In today’s society we tell ourselves that racism, prejudice and stereotyping is from our past and that we've learned from our mistakes, but that’s not true. Racism, prejudice and stereotyping plays a huge role in our lives. Everyday we can turn on the tv and put on the news channel and there will be a crime related to one of these three categories. Have you ever judged someone by their looks before you even got to know them? Of course you have and this just proves that prejudice still exists. We tell ourselves lies when we say that we never discriminate people by our prejudice. Most people think that these three things happened a lot in the past and it has died down since then but statistics show that these three things have only gotten worse
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For example in one scene we see a group of black people walk into an almost empty restaurant for food, but the white owner says that they are full at the moment. This just shows us how life was like for black people back in the day. We see how white people treated black people and how they saw each other. Where-as in “Hairspray” you see white people with just disgusted looks on their face around black people, but this was nowhere near as bad as white people treated black people back in the …show more content…
In “Remember the Titans” the whole movie is based on racism, stereotyping and prejudice. The movie has a slightly dark tone and displays the reality of how life was back in the day. We see black people angered, hurt emotionally and we see the sad parts of their lives. However in “Hairspray” we see everyone dancing, singing, smiling, getting along, black people having fun and being okay with racism but for them, life was nothing like this in reality.
The final reason for why I think that “Remember the Titans” is the better movie is because it send a clear message. The director has à clear purpose for this movie and doesn’t stray far away from it. He/she wants everyone to learn how hard life was for black people back then and the movie stays on topic. Hairspray on the other hand changes its racism theme to dancing and singing, and then to à comedy, then back to racism. The message of this movie is not clear. Was the director trying to portray racism in his/her movie or was he/she trying to make à fun movie that people will enjoy but learn nothing
For example in one scene we see a group of black people walk into an almost empty restaurant for food, but the white owner says that they are full at the moment. This just shows us how life was like for black people back in the day. We see how white people treated black people and how they saw each other. Where-as in “Hairspray” you see white people with just disgusted looks on their face around black people, but this was nowhere near as bad as white people treated black people back in the …show more content…
In “Remember the Titans” the whole movie is based on racism, stereotyping and prejudice. The movie has a slightly dark tone and displays the reality of how life was back in the day. We see black people angered, hurt emotionally and we see the sad parts of their lives. However in “Hairspray” we see everyone dancing, singing, smiling, getting along, black people having fun and being okay with racism but for them, life was nothing like this in reality.
The final reason for why I think that “Remember the Titans” is the better movie is because it send a clear message. The director has à clear purpose for this movie and doesn’t stray far away from it. He/she wants everyone to learn how hard life was for black people back then and the movie stays on topic. Hairspray on the other hand changes its racism theme to dancing and singing, and then to à comedy, then back to racism. The message of this movie is not clear. Was the director trying to portray racism in his/her movie or was he/she trying to make à fun movie that people will enjoy but learn nothing