Mindset of an Ethnocentrist v. a Unintentional Racist, Who Wins? Crash is an Oscar winning, American drama from 2004 written, directed and produced by Paul Haggis. The film is about racial tensions and the effect it has on people showing their daily lives in Los Angeles, California post 9/11. The film asks hard hitting questions about racism and shows harsh realities that are normally avoided. Has an in your face approach, very raw and heart heavy. Shows reality that is normally avoided. Crash actually evolved from a real life incident where Haggis had his porsche stolen outside of a video store in 1991 in Los Angeles. There are a variety of races in this movie, hispanics, blacks, whites, asians and a particular persian family. Instead of …show more content…
Ludacris’ best friend in the movie, Peter played by Larenz Tate helps him steal cars and sells him to chop-shops as their income. Ludacris is obviously the alpha of the duo, he acclaims his dominance by always trying to prove he is more hood or has more thug in him then Tate. he says he has more experience in the streets and he is more aware than Tate always talking first and often talks down to Tate as if he is a “know it all.” Tate does not talk much and always tries to create a counterargument to what Ludacris is saying seeking the positive side when Ludacris wants to challenge the hardships and struggles of a black man in society. Ludacris tells Tate, “You do not have any idea of why they put great big windows on busses, one reason only, to humiliate the people of color riding them.” Tate and Ludacris feel as if they look or often characterize themselves appearances to be similar to UCLA college students and not thugs although in Crash, they are completely opposite of what they want to embody. In the movie we watch the two characters lives closely as they steal and sell cars to the chop-shop and as they survive day to day in Los Angeles, California. Ludacris feels as if the world is against him and he wants Tate to …show more content…
He rescues immigrants that were involved in a trafficking sale. He takes a van he stole to the chop shop, unaware there were immigrants shackled to the inside of it. The owner of the chop shop offers him five hundred dollars per immigrant and Ludacris could keep the van. Ludacris actually decided to free the immigrants versus selling them for profit. He decided to make the best out of a bad situation. He has good qualities and characteristics. H exchanged in the end to be an okay guy and I can not say if he will revert to his old ways or not. I think he could have an even better character if he listens more and accepts others opinions versus being so close minded and negative when it comes to sensitive matters. He wants to change and showed us some hope but I don’t know if he can stop believing in ethnocentrism, I hope he can but doubts are
Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 road movie with no beginning, no ending and no speed limit, is directed by Monte Hellman. Actors and actress are singer-songwriter James Taylor (the Driver), the Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson (the Mechanic), Warren Oates (GTO), and Laurie Bird (the Girl). “Blacktop” means an asphalt road. It is existential road movie, because, as the race grows increasingly, the road itself takes on a real identity as if it were a place to live and not just a place to pass by. This is a freedom according to Monte Hellman, the road goes forever but that doesn’t mean there is anywhere to go but it will forever stand… Two-Lane blacktop might not have a destination but has a direction. It has been associated with
One of the main topics of both stories involves racial tension within a community, focusing specifically on the tension between white and black Americans. Many of the people that Anna Smith interviewed had something to say about the race of Rodney King or how the white cops controlled the power of the city. With racial tensions boiling in the ghettos of Los Angeles between the white policemen and the black communities, violence became all too common in the community. By the 2000’s, the time setting for Crash, violence from the police became less prominent, but still evident.
The movie Crash examines the interpersonal communications that exists between different groups’ of people. In this film, characters are highlighted by the contact that occurs when disparate people are thrown together in large urban settings. Crash displays extreme instances of racism and shows how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals are influenced by actual, imagined, or implied presence of other human beings. My analysis will focus on Social Cognition and how people process, and apply information about other people and social situations.
1. I think media has a great impact on how people behave. The media is defined as listening to music, watching TV, movies, reading magazines, and searching the internet. I think when people here about certain things in songs, or see things in movies or on television it has an effect on them. If there is violence in a TV show or on the news kids can think that's cool to do and do it. A lot of movies show fighting and violence and it effects people and they may do what they see. Television in the home is the greatest source of visual violence for children. Video games expose young children to a level of violence unimaginable. The news also creates fear .
His music is very genuine and original, he tells stories through his lyrics. His songs revolve around love stories, police brutality, social media, and motivation. Growing up African American he understands the struggles and the economic disparities we go against everyday. His positivity toward imperfections amazes me. All the money that he has he spends it wisely he doesn't believe in fixing certain physical traits that makes him feel like him. In his song “Crooked Smile” he mentions he wont fix his teeth just because he has money.
