Django Unchained, a Quentin Tarantino film illustrates the horrible past of America regarding slavery in a violent yet comic movie. The story is set in the Old West and Deep South during the antebellum era, and it portrays a brave, black slave as the main character. Django meets Dr. King Schultz, a German bounty hunter who purchases Django’s freedom in exchange for his help in order to collect a large bounty. After succeeding this mission, Django and Shultz become partners and decide to keep working together throughout the winter before they head to Mississippi in order to save Django’s wife Broomhilda, a black slave working in a famous plantation, owned by a powerful man; Calvin Candie. (Django Unchained) Despite the fiction of the film, the…
In the film, The Empire Strikes Back, Luke unconsciously follows in his father’s footsteps by being corrupted by anger and impatience in his training with Yoda, his encounter with his own soul in the cave on Dagobah, and in his showdown with Darth Vader in the carbon freezing chamber in Cloud City. First, Luke subconsciously follows in his father’s footsteps when he exhibits anger and impatience in his training with Yoda. After the battle of Hoth, Luke travels to Dagobah with his trusty droid companion, R2-D2, and the two crash land on Dagobah in search of the infamous Jedi Master, Yoda. Luke sets up a camp right outside the crashed X-wing Starfighter, and as he prepares his camp, a strange creature appears and the two converse. Luke tells…
The movie King Kong debuted in the U.S on December 17th 1976. It was directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. The movie was written by James Ashmore Creeman and Ruth Rose. The featured actors included Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruse Cabot, and Frank Reicher. King Kong is an american classic because it portrayed the beauty and the best concept. The beauty being the pretty blond haired Fay Wray and the beast of course being King Kong the ape like monster ruling on his island full of natives fearing his every move. In the movie an adventures filmmaker who is played by Robert Armstrong takes his crew on a dangerous voyage to uncharted watchers in search of the mythical ape monster who the natives call King Kong. The adventure goes a invigorating direction when the natives kidnap the beauty…
Django Unchained, directed by Quentin Tarantino, is a gruesome tale of the extraordinary life of an African American, Django, and a White bounty hunter, Dr. Schultz. The film takes place just before the Civil War, in America’s southern region. The two create an unusual alliance; the bounty hunter will assist Django in finding his wife while Django helps Dr. Schultz track America’s most wanted. Although a portion of this film portrays slavery in a lighthearted manner, some aspects of it are shocking. The harsh, cruel treatment of African American slaves, forcing slave women into prostitution and unlikely relationship between a white man and black man were features that stood out to me the most.…
In a society where major forms of entertainment are lodged in cinema and theater, it’s easy to come across a few films or movies that have very similar concepts to the point of practically being the same. When there are well over a thousand movies in just the United States alone, it’s easy to comprehend why originality may be a challenge. There are three movies in particular that hold true to this statement and they are Pocahontas, James Cameron’s Avatar, and The Lion King. These movies hold very similar ideologies in regards to nature and greed. However, they tend to differ in their cinematographic approaches in revealing the underlying and, or, obvious, ideologies.…
Sister James and Sister Aloysius play a very important role in John Patrick Shanley’s movie Doubt, which is about the mistrust that takes place in a school directed by the church on priest Flynn command. There, sister Aloysius is the principal, so she is in charge of the student’s rights and responsibilities. On the other hand Sister James is a history teacher. Both characters are important for their way of handling the doubt.…
Even through the Ferguson case, it is justifiable that society has no major differences than in the past. This case is only a glimpse of countless other interactions with the police. In particular, the shooting of “Unarmed John Crawford, a week and a half after the…
With times changing and individuals obtaining more powerful mobile, almost every move a person makes can be recorded or looked back on in some sort of way. With this great power, comes great scrutiny for not only everyday individuals, but for the individuals that protect us day in and day out. Law enforcement has suffered more scrutiny, and has obtained a substantial amount of media coverage over the past few years. This coverage has not been positive, and often highlights the mistakes, and aggressive actions taken by the officers of the law. With the framing of police officers changing from being outstanding citizens who uphold the law, to vicious animals who abuse their power, one begins to question the reasoning for all the brutality.…
