Analysis Of The Movie 'The Defiant Ones'

Separate but equal. A phrase that kept many African American citizens separated from white Americans for an extensive amount of time. While the phrase may sound like it could potentially be a good thing for African Americans separate was never equal. In the movie Separate but Equal, what originally started out as a request to the school board in South Carolina from one of the African American schools turned into one of the biggest court cases in the United States history known as Brown V. the Board of Education. This court case eventually led to the fair treatment of all African Americans over ruling the previous court case Plessey V. Ferguson which established the grounds of segregation under Separate but equal.

As a group, we selected The Other Guys, a comedy movie taking place in the New York City police department. The story involves two mismatched detectives that attempt to seize an opportunity in the department. In the movie, The Other Guys, the department is run by Captain Gene Mauch. The atmosphere in the department runs in a way that focuses on two main detectives doing most of the action outside the office. These two-star detectives are Danson and Highsmith, who are played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson. However, a shootout with robbers results in the deaths of Danson and Highsmith, leaving a hole in the department. After mourning the death of the detectives, everyone in the office desires the opportunity to be the lead detectives of the department. The movie follows two of the detectives in the department as they attempt to fill the role of lead detectives. These characters are Allen Gamble, played by Will Ferrell, and Terry Hoitz, played by Mark Wahlberg. Both Allen and Terry have pasts that have been plagued by bad luck. Allen was once a pimp turned detective after being rushed to the hospital from poison ivy in his butt. Terry shot Derek Jeter during the Major League Baseball Playoffs. Even though Allen and Terry have been plagued by bad luck, they hope that making the arrest of all time would turn their life around.

The director uses location to make a gap between black and white by putting them in different areas. It seems that the one belongs to black society, while the richer area is white’s. In this movie, black people are pictured to look like criminals, and their lives are messed up and they live in poverty.

Both sides show that discrimination can destroy the lives of many people who haven't done anything to deserve it. Discrimination can harm the people with a certain race which can be seen in the play when Rudy says, “Twenty sailors, Marines… They grabbed me by the neck and dragged me down the stairs, kicking and punching and pulling my greña.” on page 93 and in the real world the racism from Donald Trump inspired some americans to attack other races such as mexicans. Many people are discriminated by their looks and ethnicity like the 300 mexicans in the play who were arrested on page 28 to be identified as criminals when someone claims to be a victim of a crime and President Trump’s plan to build a wall along the border of Mexico to prevent drug dealers, rapists, and crime from entering the country. The message of the play about racism is still relevant in the real world because of the discrimination towards other races in both of the

I am amazingly acquainted with the A Class Divided film and a tremendous promoter for Jane Elliott. Elliott settled on a disputable choice by making one kind of lesson arrangement for her third grade class to share in after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Her lesson in segregation pulls at viewers feelings and is significantly more powerful on the genuine members. We likewise saw situations in which Elliott utilized the same activities on grown-ups and undergrads with the same results. Bigotry and partiality are still issues that minorities, ladies, and elderly individuals must manage consistently. Elliot's activity not just puts Caucasian people in an uncomfortable position, however it drives them to feel the adverse impacts of outlandish bias. These movies can and ought to be utilized as a part of school and secondary school classrooms to instruct America's childhood about separation and how our general public can free itself of this issue.

The film Crash by Paul Haggis, takes the audience through a day in the life of several individuals of different races, that live in the city of Los Angeles. There is large amounts of racism and prejudice portrayed by each of the main characters in the movie, to show how racial and social issues still remain in American society. Many of the characters simply look at the others and place stereotypes on them. For example, Sandra Bullock’s character essentially calls Michael Peña’s character a gangbanger because of how he appears. This occurs throughout the film with people of different races, but one of the main messages of this movie is that people are often more than the stereotypes of their race. An example of this could be the Persian man’s character, people viewed him as a member of the terrorist group Al Qaeda,

The characterization in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest movie was and novel was the correlation of Ken Kesey describing one of the Protagonists Chief Bromden as being this huge Indian in the movie and novel. “If my being half-Indian had ever helped me in any way in this dirty life, it helped me being cagey, helped me all of these years.” In the novel in Cuckoo’s Nest, the black boys described Chief Bromden as being “big enough to eat apples off of my head, and making me like a baby.” (Kesey 1) However, the movie doesn’t have the particular version and statement that the book shows and talks about. This shows and supports that Chief Bromden is this huge Indian identified in the book and shown in the movie. To help the characters institution

