Analysis Of The Movie The Butler

“I would have never dreamed I could work in a place like this.” Cecil Gaines. This movie is towards the civil right movement and how African Americans had troublesome in their communities during this time. This movie The Butler is based on a true story as an American historic fiction film. The movie is based off a man named Cecil Gaines who operated from place to place as a butler to support his family, while his oldest son is out protesting for his rights, beliefs, and his culture. The film The Butler demonstrates how blacks fought through the civil rights movement to get as much equal rights as whites did, through their beliefs, values, and culture. This was always a scuffle for them because the whites always had the higher privilege …show more content…
Growing up Louis felt like he didn’t know what his culture identity was. Louis didn’t value that his father wouldn’t stand up for the blacks and kept doing what he did as a butler not caring what was going on around him in the world. Louis didn’t believe that it was acceptable for the whites to have more privileges then blacks. The whites never had to worry about walking the streets without getting shot, or going into a restaurant or a bathroom and seeing a sign that says “Colored People.” After exploring his culture in school, Louis wanted to start protesting for his own. Louis and his fellow classmates starting protesting, and their first protest was in a diner and they didn’t sit in the colored section. No one would serve them, and at the end of the day young teenage white kids came in and started spitting in their face, throwing coffee in their face, and saying things like “get up monkey,” “it says whites only,” and “does it say coons …show more content…
The whites growing up at a young age must have been taught in their social groups that blacks don’t belong and it wasn’t just the teenagers who thought that it was all white folks. The blacks had to learn how to endure in the dominant white culture, but Louis and his classmates wanted to start making new ideologies for their culture. Cecil was opposite of his son he adopted to the dominate culture values, and beliefs just to survive and provide for his family. As time went on Louis joined a group called The Black Panther Party. He was thrown in jail many times because of the things he believed in. His father didn’t know what to do with him because he thought it wasn’t right what his son was doing and didn’t believe in it all. “If I can’t sit at a lunch counter I want, I might as well be dead.” Louis had told his father. That’s how most blacks felt, didn’t know where they belonged or what community they felt at home