ELC 650

Movie Critique:
TAG (2018)
AHMAD HANIF BIN ROZANI
2018673988
MUHAMMAD NAJMI HAKIM BIN
AZLI SHAM 2018403226
Introduction
TAG (2018)

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Synopsis
TAG (2018)
One month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the
ground running for a no-holds-barred game of tag -- risking their
necks, their jobs and their relationships to take one another down.
This time, the game coincides with the wedding of the only
undefeated player. What should be an easy target soon becomes
an all-out war as he knows they're coming to get him.
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 With Hoagie having been the last one tagged in the previous

Movie Excerpt year, he first recruits Bob, the CEO of an insurance company,
and then Chilli and Kevin for one last attempt to tag Jerry, who

TAG (2018) has seemingly never been tagged because of his strong
athleticism and intelligence. Hoagie tells them that Jerry plans
to retire after this year's game because of his upcoming
marriage. Rebecca Crosby, a Wall Street Journal reporter
doing a piece on Bob, joins them and decides to write an

Roles of each person:

article on the friends.

• Ed Helms
(Hogan "Hoagie" Malloy)
• Jon Hamm (Bob Callahan)
• Annabelle Wallis (Rebecca Crosby)
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 CRITICAL INCIDENT 1:
WORK BENEFITS

DESCRIPTION
ANALYSIS
As we grow older, we will eventually work at an institution.
Benefits are any perks offered to employees in addition to salary.
Hogan said that he The most common benefits are medical, disability, and life
doesn't mind about
insurance; retirement benefits; paid time off; and fringe benefits.
being fired by Bob,
In the video, it highlighted how adults perceives benefits are an
saying that the work
benefits are not good important aspect in career path in choosing the correct company
but then contradicts to be working at.
himself later by saying
that the work benefits I mean, the Janitor could give many reason on why he wanted to
are actually good. quit such as relationship with employee, challenging environment
but the first thing he mention was how bad the benefits are.

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 CRITICAL INCIDENT 2:
SENSE OF URGENCY
ANALYSIS
DESCRIPTION After getting in a minor conversation with Bob, Hogan quickly calls for
the action on Jerry. Because he sensed a perfect opportunity to get at
Hogan persuades Bob Jerry, Jerry is the person who never seems to be tagged thanks to his
to help him get Jerry intellect and athleticism.
tagged for the last time
before he retires from
As a student, sense of urgency is important. One need to have a day-
their tag game in 63
to-day schedule to keep track of the learning, assigments,
hours.
coursework to avoid any proscrastination or overdue assignments.
Sense of urgency is also related to time management, and in any
stage of life time management is vital to ensure success. One must
not be too relaxed and have a proper sense of urgency in order to
create the best opportunity in oneself.
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 CRITICAL INCIDENT 3:
DISTRACTION
ANALYSIS
DESCRIPTION As Rebecca was interviewing Bob, Hogan created various distraction to
prevent Bob from being suspicious about his presence. Eventually leads to
Bob lets himself get the demise of Bob. But from a student perspective, being disturbed while
distracted from the doing something important such as interviews is irritating.
interview with Rebecca
before and after Hogan A student could be led astray by various variables. Thanks to the fast-
revealed himself to him paced changing world we live in today, student nowadays seems to have
and eventually did not tons of distraction to be compared with their parents or ancestors.
carry out a successful Smartphones, unnecessary relationship, part time job to stay relevant in
interview Rebecca. current economies are some of the factors why distraction could occur.
Due to mistake in priotizing the most important responsibilities as a
student.

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 CRITICAL INCIDENT 4:
PROFESSIONALISM
ANALYSIS
DESCRIPTION At the beginning of the scene, both Bob and Rebecca gave each other a
Bob immediately starts warm greeting and a brief introduction in the conference room and wasted
the interview with Wall no time to start the interview.
Street Journal reporter
Rebecca Crosby not From this part of the scene, it is shown that Bob and Rebecca can show
too long after greeting good traits of professionalism as a company CEO and a journalist
her, understandingthat respectively, as both individuals are understanding of each other's job
she is there to do her commitments and have agreed to accomodate each other in a smooth
job and he must show a manner.
good example as the
CEO of his company.

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 CRITICAL INCIDENT 5:
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
ANALYSIS
DESCRIPTION Despite Hogan's sudden intrusion during Bob's interview with Rebecca,
Bob opted to be nice to him and invited him to have dinner with him later
Once Hogan reveals
that day.
himself to Bob, they
greeted each other
In this scene, students could learn from Bob's actions which not only
jovially and Bob even
invited Hogan to dinner to showcases Bob's professionalism in the workplace but also shows an
continue their example of his interpersonal skills with other workers. In any workplace,
conversation for which interpersonal skills are an important aspect of every job in order to
Bob was too busy to maintain one's relationship with co-workers.
attend to at the moment.

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DESCRIPTION
Despite having an interview
with Rebecca at the
moment, Bob eventually
focused all his attention at
Hogan who proposed to
play along in their game
which has nothing to do
with their jobs. Later on,
Bob disregarded the
interview completely to
follow Hogan.
CRITICAL INCIDENT 6:
LACK OF PROFESSIONALISM
ANALYSIS
When Hogan re-entered the conference room and interrupted the
interview again, Bob found himself paying attention to his friend instead of
carrying out the interview to the point where Rebecca's interview with him
ended unceremoniously.
This behaviour is unprofessional on Bob's part because not only did he
cancel the interview suddenly, he did not even issue an apology or
proposed a new interview date with Rebecca to leave with Hogan. This
critical incident is one of several incidents in the movie scene where
students should not make an example of due to the glaring lack of
professionalism from Bob.
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 PRACTICE PROFESSIONALISM IN THE
WORKPLACE
Students must learn about what is considered
professional and unprofessional behaviour in
order to understand how to act in a workplace.
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS ARE JUST AS
IMPORTANT AS PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Conclusion Interpersonal skills are important in a work
environment so that once can maintain a healthy
relationship with co-workers, superiors and
subordinates.
AVOID DISTRACTIONS
Getting distracted from doing an assigned job or
task is detrimental in any kind of workplace. Hence,
students should take care to avoid distractions as
much as possible during work.
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