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The movie “In and out” was first released in September 19th, 1997. To my opinion this film portrays our gender-coded society and I also noticed how open the characters were even if it was in 1900’s. I say that because our society has just started to adapt with the fact of having gay,lesbian,transexual,etc, amoung them without making a problem or treating them any differently.The movie used many different types of stereotypes especially for men. During the entire film, the protagonist was hesitant because he never explored his true sexuality, he was just following what his parents and what he thought would keep him away from all the drama and mistreatment from society.The movie is about a guy named Howard Brackett , he’s a middle class english …show more content…
literature teacher and is a football coach, he doesn’t bother anyone, on the contrary he is loved by his football team and his students. Especially Cameron who became a famous actor but he is the reason for his sadness and happiness at the same time.Meaning, Cameron deliberately said on TV that his high school teacher Howard Brackett is gay. This event turned his life around, his football students started treating him differently and the student he helped get a full scholarship stopped talking to him, he lost his job. The two main paradigms I will be talking about are Anti-femininity (no sissy stuff) and the second one will be Status and achievement.Being gay, lesbian, transexual, etc, is hard because they are afraid of what people would say or how they will be treated, which is very disappointing for some owing to the fact that they will never be in love for real they would just hide who they are all their life. The story is about an english teacher named Howard Brackett, he was going to get married in a week and who had taught a famous actor back in the days.
Cameron (the actor and former student) was awarded an oscar for best actor playing a gay soldier and while on TV, he thanked his “gay” teacher for making this possible. That’s the point where everything went bad. He lost his job, his parents came straight back to his house and had to ask him, his mother wanted him to really get married to a woman.Everyone around him treated him differently. He said a sentence which really made the viewer think about the protagonist mistreatment, and I quote “ Why are they treated me (Howard) any differently, I am the same person as yesterday.”. This really puts thing in perspective, people judge too much others because they are typically stuck in their stereotypes and want to stay in their appropriate boxes. In the middle of the story, during his wedding, it was his turn to say “I do” and he said” I’m gay” and everyone was shocked he lost his friends, his job because the principle and the school committee thought that he is a bad influence on kids that they might turn gay or lesbian one day, and family was devastated, which was kind of ridiculous but at the end everything turned out to be in his favour. He was happy he got his job, his students stood up for him during graduation, his parents and community also did. The ending was very nice because there was a marriage after all and his parents …show more content…
got remarried after so many years. The first paradigm is anti- Femininity, this paradigm is basically a man trying to not feminine.Men are portrayed as strong and independant. When he wanted to prove he wasn’t gay he went to his wife’s house and start making out with her in a violent way and once he saw a male figure on TV he couldn’t continue he left. Men in this movie and actually most of movies in Hollywood industry give out the same message on men stereotypes. For example during the film, once he was declared gay, his student agreed and said it made sense he was gay since he was a teacher, the way he dresses was very proper and depending on how clean he was. This shows how “real” men are suppose to be dirty, don’t wear proper clothes to work and absolutely cannot be teachers or they are considered gay. The second paradigm I chose was was Success and Achievement, because once Howard was publicly exposed on TV, everyone flipped in the movie. His boss threatened him and I quote “If you do not marry her on sunday, it won’t look good for you in this school.”, his parents weren’t so bothered as the priest during the film, he literally said that it’s Howard’s fault for announcing it at the wedding. Howard lost his job, he couldn’t attend the graduation day for his own students which was absurd since he taught them and even helped one of his students get a scholarship. The second scene which came to my attention was when Cameron thanked his gay teacher, everyone turned to him and everyone believed him yet, they all turned a blind eye on Howard’s feelings and how he has achieved great things also. You don’t have to be on TV and loved by all of the women in the USA to be successful or to be capable of achieving great things. He could be a hero for some men, he was a hero to his students and not one but all of them and even the most of the parents stood up for him against the principle firing him. The filmmakers are suggesting that homophobia, heterosexism and hetero-normativity are not bad things but they are trying to say that being different from society can result to a complete isolation from some people, it could even be your loved ones.
In most movies all around the world, men should the ones protecting women not be afraid of them or running from them, like projected in this movie. He couldn’t continue the wedding he told her what he really felt and she punched him in the face infront of everyone. Filmmakers are trying to say that they accept a person’s exuality but others won’t, which causes a vicious cycle since these movies are watched by society and causes them to think that it’s not normal for us to feel uncomfortable around people with a sexual preference than
heterosexual. I found something odd about this movie, it was released in 1997 and they accepted gay men having rights and yet only in 2015 did the government, society,etc, accept gay marriages and we are still working on the extreme homophobic people. I feel like this movie is very good and it opens the mind of the viewer to look further than one's sexuality but one's feelings. No matter what they like, they are human and they deserve the respect and kindness you would want someone to treat you if you were alone, unwanted and discriminated because of what who you want to be with.
The movie Loving takes place in Caroline County, Virginia, with a white construction worker who falls in love with an African American woman. They both find out that they are going to have a child together and make the decision to get married. But, in this time, both of them find out that they both can’t get married due to the laws in the time. African Americans and Whites don’t normally be with each other or even fall in love for that matter. Both fight for their rights to be together not just in the state of Virginia, but for everyone in all states.
Throughout the film of Smoke Signals, the story centers on two characters, Thomas and Victor. Thomas, through his storytelling shows Victor that there's more to life than cynicism and pure anger, while Victor let's Thomas know what it means to be a real Indian. We can see this in the scene where Victor tells Thomas that Indians are not supposed to smile to white people and that Indians always should look mean in order to gain the respect of white folks. However, we can see that after they return to the bus their seats have been taken by two white men and neither did Victor’s mean face and faded smile help him gain their seats back. This scene shows us that those stereotypes about how what an Indian is supposed to act are not in fact true because
The culture and society of the American South can be categorized into a variety of groups through stereotypes from outsiders, politicians, music and among other things. To help depict the American South, literature and films that we have watched in class such as Mandingo, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Color Purple, Gods Little Acre, Tomorrow, Jezebel, The Littlest Rebel and with special focus on O Brother Where Art Thou will help capture and reflect southern culture to those not accustomed to the ways of southern society.
