The most innocent individual has the ability to flip their morality code to fit a role they could be given. Someone suddenly reflecting a role given to them is referred to as the Lucifer Effect. (Myers 2014, p. 461) In the film, Full Metal Jacket, Sergent Hartman played his role as the drill instructor both intensely and aggressively.(Kubrick) Hartman perfectly reflected the stereotype of both verbally and physically abusive drill instructors as he used his role as the instructor to frequently undermine and harass the new cadets. Hartman’s goal as a drill instructor was to have all of the cadets to conform into the ideal type of soldier for war, even if that meant possibly shattering their beliefs and mind. Both Joker and Gomer Pyle suffered
David Ismael Gutierrez Maestra Caro ELA 3B 01 March 2024 Operation Wetback: A Case Study in State-Sanctioned Immigration Control Operation Wetback was an initiative taken by the US government to stop the giant influx of illegal Mexican immigrants from entering the US. Operation Wetback was a program implemented by the United States government in 1954 to address illegal immigration from Mexico. It resulted in the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants who were living in the United States without proper documentation. This also resulted in the mass deportation of US citizens who were Mexicans or migrated from México with proper documentation.
The same sweater and khaki pants that he is so obsessed with are easy to spot. His overly confident walk hides the fact that he is nothing but an ordinary and odious guy who never seems to leave his earmuffs behind wherever he goes. He stands around making it obvious at how offended he is that no one has approached him yet. If only he’d owned up to being the shitty person that he is underneath all his appealing traits, he wouldn't be an outcast. Officer McCormick approaches the officious boy, feeling obligated to do so. He asks his opinion on his recent soccer game, knowing that the soccer team is outrageously terrible. There's an awkward pause and a sigh of disappointment that delivers more than enough information about his question. Officer
The images of the 9/11 attacks are still fresh and vivid in the minds of Americans who were alive to witness that tragic day. As a result of these attacks, the United States has undergone a transformation socially and politically as it seeks a remedy to the threat of Islamic terror. The years following the events were not great for the United States and for the West countries either. Even though the attacks almost 16 years ago, witnesses still remember it, like if were yesterday. The attacks also changed stereotypes for Muslims in general, which Al Qaeda was responsible.
Probably the most famous "Indian" in American popular media that comes to everyone’s mind is the Lone Ranger's sidekick, Tonto, portrayed by Native American actor Jay Silverheels. Tonto “became the quintessential stoic Indian, which in some ways was a positive step and in other ways locked Indians into a sort of hapless, slow-witted stereotype” (Fitzgerald, 2013:92). Today, the portrayal of Tonto has been seen by some Native Americans and others as derogatory and degrading. He often spoke in a Pidgin, broken English language saying things like, "That right, Kemo Sabe," or "Him say man ride over ridge on horse." However, later depictions have showed Tonto speaking English more clearer and being treated as an equal
After watching Ex Machina, there was a specific scene that caught my attention. During a scene, the main characters Caleb and Ava, or A1, were in the middle of a session. Ava begins to ask Caleb multiple, straight to the point questions. She even noticed that he was getting uncomfortable and commented on that. After she told Caleb to wait there with his eyes clothes.
In the Stanford prison experiment, Zimbardo analyzes how human behavior can change based one’s surroundings and what they are told to do. Normal college students are given roles to play in a mock prison. In this experiment, people are assigned jobs as prison guards and prisoners. The prison guards quickly adapted to their roles. They saw no problem treating the prisoners with no respect. These students use violence against the other students to show their leadership and dominance. The prisoners quickly got accustomed to their parts as well.The prisoners believed that they deserved the punishment. “The experiment shows that good people under the wrong circumstances can behave just like those that we vilify” (Zimbardo). With this experiment, Zimbardo studies the Lucifer Effect. The Lucifer Effect is understanding how good people become evil. He uses his data from this experiment to further develop the Lucifer Effect theory and find out why the Nazis treated the Jews with such cruelty. His results show that when given the opportunity and in the right environment, humans will dehumanize other
Over the years, films have been using stereotypes to portray humor through its characters and environment (3). Stereotypes are associated with almost everything and everyone no matter how people classify themselves. For further clarification, stereotypes are associated with people, groups, races, ethnicities, objects and locations. The Longest Yard (2005) by Peter Segal, perpetuates the use of stereotypes to portray its characters and environment through racial, gender, and prison stereotypes. These specific stereotypes are shown throughout the movie and are examples of stereotypes that have been passed down for generations. Films use stereotypes so that they are able to appeal to a larger target audience (3). The purpose of this paper is to analyze common stereotypes of racial, gender, prison, and athlete stereotypes in the film The Longest Yard.
