Bernardo Gomez

Montgomery Clift

Initially James Dean was the actor the caught my attention for being young like myself and had similar experiences with his family as me. James Dean moved from Indiana to Santa Monica at a young age because his father wanted to have a better life as a dentist instead of a farmer. I was born in the United States only but at a few months old was taken to Mexico and lived there with my family for about five years. My father was tired of working for his father as a farmer and wanted to obtain his own wealth. We made a transition back to the United States. Initially school was hard for me and I was held back a year because I started school late as well as I wasn’t able to speak english like the other kids in school. James Dean dropped out of college to follow his dream to become an actor. James Dean appearance on an advertisement for pepsi was the jump start to his career. I am fortunate to have family that owns restaurants in San Diego and was able to obtained an internship as assistant manager and chef’s assistant to reach my goal of being a successful business owner and chef. I hope to climb the ropes up as fast as James Dean and be a successful man. James Dean was my initial choice but unfortunately I had to change James Dean because his time frame in his career was really short so I switched to Montgomery Clift.

Montgomery Clift being similar to James Dean was a wise choice to transition to since Montgomery Clift was very alike to James Dean with the same objective to be actor. Montgomery Clift was all about the theater since his mother had alway been the person to push him in his acting career. Montgomery was stubborn knowing that he didn’t want to be a movie star his happiness was theater since Montgomery had been doing theater for about ten years. Similarly, I want want to be a executive chef and that was my career choice since I was young but like Montgomery Clift I was pushed by family to also get a business administrations degree to have the title of a chef along with the business administrations degree. That way I could be successful throughout my future with both degrees. Montgomery Clift was never a fan of moving his talent toward hollywood and making movies. Montgomery Clift wanted his talent to maintain in  theater but the right moment came to spark. When Hollywood made an offer that wasn't for Montgomery Clift to rejectable but Montgomery Clift was wise and told Hollywood that with him there would be no contract because he wasn’t going to be tied down by a contract so to me this was very inspiring. Knowing that I also stand see things in thats perspective knowing that I myself would never tie myself down to something I don't feel is right. I currently have job and was given more responsibilities along with an increase to my pay but after sometime the job was to demanding and it was a bit crazy the way my boss wanted thing to be done but I had told them that I would keep doing thing the way they wanted till the end of summer because I would no longer be doing things to their demand. I wasn't going  be the puppet machine that they wanted me to be because that would be humiliating. In a similar way to the way Montgomery respond to hollywood on the contract I respond back to my boss and said look I am not going to be doing that job anymore or I go back to what I normally doing or take a 2 week notice from me and I am done with this job. Everyone should stand up for their right and never feel humiliated or obligated to do something they don't want to.