Stereotypes In The Movie 'On Deadly Ground'
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Do you, Alaskans, ever wonder why you get asked awkward and absurd questions while traveling to various states? For instance, do you have the internet there? What kind of money do you use? Does everyone live in igloos? Aren’t you afraid of bears? These typical questions were asked to various ethnic Alaskans for years. These questions arise in outsiders’ minds when they watch stereotype medias or read stories. The medias have been their culture for years and consequently affected them mentally, especially stereotype movies like On Deadly Ground. The movie is, directed and starred by Steven Seagal, about Alaskans concerning towards a big oil company that manufacture in Alaska when the big amount of oil spilled in …show more content…
The movie started off grabbing audiences’ attending with convincing and trueness of eye-catching Alaska scene. As the movie goes on the stereotypes scenes keep coming on as it were blindfolding audiences’ other eyes because of its negativities. The movie portrays a homeless native drunk guy asking a white oil worker to buy him a beer, country music in the background, in the bar. As a result, the native a guy get heavily beat up and verbally assault. To defend the native guy, Seagal fought the oil workers and defeat them. Furthermore, the movie only shows Alaskan natives (other than oil workers) living uncivilly in Alaska, using dog sleds, in igloos, wearing fur coats. These scenes proved and created stereotype ideas on fellow audiences because those scenes are only one side of Alaskan stories. Alaska, “third world” (On Deadly Ground, 1994), also in fact has many diverse societies, in which natives are civilized and intelligence. And Alaskans do not need outsiders pity helps to save Alaska’s environments and nature. It has diversely intelligence and civilized residences unlike the scenes in the movie. The medias have proven that if you, readers, show a person same thing repeatedly, ultimately that is what the person
Do you, Alaskans, ever wonder why you get asked awkward and absurd questions while traveling to various states? For instance, do you have the internet there? What kind of money do you use? Does everyone live in igloos? Aren’t you afraid of bears? These typical questions were asked to various ethnic Alaskans for years. These questions arise in outsiders’ minds when they watch stereotype medias or read stories. The medias have been their culture for years and consequently affected them mentally, especially stereotype movies like On Deadly Ground. The movie is, directed and starred by Steven Seagal, about Alaskans concerning towards a big oil company that manufacture in Alaska when the big amount of oil spilled in …show more content…
The movie started off grabbing audiences’ attending with convincing and trueness of eye-catching Alaska scene. As the movie goes on the stereotypes scenes keep coming on as it were blindfolding audiences’ other eyes because of its negativities. The movie portrays a homeless native drunk guy asking a white oil worker to buy him a beer, country music in the background, in the bar. As a result, the native a guy get heavily beat up and verbally assault. To defend the native guy, Seagal fought the oil workers and defeat them. Furthermore, the movie only shows Alaskan natives (other than oil workers) living uncivilly in Alaska, using dog sleds, in igloos, wearing fur coats. These scenes proved and created stereotype ideas on fellow audiences because those scenes are only one side of Alaskan stories. Alaska, “third world” (On Deadly Ground, 1994), also in fact has many diverse societies, in which natives are civilized and intelligence. And Alaskans do not need outsiders pity helps to save Alaska’s environments and nature. It has diversely intelligence and civilized residences unlike the scenes in the movie. The medias have proven that if you, readers, show a person same thing repeatedly, ultimately that is what the person