Shortly after his grandpa passes away, Stephen and his father have an encounter with slavers. Stephen and his father try to free the slaves. Once they are free, the slave masters wake up and chase Stephen and his father yet they escape. Previously they would have taken orders from his grandfather to avoid…
In the movie Django Unchained there are moments in which still occur in modern times unfortunately. It’s about a slave named Django who partners up with a German bounty hunter, as the story goes on African American slaves were tortured, killed, and in my eyes treated like they weren’t even humans. I believe in modern society some things like this happen still. For instance, I support our police department no doubt, but just in this year we have had some bad cops kill African American people. In my eyes, some of them were still committing minor crimes and the police took it to far by abusing and sometimes killing the suspect. Taking their authority and force to far, but i’m not stating all Police officers are bad because they aren’t. It relates…
The Journey of August King (Ehle, 1996), takes place in 1815, the stories backdrop is North Carolina, the lead role August King, a country farmer, is on his way home after taking this route to sell his produce and he has purchased needed goods for the farm, a cow a pig some geese and other items that will help him get thru this next year. August comes across a slave girl named Annalesse she has run away from her slave owner and is but 17 years old. This story dives into the relationship they build and the bond they build thru their journey. They come across much adversity yet, they bond they build allowes Annalees to have a chance at a better life. One that does not include her being a slave.…
The story of Bamboozled revolves around a Black studio executive and his attempt to create a successful show for the major network where he is employed. Instantly, Spike Lee’s film becomes a format for political discussion, as he highlights the state of the media industry and the difficulties minorities face within it. Pierre Delacroix, the Black studio executive, is tasked with creating the idea for a show that represents Black culture, however, his boss insists the storyline must be “as black as can be.” The end result arrives in “Mantan: The New Millenium Minstrel Show,” which instantly turns heads with its ability to push the bounds to an extent never seen before on television. Although Lee’s film is satirical, it shows the harsh reality…
Jim, a mistreated slave in search for freedom, and Huck, fleeing the attributes of a physically…
The character Huck, from the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was enslaved to a harsh woman named Miss Watson. She was an extremely mean and ignorant slave owner who forced them to…
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein. For example when Hushpuppy got connected to nature she would hear a heartbeat or her mother talking to her. Another example is when Janie’s husband Tea Cake passed away, she took some seeds with her that reminded her of Tea cake and planted them. The movie “ Beasts of the Southern Wild” released in 2012 directed by Benh Zeitlin and the book , “Their Eyes Were Watching God” written by Zora Hurston published in 1937 are both natural disasters. The film “ Beasts of the Southern Wild” and the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” have some critical similarities. These include the characteristic of the protagonists, each protagonist’s relationship…
Huckleberry Finn is a novel set in the rural south of the United States during a period in history when slavery and racism were part of everyday life. The novel introduces two main characters: Huck Finn, an adventurous but naïve, white boy, and Jim, a runaway slave whom is travelling with Huck down the Mississippi River. Throughout the course of the novel, both characters are faced with their individual internal struggles; Huck in particular is faced with the pressing notion of whether or not he should turn Jim in to his rightful owner and do the “right” thing, or disobey the law and help Jim obtain his freedom. Being nothing more than a foolish and naïve boy, Huck does not know the meaning of true love and friendship, until Jim opens up to him and they begin to bond no longer as white boy and black slave, but as humans.…
The movie shows us three significant parts of Solomon Northup's life. it starts with Northup as a free man. Born as a free man in 1808, he had privileges that not a lot of colored people had. He could read and write, he learned how to play the violin, which would later help him when he is enslaved. When he turned 21, he got…
Amidst being in the ballroom the narrator is pushed to the front where he and the other African Americans are forced to watch a naked white woman, who is described as being “stark-naked” with an American flag painted on her upper torso,…
In the wake of surprising San Francisco "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" has landed in Los Angeles and was gotten with overwhelmingly merry reckoning by an uncontrollably eager gathering of people. Paving the way to the premiere night was a ritzy "pink" cover setting the tone of the night.…
Although Caldwell’s depiction of poor, white tenant farmers might be characterize as unkind and perhaps unfair, he does so in order to highlight the lack of opportunities for improvement, and the soul-stealing poverty, which were prevalent for sharecroppers during this time. While the lurid details in the book surrounding death, lust, sex, ignorance, backwardness and physical deformity could be considered sensational, Caldwell uses these shocking elements to alert the reader to the simple truth that the landless class of the Deep South suffered profoundly and in ways that other Americans could never have imagined.…
12 Year a Slave is not the first movie about slavery, but it is the best film ever made about the subject. If you have the chance to watch it, I think you should watch once. The film will like to take you back to history in 1841. You will clearly see what the life of darkness, suffering of the poor slaves. The film has left profound impression on my mind, and I feel really sympathy for the fates of the film. Although, the film ended, and Northup’s life has a happy ending, but I still hope the other slaves will also have happier life.…
A credible and little-known story of the Civil War period is studiously reduced to a dry and cautious history lesson in Free State of Jones. As if afraid to offend anyone or put a wrong foot in an era of racial hypersensitivity, writer-director Gary Ross tiptoes as if through a minefield in relating the fascinating tale of Newton Knight, a Mississippi farmer who had the temerity to lead a rebellion against the Confederacy from the inside with the help of a growing number of renegade slaves. Serious and upfront films about slavery have been scarce enough through the decades that it's notable to have at least two of them in 2016, this one and Nate Parker's impactful but also problematic Sundance winner The Birth of a Nation, set for release on Oct. 7 and bound to be the bigger audience-pleaser.…
King Schultz cannot resist reclaiming his academic superiority. Throughout Django Unchained, Schultz claims the most “talking space:” his smooth prolixity accounts for much of this film’s dialogic time. The success of his speeches often determines his own fate, as well as Django’s. Therefore, Schultz presumably claims the most powerful position: his verbal acumen ultimately controls the events to transpire. Therefore, we are not able to believe that Dr. Schultz would lose to someone less educated. When finalizing the slave trade agreement, Dr. Schultz begins discussing Alexandre Dumas and The Three Musketeers. Schultz enlightens Calvin who originally assumes that the author is a “French man.” Similar to the panache discussion, he once again proves his greater degree of knowledge and, by proxy, his dominance. During this educational session, Schultz is portrayed in extreme upward tilt; the power struggle is no longer a struggle for Schultz has claimed his elevated position. Finally, the climactic exchange regarding winners and losers epitomizes Schultz’s superiority: Candie states, “I think you are a bad loser” to which Schultz replies, “I think you are an abysmal winner.” Schultz insults Candie with a more ostentatious criticism before pulling the trigger on him; King verbally “wins” he before he physically “wins.” This scene works to foreshadow Candie’s ultimate death for Schultz was never expected to lose to Candie. The…