“Crash” boldly reminds us of the importance of tolerance by venturing beyond skin color and digging deep into the reality of humanity in general. Sandra Bullock’s character, Jean Cabot, displays racism and ethnocentrism in her interactions with different characters from cultures not of her own. One example of this is when she saw two black men walking down the street and assumed that they would harm her in some way because of their appearance. By turning her diamond ring around on her hand, she proves that she believe these men would mug her if they saw it since they were black. When she and her husband end up being held at gunpoint shortly after and get their car stolen, a spiral effect is created in her mind and her ethnocentrism grows immensely, making her believe that all cultures different from hers are on a lower level.
Throughout the movie Crash, instances like these where stereotyping and prejudice is a common source of conflict, reinforces how society constantly pins certain ethnic and racial minorities to prior historical events to determine a preconceived notion of them. Sandra Bullock’s character, Jean, the white rich women, exemplifies two different occurrences when someone’s race or ethnic background determined how she would treat them. When her and her husband were walking to their car and saw the two young black men, she held her husband’s arm and they were no sooner forced out of the car by gun point. She admitted that although she didn’t say anything, she was still scared. Once they got home and were having the locks changed, Jean became immediately angry they sent a “gang member” and wanted the locks changed in the morning.
Asking his partner for assistance Ryan then starts to perform a very intimate pat down on her, sliding his hands up her loose fitting dress asking if she concealing any weapons. She says “I’m wearing a cocktail dress, what do you think”?! He replies “Oh you’d be surprised where woman hide things”. Basically the officer is molesting this woman right in front of her husband. There is a close up of both her and her husband’s face proclaiming hurt, embarrassment and the fact that there is nothing either one of them can do, because he’s a police officer; further adding to the animosity between black citizens and white cops in modern day L.A..
The song, directed to various celebrity women, presents today’s modern woman as scandalous, with an unsung claim of reevaluation of oneself and purity needs to be reintroduced in the media. The band’s lyrics to the song convey a stereotypical Hollywood woman who is nonetheless worthless and disgraceful in her behavior and appearance. In the opening verse of the song, a scene depicting a socialistic woman in revealing clothing with an addiction to cocaine is introduced to the listener. According to lines 5–7 in the lyrics, rehab is where the authorities, or her publicists, have to send her to protect her image (Papa Roach, 2008)1. In the recent decade rehab has been used as a way to fix reputations.
Hispanics has became the most popular ethnicity group for us to go against. In the movie the Caucasian woman believe the lock smith would sell a copy of her key to see to his “amigos”. She believed that her home would be broken into,her excuse for her behavior was that she was just held at gun point by two African-American Men so of course this Hispanic was no good as well. Hispanics are also known to come to America to take jobs from hard working Americans. In reality Hispanics are
The woman was scared upon seeing them. There is nothing to do with skin color but prejudices are always the root of racial tension. Ironically they were criminals and carjacked Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock’s car. Another racial discrimination happened when locksmith Michael Peña was changing the door in Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock’s home. Since she was upset by the carjacking, she noticed Michael Peña is a Mexican-American with tattoos on his arm, the first vision she had made was gang tattoos.
The movie depicts different women of different color in the black community dealing with their own problems which are all based on the reality of life setting in without warning. ‘The film is based on Ntozake Shange’s electric play, the self-described choreopoem ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf’ (Debruge).” The problems that women go through in the film are pregnancy, financial instabilities, contracting HIV/AIDS from down low men sexually involved with other men, date rape, and domestic violent relationships. This film really depicts the realistic struggles of black women day to day in the 20th Century dealing with teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, insecurities with men, and domestic violence in which the sisterhood of each other’s comfort provides the unity they need to survive. Teen pregnancy is becoming more common today than in previous years. Accepting this sinful deed is not yet open in all households.
Garnham sees these cultural industries, like film, television, music, etc., as profitable and producing and circulating symbolic meaning. They produce symbols as cultural products and, though they do not necessarily create culture, help create it. As I said before, word of mouth can help create culture. Nowadays, there have been many parodies and references to the Terminator franchise because it is a cultural phenomenon. The Nickelodeon cartoon The Fairly Oddparents as well as The Simpsons contain a direct reference to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most famous role in the form of a large, muscular man with a heavy jaw and thick Germanic accent.
Kids cannot wait to get their driver’s licenses, celebrities are always looking for the hottest (and most expensive) car, and families want to be up-to-date with the latest technology in cars. Cars advertisements are effective because they develop a need in consumers, and are not as effective if the ads do not contain a picture or video; Further, the older ads appeal to the same needs as the newer ads, however the ads have changed over time. In the 1975 Chevrolet commercial, the song and announcer basically tell the audience watching the commercial that the Chevrolet is as American as baseball, apple pie, and hotdogs. This tells the audience the car is something that the consumers need in order to be fully American. The Chevrolet commercial had a catchy tune and would probably be a good radio advertisement, but it was much better with the video that went along with it.
As a result, their own traditions and customs are replaced comprehessively/by a massive one. Another development of (reason for) the impact of modern technology is on creating a similar world (is) that makes it possible for cultures to communicate with each other. When watching TV programs, searching web and chatting through the Internet, people learn about foreign cultures and try to make/adopt some of those as their own. The exchange of knowledge has had a great impact on their lives. The café from Brazil, the scotch from Scotland, the cigars from Cuba, the wine from France, the American music, that appear through different medias (and) become well-known in many parts of the world, are good examples of how modern technology influences people’s life and also creates a single world culture which according to McLuhan functions like a global village.. .