249 Stand and Deliver Live

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, The Outlaw, John Rocha is taking us back to 1988 to discuss one of his favorite films about an educational hero who, like The Outlaw's family, immigrated from Bolivia and made his mark in America. Jaime Escalante transformed the lives of thousands of students in East Los Angeles. His passion for education, unique teaching style and belief that his students could excel resulted in more students passing the AP Calculus test than any one thought possible.

It's a great film and it led to an incredible conversation about education, privilege, Hollywood, and the world Hispanic Americans.

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0:00.0	Hello, the cinephile fans. This is John. This week on the cinephile Steve Morrison
0:04.8	I are going live with our monthly the cinephiles live show and we're doing it in honor of Hispanic
0:10.4	Heritage Month this week and we're talking about this film from 1988, one of my personal
0:15.2	favorites and I think it's a personal favorite of a lot of Latinos and Hispanics who love
0:19.3	films, stand and deliver. Came out in 1988 directed by Ramón Menendez, written by Menendez
0:26.1	and Tom Mosca and it stars Edward James, almost as a high school mathematics teacher,
0:31.4	Jaime Escalante. It's based on a true story. And Mr Escalante was able to elevate the scores
0:37.3	of these working class Latino kids who had kind of been falling under the radar, not
0:43.2	making the grade. He comes in with these revolutionary new teaching techniques that
0:48.0	pushes up against the old norm and gets them to stand and deliver on their courses.
0:55.3	It's a fantastic film and they have to overcome a bunch of obstacles, a bunch of challenges
0:59.4	to get there. So it's one that I think you all would thoroughly enjoy if you've never
1:03.0	seen it or one, if you haven't revisited it in a while, that is worth your time to revisit
1:07.1	it so you can hang out with us and talk about it live on the cinephiles live this Sunday
1:11.9	at 4 p.m. p. t. And of course, Hispanic Heritage Month going until Friday, October 15th.
1:17.5	So give some love to your local Hispanics and local Latinos and their businesses. Just
1:22.6	a little background on the film here. Edward James almost was nominated for best actor
1:26.4	for this film at the 61st Academy Awards and the film itself won the Independent Spirit
1:31.3	Award for Best Feature in 1988. So a lot of love for this film and in 2011, the film
1:37.1	was deemed, quote, culturally, historically or aesthetically significant by the Library
1:41.7	of Congress and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
1:46.4	So I'm excited to talk about this film with Steve and with all of you in honor of Hispanic
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