Movie Monday Half Past August- Part 3-4

1. What is your definition of successful?
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)?
6. 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?
9. What was significant about the character Shaft?
10. What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons?
11. What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce?
12. In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story?
13. Who was Gordon Parks, jr?
14. What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo?
15. What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years?

1. My definition of success is to be able to be doing what I love to do.
2. I have not given up anything because I am not successful yet. 
3. Parks gave up his relationships to become successful. 
4. He was a UN Ambassador for Great Britain, USA, and France.
5. Parks only wrote 7 pages of his book and he was offered $10,000 for those 7 pages.
6.  Parks refused the money because Parks was afraid that Muhammad would influence him if he did do the story.
7. Parks refused the money because Parks was afraid that Muhammad would influence him if he did do the story.
8. The move The Learning Tree is significant because Parks was Hollywood's first black director.
9. Shaft was a black superhero that many African American people looked up to.
10. Gordon Parks chose his 35 millimeter camera as his weapon. 
11. Genevieve Young said that they probably divorced because of the turmoil that Gordon was in at that time.
12. The recent film with the same story is called Twelve Years A Slave.
13. Gordon Parks Jr. is Gordon Parks son.
14. My favorite Gordon Parks picture is American Gothic.
15. In 10 years, I will remember Gordon Parks as a activist that successfully protested and brought light to problems in America. I will remember his trip to Brazil and sharing his relationship with Flavio, and I will remember the hard work and dedication he put into his work to make it unique.