Examples Of Stereotypes In The Film The Longest Yard

A racial stereotype is defined as a simplistic, rigid and unfair generalization of a racial-ethnic identity. Thus the film achieves the opposite effect.

Stereotype; a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. In the realistic fiction novel, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, and in the short story, “Geeks Bearing Gifts”, written by Ron Koertge, stereotypes are defied by ordinary people. In The Outsiders, Johnny Cade and Darry Curtis face many struggles throughout their lives. Their town in separated into two: the rich and dangerous Socs, and the quiet, tough Greasers. For them, living dangerously is a reality. As a result of their lifestyle, Johnny has become fearful and Darry is considered the toughest man in the gang. In “Geeks Bearing Gifts” aspiring journalist, Renee, interviews her fellow classmates who are classified as “outcasts.” After meeting several students, she realizes her assumptions were incorrect about them. After reading both of these stories, the reader learns that our thoughts about others often revolve around stereotypes and assumptions, but most of these ideas that we have about other people are proven wrong.

Certain stereotypes have stood the test of time, no matter how many strides for racial equality have been made. Sandra Bullock’s character made the statement about the relationship between white and black people: “If a white woman sees two black men walking

To start, stereotypes are deceptive because people place others into cliques based on their appearances. People assume everyone in a clique are the same, even though their true personality may differ from that clique. The first example from The Outsiders in which somebody doesn’t fit in with the stereotype they are given is Ponyboy. Ponyboy doesn’t quite fit in with his clique, the greasers. After Ponyboy is jumped, Darry has a fight with Pony. Darry yells at Ponyboy to think on the streets and to stay alert. Darry is concerned about Ponyboy’s safety: ‘“You must think at school with all those good grades you bring home, and you’ve always got your nose in a book, but do you ever use your head for common sense?”’ (13). Meaning, Ponyboy isn’t like the greaser stereotype. Compared to all the other greasers, Pony is book smart and not street smart. The greasers are smart where it really matters like on the streets. They carry blades to defend themselves, travel as gangs, and know how to get themselves out of a dangerous situation, if they get stuck in one. Ponyboy, however, is book smart. He succeeds at an outstanding level at school and in his academics. Once he is on the street his intelligence doesn’t follow him. He doesn’t use his common sense and he can’t find his way out of dangerous situations. As a result of this Pony gets jumped by the Socs which

Do you ever feel like everyone has a “thing”? That one thing, something they’re good at? But you just can’t seem to find your thing? Then you share the same feeling with Doug Glatt, played by Seann William Scott has in the movie Goon. All Dougs family and friends have their thing, his parents and brother are doctors, his best friend has a hockey themed webcast he owns, but Doug has nothing but his job as a bouncer at the local bar. All that changes when a hockey coach witnesses Doug in a fight, bashing some unfortunate souls face in, he quickly offers doug the opportunity to play hockey as an enforcer claiming, “You’ve been touched by the fist of God for Christ’s sake!” . An enforcer is a player in hockey who is on the ice solely to protect the team’s star players, they are “goons”.

“We all use stereotypes, all the time, without knowing it. We have met of equality and the enemy is us.” - Annie Murphy Paul. Dallas (From The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton) represents the stereotype of a greaser, and the way people know him as a greaser. Stereotypes change only those who agree with them. His stereotype has been formed by his years in the New York gangs. Not many people truly enjoy his presence, but due to his fear and reputation, they still let him hang out. He’s become a poster boy for the greasers.

Many people judge other people just by the way they look or the way they talk. But really, you have to get to know the person. In The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, there are stereotypes everywhere. A stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. In The Outsiders, a character named Johnny is in the “category” of the greasers.

We all see stereotyping in real life everywhere we go. Muslims are terrorists, and blondes are dumb; and they’re not always true. Believe it or not most of the blonde people I know are smarter than me. We see a lot of stereotyping in the book ‘The Outsiders’. The outsiders have two groups or gangs. The Socs and the Greasers. The greasers are know as the ‘gang’ or the ‘bad boys’ and the socs are known as the ‘popular group’ they wear madras shirts and drive corviars and mustangs. Everybody loves them however little do they know, they are the bad kids. The torture the greasers and jump them. I know that some of The Greasers also jump some little kids and pick up girls but nothing compared to The Socs. The Socs get away with almost anything because the police always let them off the hook, but not with The Greasers. That’s the problem that everyone thinks that The Socs and The Greasers are completely different but what if a Soc and a Greaser meet any completely tear down all stereotypes?

