams, to be so achieve anything that you set.

Jo Brashear
Jo is a good woman in Brashear's life, an aspiring doctor, who
works part-time in the Harlem the librarian who tutors him in
reading when he has trouble with written exams, which agrees to
help Carl to study so you can pass your exams successfully. It
also becomes his wife and she becomes pregnant.

Snowhill, Brashear's barracks mate
Snowhill is the only friend of Carl, he's a young stutterer that
racism does not care and you want to be a diver.


Camp commanding officer "Mr.Pappy
The commanding officer of the group, Is an alcoholic man who is
racist and makes life miserable for Carl, surveying his realm from
living quarters in a water tower, "there may come a day when a
colored diver graduates from this school, but it won't be
tomorrow, or as long as I'm here".







Message of the movie
This movie has several messages according to the interpretation of each for
example, teaches us that we must have tolerance against racism, we are all equal
and that both white and black people have equal rights, it also teaches us not to
give up on the life you always have to fight for what we want not to let the actions
or words of others affect us, we must fight against ourselves and learn more each
day of what we can do and what we are capable , you have to break the chains
that have bound us that are just ideas that we manufacture, it is us who put
ourselves limits.
It also teaches us that most people who are healthy, sometimes they give up at the
first obstacle that comes their way, while people who for example lose any part of
your body cling to fight to continue getting their goals.

Esta pelcula tiene varios mensajes segn la interpretacin de cada uno por
ejemplo, nos ensea que hay que tener tolerancia frente al racismo, que todos
somos iguales y que tanto personas blancas o negras tienen los mismos
derechos, tambin nos ensea a no darse por vencido en la vida que siempre hay
que luchar por lo que queremos que no hay que dejar que las acciones o palabras
de los dems nos afecten, que hay que luchar contra nosotros mismos y aprender
mas cada da de lo que podemos hacer y de lo que somos capaces, que hay que
romper las cadenas que nos tienen atados que solo son ideas que nosotros
mismos fabricamos, que somos nosotros quienes nos ponemos los limites.
Tambin nos ensea que la mayora de las personas que se encuentran sanas,
algunas veces se dan por vencidos al primer obstculo que se les presente,
mientras que las personas que por ejemplo pierden alguna parte de su cuerpo
siguen aferrados a luchar por seguir adelante consiguiendo sus metas.



Point of view
From my point of view this is a good movie, because it shows that the desire to
succeed is stronger than any obstacle that life may bring us, if someone important
in our lives encourages us to fight for our dreams and not to give defeated no
matter what others say can get what you want, you have to try those people who
said that if we could not achieve what we want to become even better than all of
them despite all obstacles and various tests presented to us.
Desde mi punto de vista esta es una buena pelcula, porque nos demuestra que el
deseo de superacin es ms fuerte que cualquier obstculo que la vida nos pueda
poner, que si alguien importante en nuestra vida nos incita a luchar por nuestros
sueos y a no darnos por vencidos sin importar lo que los dems digan podemos
conseguir lo que queramos, que hay que probar a esas personas que dijeron que
no podamos que si podemos lograr lo que queremos incluso llegar a ser mejor
que todos ellos a pesar de todos los obstculos y diversas pruebas que se nos
presenten.