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The movie Crash was directed by Paul Haggis is a powerful film that displays how race is still a sociological problem that affects one 's life. It also focuses on how we should not stereotype people based on their color because one may come out wrong in the end. Stereotyping is a major issue that is still happening in today 's society and seems to only be getting worse. This movie is a great way to see the daily life and struggle of other races and see how racism can happen to anyone, not just African Americans which seems to only be seen in the news and such.
Grease, one of the most well known ‘coming of age’ movies, a movie about a new girl who moves to a new country, falls in love with a boy and makes new friends who empower her to embrace her true self and become who she really is. No. Grease is a movie that teaches young girls that it’s okay to change who you are just to grasp the attention of the boy you like, and that you must not be a prude. A movie that is full of sexual innuendos all to make the good girl look bad and have amazing stories to tell friends. That is the real storyline of Grease and how it explains the stereotypes given to teenagers.
The film being analysed is the Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes. Trapped in Saturday detention are 5 stereotyped teens. Claire, the princess, Andrew, the jock, John, the criminal, Brian, the brain, and Allison, the basket case. At 7 am, they had nothing to say, but by 4 pm; they had uncovered everything to each other. The students bond together when faced with the their principal, and realise that they have more in common than they think, including a hatred for adult society. They begin to see each other as equal people and even though they were stereotyped they would always be The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club highlights a variety of pressures that are placed upon teenagers through out high school. One of the most challenging aspects of screenwriting is creating characters that an audience can identify with, relate to, and be entertained by.
who is not. In the play Mr Briggs is often shouting at the children or
Not all African Americans are thugs and people that do not work. A lot of them have successful careers and have put in the time and effort to have good work ethic and be good people. African Americans have had a difficult history in the American film industry. During the early 20th century of filmmaking, blacks were stereotyped as not worthy of being in films, and they were only certain types of characters such as servants, mammies, and butlers. From several decades of filmmaking, African Americans have been sought out to be trouble makers, incapables, intellectually limited, and also lazy. Although blacks have won Academy Awards for acting, screenwriting, and music production they still find trouble in getting quality roles within the film industry. (Common Black Stereotypes)
“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.”
One of the biggest issues depicted in the film is the struggle of minority groups and their experience concerning racial prejudice and stereotyping in America. Examples of racism and prejudice are present from the very beginning of the movie when Officer Ryan pulls over black couple, Cameron and Christine for no apparent reason other than the color of their skin. Officer Ryan forces the couple to get out of the car
Within the 1990s there is a persistent problem of Gay culture. Early in the 1990s it was hard to come out and let the world know that you are gay. Within the early 1990s The Wedding Banquet (1993), although it approached the issue of Wei-Tung Gao trying to tell his parents that he is gay and still accepting as who he is. Contrastingly within the late 1990s it becomes more acceptable to society by having celebrities coming out like Ellen Degeneres during her tv show Ellen. The two kinds of media contrast as a form of whether or not to come out as a gay or not during a time when AIDs was prominent and new.
While watching movies, have you ever noticed that the villains in almost every single Hollywood film are of Middle Eastern or European descent? In a reoccurring theme of Hollywood, the villains in these films are almost always foreigners or people of color. This is a stereotype. On the other side of the spectrum, we often see that the heroes of these films are most often than not white males. This is another stereotype. Within the last few years, we’ve seen actors such as Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, and Zoe Saldana take the lead roles, so it can’t be said that there are no non-white heroes, but there certainly isn’t many. Hollywood action movies, moreover than other genres, are typically loaded with an abundance of stereotypes. The way these movies are composed and structured can tell us a great deal about the views held within the American psyche and who holds the social power. The harsh reality is that the media ultimately sets the tone for societal standards, moralities, and images of our culture. Many consumers of media have never encountered some of the minorities or people of color shown on screen, so they subsequently depend on the media and wholeheartedly believe that the degrading stereotypes represented on the big screen are based on fact and not fiction. Mary Beltran said it best when she stated in her “Fast and Bilingual: Fast & Furious and the Latinization of Racelessness” article, “ultimately, Fast & Furious mobilizes notions of race in contradictory ways. It reinforces Hollywood traditions of white centrism, reinforcing notions of white male master while also dramatizing the figurative borders crossed daily by culturally competent global youth – both Latino and non-Latino” (77). This paper will specifically look...
The focus of the movie Crash is on racial and ethnic tensions in the Los Angeles area. This film tells a fictional story that revolves around a series of criminal events in the Los Angeles area involving the interactions of a racially and ethnically diverse mix of characters. The main theme of the film is that all people contribute to racial and ethnic stereotypes and these stereotypes surface in a variety of ways as people continuously interact with one another in society. This movie clearly tackles issues of race and ethnicity in a unique way because by watching the film, it has the capacity to make the audience stop and think about their own racial biases that they hold. Definite soul searching can come from this movie, as well as one
The 1990s saw a surge of gay characters in both television and movies. From Ellen Degeneres and her character Ellen Morgan coming out under much scrutiny on the TV show ‘Ellen,’ to Julia Roberts and Rupert Everett comedically playing off each other in the motion picture ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding.’ Sure, gays and lesbians have been around forever, especially in Hollywood. But never has there been a time to be more out. With the popularity of shows like Will and Grace, which feature leading gay characters, as well as Dawson’s Creek