"Crash" is a movie that exposes different kinds of social and multicultural differences, giving us a quick example of how these conducts affect our society. Two of the behaviors observed, are Prejudice and Stereotyping. Identified as the causes of where all the events eradicate.
The movie Crash was directed by Paul Haggis is a powerful film that displays how race is still a sociological problem that affects one 's life. It also focuses on how we should not stereotype people based on their color because one may come out wrong in the end. Stereotyping is a major issue that is still happening in today 's society and seems to only be getting worse. This movie is a great way to see the daily life and struggle of other races and see how racism can happen to anyone, not just African Americans which seems to only be seen in the news and such.
Crash is a good movie that portrays all the racism and stereotyping that people and communities are facing. There are more issues than what I found during the movie but I will talk about the ones that stood out to me. One thing amazing about the movie is how the story develops and how all the stories tie into one another. Crash evokes the "racial" problem that faces the United States because of its diversity that should be an advantage but in general, it is not often the case. It often does not work as expected because of stereotype, discrimination and racism that face different minority communities. Whether emotion, terror and rage, Crash depicts the brutal realism of cynicism, or the American collective fantasy into force of a dominant race.
Crash by Paul Haggis, and Amores Perros by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu are filmed in popular cities, yet each film shows a perspective of the city that people who don’t live there aren’t often able to see. Set in Los Angeles, Crash shows none of the popular visual signifiers those who aren’t familiar with the city would use to identify it. That said, there are many visual signifiers within both films which denote class difference between the characters. The differences in the classes are primarily shown to the audience through their clothing, and through their interior spaces, like their homes and cars.
It's just a film, and some would say that it's not meant to solve the America's issues with racism and classism. While this is true, it is dangerous for such a prevalent film like Crash, which won three Academy Awards including Best Picture in 2005 in addition to a slew of other accolades, to perpetuate that elusive, intangible type of oppression that we all live in, but some still deny. As Langston writes in Tired of Playing Monopoly?
Crash is a movie based over a day and a half in Los Angeles. It is an overview of a group desperate people 's lives overlapping as the deal with tense situations such as race and privilege that accompanies city life. One of the main characters is the white district attorney who uses his political prowess to step on other races; his wife who was recently carjacked
In movie "Crash" it's about a large mixture of people of different race in Los Angeles, California and also how people all intermix with one in another. In the film Crash there are many characters that starts to change their strategy throughout the film. However, there was one character in the movie that has changed the most that was Sandra Bullock who played Jean Cabot.
In the 2004 film Crash, by director Paul Haggis, shows how society is still going through racism. Today, people are just being raised to be racist because that is what the people around them show them. Officer John Ryan, played by Matt Dillon is a very dynamic character who improves on his emotions and reactions to things. However, Officer John background and history, behavior and actions, and relationships affect him drastically as an adult. In this film Officer John Ryan is shown as a very racial man who discriminates against those who refuse to help or refuse to listen to him. Nevertheless, he is faced with a great challenge to face one day on duty and off.
Nicolas Winding Refn is known for his gritty violence, slow burn pace, and beautifully directed movies. Drive starts out about an unnamed driver who helps criminals get away after heists. Once the action wears off the driver starts to fall for a girl, but this is quickly interrupted by the girl’s husband, an ex-con, who is making a reappearance in her life. Everything quickly spirals out of control, which leads into a finale that left viewers wanting more of this nameless driver. When taken lightly this movie has beautiful cinematography that is visually pleasing, a clever story to engage the mind, and one of the best soundtracks to date. Many people criticized the movie Drive because they thought the violence to be over the top and unnecessary, but I believe that the graphic and realistically brutal violence played a key role in this movie and in the development of the main character. Deeper though than this wonderful movie is a moral that many tend to miss, which is what we ultimately do in the end, good or bad, is in our nature and we can’t help it because it’s who we are.
This is a report on the story "Driving Miss Daisy". The main characters are Daisy Werthan, Boolie Werthan, and Hoke Colborn. Alfred Uhry wrote the play. It started in nineteen forty-eight and ended in nineteen seventy-three. It’s a play based on a female Jew, which is Daisy Werthan, which passes the ages of seventy-two to ninety-seven years old, and a black chauffeur named Hoke. Daisy’s son Boolie is stuck in between Daisy’s prejudice and Hoke. Here goes.