Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Empathy and Social Change in To Kill a Mockingbird, Milk, and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Empathy: “The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experiences fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner” (according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary). When we think of social

Equality for All Stanley Kramer’s film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, is about an interracial marriage between a black man and a white woman as well as the generational divide between the alarmed parents of both races and the optimistic young couple. There are aspects of the film that can be construed as progressive and influential for the era, the film more accurately serves as a reflection of the larger socio-political context of 1960’s America in regards to both attitudes of antagonism and acceptance

The Hollywood movie “Guess Who” (2005) is a remake of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967). Both film’s premises are about the same situation of an interracial marriage. The original revolved around a daughter bringing her black fiancée to meet her white middle class family. This was a touchy and even controversial subject in 1967 but the film became an award winner. The 2005 update switches the roles around and with a stroke of genius we now have a white fiancée meeting a black family. Personally

came into its own. The 1967 film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, produced by Columbia Pictures and directed by Stanley Kramer, depicts Joey Drayton (Katharine Houghton) and Dr. John Wade Prentice (Sidney Poitier) as a mixed race couple who leave Hawaii to go back to her family’s home to surprise her parents, Mr. Matt Drayton (Spencer Tracy) and Mrs. Christina Drayton (Katharine Hepburn) in San Francisco, California. Joey later invites Dr. Prentice’s parents to dinner who then fly in from Los Angeles

Beyond holding its status as the first film to depict an interracial marriage, “One Potato, Two Potato” is notable for several other reasons. Most obviously, the relationship is between a black man and a white woman. At the time, this was a far more threatening union to those who believed in racial segregation extending to marriage. There is ample historical precedent for white men getting sexually involved with black women. In times of slavery, it was not uncommon for a slave owner to have sex with

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner directed by Stanley Kramer is a controversial movie from the late 1960’s. The premise of the film is a young white woman named Joey Drayton (Katharine Houghton); who falls in love with an older African American Doctor John Prentice, (Sidney Poitier). The new loving couple meets in Hawaii and after ten days of knowing each other are engaged. Joanna Drayton sees no difference between her and John, she is in love and ready to marry her new fiancé, She insist he meet her

excitement, being that John is Black. John’s parents as well, do not find too much joy knowing that their son plans on marrying a White woman, and are even more displeased to find out that he failed to mention this to them until they were face to face at a dinner. The historical aspect of this film is quite accurate, considering that interracial marriages were now legal and it also captures society’s response to this new ruling. Although the United States, as a country, agrees on racial equality with the acceptance

inherent culture from historical. Firstly, racism was a system which resulted in some people enjoying the privileges while others lost their rights in the social structures, based on skin color, inherent cultures, and ability. The film "Guess Who 's Coming to Dinner” (Stanley

through the many conversations throughout the movie that lead up to dinner time that both John and Joann will be met with a lot of problems if they were to be in an open interracial relationship during this time. The prejudice would not only be shown to them but also to their kids as Joann’s father points out that children who are the product of interracial relationships are mocked and tormented as well (Kramer, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner). This movie was able to give people some perspective on how certain

The topic of my paper concerns how particular movies reflected the views and progress of the Civil Rights/Black Power movement of the 60s. The two films that are being examined are Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) and Nothing But A Man (1964). Both films feature African-American characters as more than subservient supporting cast members such as maids, and servants. It reflects America’s progressing social attitudes as a result of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Throughout this paper