Option #1 Stereotypes and Film Can you recall a scene from a movie you have seen? I would venture to say you can since movies are a form of art which can touch us deeply. As a type of art, movies add to our culture since movies are, in many ways, a reflection of who we are as a society. Movies are a reflection of our culture since they reveal the culture’s values, beliefs and social makeup. This truth has positive as well as negative aspects. Stereotypes are commonly used in movies which contain intercultural relationships as it is a natural data analysis strategy Neulipe 2015). Yet, stereotyping can easily become ethnocentrism, the conviction that one’s own culture is the center of everything and all other groups are inferior (Neuliep,
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The story is true; however, dramatic license was taken in the telling of the events. The story involves three characters: a Jesuit priest named Father Gabriel, a slave trader named Rodrigo and Cardinal Altamirano. Father Gabriel is the last in long line of Jesuit priests who had entered the Guarini land to convert the Indians to Christianity but were ultimately killed by the Guarini. Father Gabriel, however, is able to gain the trust of the Indians and seeks to build a mission. Father Gabriel is joined by a former slave trader named Rodrigo Mendoza who joins the father in building the mission as a means of redemption from his sordid past as a slave trader. The story shifts when land on which the Guarini Indians live is given by the Spanish to …show more content…
For example, in the film the Church decides to close the mission due to political considerations. The Cardinal compounded this injustice by keeping this closure a secret from Father Gabriel, this despite personally visiting the Indian mission and seeing all the good that had resulted and knowing before he went that he would be closing the mission forever.
Rodrigo Mendoza Rodrigo Mendoza is stereotyped as a slave trader, who sold and killed human beings including his own brother, all without a conscience. In the movie, even though he had changed his ways by living with the Indians and helping them to build their community, when the mission was threatened by the Portuguese troops. He reverted to his former violent ways, taking up arms to defend the mission.
Father Gabriel He travels into the jungle to reach the Guarini people. Despite initial rejection, Father Gabriel is stereotyped as a priest who works diligently to improve just about every aspect of the lives of the Indians. Father Gabriel, knowing that the mission will be forcibly closed, and although being ordered to leave by the Cardinal, decides to remain with the Indians. In one of the more dramatic scenes of the movie as the soldiers attack the Mission, Father Gabriel carrying a cross, leads the Indians out of the church and into a hail of gunfire and certain
The story is true; however, dramatic license was taken in the telling of the events. The story involves three characters: a Jesuit priest named Father Gabriel, a slave trader named Rodrigo and Cardinal Altamirano. Father Gabriel is the last in long line of Jesuit priests who had entered the Guarini land to convert the Indians to Christianity but were ultimately killed by the Guarini. Father Gabriel, however, is able to gain the trust of the Indians and seeks to build a mission. Father Gabriel is joined by a former slave trader named Rodrigo Mendoza who joins the father in building the mission as a means of redemption from his sordid past as a slave trader. The story shifts when land on which the Guarini Indians live is given by the Spanish to …show more content…
For example, in the film the Church decides to close the mission due to political considerations. The Cardinal compounded this injustice by keeping this closure a secret from Father Gabriel, this despite personally visiting the Indian mission and seeing all the good that had resulted and knowing before he went that he would be closing the mission forever.
Rodrigo Mendoza Rodrigo Mendoza is stereotyped as a slave trader, who sold and killed human beings including his own brother, all without a conscience. In the movie, even though he had changed his ways by living with the Indians and helping them to build their community, when the mission was threatened by the Portuguese troops. He reverted to his former violent ways, taking up arms to defend the mission.
Father Gabriel He travels into the jungle to reach the Guarini people. Despite initial rejection, Father Gabriel is stereotyped as a priest who works diligently to improve just about every aspect of the lives of the Indians. Father Gabriel, knowing that the mission will be forcibly closed, and although being ordered to leave by the Cardinal, decides to remain with the Indians. In one of the more dramatic scenes of the movie as the soldiers attack the Mission, Father Gabriel carrying a cross, leads the Indians out of the church and into a hail of gunfire and certain