Glg 101 Film Analysis

The film begins in New York City in a courthouse, it is clear by the expressions on everyone’s face including the judge that everyone is tired and it has been a long trial. The viewers are told that an unidentified, young Hispanic male originating from the slums is on trial for supposedly stabbing his father to death. The viewers are also given the final closing arguments, including the testimony of two witnesses; one an elderly man saying that he heard the father and son argue then heard a body drop, and the other a woman who lives across the street who claims to have seen the boy murder his father. The Jurors and audience are told that if a verdict of guilty is found then there is a mandatory death sentence that will follow.

An African-American from the north, Virgil Tibbs, is picked up at the train station by a racist cop. Tibbs was just passing through the town, when interrogated and taken for having a significant

The film examines systemic and institutional racism in the police station when Hansen talks to his superior officer about switching partners; his superior, Lieutenant Dixon, is a black officer and says that reporting Officer Tom Hansen as a racist could cost all of them their jobs, especially in the LAPD. Dixon suggests transferring to a one-man car and mockingly suggests Hansen explain his request by claiming to have “uncontrollable flatulence” rather than say his partner is racist. We also see instances of where racism is not race against race, it also portrays race against gender and race against class as two major forms of racism conflict in the movie.

The film encompasses a variety of different themes as well. The issues are all connected to the different prejudices that are found in today’s society. Racism is the most dominant theme that is found in the film. Stereotyping is another theme that is viewed throughout this film. An example of this being when Daniel the Hispanic locksmith was changing the locks for the Caucasian District Attorney and his wife. Jean (the wife) assumes that Daniel is a no good gang banger based on the fact that he has tattoos, a shaved head, and is Hispanic. The film

The film Mosquita y Mari directed and created by Aurora Guerrero is a coming of age story set about Huntington Park in the southeastern part of Los Angeles. It uses tense scenery that seeks to explore what it means to be in a romantic relationship versus a close friendship. Furthermore, upon legitimizing Yolanda and Mari`s relationship the film provokes the audience to ask the question, “If they are queer, what is keeping them in the closet?” This question is most effectively answered by examining how Yolanda and Mari`s ethnicity, locational, and immigrant descendant identities intersect to keep them in the closet.

The film begins with a long, tracking shot after a bomb is placed inside a car. We follow the car and see a couple walking down the street together. Because of this choice of shot, we are offered two vital introductions in one: We are introduced to both the inciting incident, as well as two of the main characters. As soon as the two main characters, Susie and Mike Vargas, make their way to the Mexican border, we are introduced to one of the many themes that will be prevalent in the film, and that is racism. Although the border patrolmen do not seem at all phased by the sight of an interracial couple, the cue that guides the audience to notice the undertones of racial prejudice, come in the mise-en-scene. Immediately after Mike kisses his wife, the bomb goes off just several feet away from them, using the inciting incident also as a tool to say that the general public will not agree with a white woman being married to a Latino man.

Racial prejudices also run rampant in the film. Various scenes in the movie add to the tension of the film by showing examples of hatred between races. There are scenes of whites attacking blacks in the street, screaming at them to return to Africa. In one scene a black man is corralling a white soldier to the polls, the man says that he has already given his arm for the black cause, the black man then draws a gun and tells him "that's a start." He indicates that he still wants the white man to pay for his

This movie continues to show all different types of racism. In one scene, two black men were walking down the street complaining of how everyone is so racist. The district attorney, Rick Cabot (Brendan Fraser), and his wife, Jean Cabot (Sandra Bullock), were walking down the street. She was holding his arm and started to hold him closer because she was cold. The two black men saw her and assumed that she was scared as they walked by them. Later on, the two black men steel a SUV at gun point. The passengers of the SUV just happen to

justice system on the black community. The film opens with the harrowing statics spoken by

Anthony is an African-American man who detests white people after he received bad service at a coffee shop. His accomplice Peter, who is also African-American, is man who is more open-minded about prejudices and racial views. Cameron is an African-American producer and his attractive wife Christine and he are on their way home from a party when they are pulled over by Officer Ryan, who accuses them of sexual misdemeanors. Officer Ryan?s partner Officer Hansen just stands there in shock as Officer Ryan inappropriately searches Christine. Farhad is a middle-eastern shop owner who wants his lock fixed, he hires Daniel, a Hispanic locksmith who isn?t trusted by his customers because of his appearance.

This movie describes a first African-American lawyer who became the Court's 96th justice. The movie revolves around Thurgood Marshall. At a young aged he faced one of his greatest challenges while working as a lawyer for the NAACP. Marshall traveled to a conservative Connecticut area but wealthy well known person in society, named Eleanor Strubing accuses a black chauffeur, named Joseph Spell of sexual assault and attempted murder. Spell soon teams up with Sam Friedman, a local Jewish lawyer who's never handled a criminal case. The two men, together build a defense while contending with racist and anti-Semitic views from those who deem Spell to be guilty.

The entirety of the film takes place in a meager apartment occupied by two men, Black and White, played by actors assigned according to their skin tones. Black is a murderer, an ex-con who’s found God and salvation through

The movie Giant introduces us with Rock Hudson who is playing the role of Jordan Benedict Jr riding a train from Texas, to purchase a stallion from the father of Leslie who is played by Elizabeth Taylor. As soon as Jordan arrives on the property, we can already tell that there is something going on between him and Leslie who at that time was with somebody else. Shortly after the sale of the horse, and around the time Jordan is preparing to go home, Leslie who was apparently up all night reading about the history of Texas, mentions how the US stole Texas away from Mexico. This is actual first addressing of Mexico in the film, and Jordan clearly finds this to be a offensive. Furthermore, the next scene which was a little random, shows Jordan and Leslie on their honeymoon arriving on their property of Mr. Benedict Jr in Texas, which is a complete desert might I add.

Dziga Vertov was a Soviet film theorist and director who coined the term kino-eye to refer to the style of filming everyday life. Similar to the Constructivists, he was hoping to create novyi byt, or a new everyday life in a socialist society that would not fetishize the object. And in doing so, Vertov wanted to include the proletariat in this new wave of film that was previously dominated by the bourgeoisie and their aesthetics.

In this movie the main character was a man named Derek. After the death of his father, due to gang violence, he became a racist to all others but white people. He blamed the lack of jobs and poor wages on the blacks and immigrants. In an interview he had after the death of his father he stated that, it 's all the blacks fault for all the violence in their neighborhood. He also said that, they brought all the diseases like AIDS and it 's their problem and why did they have to bring it to the white people. Before he vandalized a store, owned by a Chinese man, with his other racist friends he told them why they were doing this. He told them that these immigrates come here an instead of looking for the American dream they come and take advantage of it and by firing those who worked there before and hiring Mexicans and blacks, that are willing to work at a low-wage, they make more money. So he and his friends need to show them that they indeed don 't belong here and