Stereotypes In The Film Slingshot Hip-Hop

The movie Crash was a very moving film. Perceptions are individual. What one person perceives is not necessarily the same as another. The characters all had experiences that connected them with one another. The experiences within their lives created assumptions of people; this prevents them from seeing the true person. The characters in this movie all had limited views about other racial backgrounds, ethnicities and socio-economic groups within their community. When circumstances within these lives push them to their limits, their assumptions about others are tested. Racism and racial profiling are strongly felt by these characters throughout the movie. When pushed to the limit the characters are forced to deal with things

The movie Dope takes on some of the most controversial issues of this generation but with a surprisingly fresh and funny twist. Dope is a witty, coming-of-age type of movie about three teenagers growing up in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in L.A. With style reminiscent of 90’s movies like Boyz in the Hood, and music from some of the biggest names in early hip-hop, “Dope” follows an 18 year old African American named Malcolm in his senior year of high school on what might be the biggest adventure of his life. Malcolm and his two best friends are nerds and somewhat sheltered despite growing up in such a dangerous neighborhood. Going into their senior year, they are basically clueless when it comes to drugs and gangs. Throughout the

The film Fruitvale Station begins with real footage of the shooting of Oscar Grant III and looks as if it will be a documentary but as soon as the shooting occurs the film switches to a family melodrama. Throughout the film Oscar is shown to be flawed but overall a good person. Oscar cheated on his girlfriend and has drugs in his room but he is also a loving father and son. We are shown Oscar’s gang tattoos but they are not emphasized or over exaggerated to us. In classic Hollywood films black families are usually shown to be broken or dysfunctional but Fruitvale Station does not do this. Oscar’s family is a close, tight-knit group that is loving, supportive, and just like every other family. Oscar’s gang involvement and surrounding neighborhood

The Australian drama „Jump for Jordan“, which was written by Donna Abela and premiered on the 14th February 2014, illustrates the life of Sophie, the main character, and her sister Loren whose parents are Arabic migrants. They came to Australia after the father, Sahir, became a target of the military and he had to escape the country. After arriving in Australia, he immediately started to integrate into his new home country, but his wife Mara had difficulties with leaving her family, her language and her traditions behind. After Sahir's death, a few years later, Mara was on her own with two daughters, in a country, she did not want to live in. The girls went to Australian schools and when they turned into adults Sophie started to study archeology. During her studies, she met Samantha and falls in love with her. After some time Sophie leaves her family home to live with Sam without her mother knowing that she is gay. This leads to a year-long fight because Mara cannot understand why Sophie left her home.

Over the years, films have been using stereotypes to portray humor through its characters and environment (3). Stereotypes are associated with almost everything and everyone no matter how people classify themselves. For further clarification, stereotypes are associated with people, groups, races, ethnicities, objects and locations. The Longest Yard (2005) by Peter Segal, perpetuates the use of stereotypes to portray its characters and environment through racial, gender, and prison stereotypes. These specific stereotypes are shown throughout the movie and are examples of stereotypes that have been passed down for generations. Films use stereotypes so that they are able to appeal to a larger target audience (3). The purpose of this paper is to analyze common stereotypes of racial, gender, prison, and athlete stereotypes in the film The Longest Yard.

The movie Crash is about people with different types of background, ethnicity, religion and lifestyle. Everyone is different from the things they believe in to the color of their skin. But in the end everyone is human and they have their own story, they might have been raised in a bad environment or grew up being taught that. Throughout the movie, everyone had different types of stereotypes on other races, because they are black they are bad guys and crooks, or because they are hispanic they are gang members and they do illegal things, every perception put on the characters are perceptions that are set towards each race. Everyone in the story had played a role of being an accuser or a victim to racial discrimination, they have a chance to accuse someone for a certain prejudice and are accused by others. Some of the characters end up fitting the racial prejudice put on them, but others didn't. In the end some broke the stereotypes that were placed upon their race but some acted exactly how they were perceived as. Even though they did good deeds in the end, they still did things according to how others saw them as. In the end everyone is human and they make mistakes.

