catastrophe was the laughable special effects and far fetched plot. The film, set in a research facility at sea, is about a group of scientists developing a cure for Alzheimer’s. All hell breaks lose when the sharks escape and are out for revenge. Renny Harlin directs, with an all star cast starring LL Cool J as the wise cracking chef, Preacher, who adds much needed humour to this disastrous production. I would class this film as a mixture of genres, thriller, action, and with moments of comedy. Preacher
through the Rodney King case and the shooting of Latasha Harlins. Rodney-King and Latasha Harlins experienced racial injustice, which can be described as the denial of rights based on an individual’s race or racial background. Both two victims were mistreated for the color of their skin and were stripped
In America our media contributes to the perpetuation of certain stereotypes and prejudice to our viewers from television, newspapers, and etc. The media has a certain way to portray certain labels and preconceptions of people that are from different ethnicities in which we the people watch as entertainment. In certain schools a subject called ethnics studies provides students to understand different cultures, gender, sexuality, class, race, disability and national status based on them, their roots
Riots did not only occur in Los Angeles, but they sparked in Oakland, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Las Vegas, and Chicago as well.81 What really started the riots was the decades of oppression the minorities felt. After the King beating and the Harlins incident, the minorities believed the only way to be heard was to start riots. Although the minorities were blaming “the white man,” they ended up destroying their own neighborhoods, harming their own communities.
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) is an American action and thriller movie directed by Renny Harlin. At the beginning, the plot portrays the lead role, Samantha Caine, as a school teacher in a small town in Pennsylvania. Samantha lives with her boyfriend and her daughter, and remembers nothing about her past life. During the Christmas holidays, the heroine meets with an accident and consequently starts to get flashes of her past life. As the actress decides to discover her forgotten life, she unveils
authority. It is safe to say that Bonnie & Clyde, helped redefined the role for women in crime and action films. Many recent films, such as Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven 1992), Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone 1993), and The Long Kiss Goodnight (Renny Harlin 1996), have emulated the strong, seductive leading role that Bonnie & Clyde helped define. It also helped further that idea that women can hold their own in the crime film genre, both in the box office and by public opinion, and through its innovation