Motif in the movie “Race” Motif can be seen in this movie which is the racial discrimination that Owens suffered by the humiliating at that period. The storyline starts in the 1930s, as a young black American, Jesse Owens was under the special context of racial discrimination in the U.S. The director Stephen Hopkins describes this character from many aspects in his livelihood. Since Owens was in the circumstance of being discriminated, the motif in the movie can be considered as racial discrimination. Motif in the film can be considered as an item which helps reveal the theme of the film that repeated several times throughout the film. “Racial discrimination” was shown throughout the whole movie as playing a supporting role in order to develop Owens’ characterization. In this movie, the …show more content…
The purposes of Hitler to hold this Olympic Games was to show his racial superiority and nationalism. After Jesse Owens who was U.S black won four gold metals, Hitler refused to shake hands with him. Thus, when Long who was a Caucasian hugged Owens after he won the gold metal, Hitler felt irritated. In the article “The issue of Racism at the 1936 Olympics”, the author Kass analyzes this action for Owens broke the myth of Aryan racial hegemony (Kass, 1976, p. 223). When it comes to the racial discrimination of Jewish people by the Nazi, the treatment of Jewish people in German lead to other countries like U.S. to boycott Olympics in Germany. Although in the circumstance of fierce racial discrimination, the cores of the Olympic Games should not been changed which is fair competition and no discrimination. Racial discrimination probably can not change immediately. It still has a long process during which people should join their efforts on an international basis to fight against racial
It’s 1931, and Germany is in a massive post World War I depression. The unemployment rate is at 70% and millions of Germans are jobless. People have lost hope and faith in their country, and Germany in itself is starting to lose respect worldwide. A glimmer of hope came when Berlin was chosen as the host city for the 1936 summer Olympics. This was two years prior to the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, and Germany was still under the rule of President Hindenburg. In an attempt to rejuvenate Germany, Hitler vowed that he would give every German citizen what they wanted. As Chancellor, Hitler promises the unsatisfied Germans an improved life
The poem “Making Sarah Cry” and the play “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” have a similar theme of being different. Even though they have the same theme, they show it different ways. For instance, the characters have a different influence on others. The theme in “Making Sarah Cry” is being different. This is the theme because in the poem, it said Sarah was not like the rest, she was slow and not smart.
Initially, the Nazi’s propaganda minister convinced Hitler it was a great opportunity to warp people’s minds with their propaganda. Hitler also thought it was a great chance to prove his theory of Aryan racial superiority. But, he was proven wrong when the African American Jesse Owens won four gold medals (Gabi Mezger) . Finally, Berlin was actually the decided host before Hitler came to power but they still supported them just as much. The Nazi’s didn’t host an Olympics just for fun, there were actually many political reasons behind the event.
The film encompasses a variety of different themes as well. The issues are all connected to the different prejudices that are found in today’s society. Racism is the most dominant theme that is found in the film. Stereotyping is another theme that is viewed throughout this film. An example of this being when Daniel the Hispanic locksmith was changing the locks for the Caucasian District Attorney and his wife. Jean (the wife) assumes that Daniel is a no good gang banger based on the fact that he has tattoos, a shaved head, and is Hispanic. The film
The theme I would like to analyze after watching this film would be the inequitable situation the black Americans were put in during that time period. As the slaves freed the civil war and also as the government implemented the emancipation,
Hitler’s opinions against Jews made the Berlin Olympics overwhelmingly moot. Countless departments, for example the NAACP, or the American Athletic Union (AAU) begged athletes not to participate in the Nazi Olympics and to embargo them. Owens firmly held his views of the Olympics by resisting to boycott them. Owens was able to stemmed from his, and a plentiful amount of African American athlete’s, being excluded from the Sugar Bowl, simply due to their skin color. He questioned on why he would shun Germany on something that our own country already does. Consequently, Owens created a great disturbance. But not long after his voice was heard. Numerous African American athlete’s joined his side, shifting the NAACP and AAU’s decisions on boycotting
