Hairspray Essay

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Hairspray Essay – Livy King Hairspray, a film directed by Adam Shankman and inspired by real-life events, was released in 2007. This film won Critic’s Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble along with Teen Choice Award for Best Summer Movie: Comedy. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, Hairspray follows the story of teenage protagonist Tracy Turnblad. Tracy, alongside her African American friends, struggles to combat racial segregation on the Corny Collins show, mirroring the historical context of the Buddy Dean show. This report will examine my response to the important and difficult decision Tracy Turnblad made in deciding to protest the WYZT station for cancelling Negro Day. It explores my opinions of how Shankman portrays the significance …show more content…

I believe that the director used these aspects to reveal how the determination of young people plays an important part in driving positive social change and honours the courage of those who risked their lives to make integration possible in the entertainment industry. Adam Shankman combines the aspects of character and conflict, portrayed using film techniques, to show Tracy’s decision to join the protest. In this major event, Tracy Turnblad and Motormouth Maybelle, a talented African American R&B record producer and host of Negro Day, start developing the idea of protesting, after it is announced that the WYZT station is cancelling Negro Day. Shankman uses a slow zoom-in to reveal the growing excitement and enthusiasm of Tracy and Maybelle, as they discuss the idea of protesting. Cutting and a zoom-in is used to show Link Larkin, a talented dancer on the Corny Collins show, and Tracy’s friend and love interest, along with Tracy’s mother, Edna Turnblad’s shocked expressions towards Tracy and Maybelle deciding to march in protest of Negro Day being cancelled. These imply that while Tracy is on board with the idea without thinking about consequences, her mother and Link were thinking about

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