His friends are black but Richard is white and one of his friends says something along the lines of "Now you know how it is to be black" and Richard agreed. This upset the friend because there can be a change for Richard but not for him. The change for Richard was to divorce his wife, which I don't think is a good idea, but I think the message that was being said was that there isn't a fix for black people. They would be treated different because of there race and have to deal with inequalities unlike white people. Especially around this time period since segregation just ended. A part that my friend and I found funny was that Mr. Cohen was so under skilled that he didn’t even have his own office yet and had to use someone else's. It's incredible that Mr. Cohen wasn't as experiences as Philip J. Hirschkop, but he got to experience a court case as extreme as the Loving v. Virginia case. Something sweet that happened in the film was that Richard got Mildred's father to be the witness. Even though a good bunch of people were against their marriage they made it work out in the

The Civil Rights Movement began in the 1950s with figures like Martin Luther King Jr. coordinating marches, making speeches, and fighting for change. Through the years, legal advancements were made and progress was accomplished. In 1962, desegregation of schools was enforced by President Kennedy. In 1965, a Voting Rights Act was put in action to eliminate qualifying tests for voting so that everyone was included. Overall, the 1960s offered great change in civil rights and large advancements in black culture. Viewing this film, it is easy to deduce that Mel Brooks saw this social advancement as a perfect place for him to make a statement in the best way he knew how – comedy. The changing racial atmosphere was at a critical juncture. Beneath the veil of satirical comedy, there are clear indications of the nation’s pending position at the brink of racial equality. The groundbreaking laws themselves were not changing the nation’s overwhelmingly racist opinions, but there was indeed a visibly stirring change occurring. While Brooks was not naïve enough to think that racism was eradicated in 1974, he held a positive view on its progression. Through comedy, Brooks looked to the future with a sense of optimism about society’s improving racial

Christian Ullman Rebecca Romanow FLM-352 30 April 2015 Final Essay Throughout the semester, we’ve watched quite a few movies that represent “chaos cinema” and "slow cinema". Stork claims that, chaos cinema has a very distinct style that "trades visual intelligibility for sensory overload." According to Flanagan, slow cinema emphasizes on "the employment of long takes, decentered and understated modes of storytelling, and a pronounced emphasis on quietude and the everyday...an aesthetic of slow." Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow) and The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah) are two movies that seem to follow the "classical cinema" formula, and at the same time, resemble both chaos and slow cinema in different ways and at different times.

The movie is set in an era where racism against African Americans in the southern states was still a serious issue despite the civil rights movements that took place in the 1950s. Many African Americans, who were sent to trial in court after their

The story of 12 Angry Men begins in a New York City courthouse at the conclusion of a murder trial. The judge order the 12 men of the jury to recess and decide on a guilty or not guilty verdict for a 18 year old boy charged with murdering his father. The judge informs them that a guilty decision by the jury will result in a death sentence for the boy as the judge will not show any leniency. The 12 men are lead to the jury room where they will stay locked up until a decision is made. They quickly go to a vote without much discussion and find out that 11 of the 12 men are ready to pass a guilty verdict but 1 man decides to vote not guilty so that they can at least discuss the case. This quickly draws the ire of the other jurors who have all made up their minds already and just want to leave. This sets the stage for the movie as now they other 11 men try to persuade juror #8 into a guilty vote, or perhaps the other way around.

The war film is a classic genre. Today, one has a wide variety of war films from which to choose. But after watching most of them one will find that they are all quite similar. The one thing that all these films have in common, even more so than the rather similar characters, is the way the camera is used to portray life in war and on the front line. This appears to be the most traditional and theatrical approach to portraying this subject, giving the audience what we think they want. Viewers ultimately walk away saying the same thing. “men make war heroic,” and with that in mind these films completely chose to ignore the alternative: that war is not heroic! War is filled with evil and hatred, and it leaves men soulless and disturbed for the remainder of their lives. Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line ( 1998) approaches war from an entirely different angle, literally and figuratively. I will show how visual design speaks to the film’s overall theme that war is not heroic, its unstable, brutal, and an internal battle for the soul of men on and off the battlefield; and, furthermore, I will demonstrate how simple aesthetic choices such as natural lighting, contrast, and color influence the elements of this film that convey this message.

The movie Twelve Angry Men portrays an array of group dynamics by including the structure and functioning of groups, as well as the different types of roles each character plays along with their conflicts. The film displays these elements through a jury deliberation and the joint effort and the functioning of several minds together to search for the truth. These are just a few characteristics of group dynamics at work that is seen throughout the film.

This movie has a very good outlook on racism and on how we should treat others. Another example was a married American couples, their car got stolen by two African American guys. Who felt insulted by the women look and decided to revenge to them by stealing their car. Sometimes people hurting others by looking at them, especially if that person was discriminated before he will experience that feeling most of the time. Later on in the movie we observed that lady being very rude to her housekeeper, she didn’t like the way she completed her work, in most case just because she was not American. Also, she was arguing about the Mexican guy who was replacing their door key. I think by putting all this characters together the movie crash was trying