Labeling theory. The labels that people are given affect their own and others’ perceptions of them, leading to conformity or deviance (labels can be good or bad)Most people resist the negative labels others try to give us, however, if we hear that we a thug long enough, we may finally accept that label and start living as a thug. Black race is the most stereotyped out of many races. Due to being consistently stereotyped they really become who they are being stereotyped as. In the starting of this movie
The use of various camera techniques such as canted frames, low-angled, high-angled and close up shots, as well as camera distance, enhances the struggle between the characters. The use of such techniques not only allows the audience to get an extensive insight into the many different characters, but also helps us understand the relationships between them and how all of these factors contribute to the overarching theme of racism in the film. The use of these camera rapid movements
The degree of connection between all of the characters in the movie is so coincidental and interrelated to emphasize the point that we do not always know what is going on with everyone else we may encounter. It also accentuates the fact that racism is not one particular race against another. It also shows that we never know someone’s situation and what is happening in their life to make them act the way that they do if
The actions of the black characters support the cultural stereotypes that are pervasive throughout this film. A stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing (Iftkar, 2013). Blacks are
the time, and the Nazis were in power. Before the Olympics, German Jews had been segregated and
There are many reoccurring themes that can be depicted from this movie. This includes “racial discrimination and love. Racial discrimination can be seen when Mr. James Farmer accidentally ran over a white man’s pig, as a result he was charged a very high amount for the pig. We assume that if it were a white man he wouldn’t have been charged nearly as much. However, when the team challenged and defeated a few white
The games had an abundant amount of controversial events and boycotts before the games started and during the games. With several boycotts being developed in countries like Canada, France and the United States with the majority of these boycotts being run by Communist base parties. Adolf Hitler used the Olympic Games to showcase his idea of white superiority and although Hitler’s Germany was seen as successful as well as powerful nation, there was a major obstacle. Hitler received a “Severe setback to Nazi strategies on demonstrating white, Aryan superiority to the world were the four gold medals won by American black track and field athlete, Jesse Owens.” (Morrow, Sport in Canada, 275) Jesse Owens success at the games went against Hitler’s idea of white race superiority. The most significant problem in Nazi Germany was the anti-Semitic views towards the Jewish people in Germany and caused American to threaten a boycott. If the Americans did not attend the Olympics Hitler could not have showcased Nazi power through sports because the United States had the overall best athletes as a country in the world. Instead, American only gave Hitler one stipulation to them attending the games and that was to put a Jewish athlete on the German team. (Morrow, Sport in Canada, 275) The Olympics began with not one country boycotting the games “…and Hitler was able to parade Nazi youth before the world.” (C.E.S. Franks, Sport and Canadian diplomacy, 665) This is why the 1936 Olympics went down in history to be known as the Nazi
The movie White Chicks showcases two African American FBI agents, Kevin and Marcus Copeland, trying to protect the white heiresses Brittany and Tiffany Wilson from a possible kidnapping condition. As they accompany the girls to the Hamptons, they undertake a tough situation, where Brittany and Tiffany end up with cuts on their faces. They end up refusing to be seen at the Hamptons with the cuts on their faces, leaving two FBI agents with only one choice. Trying not to fail again, Kevin and Marcus ended up experiencing an extraordinary makeover to become Brittany and Tiffany and lead themselves to the Hamptons for a week. There are primary themes of racism and racial stereotypes throughout the film.
This is cleverly shown through the mulatto characters Lydia Brown and Silas Lynch. These characters were stereotypically shown as being manipulative and corruptive when given power. Lydia was the servant for the Stoneman family who was overtly sexual in her scenes and was sneaky when Austin Stoneman comes out. Lynch obtains political power and becomes the symbol of black leadership. Lynch in the end of the film is corrupt and tries to force Austin Stoneman’s daughter to marry him. During that scene he was drunk and sexually aggressive. One theme that is derived from this is that mixing of races causes a degeneration of the white race and that any mulatto will eventually regress to their black savage instinct. The second theme that comes from these episodes is that blacks are not capable of holding power in society without being corrupt. This places the ideology of superiority and inferiority on the basis of race.