"The Jazz Singer"

The film, “The Jazz Singer,” was a very interesting film to watch not only because it was a silent film but because of the stereotype that one must fulfill. The father of Jackie Rabinoson wants Jackie to be an Israel singer and not a Jazz singer, like he has as his dream. His father treats him like he supposed to live up to his last name and what he is; a Jewish Cantor and not change it in any way. In the film one of the characters is trying to have Jackie come back to his father who is ill after he’s shunned him from the family and says about Jackie that “will he be the first son in five generations to let down the Rabinoson name down.” This is just another way of showing that he is suppose to follow in his father’s footsteps and anything other is wrong or frowned upon. Since Jackie disobeys his father by becoming a Jazz singer, it’s obvious that his father distances him from the family and shuns him away. He also is oppressing Jackie based on what he wants to do rather than following his father and take over after his father when he’s passed. I think this is a way of putting a stereotype on your own race or culture. It also puts a lack of understanding on Jackie and making him feel like his father doesn’t understand him or care.

Boyz N The Hood

The degrading of women is something that bothers me extremely. The degrading of women is portrayed through many songs played on the radio, which only teaches youth that that is what women are there for. Also, many scenes where women are being degraded also only teaches youth that women are “pieces of ass, hoes, tricks, sluts, and bitches,” like they say. When men degrade women by calling them sluts, whores, etc, they do it to prove a point. In the film, Boyz N The Hood, the scene where Treys’ mother was hosting a BBQ, the young black man, “Icecube” was playing, was talking down to the women who were trying to serve themselves food. He said, “oh let these hoes get there food first,” or something close to. One of the young women stuck up for herself by saying she “wasn’t no hoe.” The young man then proceeded to say something like, “oh I’m sorry, bitch!” All this represented was men have the right to call women whatever they want and that they are there for being used for sex by call them hoes and bitches. This was very offensive. All of this degrading of women is something that happens every single day through films, songs, school, sports, etc. It’s something that must be changed and the only way to do so is for the men to figure out what they’re doing is wrong.



This is an unequal treatment of sexes. The men who talk down to women would never say these degrading terms to other men. So in fact, this is unequal treatment toward women. Women are seen to some men as objects, that are there to be used or just seen and not heard like in Boyz N The Hood. The men in the film used words like “bitch” or “ho” toward women, support this. -Maret

Inglorious Basterds

Inglorious Basterds is a film that expresses how groups of people known as the “Nazi-scalping squad” went around killing anyone associated with Nazi’s. In the beginning of the film, there was a Nazi leader who went into this man’s home looking for Jews hiding within the home. When this man came to this home he was trying to figure out whether this person was hiding nearby Jewish families from the Nazis in order for them not to be killed. It was obvious that the leader knew that this person was hiding them there. The leader finally convinced the man to tell him the truth that he was hiding the Jews underneath his home. The leader had the Nazi’s come in and start shooting through the floor killing everyone except for a young girl who got away and ran through the field to get away. The leader tried shooting at her and yelled at her while she ran. I’m not really sure why they showed this girl covered in blood running for the Nazi leader. I think it was a way of showing the male domination over women by showing control over her. Later in the film, this same young girl grew up and owned her own cinema. This cinema was going to show a Nazi film where all of these Nazi people would come and watch it. The Nazi scalping squad, the girl and her African-American friend had the plan of blowing up the cinema and kill everyone. This film seemed similar to The Hollywood Renaissance films; all male dominated and almost all white, except for the African-American friend of the female who owns the cinema. The female in this film was an interest of the top Nazi killer, which the film that was going to be viewed was about. This male would not leave this girl alone even when she told him no on multiple occasions. The scene toward the end was when she was up in the film room and this Nazi man came up there to see her. She told him he couldn’t be up there and he obviously wanted to come in the room. He didn’t listen and barged into the room. This depicts the image of where women say “no” but really mean yes. Also, at this scene this girl attempts killing this Nazi man and in return he shoots and kills her. This depicts the image where woman were suppose to be seen and not heard and die.

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