The film I chose to do my reflection paper on is called American History X‚ and is one of my all-time favorites. The movie is about a man named Derek Vinyard‚ an impressionable young man who becomes involved in a “white power” gang after the murder of his father. After Derek’s incarceration‚ his younger brother‚ Daniel Vinyard‚ idolizes him and begins to go down the exact same path. Throughout Derek’s time in prison he realized that he was manipulated by a man named Cameron‚ and his entire outlook
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student Danny Vinyard (Edward Furlong) turns in a paper praising Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ to his Jewish teacher Murray (Elliot Gould). He is sent to the principal Bob Sweeney (Avery Brooks) who assigns him another task. He gives him a day to complete an essay on the events that’s shaped his live‚ including the events leading up to the imprisonment of his brother. The assignment will be called American History X. When Danny writes this essay‚ it provides the cinematic device to tell the story of Danny and
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story of two brothers‚ Derek Vinyard and Daniel "Danny" Vinyard from Venice Beach in Los Angeles‚ California. Their father‚ a firefighter‚ is murdered by a black drug dealer while trying to extinguish a fire‚ and Derek is drawn into the neo-Nazi movement. Derek kills two black gang members whom he catches in the act of breaking into the truck‚ and is sentenced to three years in prison. The story shows how Danny is influenced by his older brother’s actions and ideology and how Derek‚ now radically changed
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has grossed $23‚875‚127 worldwide. Derek Vinyard‚ played by Edward Norton is a former Neo-Nazi skinhead who is trying to save his younger brother Danny Vinyard from making the same mistakes he did . After their father ‚ who was a firefighter was murdered by a black drug dealer while extinguishing a fire at a suspected Compton drug den ;You can see the anger and rage flourish in Derek. During the news interview given hours after his father s’ murder‚ Derek blames his father’s murder on numerous
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History X is derived from the name of a class Danny (Furlong) is forced to take after writing a controversial essay on Adolf Hitler’s autobiography‚ Mein Kampf. When his Jewish teacher (Gould) becomes outraged‚ he bursts into Principal Sweeney’s (Brooks) office and complains. Danny is called into the office and is told that he must write about the life of his brother‚ Derek Vinyard‚ and have it on his desk the next morning or face immediate expulsion. Danny continually complains that his neo-Nazi ways
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Brittany Camacho Cultural Anthropology American History X “I hate anyone that is not white Protestant‚” begins Danny Vinyard‚ the brother of a former neo Nazi skinhead. American History X offers opinions from two sides through one character‚ the ex-neo Nazi Derek‚ and the post-prison-reformed Derek. The post-prison-formed Derek serves as a vision of hope for present time. This powerful movie not only depicts the most disturbing aspects of racism‚ but also shows how close racism is to the middle-class
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movie tells the story of a young American man in the late 1980s and 1990s who is called Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton). Derek is drawn into the neo-Nazi scene after his father was killed by a black man. He believes that the black men are suppressing the white race. Derek Vinyard achieves an important position in the neo-Nazi gang of Venice Beach which is called the Disciples of Christ (D.O.C.). One night Danny (Edward Furlong) his younger brother recognizes that a “black guy” is breaking into the
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exclaims Derek as he pulls down his wife-beater to reveal a swastika tattoo‚ “See this? That means not welcome.” American History X‚ directed by Tony Kaye‚ is a movie about the transformation of Derek Vinyard: a young neo-Nazi skinhead. Derek’s father‚ Dennis Vinyard‚ was a middle-class fireman who disagreed with many of the ideological changes–such as affirmative “black” action–happening in America at the time. His father died while trying to put out a fire in a minority community. Derek essentially
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American History X Application Paper Lamar Booker Drawing concepts from two theorists‚ Dubois and Weber‚ I intend to grasp their concepts out of the film American History X and draw examples to explain their concepts and how they can apply to social practices. “Stereotypes and Slippery slopes were another way DuBois approaches cultural oppression. “Stereotypes rely on categorizing large groups of people in particular ways even without any personal knowledge or experience
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of the postmodern individual. Based on Anthony Giddens’ and Thomas Ziehe’s two sociology theories it analyses and interprets the film American History X as if it were a novel. The paper has a strong focus on cinematographic instruments‚ envoirment‚ Danny and Derek’s self-perception and their relationship to other people. Through a thorough analysis of the film the paper showed that the postmodern society‚ which we live in today‚ plays a greater role to the individual than ever before. Due to
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