I have watched this film before, but I was even more excited to get to watch it again knowing there was an older film that was similar. In Guess Who’s Coming for Dinner? many of the roles are reversed from Guess Who? Even with the age difference between the two films the subject that is presented is still relatable today. The film Guess Who?, however does show more stereotypes. It shows metrosexual, which is often stereotyped for being homosexual throughout the film by the Percy. We also see racial stereotype views coming from both the girl’s family and Simon. At times I wondered if the African American stereotypes were being played up a bit. In the way some of the Jones family talked, the cab driver and the assistant at the bank. Another
Racial relations vary across culture and time, even after the decision that deemed anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional, it took more time for everyone to come to the same agreement. Not to mention, the conditions that black people lived under due to the negative connotations that the term “black” held – evil, dirty, and impure. Towards the end of the 1960’s, the American industry utilized many different tactics to portray the lack of hope, income inequality, segregation, and change that was an attempt to make a difference during this time. The film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) was a direct effort to view the polarity of race in the 1960’s through the lens of
The setup of the film really allowed the viewer to imagine the social issues such as racism, homophobia and AIDS that African-American gay men were facing at
The strikingly accurate portrayal of the life of an African American family in the 1950’s did a great job of keeping the interest up. The director’s mise-en-scene gave the film a believability that is rarely achieved. They did this through the well staged apartment that the film takes place in for the majority of the screen time. The cramped and cluttered home sets the stage for the actors in the film to truly live into their characters. The actors did a brilliant job of portraying the wide breadth of emotions in this film. Their engaging personalities kept the film alive and vibrant the
The popular American Television Show from 1990-1996, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, represents the African-American community differently than the Caucasian community. “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” tells of a tale of a poor youth from West-Philadelphia who moves in with his aunt and uncle in the rich community of Bel-Air, California. The main character as described, Will Smith, learns a lot about where he is and what type of lifestyle he grew up in and how they differ. Will’s friend, “Jazz”, is from Compton, California and is often booted off the property (literally) by Will’s uncle, Phillip Banks. “Jazz” is from a rough neighborhood and his behaviors are often looked down upon
The Breakfast Club is a cult classic film from the eighties that centers around five teenagers in high school and their Saturday spent in detention. The movie is completely centered around the social interactions of the five characters and the blooming of their unlikely friendship during their detention. This development is the source of a majority of the plot points, as there is not much action or outside based plot points within the film. Due to the heavy focus on social interaction, various social psychology principles and theories are quite prominent within the film. Stereotyping is at the very heart of the film and several plot points revolve around these social psychology principles, but also aspects such as the social identity theory are important in the film.
Is it strange that I don’t have a dog, but I love the opportunity to observe the antics at our local off leash dog parks? Frankly, every time I visit an off leash park I am reminded of The Breakfast Club, the 1985 coming of age movie about High School cliques and stereotypes. Seriously, take a moment to sit and observe the action. You will notice the athlete, the spoiled rich kid, the brainy nerd, the introverted loner and the rebellious punk all joyously sniffing and romping gleefully while their humans mix and mingle. Just like the movie, the dogs seem to come together, bare their souls and discover that they have more in common than first thought.
The characters that impact us from the start are Anthony and Peter, two young black men who lament the fact that because of their skin color, they are viewed as criminals, when they could very well be UCLA students, except that they have guns and are criminals who boost high end cars. The theme throughout for these two characters is that society has shaped what they have become. Anthony: “You have no idea why they put those great big windows on the sides of busses, do you?” Peter: no I do not, why? Anthony: One reason only. To humiliate the people of color who are reduced to riding in them.”(Danbury & Haggis, 2005). These two characters had the most depth, were given the most time to discuss what Anthony was mad about, though Peter never fully
In her speech “The Dangers of a Single Story”, Chimanda Ngozi Adichie argues that every story is one version of a single story, which conveys readers a false perception of the groups portrayed in those stories, in my opinion Adichie is correct about a universal single story. Many stories and movies that you can see or read are adaptations of another book or movie. In her speech, Adichie talks about how when she was growing up in Nigeria most of the books she read featured blonde haired and blue eyed characters, as a result of this most of the characters in she had written also had blonde hair and blue eyes. The stories that Adichie wrote directly reflected the stories that she had read as a child. After years of reading books from
“The sitcom is a jumble of mixed metaphors: the repetition compulsion of eternal sameness conjoined to a desire to overturn the established order; a profound aesthetic conservatism bundled with an ingrained desire to shock. Every sitcom possess not just a routine that it perpetually seeks to overturn but also a particular style of fomenting that chaos.”
