Stereotypes In The Film 'Cry-Baby'

The movie Glory can be described as a classic “underdog story.” It is a true story about a group of African American soldiers known as the 54th Massachusetts Regiment who faced constant prejudice and resentment by white soldiers and officers throughout the Union. However, under the leadership of Colonel Robert Shaw, they were able to prove themselves as a formidable fighting force at the battle of Fort Wagner. Although the 54th Regiment suffered heavy casualties they showed the Union that African American soldiers could be just as effective as white soldiers. While the movie Glory did paint an accurate picture of the Civil War, the 54th Regiment, and the Battle of Fort Wagner, it did have its fair share of stereotypes.

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.

Hidden Figures, an extraordinary film that shines light on women existence and their intelligence. The women, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan used the power of their intelligence to decipher complex math calculations, computer language to build rockets that other could not see. Throughout the movie racial descrepancies were vividly clear, but these eager women had something to stand for. They dared not let the words of bitterness deter them of their worth.

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.

The movie ‘’The Color Purple’’ is a 1985 drama film that portrays the historical period. This film sheds light on the struggles that African American women faced during the 1930s. The Color Purple is about the life of Celie Harris, a poor black girl who married against her wish to an older black man. This movie was a great portrayal of history, which was directed by Steven Spielberg in a new light, this movie also shows realism and grit.

Jumping into a burning building is one of the things that the boys from the “Greaser Gang” would do for each other. When the main character, Ponyboy, jumps into a burning church to save children from the flames, his two gang members and family, Johnny and Dally, jump in after him to help get the children out and ensure that he can get out. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton shows two main themes. These themes show many examples of stereotyping could lead to misjudgment of people and to be loyal to the people around you, especially the ones close to you.

John Hughes masterfully captures the shades of adolescent stereotypes and interactions, the culture clash between adolescents and adults, and the role that parents play in modeling the high school experience of each adolescent. The Breakfast Club follows five different teenagers throughout the course of a day as they are forced to endure detention on a Saturday. Each character symbolizes a classic adolescent prototype: the athlete, the basket case, the brain, the criminal, and the princess. At first, the adolescents separate themselves and make judgments and assumptions about each other based on the stereotype they each characterize. As the film develops, the characters start to move past these stereotypes to recognize they have

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”.

According to Shirley Chrisholm , “ We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have ourselves.” We don’t have to be what others view us as, we don’t even have to be what we think we need to be. Be your own you. Ponyboy thought that he had to be a tough, scary, illegal gang member to be a tuff greaser, but in the end he decided to just be himself, and he was finally happy with himself.

Stereotype is considering to be "A fixed, over generalized belief about a particular group or class of people." (Cardwell, 1996). Having a form of judgment on a social group or an individual based upon there characterizes or lifestyle they live. Do the right thing is a 1989 comedy-drama film directed and written by Spike Lee take place over the hottest day on a block in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Lee plays Mookie who is a 25- year old man who is determining to make a better living for himself and has a duty to get paid the best way he can. Mookie works at a local pizzeria name Sal's where most of the neighborhood spends most of their time there. Sal has been living in the neighborhood for about 25 years and is very comfortable with the

Have you ever been judged by your looks or how you act? Has anyone ever put you in a specific category ? In The breakfast Club a group of high school students get an 8 hour detention where they learn more about each other and find their inner Self. The breakfast club was created after a group of kids got a Saturday detention in a cafeteria. Each character has their own stereotype, Allison is the weird one that doesn't care what anyone thinks, John is the big bully or the jock, he seems like he's been through a lot and doesn't care much, Claire is the popular cool girl in school that wants everyone to like her, Brian's the nerd that is smart and in a bunch of clubs, and lastly Andrews the athlete that is relying on a scholarship.

Stereotypes have been around longer than America has. In this century every type of person has a stereotype. Some positive and some negative. The stereotype to highlight pertaining to the video is about the Latinos. Most Latinos are assumed illegal immigrants because a lot of them don’t speak English and if they do it is not very well. Another factor to add in is that a lot of Latinos work landscaping under the table. That is across America, now to talk about the areas around the boarders of America. Every day thousands of Latinos try to cross the border illegally. So the stereotype may have more truth down there but it is still not completely true. The fact is every darker skin colored person will be pulled over near the borders either by the county police or the border patrol.

In the movie "UP", it is about Carl (an old man) and Ellie (a little boy). In the beginning, the man was characterized as being frail and grumpy. As the movie goes on they grow a tight bond and the older man is characterized as an active and kind father figure to the little boy Ellie. This example is a representation that proves older individuals being characterized and portrayed in negative ways, even though there are times where there are different aspects that present elderly individuals as kind, like is shown in the movie "UP". Even though there are movies in the media that characterize older people as being "kind" and not represented as frail, the argument on how gender is portrayed is also going back to how "men re more vibrant and

History background and culture effect everyone is the 21th Century. In America, we are like a melting pot where we have different nationality and culture. Even though we are so used to different cultures, we might not understand the beliefs in each cultures. Stereotype occurred in the movie Wild Child several times. Wild Child is a movie that was filmed in 2008 is it a story about “a rebellious Malibu princess is shipped off to a strict English boarding school by her father.”

Stereotypes can be defined as a standardized conception enveloped to hold a special meaning upheld and thought by a group or collection of people, and they impact our society in many ways (Stereotype). For example, in an interview with Guy Raz from NPR, Jamila Lyiscott says that “And it occurred to me in that, had I been speaking with my family, who’s Trinidadian, or with people in my community who speak black English vernacular, that his women would have made not seen the same worth and value in terms of my intellectual capacity or just me.” (Lyiscott). This shows and explains that people, in particular a lady that had complimented her upon her English, that this lady may have been holding a stereotype against Lyiscott’s community and may not have expected this sort of articulation from her. As you can plainly see, this shows that although stereotypes are not generally accepted by the public, they can still be held by a wide range of peoples.