While his movies do rely on Black popular political consciousness, his unconventional approach to storytelling, the emotional intensity of his work. Both of these talented men have carved out relatively successful careers in film and media and both could learn from one another. Even though Lee has a artistic and political vision, it was simply a matter of time before he would publicly clash with Perry’s brand of Christo-entertainment. Perry could benefit from a close study of Lee’s politically rich and artistically fertile work. This may help him understand how his stories about Black women’s salvation being dependent on finding the “right” man is shallow, narrow, and offensive.
This is how Spike shows us the conflict in the black community. Why does the conflict happen? Spike’s film enlightens me to think. Actually, the black have a strong sense of culture admitting. The value of their culture was widely received by its users, which give the black a sense of culture superiority.
Reading this essay has opened my eyes to the way life was how blacks were treated and all of the stereotypes that were supposed to be a depictions of how black people acted. It’s really hard for me to relate and have a deep critique because the essay was (to me) just giving information about the first black character types, and not so much arguing a main point. I do think that it was very informational and provides great facts about the movie industry in that era, more than a hundred years ago. Wow. Coming into this essay not knowing anything about these various types of characters, gives me a greater appreciation for Donald Bogle’s essay “Black Beginnings”.
Horrors and Heroes Entertainment, in any form, often has a deeper meaning than initially assumed. For instance, one might assume that an action movie would be a typical “guy movie.” Nobody would be surprised to see fights, cars, and explosions in an action movie, in fact, it would be expected. However, if the storyline of such a movie was about love, the viewer would be caught off guard. This twist is what makes any great movie entertaining; it keeps the viewer interested and wanting to see more. Two authors that discuss this method of giving deeper meanings to stories are Stephen King (in his essay “My Creature from the Black Lagoon) and Gloria Steinem (in her essay “Wonder Woman”).
Increasingly, many African-Americans use the n-word as if to say, "Yes, we are worthy of dehumanization, debasement and dishonor and we're darn proud of it." It's now even used to identify a friend or associate. What they don't acknowledge is how they still might fire off that word during heated altercations and conflicts, which suggest the word is not still quite the term of endearment that may maintain it is at other times. The debate remains very active within the black community, within localities and municipalities, in with the larger America political culture. In debating terms this is a variant of the more general debates over the use of language, free speech and obscenity which carries a very specific contextual background.
Films that hurt black America African-Americans have always had a bit of a love-hate relationship with the movies. While black artists in front of and behinds the cameras have created indelible performances, stories and images that audiences of all backgrounds cherish—there has been an ugly side to black representation in Hollywood that is unavoidable and continues to this day. From the very beginning of movies, with D.W. Griffith’s racist propaganda film The Birth of a Nation there have been racist themes and images in mainstream movies. For much of the 20th century black audiences endured blackface, coons and with the exception of a few dignified Sidney Poitier roles in the 50s and 60s — barely any representation at all. When the blaxploitation
The characters we critiqued in film criticism class portrayed such different and unique styles of acting to their singing, dancing, race, and all of the above. However, before my process and journey through the exploration of the films, I believed that African Americans were depicted in a negative way but never to the extreme of which I learned in Film Criticism class. Before I took this course, I do feel as if African Americans were portrayed as positivity in past and current films. My reason for this opinion is because even though we may not have as much freedom and opportunities in today’s film industry, I feel as if a lot of the characters and roles that blacks played in the past were conveyed to the audience with passion, control, inspiration,
Famous rappers such as Snoop Dog, 50 Cent, R. Kelly, and ECT… have almost planted these racial slurs into our minds through there “trashy rap”. Imus in morning was not only reprimanded for his comments but later let go, due to the uprising of the black community. Rappers, Movie Stars, Comedians and even Gangsters have been giving black woman and negative name calling them “items, hoes, and even bitches.” This is not even in the privacy of their home it is in public on movies and even cd’s. Earl believes that this is due to the fact that these black celebrities are giving an ok to everyone to degrade woman of their own race. He states that “The same
Some people say Martin Luther King also proposed black people rights as well but his major achievement of black people was enlarging black people`s governmental and political participation scale. Also, he emphasized the peace between white people and black, and to understand each other. But I would say rather than convincing white people and convinced black people to endure the pain and understand white people`s behavior.While Malcom X only eager for the freedom and his exclamations were made straight and clear by his intensive usage of words. Malcom X movement was more successful than that of Martin Luther King. Lets make an example, if you are bullied by A and you carry his book, bring snacks for him, and dance if he says dance and crawl if he says crawl and have to pay money for his cigar,.
In talking about the qualities of the heroes of these movies, we will have little access to their humanity except in the case of Joel, my friend. His reality makes him no less a hero. We will have defined heroic qualities as courage in the face of danger, integrity despite pressure to abandon value, fighting for the benefit to others despite personal cost. In this post Kennedy era of American politics, heroes are exposed for their lesser qualities at the cost of their effectiveness. I want my students to know that heroes are not perfect humans, but people like us who accept the burden of truth.