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
Later one, two young African Americans males leaving a diner walking passed a white couple and the woman clutches the man’s arm and move closer. So, Some of the diversity dimensions that I found were related more to characteristics such as age, gender, race, religion, education, income, language within the movie and portrayed the social class discrimination, as well as gender discrimination. Throughout the film, there were some racial lines of tension between all races and against each other such as White on Persian, White on Black, Black on Black, White on Hispanic, Hispanic on Asian, Asian on Black, and White on Asian, Persian on Hispanic.
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
...writers of all races and every ethnicity could be shown this video to learn about stereotypes to avoid in their screenplays. Television and movie producers could benefit from hearing other producers such as Hal Kanter and David Wolper talk about their experiences with African-American representation in their shows.
This movie has the potential to fall into all of the stereotypes we have come to expect from black and white comedies. There is a little of that: Kutcher’s character is goaded into telling black jokes at dinner with Theresa’s family that includes her racially intolerant grandfather and Mac’s character lies about his daughter’s boyfriend to an employee describing him as a black man named Jamal who lives in Atlanta, plays basketball and went to Howard University. However, while poking fun at the problems of inter-racial romance, the movie reminds viewers that discrimination and stereotypes are still alive and well in the new millennium.
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.
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
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.
“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.”
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.
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
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
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 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