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A new tv series, Riverdale has been quickly gaining popularity. This series originally began as a comic series however artists believed that they wanted to bring these characters to life. The genre of this show cannot be conformed into one category. With gothic eerie undertones and a suspenseful storyline keeps every episode interesting. Riverdale in this rising popularity is addictive due to it’s dramatic character line, how it brings to life literature, and closes with a melodramatic cliff-hanger. Riverdale consists of a dark and mysterious plot line based around a group of teenagers. Of course, the show has the main stereotypes, the hottie, the mean girl, the perfectionist and the underappreciated grunge
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kid. However, the show keeps the script interesting with showing more depth into each of the characters. The main character is Archie whom is this football player hottie that catches the eyes of most girls in the school. His friends consist of Jughead Jones, Betty Copper, and Veronica Lodge. Like previously mentioned, Archie is more than just a jock who plays football, he struggles with his life at home and feeling the responsibilities that only adults should have to worry about. Betty Copper is also known as the perfectionist, she plays a key part in the show, but the script writers portray her as this girl who seems to be perfect and looked up to but really struggles with family drama. Veronica Lodge is the mysterious girl who moves into Riverdale who is the attractive best friend to Betty. Ms. Lodge is a dominate character who is a strong feminist voice. Jughead Jones is the misunderstood grunge kid who deals with a family from addiction and abandonment. The depth in each of these characters make fans invested in their well-being. This is one of the main reasons why many return to the show because the plot line is never dull, yet it develops. With your favoritism growing among the characters there is a developing romantic interest as well. When Betty first met Archie, she fell in love however the season led you along to her broken heart. Archie just needed to be friends with betty because they worked best that way all through their childhood. When Veronica moved in town Archie immediately became interested in her. However, Veronica wanted to become Betty’s friend and eventually become an item with him. Through these revelations Betty momentarily lost two great friends. This built distrust and division amongst the friends until Archie and Betty could become friends again. After a few weeks despite all the odds going against them, Betty and Jughead Jones had fallen in love. Soon both couples becoming the foundation of a crime solving team. Riverdale had missing people and a serial murderer on the loose. It is up to the high schoolers to save the town. Riverdale is a city run by shady business with mysterious events that happen every few years.
When the friends were in high school, the Blossom family experienced a tragedy. Their youngest son had disappeared in Sugar Water Creek and left Cheryl, his twin sister, traumatized. The whole town was left in a shock, was Jason Blossom gone forever? The cinematic views of the emotions truly made fans feel every emotion portrayed. The actors and how the scenes were developed post shoot made each episode binge worthy. Each time the teens solve a mystery another one pops up. The Black Hood is a dark character whose identity is unknown terrorizes the city of …show more content…
Riverdale. The next initial factor into Riverdale’s popularity is the fact that it originated from a comic. The fan base started from a group who would read and visualize this eerie town and its troubled teens. The television series brought life to the words once read by the true originals. Critics argue that the show doesn’t embody the comic as well as it should have. One writer named Conner Schwerdtfeger from Cinema Blend argues that the show doesn’t come from the originated base. However, he argues that the new show only uses the name for profit. “The problem here is the fact that Riverdale doesn't do enough with these Archie characters to even justify the adaptation. I get what the series is trying to do; it's filtering these classic, wholesome archetypes through a Lynchian lens to highlight the absurdity of the nostalgic comic strip. However, the fact of the matter is that the Archie aspect of Riverdale often feels like a total afterthought that was shoehorned in without a discernible plan for how to capitalize on it “(Schwerdtfeger). One more thing that intensifies the show is the melodramatic closing to each of the episodes.
Another writer on Cinema Blend states “Um. WOW. Riverdale almost did me in with this episode. I was legitimately tense the whole time, and the ending did not disappoint.” (Jones). During the end of season one the show ended with a huge cliffhanger making fans dreed the long wait for the season two premiere. The last few clips of season one showed an armed robbery Archie’s dad, Fred, was shot close range and Archie was left in despair trying to save his life. Fans and critics both were left in amazement just as they thought nothing else could go majorly wrong. This pattern seems to repeat itself throughout season two as well. These suspenseful cliff-hangers seem to keep drawing in crowds making it one of the most binge-worthy shows on television.
