The film Hairspray is a musical romantic comedy filmed in 2007 and based in the 1960’s in Baltimore.
The film is about an overweight and cheerful teen named Tracy Turnblad, who loves to sing and especially dance with her best friend Penny Pingleton to the “Corny Collins show” after school. Lots of their classmates are on the ‘’Corny Collins Show’’ including Tracy’s crush Link Larkin and his girlfriend Amber Van Tussle. All the people on the show are white, other than the one day a month they call ‘’negro day” where they allow African American teenagers to appear on the show. Tracy’s support for racial/ cultural equality leads her to big movements in the integration of the ‘’Corny Collins Show’’. It all started with the Corny Collins Show hosting an audition for a replacement dancer, Tracy and Penny decide to skip school to try out even though both their mothers do not approve of the show. When they try out for the first time, Ambers mom Velma Van Tussle is the one in charge, she tells Tracy she’d never make it on television due to her size, which not only brought her self-esteem down but made her feel discriminated. Tracy's mother Edna Turnblad thought this …show more content…
Right when they thought they were close to stopping what Velma was up to, she manages to get away with by-passing the rule of having no African Americans on the show any day a month. The African American community nor Tracy or Penny were going to let that happen, they decide they are going to do a protest the next day until the discrimination occurring on this show set came to a stop. When Tracy's parents make up in the morning they realize Tracy is missing and must have run off to the protest even though they advised her not to. Tracy is not only risking her shot in the spotlight but also her criminal record all to try and enforce integration because of segregation
The film is about an overweight and cheerful teen named Tracy Turnblad, who loves to sing and especially dance with her best friend Penny Pingleton to the “Corny Collins show” after school. Lots of their classmates are on the ‘’Corny Collins Show’’ including Tracy’s crush Link Larkin and his girlfriend Amber Van Tussle. All the people on the show are white, other than the one day a month they call ‘’negro day” where they allow African American teenagers to appear on the show. Tracy’s support for racial/ cultural equality leads her to big movements in the integration of the ‘’Corny Collins Show’’. It all started with the Corny Collins Show hosting an audition for a replacement dancer, Tracy and Penny decide to skip school to try out even though both their mothers do not approve of the show. When they try out for the first time, Ambers mom Velma Van Tussle is the one in charge, she tells Tracy she’d never make it on television due to her size, which not only brought her self-esteem down but made her feel discriminated. Tracy's mother Edna Turnblad thought this …show more content…
Right when they thought they were close to stopping what Velma was up to, she manages to get away with by-passing the rule of having no African Americans on the show any day a month. The African American community nor Tracy or Penny were going to let that happen, they decide they are going to do a protest the next day until the discrimination occurring on this show set came to a stop. When Tracy's parents make up in the morning they realize Tracy is missing and must have run off to the protest even though they advised her not to. Tracy is not only risking her shot in the spotlight but also her criminal record all to try and enforce integration because of segregation