What Are The Stereotypes In The Movie Crash
Analysis of Crash (option 4)
I believe that the film Crash challenges stereotypes of African Americans,Hispanics, Middle Easterners, and Whites. One of the stereotypes that it challenged was about hispanics being thugs, liars, cheaters and scammers. This occurred in the scene when Jesan said, “Now I am telling you, your amigo in there is gonna sell our key to one of his homies.” We later find out that the locksmith, Daniel, is just as hardworking as any other person and had good intentions for the sake of protecting his family. Similarly, now we tend to always bring up President Donalds Trump famous saying about Latinos," They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people," in which he affiliates Mexicans and criminals as one. I'm glad to see this portrayal of a hardworking hispanic man in the movie because like I addressed earlier, the stereotypes about hispanic people are being reinforced by public figures who hold a lot influence to their followers and to see in the movie a positive portrayal definitely …show more content…
challenged the stereotype about Latino’s.
I strongly believe that the scene when Farhad and his daughter were shopping for guns and the owner of the store said, "Yo, Osama!
Plan the jihad on your own time. What do you want?" is a similar situation to what occurs now, but the stereotypes about Middle Easterners were highly challenged in this movie. Post 9/11, as a country I feel as though we have been profiling Middle Easterners as terrorists and killers and tend to “blend” people from the Middle East as one. This was apparent when Farhad stated he was Persian. In the movie Farhad simply wanted to buy a gun because he wanted to protect his family from any more possible dangers that could occur in the shop he owned and like most Middle Eastern families they pose no threat to society, but because of 9/11, there is a negative stigma surrounding Middle
Easterns. On the other hand I feel like it reinforced stereotypes of police because of the situation with Officer Hansen. A specific scene that stuck out to me was the end scene when Officer Hansen decided to give Peter a ride when he saw him walking on the road .The scene was powerful because it set the tone that the two men were sharing a bonding moment up until Peter started to laugh at Officer Hansen, in which officer Hansen felt offended and felt like he was being mocked at because he carried a Statue of David similar to the one Peter kept. That's the moment that Peter wanted to prove that he wasn't mocking him, instead he reached for his pocket to show him the similar statute but that's when Officer Hansen feared for his life and fired the gun, killing Peter. I believe in his mind all stereotypes of black men overtook his actions so he fired the gun. This didn’t just leave the audience speechless but it reinforced the stereotype that police are abuse their power as policemen, and simply fire a gun whenever they feel like they are threatened. I think that it makes these specific characters believable and realistic because you can relate it to current events and it is something we hear often such as the case with Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. Not to say that policemen are bad and racist, but we are flooded with stories about police brutality in the media and have heard countless of times that it is a black vs. white issue, it is even emphasizes the race if it is a white police officer because I believe that this is something that the media likes to pick at and analyze when we know so little about what actually happens.
I believe that the film Crash challenges stereotypes of African Americans,Hispanics, Middle Easterners, and Whites. One of the stereotypes that it challenged was about hispanics being thugs, liars, cheaters and scammers. This occurred in the scene when Jesan said, “Now I am telling you, your amigo in there is gonna sell our key to one of his homies.” We later find out that the locksmith, Daniel, is just as hardworking as any other person and had good intentions for the sake of protecting his family. Similarly, now we tend to always bring up President Donalds Trump famous saying about Latinos," They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people," in which he affiliates Mexicans and criminals as one. I'm glad to see this portrayal of a hardworking hispanic man in the movie because like I addressed earlier, the stereotypes about hispanic people are being reinforced by public figures who hold a lot influence to their followers and to see in the movie a positive portrayal definitely …show more content…
challenged the stereotype about Latino’s.
I strongly believe that the scene when Farhad and his daughter were shopping for guns and the owner of the store said, "Yo, Osama!
Plan the jihad on your own time. What do you want?" is a similar situation to what occurs now, but the stereotypes about Middle Easterners were highly challenged in this movie. Post 9/11, as a country I feel as though we have been profiling Middle Easterners as terrorists and killers and tend to “blend” people from the Middle East as one. This was apparent when Farhad stated he was Persian. In the movie Farhad simply wanted to buy a gun because he wanted to protect his family from any more possible dangers that could occur in the shop he owned and like most Middle Eastern families they pose no threat to society, but because of 9/11, there is a negative stigma surrounding Middle
Easterns. On the other hand I feel like it reinforced stereotypes of police because of the situation with Officer Hansen. A specific scene that stuck out to me was the end scene when Officer Hansen decided to give Peter a ride when he saw him walking on the road .The scene was powerful because it set the tone that the two men were sharing a bonding moment up until Peter started to laugh at Officer Hansen, in which officer Hansen felt offended and felt like he was being mocked at because he carried a Statue of David similar to the one Peter kept. That's the moment that Peter wanted to prove that he wasn't mocking him, instead he reached for his pocket to show him the similar statute but that's when Officer Hansen feared for his life and fired the gun, killing Peter. I believe in his mind all stereotypes of black men overtook his actions so he fired the gun. This didn’t just leave the audience speechless but it reinforced the stereotype that police are abuse their power as policemen, and simply fire a gun whenever they feel like they are threatened. I think that it makes these specific characters believable and realistic because you can relate it to current events and it is something we hear often such as the case with Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. Not to say that policemen are bad and racist, but we are flooded with stories about police brutality in the media and have heard countless of times that it is a black vs. white issue, it is even emphasizes the race if it is a white police officer because I believe that this is something that the media likes to pick at and analyze when we know so little about what actually happens.