Ingles 6 ANGELA PATRICIA RODRIGUEZ LEAL

Courageous.

Description:

The movie courageous was released the 30th of September in 2011, the movie was directed by Alex Kendrick. Classified as a drama. Rated PG-13.

The movie “Courageous” is a true story about some police officers that work hard keeping people safe every day, but when they get home to their houses they aren’t good fathers. The movie shows how the main actor by the name of Adam Mitchell (Alex Kendrick who is also the director of the movie) loses his daughter in an accident with a drunk driver. After trying to get over the situation, Adam notices how bad of a father he had been. He starts talking to his son that he didn’t pay attention to before. So, to make it better he talks to one of his partners in the police department who is a Christian. They talk about how Adam should make a big decision in his life and he decides to follow Jesus as well. He decides to swear this next pledge:

Description of the scene: The scene is in a yard, with the four families of the police officers standing in a circle and in the middle is Adam Mitchell with his family beside a Pastor. They are about to Pledge the next words.

From The movie “Courageous” Script:

Pastor: Are you ready

to make this commitment

before God and your family?

Adam Mitchell: Yes, l am.

Pastor: Then I'd like for you

to repeat after me.

I, Adam Mitchell,

do solemnly resolve before God...

To take full responsibility for myself,

my wife and my children.

Adam: That I will take full responsibility

for myself, my wife and my children.

I will love them,

protect them and serve them...

And teach them the statutes of God

as the spiritual leader of my home.

I will be faithful to my wife,

to love and honour her...

And be willing to lay down my life

for her, as Christ did for me.

I will teach my son

to love God

with all of his heart, all of his mind,

and all of his strength.

I will teach my son to love God

with all of his heart, all of his mind,

and all of his strength.

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