Five high school students get in detention on a Saturday and all of them are different and don't know anything about each other in the beginning. At the start of the movie they all see each other as different stereotypes and think they have nothing in common. There was one popular girl, emotional (shy) girl, Surrey jack (rebel), wrestler (jock), and the nerd. In the beginning of the movie none of them liked each other or knew anything about one another, but the “Surrey jack” (John Bender) he liked the popular girl known as the princess at there school (Claire Standish). John Bender is a rebel, kinda known as a Surrey Jack but not a lot. John is a guy who couldn’t care less about school and no one really knows him. At Sullivan
There were every few scenes in this film that did not contain some form of stereotyping. Unfortunately movies such as this one help to perpetuate stereotypes, they use them to provide entertainment. However, continuing to show minority individuals in stereotyping roles influence the general population (Grazian, 2015). Instead of seeing many young black men in successful roles in media they are often shown as the villain or members of a gang. These and other stereotypes were played throughout the film; one example would be when there was a black homeless man with a shotgun who tried to rob the McDowell’s restaurant (Folsey, 1988). These scenes may be humorous to many in the audience but stereotyping can have a negative effect on society.
Throughout the narrative of the story, several examples of characters being portrayed by their race’s negative racial stereotypes. A great example of the negative racial stereotypes is the character Calvin Payne. In the episode “Payneful Assistance”, Calvin was arrested for owing child support to his “baby mama”. This scene in particular where Calvin is in jail and meets some random family member in jail. This exemplifies the racial stereotype against African Americans by portraying them in a negative light. The show portrays African American fathers as deadbeats and having multiple kids by multiple mothers. Another way I believe that scene in particular shows that racial stereotypes are present is the fact that Calvin, while in jail, had 2 cousins in jail with him randomly. This scene tries to make it seem like if you are black, you are guaranteed to have someone you know in jail. Also, throughout the show, many racial undertones are present, for example most of the all the characters talk with a certain loud slang and absent fathers are common. This conforms to the negative racial stereotypes placed upon African
I also noticed how they tied in of how the civil rights movement was something going on at the time. They used elements to let the viewers aware of the events happening at that time. One good example was in one of the scenes where Harry Flournoy found a book Willie Worsley had about Malcolm X. Willy then explained to him how he was involved with supporting and very involved following the Panthers, who were a political group around the time also fighting against racism and racial inequality. I believe the use of that subtle reference helped the viewers understand how harsh it was for young black men growing up around that time. One of the strongest and profound things shown in the film came at the end in the credits were the real former Texan and Kentucky players and coach (Dan Haskins) put in their own thought and feelings and reflected what it was like to be on the side of the black players where they faced adversity hate and discrimination for playing college basketball. Pat Riley which is a former Kentucky player at the time and now famous ex NBA player and now President for the Miami Heat, made an appearance and gave his intake of what it was like to see these events unfold through his perspective and gave praise for what the Texas Miners were able to accomplish historically. In conclusion, I feel overall the film made a big impact on me since I am a basketball fan and a fan of history
...Their dialogues included nothing very intellectually stimulating, which would suggest a lack of intelligence. By portraying the characters as such, the film was able to represent the judgmental racial stereotypes commonly associated with African Americans.
There were many diversity issues in this movie and they weren’t all between blacks and whites which seems to be talked about the most. There were black/white, Arab/Hispanic, Hispanic/white, and even Arab/white diversity issues in this movie. This was an eye