Twenty Feet From Stardom Analysis

Everyone has a dream to become someone significant one day, and would try to work his or her best to achieve that goal. Although the goal can take many years to achieve, but there are some people who are willing to work that hard for it even if it takes them 10,20,30 or 50 years. From the movie 20 Feet From Stardom by Morgan Neville, it shows how the struggles of back up singers. Many listeners have heard of their song thousands of time, they have been played on the radio, malls, and on television, but we never know what their names are, or how they look like. The title of this movie really define how back up singers are only a few feet away from fame, yet it takes them so much longer to be successful, or have other to know their name.

This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This movie includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well

The main purpose of the film is to educate people on the truths about the life of former slaves in post-Reconstruction era. The major themes of the film is that racism still existed then but more

The film, “The African- Americans: Many Rivers to cross, Episode 5: “Rise!” coves African American history from 1940 to 1968. This film was written by Henry Louis Gates which is composed of taking us down the road to civil rights. In the beginning of his film, he briefly mentions that even a century after emancipation things such as segregation would be contradictory. Gates is opposed to the thoughts of segregation; he views segregation as something that’ll never fade – even years after the freeing, there will always be that separation and injustice. He covers all historical people who left their marks and historical events through that time period. Throughout the 1940s, African Americans experienced a downfall. When it came to employment, the “Negroes,”

This documentary was released in February 2017, it was narrated by Samuel L Jackson and its purpose is to explore the history of racism in the United States. The film is about the legacies and deaths of these three men. This film describes what it was like to be a black individual during a time when blacks

If a movie of this sort had such an emotional impact on me, it is no wonder people embraced these ideas back then. The use of new and popular media methods in those days was more than adequate in transferring the black inferiority ideas to the general public. Beginning at the early 19th century with the happy, dancing, toothless, drunken Negro with big, bold and white lips to the image of the mid 21st century African-American, the media has always used these images to convey inferiority. These images implied inherent traits in the black community. This whole community was represented in the new media as one who can not be collateralized and integrated in to society without being happily enslaved. Most of these images had great commercial values that made it all the more impossible for the rest of the nation not to embrace the African American stereotypes.

The movie starts off with an event that took place in the early 1960s in Birmingham, Alabama. Four little girls were killed in the bombing of the Baptist Church. This event turned the wheels of King’s Civil Rights Movement since many African Americans believed that these girls were killed because of their race. I thought this scene stood out the most to viewers in the beginning because there are crimes like this happening in society still that people believe is because of a race. In fact groups have formed to put an end to racial inequality, however, the bombing of the Baptist church seems a little more extreme than the incidents involving Garner, and Martin. DuVernay was able to illustrate the graphic

The film also gives background information on black facing and speaks upon the black actors that did participate in it. In my opinion the movie became pretty poetic, in a spoken word form, when it began to talk about the feelings of men that would entertain whites with their black face performances. These

The degree of connection between all of the characters in the movie is so coincidental and interrelated to emphasize the point that we do not always know what is going on with everyone else we may encounter. It also accentuates the fact that racism is not one particular race against another. It also shows that we never know someone’s situation and what is happening in their life to make them act the way that they do if

After picking up a rotten apple, Mama asked one of the white employees if she could have a batch of fresh apples and he agreed. However, when a white woman asked the same question, the man gave her the apples instead of Mama. Disgusted, Mama walked out of the store, refusing to be treated like a second class citizen any longer. Though this was a short scene from the movie, it portrayed the daily intolerance of African Americans living in the United States and the actions taken, however miniscule, to prevent them from being treated as equals to white men. Third of all, we can observe how a low economic status further affects the treatment of African Americans by white people.

Slavery was a very big part in the United States history and not a very good part of history either. The movie takes place in 1960s in Mississippi. A southern society girl Skeeter returns from college with dreams of being a writer. She turns her small town on its ear by choosing to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent white families. Only Aibileen, the housekeeper of Skeeter's best friend, will talk at first. But as the pair continues the collaboration, more women decide to come forward, and as it turns out, they have quite a lot to say. The help is very mistreated and work long days and go home to working long nights to keep the their own house going.

Lisl Winternitz lived during World War Ⅱ, a young girl not fully knowing what was happening in her country around her. Living life scared, never knowing who is watching you, who will stop you on the street because you’re a jew. The Holocaust was repulsive, ghastly, and foul. The Jews at that time had done nothing to deserve the punishment Hitler gave them.

In the light of, the director makes good points through the whole movie about what they went through. I like this movie because it gives me more information of the people who were involved or who were there during that time. Like, Ann Lee Coper (Oprah Winfrey), Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo), and the rest of the people who help fight for African Americans to be able to vote. The movie also shows the difficult and the happy time they went through. Even the problems with their family. No matter what’s going on, they were still focus and full invested in having freedom. What I learned from this movie was that they did not let all the obstacles of what they went through mess up their main goal because of that I am able to take those lesson for my

This film was based on the time period, as Calvert describes it in The Myth Of The Old South, downloaded May 8, of the Antebellum South, filled with large, prosperous plantations and big white, columned houses. In the Old South, before any equal protection laws were ratified, slavery was a central and important part of

Stardom can be read from another angle in the 1950s. Even while actors received much fame they were still under the control of producer and studio, who assigned actors to pictures “in their range and within the range of the audience expectations (Schickel 91). This system prevailed even after the Supreme Court ruling of 1948. Actors gained so much from Hollywood but became victims of the same-few died young and others had troubled private lives. Studios continued to own their actors despite the shift in film production. For instance Marilyn Monroe signed a seven year contract with Fox in 1950 and those who tried to build a career outside the studio system were vulnerable like the black actress Dorothy Dandridge. She found it difficult to survive in a white dominated industry though she achieved mainstream success through musicals such as Carmen Jones (1954)