sometimes people perform Main Street ideas and actions, but the character is overall white collar focused.
In The Big Short by Adam McKay, the antagonist and protagonists are both white collar, but one of the four protagonists has blue collar morals. In this movie, the four protagonists attempt to profit off of the big banks because the banks gave out too many subprime mortgages to people who couldn’t pay it back. Mark Baum (Steve Carell) illustrates his blue collar morals by not agreeing to what the banks intend on doing. One of the instances when he proves his Main Street morals is when he interviews the CDO manager and he realizes how corrupt their agenda is. Mark is so frustrated with how they are running things he eventually leaves the …show more content…
One of the biggest examples of the portrayal of Main Street workers is the movie Tower Heist by Brett Ratner. This movie is about Josh Kovaks (Ben Stiller) and a group of other workers that work for a snobbish white collar worker that gets put under house arrest. All of the blue collar workers who work for the owner of the skyscraper lose their pensions, and attempt to steal it back from him. The film shows Main Street crossing Wall Street by having the Main Street workers try to steal from the big Wall Street workers. In a Huffington Post article, it was brought forth that how these characters dealt with their problems does not portray what neither white or blue collar should do, and how it leaves a bad image on the workers (Murty 1). The films follows the Main Street and Wall Street stereotype by having the blue collar workers be the moral protagonists, while having the criminal antagonist be the white collar …show more content…
In Trading Places, Eddie Murphy plays as a poor hustler named Billy Ray Valentine and Dan Aykroyd plays a wealthy commodities broker named Louis Winthorpe III. Both of them lived very different lives until Louis’s brothers decide to have them switch places by having Billy take Louis’s job and luxuries, while they fire louis and exile him. The film contributes towards the stereotypes placed upon Wall Street and Main Street workers through both characters and their surroundings. Louis and his brothers are very prude with how they act towards other people and Louis is blinded with his wealth. Billy is homeless and does anything he can to get a dollar. From the beginning, the audience already hates Louis for being unfair and ignorant because he caused Billy’s unjust arrested. He is portrayed as a snobbish Wall Street worker and is made obvious when he believes he is getting robbed by Billy just because he bumps into him. Throughout most of the film, the character hides behind his wealth in order to escape his problems, and has no understanding of what poverty is like.The film producers further the audiences hate for this character and the Wall Street workers by making racist remarks about Billy’s African American descent, portraying Louis as the white collar worker with awful morals. A film review of Trading Places by “Empire Essay” also brings up how this
In The Big Short by Adam McKay, the antagonist and protagonists are both white collar, but one of the four protagonists has blue collar morals. In this movie, the four protagonists attempt to profit off of the big banks because the banks gave out too many subprime mortgages to people who couldn’t pay it back. Mark Baum (Steve Carell) illustrates his blue collar morals by not agreeing to what the banks intend on doing. One of the instances when he proves his Main Street morals is when he interviews the CDO manager and he realizes how corrupt their agenda is. Mark is so frustrated with how they are running things he eventually leaves the …show more content…
One of the biggest examples of the portrayal of Main Street workers is the movie Tower Heist by Brett Ratner. This movie is about Josh Kovaks (Ben Stiller) and a group of other workers that work for a snobbish white collar worker that gets put under house arrest. All of the blue collar workers who work for the owner of the skyscraper lose their pensions, and attempt to steal it back from him. The film shows Main Street crossing Wall Street by having the Main Street workers try to steal from the big Wall Street workers. In a Huffington Post article, it was brought forth that how these characters dealt with their problems does not portray what neither white or blue collar should do, and how it leaves a bad image on the workers (Murty 1). The films follows the Main Street and Wall Street stereotype by having the blue collar workers be the moral protagonists, while having the criminal antagonist be the white collar …show more content…
In Trading Places, Eddie Murphy plays as a poor hustler named Billy Ray Valentine and Dan Aykroyd plays a wealthy commodities broker named Louis Winthorpe III. Both of them lived very different lives until Louis’s brothers decide to have them switch places by having Billy take Louis’s job and luxuries, while they fire louis and exile him. The film contributes towards the stereotypes placed upon Wall Street and Main Street workers through both characters and their surroundings. Louis and his brothers are very prude with how they act towards other people and Louis is blinded with his wealth. Billy is homeless and does anything he can to get a dollar. From the beginning, the audience already hates Louis for being unfair and ignorant because he caused Billy’s unjust arrested. He is portrayed as a snobbish Wall Street worker and is made obvious when he believes he is getting robbed by Billy just because he bumps into him. Throughout most of the film, the character hides behind his wealth in order to escape his problems, and has no understanding of what poverty is like.The film producers further the audiences hate for this character and the Wall Street workers by making racist remarks about Billy’s African American descent, portraying Louis as the white collar worker with awful morals. A film review of Trading Places by “Empire Essay” also brings up how this