After years of diplomatic silence between the United States and Cuba, Castro opens the port of Cuba, having thousands immigrating to the United States in search of the American dream. Castro also unlocks prisons, allowing hordes of criminals to join the refugees. Tony Montana, a small time hood, is one of them. In Florida, Montana connects with gangster Frank Lopez, and guns his way through the streets of Miami where he finds power, wealth and passion. Montana, better known as "Scarface," soon becomes the leader of a bloody cocaine-smuggling empire. However, like that of others before him, Montana's reign is brief and a violent end is guaranteed.

The movie Crash depicts many issues that we see on a daily basis. Whether its social constructs, traditional gender roles, or abuse of power; this movie does an astonishing job at giving you an idea of how certain people are depicted based on the circumstances they are in. The main issue in the movie is how the character in the movie depicts each other as something that they are not. They are quick to make assumptions based on their race mostly instead of actually seeing them for who they really are.

The movie Crash is based off of the stereotypes that people believe about racism. This movie showed how different people life’s crashed into each other. The point of the film is to show that people shouldn’t believe every stereotype that they are told, but should consider the possibilities that all people of different races are in some form alike. There were two main characters in this movie, that had a different story, but same mindset of how they would want to live there life at the end. The two characters that stood out to me were Anthony (Ludacris) and the character Daniel betrayed as the Hispanic locksmith. Even though these two characters did not crash into each other’s lives in the movie they had similar stories. When watching them from

Jeydalee Rivera Mrs. Costanzo English 2H January 9, 2014 “Crash” When one sees an African American man walking down the street, the worst is automatically assumed of him, when seeing a man wearing a turban, one assumes he is a terrorist, and woman of all ages are seen to be less superior to men in any given situation. Racial and gender stereotypes have been around for several eras, and was one of the main focuses in this film. As mentioned by Roger Ebert on his review of the movie , “All are victims of it, and all are guilty of it. Sometimes, yes, they rise above it, although it is never that simple”

Hip hop is something that has been around since the 21st century. When it comes to the hip hop community, there are so many stereotypes that the media portrays. This essay will show that the stereotype of violent, crimes African American in rap music can become self-prognostication for the hip hop community. This is a behavior that has been corresponding in the rap music and has become accepted as a social norm by the African American community.

1. Define stereotypes as used in the textbook in chapter 3. Stereotypes are defined as cognitive portrayals of a group. Stereotypes are based on specific features that we believe individuals of particular groups may possess. 2.

Stereotypes have been around longer than America has. In this century every type of person has a stereotype. Some positive and some negative. The stereotype to highlight pertaining to the video is about the Latinos. Most Latinos are assumed illegal immigrants because a lot of them don’t speak English and if they do it is not very well. Another factor to add in is that a lot of Latinos work landscaping under the table. That is across America, now to talk about the areas around the boarders of America. Every day thousands of Latinos try to cross the border illegally. So the stereotype may have more truth down there but it is still not completely true. The fact is every darker skin colored person will be pulled over near the borders either by the county police or the border patrol.

Hip-hop culture has been rapidly growing as a popular trend amongst youths in Western culture. Social media platforms like Instagram are flooded with photos of white teens posing in black rap artist t-shirts, wearing their hair in corn-rows, and captioning their pictures with famous black rap artist quotes. When quoting these lyrics, or listening to these hip-hop songs, they most likely are not thinking of the meaning behind the artists’ words. When reciting Tupac or N.W.A., do they relate to or even understand the political poetry about the oppression of blacks in America? This paradoxical idea of color-blindness proves to be confusing as people of white privilege claim that all races are equal while simultaneously ignoring the oppression

Over the past 20 years hip hop and Hollywood cinema have steadily maintained and produced cliché and stereotypical images of hyper sexuality, violence, and the inequality of African American roles within hip hop and Hollywood cinema. I believe that hip hop artists as well as Hollywood have still maintained these clichés and stereotypes, instead of focusing on dissolving them, and creating an equal basis of hip hop and Hollywood cinema, where white people and black people are looked upon as the same and equal. Through the years Hip Hop has garnered a wide basis of followers. Since its appearance in the 1970s, Hip Hop has kept the same themes, styles, and language without much deflection towards a more equal base and less racially charged genre.