“ There are so many interesting storylines in the first season. One critic on rotten tomatoes mentions “The plot keeps getting wilder and more bizarre throughout the season. People will be surprised once they see where it's all heading.” (David) Unresolved conclusions make for the best mysteries, but you’ll have to wait a solid week before you can see what really happened. Through these couples of statements Riverdale has become a popular series that leaves its watchers on edge. Although it has some harsh critics, I believe that Riverdale is a truly melodramatic teen series that will become your next binge. Cliff-hangers, dramatic plot lines, and a base from a series that already had a popular fanbase drew in crowds to make Riverdale popular.
Throughout Thomas King’s novel, Green Grass Running Water, King uses a variety of Indigenous characters to accurately portray Indigenous Peoples and the stereotypes that define them in the eyes of the public. The quote above reveals more information about Eli as a character; he is a university literature professor with a Ph.D. in the subject, the books on notable literary figures indicate he is passionate on the subject, and despite all his achievements, he is only seen as an Indian. Earlier in the novel, Norma stated that Eli wanted to be a white man, and this passage reveals why and how Eli was a white man according to her. However, Eli’s character is ironic as him wanting to be white and leave his Indigenous background behind only resulted
Scattered throughout our history books, you can find countless examples of wars being fought and conflicts that boil down to simply power and who has it. As a general statement, everyone wants to have some power and ability to control their own lives, if not the lives of those around them. If the two stereotypes that we are presented with about the relationship between race and food could be reduced to their most simplistic explanation, you would be left with the idea that by treating African Americans as food or comical relief, Caucasians are stripping their African American counterparts of their power to control their own lives and showing their supposed dominance. There is no doubt that Chesnutt utilizes these stereotypes in both “The Goophered Grapevine” and “Dave’s Neckliss,” however, he goes past and complicates these stereotypes when he introduces characters that slyly take back some of the power that they are stripped of.
Movies are a new edition in today’s culture. They are a new form of art medium that has arrived in the late 1900s and were a new way to express ideas and viewpoints of the time. A good example of this is the movie The Manchurian Candidate. The movie had a simple plot a man is kidnapped after the Korean war and is hypnotized to work for the communists and take down the U.S. This movie showed the American public’s fear of communism at the time. If a movie like this can easily portray the fears of the American people at the time then it can easily portray stereotypes of gender. There have been thousands of movies where the male protagonist is a rough tough dude but there is one movie that has that stereotype is broken. That movie is none other than Napoleon Dynamite.
Have you ever thought someone was flawed because they’re part of a certain religion, gender, or personal aspect, such as hair color, and they turned out to be the opposite? When this occurs, it is called local color or stereotyping. In The outcasts of Poker Flat, Harte uses local color to educate his readers what can result when we judge others by their cover and manifests that the outward appearance of someone’s circumstances are not always what they seem.
