Oj Made In America Sparknotes

Ezra Edelman’s documentary, “O.J.: Made in America,” portrays the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson. The scope of this paper will focus on the first segment of Edelman’s three-part documentary that follows the trajectory of O.J. Simpson’s life from an unknown athlete to an American superstar. Edelman skillfully demonstrates the world in which O.J. was able to flourish and rise, while setting the scene of black Los Angeles at the height of the Civil Rights era and the fight against police brutality. The focus of the first part “O.J.: Made in America,” shows the rise of O.J. and concludes with the beginning of his fall when the public persona he has created for himself gets chipped away from the very dark nature hidden within him. My focus in this

I will highlight this by showing the importance American cultural places on celebrity and the racial tensions felt in the second half of the twentieth century are still present today. O.J.’s story follows the trajectory of what we would consider the American dream, a black man who migrated from the Deep South with his family out west for a better life. He had a poverty stricken youth living in public housing, but his extraordinary physical abilities and determination was able to change his circumstance and become a member of the elite society of Los Angeles. The seduction of fame and fortune are continuously highlighted, Simpson is able to gain immense success and become submerged in the world of the rich and famous. Simpson is reduced by the white America and

Los Angeles was engulfed in rioting following the Rodney King trial and now in modern times we have protestors marching the streets for the Black Lives Matter movement to give a voice to the men and women like Eric Gardner and Sandra Bland.
The ending of the first part sets the stage for the fall of O.J. Simpson. In the last minutes of the film the audience is shown the darker side of O.J., the batterer. The reluctance of society to acknowledge this wife beater persona because of the character O.J. created for himself. His celebrity and fame gave him a pass that regular civilians in America do not possess, even today. We are still living in a culture where one’s career does not come to a screeching halt when revealed to be a batterer. That is how men such as Chris Brown and Johnny Depp continue to thrive in their