Oscar Coogler

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

An African-American from the north, Virgil Tibbs, is picked up at the train station by a racist cop. Tibbs was just passing through the town, when interrogated and taken for having a significant

The movie “Crash”, by Director and Writer Paul Haggis, follows 8 ethnically diverse families/ individuals facing the struggle of modern day racism and stereotypes created and faced in modern Los Angeles, California. These individuals take the roles of individuals living their daily lives within Los Angeles, California while facing stereotypes. The cast portrays: 2 caucasian white male police officers, an African American director and his wife, a white district attorney and his wife, a Persian immigrant family, and a Hispanic father whose occupation is a locksmith. The scene chosen from this film involves the police officers (Officer Ryan and Officer Hanson) pulling over the African American Director (Cameron Thayer) and his wife (Christine Thayer) at a traffic stop. This scene establishes two different types of theoretic sociological concepts of Thomas Theorem and cognitive dissonance.

Discrimination, racism, classism, prejudice and more plague today’s society. These horrible issues do not affect one race, sexes, class, ethnicity, or age group; these issues affect all races, both genders, all ethnicities, and all age groups. For this film analysis, I have chosen to discuss the racism portrayed throughout a three-time Oscar award winning movie called Crash.

Oscar’s end was met after he had decided to meet with a girl, named Ybon, who claimed she was single. To his surprise, she was not. Her boyfriend turned to be someone called the Capitán, who is affiliated with the corrupt government, and this meant that Oscar was to get a beating by the Capitán’s henchmen. At this moment it is described when the narrator illustrates, “Grod and Grundy yanked him out of the car. And did Ybon fight to keep him in her arms? Did she protest the rude interruption to their making out? Of course not. Homegirl just passed right out again” (Diaz 294). Oscar is on his own because Ybon is unable to help him. Oscar was left to experience this form of both horizontal and vertical violence. The horizontal coming from the Capitán’s henchmen, and the vertical being the Capitán using his power to harm Oscar. This beating did not kill Oscar, but would lead up to his death. Oscar ultimately met up with the Capitán’s men again. Right before he is shot, one of the men says, “Listen we’ll let you go if you tell us what fuego means in English” (Diaz 322). Oscar blurts out the answer, “fire”, and he is gone. The beating and his death, were all fuku. The curse followed him when everything seemed to be going good for him. The “wondrous” moments of his life were too short, and overpowered by the

New Year’s Day, 2009, a man is brutally shot by the BART Police of Oakland, California. Fruitvale Station, written and directed by Ryan Coogler, took audiences by surprise as it resonated with twenty-two year old Oscar Grant, a man who was shot down by the BART Police. This movie takes viewers on an emotional expedition as it takes a peek into the life and death of Oscar Grant and his family. The struggles of originating from an African-American background become apparent as Oscar Grant struggles with steering away from racial stereotypes and the misunderstandings of racial profiling.

Fruitvale station, is a story about the real life Oscar Grant, a black man who was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer in Oakland. This film follows Grant and his last days before the shooting on New Year’s Day. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale station was his first feature film. Coogler expressed that he was interested in making this film because he wanted people to get to know Grant, get attached, so that when a situation like this occurs again, people will care more about that human life (Wikipedia). In addition, the cast includes Michael B. Jordan (Grant), Octavia Spencer (Wanda Johnson), and Melonie Diaz (Sophina Mesa), amongst a few others. However, there is an underlying concept in this film. This film relates back to Double Consciousness and the internal conflict and struggles within African American men.

The film Crash exemplifies the true definition of the word fate, which it is something that will uncontrollably befall a person, by showing the racial discrimination in the 21st century. In the movie, one of the supporting character, Officer Tom Hanson, is portrayed as someone who is aware of the racism happening in his society but because he is surrounded by a lot of social stereotypes, he ultimately becomes racist, in a sense that he did not trust a man in his car because of the color of his skin. Rewinding back to the scene, Officer Hanson offered to give a ride to an African American man on the street to a nearby city, in the car Officer Hanson acted serene and cool around the man making the viewers think that he believes in equality and justice for all, but when the African American man laughed at the Statue of Liberty replica in the car, Officer Hanson became hesitant and asks him to leave his car kindly, when he refuses and insists that he is sorry for messing around, Hanson ignores the apology and continues asking him to leave. The man reaches in his pocket, in a split second Hanson became cantankerous and pulled out his gun and fired! When he realized that the man did not have a gun but also a Statue of Liberty replica, Hanson is suddenly portrayed as a typical white police who lacked judgement and shot a man

As Crash continues, we see the officer risk his life for the woman he earlier sexually assaulted during a routine stop. The officer does have his prejudices and beliefs, but he did save the life of a minority once in the position. This scene allows us

In the true story Fruitvale Station, Oscar Grant was racially discriminated after getting into a fight with an ex-inmate at a train station. After the fight, officers hand cuffed him and his friends and threw them on the ground. While Grant’s friends were let off, Grant was innocently shot and killed by one of the officers. In no, shape, form or fashion was the situation correct or supposed to happen the way it did. Oscar Grant did not deserve to be killed the

Most people are born with good hearts, but as they grow up they learn prejudices. “Crash” is a movie that brings out bigotry and racial stereotypes. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The story begins when several people are involved in a multi-car accident. Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a mischief younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his wife, a racist cop and his younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife, a Persian immigrant father, a Hispanic locksmith and his young

Fruitvale Station is a movie that has the capability to bring many emotions to the surface. This movie can foster critical thinking, but it can also draw the viewer in to experience the raw emotions and suspenseful moments of this real life story. Unfortunately, Oscar Grant’s life was ended abruptly after he spent the night celebrating the New Year with his friends and girlfriend, Sophina. From this story, it is clear that Oscar was attempting to change his story by being a better father to his daughter, Tatiana, thinking about marrying Sophina, and better providing for his family by getting a stable job and being a man that his mother and sister could rely upon. While the incident that occurred at Fruitvale Station could be analyzed from any variety of theories, this paper will examine these events from the lens of Conflict Theory and Social Learning Theory. These theories intertwine in many ways, but they also differ from each other in very important aspects. Fruitvale Station is a cinema depiction of a true story involving the death of Oscar Grant in a train station in Oakland, California during the early morning hours of January 1, 2009. This incident has sparked many civil rights related protests and discussions. Oscar Grant was survived by his mother, who has been very vocal since the incident, fighting for equal rights for minorities, his sister, and his daughter, Tatiana (Johnson).

Continually the director uses the subplots- the stories within the story-to show the hierarchy of oppression and privilege in America to show how people think of others in a particular way in which they take people’s dignity. The way people treat and look to others is really off and they go with their thoughts to really far places and they imagine things that may not happen, in which they oppress another person.another scene “-come on man keep driving i said i'm not laughing at you ...fine you want me to show you i will show you ,do you want to see what's in my hands i will show you” In the scene, it shows how the cop mistreats the boy just because he is black. This scene is related to the message because the cop kills a person who did not do anything to him, he just thinks that he has gun but he is not sure about it, then

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The Dog’s living situation prior to being rescued was mostly unknown. However, Buddy the Pit Bull Terrier was living in a ranch house that a couple bought, he was abandoned there. The owners could not be contacted and made no effort to retrieve Buddy. The consensus of the new house owners and the local veterinarian and shelters is that Buddy was trained in a violent manner to be a fighting dog.