The Main Character And Hero Of This Play By Alexander Hamilton
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For our final group project we had to pick an ideological lens and apply it to a piece of text we had gone over as a class to create a screenplay. I’ve had the songs from Hamilton stuck in my head since the beginning of the semester when the musical was assigned so I thought it would be of good use to take what is already so prominent in my head and get creative with it. Hamilton is the main character and hero of this play, who is based off of Alexander Hamilton, one of America’s founding fathers. The character displays extreme confidence and enthusiasm, which can come across as arrogant or cocky to some of the other characters, who are also historical figures, such as Aaron Burr. To the audience Hamilton is still admirable and his…show more content… Most historians would agree that this film is clearly propaganda for fascism, but to the day she died, Riefenstahl claimed that her film was simply a documentary, showing what was happening during that time (Stupp). This is because she wanted to avoid prosecution and affiliation with the Nazi party, but she did end up being deemed a Nazi sympathizer and her career suffered ("Leni Riefenstahl."). As I watched her film I took notice of the way she highlighted Hitler in positive lighting and how there would be cuts between him and the excited townspeople. There are many images of children, particularly young boys. I knew I wanted to incorporate these images at some point in my screenplay during a montage as an indicator of fascism. While I knew how to show fascist symbols through film media, I knew that I wanted my screenplay to be more like anti-fascist propaganda, so I realized that it wouldn’t make sense to use Riefenstahl’s techniques alone, so I did more research. I found a Disney short film, Education for Death, which was an American propaganda film shown in theaters throughout the United States during World War II. After the release of the Disney cartoon, Fantasia, Disney was going bankrupt because of how terribly it did in
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