Throughout the years African Americans have struggled with obtaining justice and protecting their rights. However, the conflict seems to be even greater today. In the past decade multiple stories about the unjustified death of an African American has occurred. Police brutality is very popular amongst these cases. In each case the race card was also pulled, causing a lot of controversy between blacks and whites. Violent protests took place and resulted in chaos. Instead of solving the problem these acts created bigger ones.…
Police brutality for many decades has plagued society. It is the abuse of physical force, intimidation or coercion that some officers feel that comes with the badge, and it is inflicted on society. Among the umbrella of police power there are many racial and ethnic minorities, by large believe that police officers will use unauthorized procedures against them. This goes back to a long history of police and their job to track down slaves and keep a social divide between black and white societies (Cooper, 2015 p 1189). This can result in violence, false charges, and or having to pay higher fines for minor crimes. The majority of the time when seeing a patrol officer they are on patrol (Fritsch, Liederbach, Taylor & Caeti, 2009, p17)…
“ I am tired of reading news articles involving deadly use of force; the media is quick to point out the race of the officer, the race of the suspect, and whether or not the suspect had a weapon.” says Josh Crosby author of the article Media Frenzy- Officer Safety Nightmare. Do you ever wonder why society is so hateful towards the police department when the police department is sometimes justified in their actions? The media has the power to sway the opinions of society about the police department because of the way they present the information given to them. Most current events are initiated by the media and the media’s effect on people. When it comes to the police department the media has used their jobs to report the news in an unprofessional manner by creating biases based on race to make society focus only on race. It has become a circus out there! The Media should not be allowed to do this because the media gives people the image that the police department was not made to protect us, riots are formed, and this increases the number of cases involving police brutality.…
In the early 1990’s police brutality had become common; police officers abused their powers and became brutal when dealing with offenders and even non-offenders. One infamous example of such brutality occurred in 1992 in Los Angeles when a black man named Rodney King was violently beat by five officers for being “black.” The five officers repeatedly struck King as a few other officers stood by not paying any attention to the situation near by. Two of the five officers were later acquitted which angered the black and Latino community around the world as did the videotape of the incident. This incident did however put more attention and awareness on the issue of police brutality.…
People like Keith Childress, Bettie Jones, Kevin Matthews, Leroy Browning, Roy Nelson, Tiara Thomas, and about 95 others lost their lives in 2015 to police brutality. What many don’t know about these individuals is that all of them were unarmed. Statistics show that police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly two each week(http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/). Only 10 of the 102 cases in 2015 where an unarmed black person was killed by police resulted in officer(s) being charged with a crime, and only 1 of these deaths (Matthew Ajibade) resulted in convictions of the officers involved. Only one of the two officers convicted received jail time. To add more fuel to the fire, the officer only has to serve his sentence exclusively on the weekends. This officer received freedom, while his victim can no longer breathe which supports how the racial discrimination has an immense influence on racial policing…
We have all seen the news, and we have all heard of police brutality. The cases are all the same; an african american citizen was killed by a cop for “no reason.” Well, the truth is, most cops are not these racist, Ku Klux Klan members we think picture them to be. Media is the real villain, twisting words and adding in extra details to these stories. Overall, the media is framing the cops into being the bad guys, and unfortunately, the strangers we should trust most are being visualized as the bad guys.…
Obviously slavery has been put to rest in Canada and the united states, but this does not mean each person sees them as equals. The most recent problems have clearly been related to Law enforcement. In 2015 1,139 African Americans were killed by law enforcement. While only being 2% of the population African males between the ages of 15 and 34 make up over 15% of all deaths logged in an investigation of the use of deadly force. Five times the amount of white males the same age. However sad this may be it does not totally prove the motives were race related. However it is clear in recent weeks even that police are taking the use of excessive force and the use of their weapons much too lightly. Even with all the advances made in the hopes of a equal society we still see flashes of the dark times we thought left…