1. The movie, Radio, is based at Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. It is about this young, colored, mentally disabled man that stumbles across his local town’s football teams ball. He picks up the ball, and it catches the eye of the teams coach, who later befriends him. The next day, the coach, Harold Jones, comes to find his players mistreating the man, who they had tied up and put in a school supply shed. This leads to lots of running of the team. Radio becomes a part of the team, which upsets some people, and early on, Radio isn 't treated well. A father of one of the main players that mistreated Radio, Frank Clay, had it in for Coach Jones and his ‘distraction.’ Mr. Clay makes continual effort to get rid of Radio. And, …show more content…
One major one that sticks out is discrimination. That was by far the most influential social problem in the movie. Everything revolved around discrimination in the movie. Not only was the main character a minority, due to his skin color, he was also mentally disabled. The opening scene is of him walking down the street in his down, and everyone veers away from him with looks of disgust. He never harmed anyone, ever, but people saw him as different, and therefore threatening. Also, later on in the movie, Radio was discriminated against by a new, local cop. It was Christmas time in the movie, and Radio had received many, many gifts from townspeople. He had decided that he didn 't need all of them, so he had loaded up a shopping cart, and was hand-delivering them to everyones porch step. The cop drove by, and noticed this ‘suspicious …show more content…
The police officer then used his car to cut off the path that Radio was attempting to take to continue on his way. The police officer jumped out, and forcibly pushed Radio against his car and handcuffed him. He used the fact that Radio was colored, and disabled, and assumed that he must be up to no good. He definitely did not have the correct judgement on the situation, however, because the officer ended up filling out piles of paperwork while Radio ate lunch with the other officers. As the movie progressed, the levels of discrimination against Radio decreased. As said before, the beginning of the movie was full of discrimination. People just didn 't know who he was. But, once they figured out that Radio was a very kind, genuine person, people stopped discriminating against
The film Radio is based on a true story of a mentally disabled man named James Robert Kennedy who is nicknamed Radio because of his love for them. Radios day consists of pushing or riding his grocery cart around town and listening to the radio. In the beginning of the movie it shows the abuse that he encounters from people every day. He gets strange looks from the people in town, yelled at from a driver as he crosses the road and picked on by the local High School football team. This is a normal routine for Radio until a man named Coach Jones from the local football team approaches him. Coach Jones has been watching Radio walk by the practices and has seen him get tormented by the players of his team. The Coach becomes interested
The movie did a great job of alluding to many different sociological theories that have been proposed over the years such as conflict theory, social stratification, socializing and many more. At many different points in the movie conflict theory is evident. Conflict theory, proposed by Karl Marx talks about the need for social order to be maintained in an environment and the order is controlled by people with power. In Northshore High School this power is held by the ‘Plastics’. They have the most status and influence the way others act. The theory is challenged when Cady, a plastic, begins to hang out with groups without status, such as the mathletes and Janice and Damien. When Cady does this the whole school is changed due to the interactions of someone with status befriending people without. As well, social stratification is accurately demonstrated. Social stratification is the hierarchy of different classes and how the power/status is held by the upper classes. In the movie the upper class people, ‘The Plastics’ hold all of the power in the school compared to lower class groups. ‘The Plastics’ power is shown when Gretchen, one of ‘The Plastics’ believes she can make the phrase “That’s so fetch” popular just because others follow her example. The next accuracy of the film is the aspect of socializing.
One main message I think is, don’t judge a book by its cover. Most of the teachers even thought the algebra class was going to fail or the students wouldn’t make any progress, but when they exceed to pass the A.P. Calculus test, all the teachers became jealous of Mr. Escalante and his class’s accomplishments. The story took place during a time were gangs and violence was pretty serious in East L.A. Garfield high itself was violent itself. Fights broke out, students played pranks like ringing the school bells early to let kids out of their classes. Then school wasn’t really important to some kids. They had things to deal with outside of school like some had to raise families or work to help pay bills at their houses. This movie really opened up my eyes to the different struggle some of those kids had to deal with back then. It’s like some of them had to grow up before it was time for them to. Anybody who grew up in an urban area and went to a public school can relate to this
This movie portrayed an important concept, What can we do about this? It opens our eyes to, that we are the change. When we see something wrong, speak up, speak up for justice. To never stay quiet for justice. To not invite stereotyping, discrimination, and even violence against people who are different from us. We are better than not, and we are only hurting us human beings. What I learned from this assignment was there’s more to just watching a movie, that there’s a meaning to a movie. It’s interesting analyzing a film because there might be an important concept behind the movie like Fruitvale Station happened to have. Also,the elements being used and archetypes in order for the film to be displayed that certain way. I actually enjoyed this assignment, this has to be one of my favorites, I found it interesting and not dragging to do. I will move forward by now picking up to all this when I watch a movie next
The title of the movie is "Radio." It is rated PG, and is directed by Mike Tollin. It is based on a true story about James Robert "Radio" Kennedy who is played by an academy award winner, Cuba Gooding Jr. Another main character is Coach Harold Jones, who is played by Ed Harris; he also played in the 1997 film "Jerry McGuire." The studio that made the grade A film was Revolution Studios. The first day the movie was released in theaters was October 24, 2003. (Also, the movie lasts 105 minutes, but will have your full attention the whole time.) Radio inspired his hometown's football team to win a championship, even after it didn't accept him at first.
