Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Film Review

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ilRunning head: ENGLISH 4010 – FILM ASSIGNMENT ENGLISH 4010 – FILM ASSIGNMENT/GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER Monica Harper Northwood University ENGLISH 4010 – FILM ASSIGNMENT/GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER For my film review, I have chosen to evaluate the film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." There are numerous concepts from our book that can be explored through the events portrayed in this film. The relationships between the young couple and their parents highlights the maps and territories that they learned through their upbringing as opposed to the differing maps and territories that are displayed by other characters in the film. There is also evidence of bias and judgments that are made by the characters in the film in response to the young couple's relationship. The film shows very good examples of both open minded and closed minded individuals as well as two-valued versus multi-valued orientation. According to our book, most of our knowledge, acquired from parents, friends, school, newspapers, books, conversation, speeches, and television, is received verbally (Hayakawa & Hayakawa, 1990, p. 19). These reports make up our intensional world and create our maps. Our experiences make up our extensional world and they are what create our territories. Problems can occur when our verbal world does not correspond to the extensional world. In the example of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,” Joanna is raised in an open minded, loving home that is largely free of bias and prejudice. She sees no issue with marrying a man of another race and fails to recognize that others may. Dr. Prentice does not personally have a problem with marrying a girl that is white, but does recognize that many members of society will not be as accepting of their relationship. For example, the Drayton's housekeeper, Tillie and Mrs. Drayton's secretary, Hillary, are both
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