Every fairytale seems to have the usual prince saving the poor girl from harm or servitude or whatever horrid situation she may be in, and then companies like Disney add their movie magic and make it into a franchise. Others may add a twist or two, such as the film Ever After, directed by Andy Tennant. Yet no matter how the story goes, there is the same feminine ideas imposed upon the female lead. She has to compete with others for the attention of her “prince,” gender roles are a must, and morals are taught in some way or another through some kind of stereotype. These tend to cause some feminist outrage and even maybe a small outrage among parents who must deal with the children that watch these movies and read the stories because of the behavioral
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I chose the show Jersey Shore for my stereotype paper for the fact that I feel as though there are many negative stereotypes against Italian-Americans surrounding this show. Jersey Shore is a reality television show on the network MTV that follows eight roommates that live on the Jersey Shore in New Jersey. The cast’s names are Ronnie Ortiz , Vinny, Jenni ‘Jwoww’, Nicole ‘Snooki’, Mike ‘The Situation’, Paul ‘Pauly D’, Sammi ‘Sweetheart’, and Deena. The roommates spend their days partying, drinking, and dating; and put very little emphasis on their jobs. One of the largest controversy is that they use the word “Guidos” to describe the male cast members while the girls are referred to as “Guidettes”. This is a very derogatory term that was used referring to Italian-Americans as vain or socially unsophisticated in American society. When the show first aired, the director purposely advertised using the promotion, “Watch Jersey Shore to follow eight of the hottest,
The term “hillbilly” is a stereotype for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the USA. Because a stereotypical expression, “hillbilly” includes images of being violent and backward, many Americans feel offensive when they hear the word.
In this film we see many typical high school behaviors such as cliques, cattiness, and popularity (or lack there of) issues. Many scenes in this movie have an array of stereotypes. Sometimes they are clearly stated and others just seen through attitudes of the actors/actresses character. Also through out we follow the main clique “the plastics” and they have this image they have to uphold. Be perfect, skinny, the best at everything, and in sync with everything they do; or they wont uphold their status. I chose this film because I think it shows a lot of what we have learned in this course and how it is in real life. Clearly the film is exaggerated but much of
There have been numerous claims and allegations surrounding The Walking Dead claiming that it somehow lacks as far as race and diversity are concerned; however, this is completely and utterly false. For one, even if there wasn’t any diversity shown in the main cast, the author has no obligation to do so from a narrative perspective, but that is completely irrelevant because author Robert Kirkman has a very healthy amount of variety in the main cast. Not only having included them, he also gives these several diverse characters important roles and unique attributes in the story. In the first volume of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead graphic novel, there is representation for strong female characters, African Americans, and Asians; additionally, these ethnicities are all portrayed in a unique way, not being devolved into mere stereotypes for the sake of fitting the mold of the narrative and contributing to a diversity quotient.
On television today you will see stereyotypes of male and female roles in society. These stereyotyps are exemplified in many tv shows and even childrens cartoons. Some shows which stereyotype sex roles include, the flintstones, the jetsons, and almost every sitcom on television.
In the film Mean Girls, teenager Cady Heron was home-schooled in Africa by her zoologist parents. When her family moves to the U.S., Cady finally gets a taste of public school and learns a vital lesson about the cruelty involved in the tightly knit cliques of high school. She eventually finds herself being drug into a group of “the worst people you will ever meet”, The Plastics; and soon realizes how they came to get their name.
“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.”
The Boondocks is an animated cartoon series that premiered November 2005 and ended June 2014. The Boondocks is centered on the lives of two young brothers, Huey and Riley. The two brothers move away from their birth city to live with their grandfather in Woodcrest, a predominantly white upper middle class suburb. Huey, the older brother is very politically and socially motivated and is named for Black Panther Party co-founder, Huey Newton. Huey spends most of his time reading and getting involved with political ventures. He despises all stereotypes associated with his black culture. On the contrary, the younger brother Riley understands the stereotypes around him, yet he indulges himself in the gangsta rap and hip-hop
The human species is qualified as a man and women. Categorically, gender roles relative to the identifying role are characterized as being either masculine or feminine. In the article “Becoming Members Of Society: Learning The Social Meanings Of Gender by Aaron H. Devor, says that “children begin to settle into a gender identity between the age of eighteen months and two years (Devor 387). The intricate workings of the masculine and feminine gender roles are very multifaceted and at the same time, very delicate. They are intertwined into our personalities and give us our gender identities (Devor 390). Our society is maintained by social norms that as individuals, we are consciously unaware of but knowingly understand they are necessary to get along out in the public eye which is our “generalized other” and in our inner circle of family and friends which is our “significant others” (Devor 390). Our learned behaviors signify whether our gender