Louanne Johnson, a former Marine, applies for a teaching job in high school, and is surprised and pleased to be offered the position with immediate effect. Showing up the next day to begin teaching, however, she finds herself confronted with a classroom of tough, sullen teenagers, all from low income working-class backgrounds, involved in gang warfare and drug pushing, flatly refusing to engage with anything.Dangerous Minds 1995 Movie Download.
They immediately coin the nickname “White Bread” for Louanne, due to her race and apparent lack of authority, to which Louanne responds by returning the next day in a leather jacket and teaching them karate. The students show some interest in such activities, but withdraw when Louanne tries to teach the curriculum.Dangerous Minds 1995 Movie Download.
In order to introduce them to poetry, Louanne uses the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” to teach symbolism and metaphor; once this is achieved, she progresses on to Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night”. George Grandey and Carla Nichols, who try to force her to remain within the curriculum.A few particular students attract Louanne’s interest for their personal problems. Raul Sanchero is a boy who is frequently involved in gang warfare and street crime. Louanne tries to encourage him to focus by paying a special visit to his family to congratulate him on his work, and going to dinner with him as a way of instilling confidence and self-respect.Dangerous Minds 1995 Movie Download.
Emilio Ramirez is her most troublesome personal “project” as he believes strongly in a sense of personal honor that prevents him from asking for help. When Louanne discovers that his life is in danger because of a personal grudge held by a recently released thug, she advises him to seek help from Principal Grandey. The next day, Emilio visits Grandey, but Grandey (not realizing that Emilio is in serious danger) instantly dismisses him because he neglected to knock on the door before entering his office.