Stereotypes In The Film Crazy/Beautiful
The film that I have chosen for my final presentation tackles the themes of stereotypes that have been logged into the minds of film viewers and just people in general, for many eras. Crazy/Beautiful (Stockwell, 2001), a film produced by John Stockwell, was released on November 13, 2001, and starred Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez, Bruce Davison, Lucinda Jenney and Taryn Manning, is one that not many people are familiar with, nevertheless it is a film that I truly believe is fantastic. Mainly for the use of stereotypes that most of our generation has become accustomed to flipping it on its head.
This is a film like most of the coming of age; teen love story, films that we have become familiarized to in the last few decades with a story that we …show more content…
As far as the aforementioned confrontation with Nicole’s father, Tom Oakley to stay away from here, not because he believes Carols to be a bad influence on his daughter, but because his daughter will be a bad influence on Carlos and possibly hinder his dreams of making it into the …show more content…
Carlos arrives at the party and decides to take Nicole home in her dad’s car that she has taken without him permission. While driving her home, Carlos is pulled over and questioned about things such as intoxication level, whether or not he has stolen the car and after noticing Nicole passed out in the passenger seat; if he had hurt or taken advantage of her. When being detained, Nicole is belligerent and Carlos; while trying to calm her down, is slammed on the hood of the police car. Jumping to the switch of stereotypes that I mentioned in this film, upon arriving at Nicole’s house, she delivers a meltdown in which prompts the police to ask her father if he would recommend that she spends the night in jail in order to fix her ways. This was an unbelievable sequence of events showing the common stereotypes that audiences have lodged in their brain and showing that everything isn’t always as though it seems. Showing that Carlos was not the problem in the situation, but Nicole was; while still letting Carlos and the audiences get a taste of the prejudices that are already
This is a film like most of the coming of age; teen love story, films that we have become familiarized to in the last few decades with a story that we …show more content…
As far as the aforementioned confrontation with Nicole’s father, Tom Oakley to stay away from here, not because he believes Carols to be a bad influence on his daughter, but because his daughter will be a bad influence on Carlos and possibly hinder his dreams of making it into the …show more content…
Carlos arrives at the party and decides to take Nicole home in her dad’s car that she has taken without him permission. While driving her home, Carlos is pulled over and questioned about things such as intoxication level, whether or not he has stolen the car and after noticing Nicole passed out in the passenger seat; if he had hurt or taken advantage of her. When being detained, Nicole is belligerent and Carlos; while trying to calm her down, is slammed on the hood of the police car. Jumping to the switch of stereotypes that I mentioned in this film, upon arriving at Nicole’s house, she delivers a meltdown in which prompts the police to ask her father if he would recommend that she spends the night in jail in order to fix her ways. This was an unbelievable sequence of events showing the common stereotypes that audiences have lodged in their brain and showing that everything isn’t always as though it seems. Showing that Carlos was not the problem in the situation, but Nicole was; while still letting Carlos and the audiences get a taste of the prejudices that are already