It is vital to bring up that Anderson, who is from the zone and has felt this sort of displeasure towards others, has altered his opinion. He now trusts that scorn and bias aren't right. The motion picture endeavors to appear, with this illustration, that even the individuals who have been raised with disdain and bias in their souls can alter their way of life. He was the person who was against Agent Ward acquiring many specialists and the media to the territory. This activity only heightened the dedication of the Klan. The lesson here is that individuals are characteristically impervious to change. The change must be continuous in nature. He likewise demonstrated that, with a specific end goal to change the convictions of these individuals, one should first start to comprehend them, and after that he or she should invalidate their convictions through discourse and data

Discrimination and stereotypes are no laughing matter. The film Million Dollar Baby directed by Clint Eastwood is a prime example of how to address gender stereotypes. It demonstrates how Frankie and changes his perception of stereotypes and how Eddie decides to treat the characters who are being discriminated against. In this movie, Maggie is being heavily stereotyped. According to others, she's supposed to be the soft girly girl that doesn't fight. I believe the film did a great job at coping with gender stereotypes by proving the standard way a woman should act wrong. Frankie told Maggie that he didn't want to train her because she was a girl, therefore automatically assuming that she's too girly to fight. Although it's pretty easy to see

1.Music is a weapon by empowering the person to feel anger or sadness music effects not the emotions but the souls say like I play a song called were not going to take it allot of people would feel like there government is using certain things against them so they'll rebel so music is really more as a empowering fuel to the emotions and soul of the man and women kind everywhere. In the movie Slingshot Hip-Hop “I’m just doing it because there’s no other reason to live,” this was a quote by abeer. For some reason this spoke to me it showed me how important it is to stand for something. Furthermore, going to bat for yourself characterizes you just like a man of pride, who qualities your ethics and beliefs. Abeer sees hope in hip-hop, so he holds on to it with dear life and is ready to destroy anyone who comes in front of it. Going with the flow, dismisses this and permits you to happen to the numerous

The film touched base on different stereotypes that come with living in an area such as Crenshaw. When Tre was shown living with his mother, in the beginning of the film, it is seen that Tre gets into trouble at school. There was an incident where Trey and another student got into an altercation and Tre was suspended for 3 days. Later the same day, Tre gets home and his mother is on the phone discussing the issue with his teacher. The conversation between the teacher and Tre’s mother begins to escalate due to his mother feeling offended. This being that the teacher believes Tre is another student in her class that is a fatherless child, with a mother who is uneducated and struggling to pay her bills consistently.

So representations often make use of stereotypes because they are a shorthand, quick and easy way of using information (Nelmes, 269).” In the film studies, the plot of stereotyping can be found in many films, stereotyping is ‘a quick and easy way of labeling or categorizing the world around us and making it understandable. Stereotypes are learned but are by no means fixed, yet often resistant to change. They tend to restrict our understanding of the world and perpetuate beliefs that are often untrue or narrow.

The first point Berg is trying to make in this chapter is where exactly stereotypes root from, he talks about this in the “the cultural and narrative dynamics of Hollywood cinema” where he goes in depth of why stereotypes were essentially created. Berg explains that the goal driven hero has the qualities of “white, handsome, middle-aged, upper-middle-class, heterosexual, Protestant, Anglo-Saxon male”, so with that specific image in mind the WASP wants to be painted with as much hierarchy as possible so any other roles need to be lesser than the WASP. This is when stereotypes come into play because roles such as villains, sidekicks, and temptresses are there to function to make the WASP main character be painted in a much better light. There

It is said that, in Hollywood film, there are four main stereotypes; Yellow Peril, Dragon Lady, Charlie Chan and Lotus Blossom. (Shah, Hemanta and Simile, 2003) From the research of Shah, Hemanta and Simile (2003) shows that, “in contemporary film and television representation, the four stereotypes of Asians: Yellow Peril, Charlie Chan, Dragon Lady, and Lotus Blossom are still evident.” Especially, the ‘Dragon Lady’ stereotype of Asian women has long been portrayed in Hollywood film in the past. Due to the perception towards ‘Tsu-his’, the Chinese Empress that killed people who disobey the laws by poisoning, beheading or ask them to commit suidide (Shah, 2003) ‘China Doll’ is also considered as “one of the most famous characteristic of Asian females, and it imply the idea that Asian women are weak, shy, sexualized, and always rescued by white men” (Sheridan, 2005).