Although there were many social psychology topics illustrated in the film, some of them stood out more to me. There was a lot of prejudice situations in this movie, such as when they first came home
This movie is a wonderful production starting from 1960 and ending in 1969 covering all the different things that occurred during this unbelievable decade. The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie portrayed many historical events while also including the families and how the two were intertwined. These families were very different, yet so much alike, they both portrayed what to me the whole ‘message’ of the movie was. Although everyone was so different they all faced such drastic decisions and issues that affected everyone in so many different ways. It wasn’t like one person’s pain was easier to handle than another is that’s like saying Vietnam was harder on those men than on the men that stood for black rights or vice versa, everyone faced these equally hard issues. So it seemed everyone was very emotionally involved. In fact our whole country was very involved in president elections and campaigns against the war, it seemed everyone really cared.
Examples from the movie are every time Hodges and Pac Man got a call or seen something going on, they had to make a decision on whether or not to take that person showing deviant behavior into the station or not. Another example of police values seen in the movie is not shooting anybody when they are unarmed, harmless, or not the right prospect.
In Crash, it was basically about characters judging individuals based on their ethnicity and their stereotypes. Especially the stereotype that African Americans have guns and are immoral people. One scene in the
Although there were many concepts that were present within the movie, I choose to focus on two that I thought to be most important. The first is the realistic conflict theory. Our textbook defines this as, “the view that prejudice...
There are many sociological issues addressed in the movie Titanic. There are three main issues that are presented, classism, sex and gender inequality, and ethnic inequalities. The main characters are each from different social classes which causes the uprise of problems on the ship. There is a great deal of wealthy men that feel they are the hierarchy out of most of the others who aboard. Besides the men and social issues there were also problems with the ethnic subgroup and many inequalities between the main group and them.
The essay is a popular form for writers to express their ideas. It can be found in many sources: newspapers, magazines, and journals. The essay is no longer limited to these mediums, and as communication technology develops, the essay has extended into new arenas. What was once an exclusively paper-and-ink technology is now available over the airwaves and through the phone lines. The essay has found its way to new formats through the radio and internet. We were once readers, but have now become listeners and spectators through the cyberculture revolution.
From the beginning of the radio’s time it has significantly change slowly but surely. In reality, the radio owes its success to the Great Depression. Why? Well before it became as popular as it is today, only the “rich” were able to afford what they called a “wireless set”. Once they became more convenient everyone and their cousin owned one of these fantastic devices. Some can say this device may have created something so great for the future to come. In a time when the “average salary was $1,368 and a round steak ran about 42 cents a pound” [Sutton] , a radio was just a simple treasure, that graced the homes of so many. Whether it be for a great story or just to catch up on the day to day news, the radio played a very important role in the lives of so many who came to know just how depressing the Great Depression truly was.
Youth and their issues have been seen in movies for an eternity. When issues arise, socially, economically, or culturally, the youth of the time in which they take place are the ones that are expected to be able to make a change and ultimately fix them. Throughout history, the pressures on teens have been seen greatly, from the Great Depression era of the 1930s, the violence and rebellious actions of them in the 1950s, and the changing of culture that they were expected to come a custom to in the 1980s. The three movies that I chose that I believe shows how youth has evolved and depicts youth in the time period that the films took place, as well as the pressures that they faced were: Wild Boys on the Road, Rebel Without a Cause, and The Breakfast
The timing of this film was a significant factor in the story line. In the middle of the Great Depression unemployment and poverty were a major