How many people actually make decisions for themselves? How many people take the time to truly assess the situation before making any judgments? Contrary to what people would like to believe, most people already have a set of expectations about a person or situation even before they interact. Whether it is because of personal experiences, stereotypes, or the opinions of others, the end result is extremely harmful if those assumptions are not addressed; which is the theme observed in the movie, The Sandlot. The Sandlot is a coming-of-age sports film, directed by David Mickey Evans, following the growth and self-discovery of a boy named Scotty Smalls during the summer of fifth grade.
The narrator is living in Seattle with his white girlfriend. They fight constantly. After a bad fight he imagines that they are an Indian chief and a missionaries wife on an Indian reservation. Their romance starts a war between the whites and the Indians. The next day he breaks up with her and moves back to the reservation.
Although these films portray class and stereotypes in a similar fashion, when one looks at them through the eyes of Hall or Neff, one is given a different way to analyze these films. In Into the Woods, one can see how Hall’s different versions of symbols can be applied. While Iron Man, portrays the opposite of what Neff states in his article about race. Within these two movies, the stereotypes are relatively the same, rich and white is a common theme. Hall’s article gives many different types of representations and symbols.
The most infamous of these is the affect playing roles has on us; this is called the Lucifer effect. This occurs when one is placed into a role such as Phillip Zimbardo’s famous prison guard experiment, and the role that is in authority over the other begins to abuse their power. (Myers 2014, p. 461) Another great example of this is in the movie Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick) Hartman is given a role over the cadets. His brutality perfectly demonstrates the Lucifer effect, as he verbally and physically abused the cadets. Hartman constantly called the cadets killers, and Private Pyle took heart to that. He showed information social influence; when a person accepts others’ reality as their own. (Myers 2014, p. 467) Private Pyle was conceived that he was to become a killer, and eventually he became just that. (Kubrick) The rest of the cadets were also affected by this.
1- In 1933 when Hitler and his Nazi party came into power, German was on the tail end of a terrible depression with the rest of the world blaming them for the events of WWI. Things were looking quite bleak for the German people, but then comes Hitler, a man who sees the German people as a special people with a special destiny. Hitler and his Nazi party blamed all of Germany’s problems at the end of WWI on the Allies and weak leadership during Germany’s depression. This gave someone for Germany to blame for their problems and started to being back a sense of national pride. With Hitler in power, there would be no more industrial conflicts, Germany would be rearmed and every German would have a job.
So that leaves us with the question, what is the Lucifer Effect. The Lucifer Effect is when a “good person crosses that border in between good and evil. ”(Psychologized.) In the book The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo, he dives deeper into the aspect of what the Lucifer effect really is and the physiological motives that people have in situations where power is present. The main point he talks about is the Stanford prison experiment.
There are misconceptions and stereotypes about every culture, race, group, nationality or club imaginable. It can be challenging to decide if stereotypes are true to the whole group or if they are misconceptions. We stereotype others based on events we have witnessed personally or things we have heard about them. It is very common for people to base an entire group of people off of just a few of the members’ actions. Just one of the groups that has negative stereotypes are NRA members.
One such group who not only had, and has stereotypes and misconceptions, but has also been around for centuries, the United States military. The oldest form of American military ever recorded is the National Guard, which was founded in 1636 when the colonies fought with the British against Native American tribes and the French in modern day Canada. More commonly known branches such as the Marines and the Army weren’t founded until 1775. Ever since, many services and branches have come and have served the nation. The military is a real unknown organization to the common civilian as they have clouded views of the modern military and its soldiers today.