Bamboozled

This movie is a big eye opener. At first I did not know what to think of the film, but once I figured out the message that the director was trying to prove to the audience I understood it a lot better. The follow up question helped me give my opinion a little better, but I will still say what I think. The audience of this film was not only the white culture, but the black culture as well. I will start with the black culture. African-American culture, like white, and even Hispanic culture, have stereotypes. Some African- Americans took this film offensively, which I do not blame them, but I think it also opened the eyes to the African-Americans who do follow along with the stereotypes. No one says that the black culture has to be bullies like the gangsters we saw in the movie, and no body says that the African-American culture has to sit on the porch and play music with shackles on. These are some of the stereotypes that I think Spike Lee was trying to give to the audience. Spike Lee wanted to inspire the African-American culture to step out of there comfort zone and be who they can be.
As for the white audience, I think it did the same for them. They got to see that the black culture has many stereotypes by exaggerating many points during the film. An example of this exaggeration would be the make-up the actors were during the minstrel show.

Soul Plane

This is the first time I have ever heard of the movie Soul Plane. I can grantee that over my Thanksgiving break I will be renting this movie and watching it. It is like the prefect movie for this race, class and gender class. Race in the movie is represented by all of the characters. On the new updated plane you do not see one white person in the Class 1 area. The white people that are in the low class are scared and confused about what is going on because it is like a new atmosphere for them. The classes are divided on how much money each person paid to get on the plane. Even though the white family seemed very high maintenance, they were placed in the low class flight area. I saw gender being represented by the flight attendants. There was one guy and two girls that we were introduced to once they started the scenes on the plane. They all had the gender performance of girls. The guy in the group acted more feminine than masculine even though his appearance was masculine.