Stereotypes Depicted In Nighthawks, By Sylvester Stallone

After watching the movie Crash in class it was immediately added to the list of my favorite movies. I have always been a huge fan of mystery movies. When I say mysteries I don’t always mean murders or crime but those that don’t quite make complete sense until the end. Crash is that type of movie.

Hitchcock uses camera shots and breaking the stereotype of his characters to intensify the film’s plot.

Native American stereotypes represented and utilized by filmmakers portray Native American peoples in unrealistic and offensive ways. Due to the misconception of Native American formed by Euro-Americans, these stereotypes are perceived as factual evidential history. Native Americans are viewed primarily as monolithic. It is important to identify the mistreatment of Native Americans and their various cultures through incorrect stereotypes as well as to emphasize the reality of Native Americans. A primary example of a film in which the filmmaker relies upon stereotypes of native peoples that emphasizes the power of film to create alternative realities is the film The Lone Ranger. In this specific film, filmmaker Gore Verbinski incorporates stereotypes of native peoples such as the bloodthirsty savage, the noble savage, the ecological Indian, and the vanishing Indian. When evaluating these stereotypes, remembering that these stereotypes have transformed to false reality for a majority of the population is a highlighted key in how these stereotypes effect Native Americans.

There are many stereotypes about Native Americans which are promoted in today's films. Since the beginnings of the westward settlement people have been saying things about the Native Americans that are not necessarily true. They were depicted as savages and thieves. Like all peoples this is true about some, but not for all. In fact, it was the Native Americans which helped the pilgrims settle in this country in the first place. This never stopped whites from stereotyping the way we have. Early films and TV shows gave Native Americans a bad image. Old western films are a good example of this. In these the cowboys were always the good guys and the Native Americans were the bad guys. More

The movie Crash is about people with different types of background, ethnicity, religion and lifestyle. Everyone is different from the things they believe in to the color of their skin. But in the end everyone is human and they have their own story, they might have been raised in a bad environment or grew up being taught that. Throughout the movie, everyone had different types of stereotypes on other races, because they are black they are bad guys and crooks, or because they are hispanic they are gang members and they do illegal things, every perception put on the characters are perceptions that are set towards each race. Everyone in the story had played a role of being an accuser or a victim to racial discrimination, they have a chance to accuse someone for a certain prejudice and are accused by others. Some of the characters end up fitting the racial prejudice put on them, but others didn't. In the end some broke the stereotypes that were placed upon their race but some acted exactly how they were perceived as. Even though they did good deeds in the end, they still did things according to how others saw them as. In the end everyone is human and they make mistakes.

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.

The media labels Latinos as “Latin Lovers” (oversexed seducers), the “Crook”, and thugs. As for the Asian population, Asian men are considered as geeks, math whizzes, and are viewed as non masculine. Usually, the only time Asian men are viewed as masculine is when they practice martial arts. Asian women can be considered to be one dimensional, sexualized representations, and can also shown as the “nerdy” type throughout multiple shows and films. Native American tropes include silent, stoic men or bloodthirsty warriors.

The movie Crash, taking place in Los Angeles, is about a group of people’s stories about their race, culture, and lifestyle and how they are tested. There were many racial interactions in the movie which informed the viewers about stereotyping and why one shouldn’t do it. For example, there’s a mexican who fixed door locks. When he would work, he was under high supervision because his customers assumed he would steal because of his race. In reality, the mexican was a good, hard working father who cared deeply about his family.

The melodramatic film Crash, directed by Paul Higgins, consists of multiple storylines that portray how such antagonistic people come to meet in the most unusual situations. The film shows how characters clash or crash into each other in the most unusual situations. This demonstrates to the audience from an outside perspective the unreasonable or stereotypical opinions formed on one another. As well as the outcome of these crashes and whether they are positive or negative outcomes. A crash that occurs in the film is a scene of Christine and Cameron where t A black SUV is reported stolen by two black men.

Throughout this chapter, Korgen main arguments pertained to the media’s portrayal of Black and White biracial characters in movies. Typically the media portrays people with lighter skin to have more positive characteristics while people with darker skin more negative characteristics. Media is one first place young children get these images from and it can have a huge impression on them without even knowing it. They are placed within this social class of existence. “Viewers tend to pay the most attention to characters who share their age, race, and gender and those they wish they could be like” (Korgen, 2010, pg. 89). Biracial Americans go through the toughest scrutiny by both races on whether they fit into either group. I know my brother and sister have this issue from the time they were little especially my sister, she is lighter skinned and was never truly accepted by the black or white girls at school.

The movie Crash depicts many issues that we see on a daily basis. Whether its social constructs, traditional gender roles, or abuse of power; this movie does an astonishing job at giving you an idea of how certain people are depicted based on the circumstances they are in. The main issue in the movie is how the character in the movie depicts each other as something that they are not. They are quick to make assumptions based on their race mostly instead of actually seeing them for who they really are.

The movie Crash was a very moving film. Perceptions are individual. What one person perceives is not necessarily the same as another. The characters all had experiences that connected them with one another. The experiences within their lives created assumptions of people; this prevents them from seeing the true person. The characters in this movie all had limited views about other racial backgrounds, ethnicities and socio-economic groups within their community. When circumstances within these lives push them to their limits, their assumptions about others are tested. Racism and racial profiling are strongly felt by these characters throughout the movie. When pushed to the limit the characters are forced to deal with things

In the film crash, Cameron Thayer represents the stereotypical black male and because of that he goes through the challenges of being judged by his race. In Cameron’s opening scene He and his wife Christine are driving home in a black luxury truck, which represents the status of a high class. They were leaving an awards show due to cameron being a television director. The awards show enlightens cameron’s ego, he feels good about himself and he feels that he has escaped the typical “black guy’s identity.”

The movie Crash is based off of the stereotypes that people believe about racism. This movie showed how different people life’s crashed into each other. The point of the film is to show that people shouldn’t believe every stereotype that they are told, but should consider the possibilities that all people of different races are in some form alike. There were two main characters in this movie, that had a different story, but same mindset of how they would want to live there life at the end. The two characters that stood out to me were Anthony (Ludacris) and the character Daniel betrayed as the Hispanic locksmith. Even though these two characters did not crash into each other’s lives in the movie they had similar stories. When watching them from

Jeydalee Rivera Mrs. Costanzo English 2H January 9, 2014 “Crash” When one sees an African American man walking down the street, the worst is automatically assumed of him, when seeing a man wearing a turban, one assumes he is a terrorist, and woman of all ages are seen to be less superior to men in any given situation. Racial and gender stereotypes have been around for several eras, and was one of the main focuses in this film. As mentioned by Roger Ebert on his review of the movie , “All are victims of it, and all are guilty of it. Sometimes, yes, they rise above it, although it is never that simple”