Movie Monday Half Past Autumn Part 3 and 4

1. What is your definition of successful?

A: Success is accomplishing the goals that you create. For me, there are measurable goals like getting into college and finding a job. There are also intangible goals like improving the ease of which I talk with strangers or in front of large groups.2. What have you given up to become successful?
3. What did Parks give up to become successful?
4. Who was Genevieve Young's father?
5. How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)?

A: $50,0006. How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam?
7. Why did Parks refuse the money?
8. What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree?

A: It was the first movie directed by Gordon Parks and became an American classic.9. What was significant about the character Shaft?

He was the first prominent African American main character who was virtually a superhero.10. What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons?

Photography, art, music, writing, and film. He believed that nonviolent weapons were, in some cases, more powerful than violent weapons.11. What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce?

A: Their life together was very unpredictable and she could not maintain control of both her job and their marriage.12. In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story?

A: "12 Years a Slave"13. Who was Gordon Parks, jr?

A: He followed in his father's footsteps of becoming a photographer and filmmaker. His tragic death in a pane crash would leave an irreparable on Gordon Parks.14. What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo?

A: My favorite photos are the ones from the earliest point of his career with all the fashion models who gave him the opportunity to become a successful photographer.15. What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years?

A: I will remember him first as a photographer and second as a filmmaker, musician, and artist.