Political Conflicts In Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

FILMS THAT DEVELOP POLITICAL STANCE

One interesting example of films that develop political stance that are not only encouraging of existing modes of social domination is those that involve interracial couples. So Stanley Kramer's 1967 film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, investigates the plausibility of ethnic incorporation as a solution to the problems of anti-black prejudice in America through its picture of the problems facing an interracial couple. Nearly 25 years later, Spike Lee's Jungle Fever argues against the earlier film's political outline, once again using an interracial couple that encounters racism. Only this time, the film asserts that the obdurate racism of White Americans undermines integration as a answer to the ills of this

As time has left on, we see aggression appearing more often and more graphically within movies. This can have a huge control on people in a couple different ways.

2.9 CREATING A CULTURE

In order to demand to the segment of the masses, filmmakers take the cultural value of that section of culture into account. Take, for example, the teenager movies. These typically contain features such as conversations at the school lockers (Dazed and Confused), prom (Carrie), cheerleaders (Porky’s), the shopping mall (Mall Rats), the juvenile delinquent gang (Rebel without a Cause) and the receptive, separated teenage hero (Rebel).

Another place we see filmmakers unfair by the society is when they portray foreign cultures. For example, City of God tells the story of a lesser class section of Rio de Janeiro. The filmmakers emotionally tied the American spectators to the movie by beautifully representing the cultural morals of the city.

Even moral values came into play in the above movie. With a distort government and police system, people within this region grew up expressive that they could expire at any point. They lived in a fright that we just do not