Crashanalysis
Penny Nash
MGMT 339
Crash Movie Analysis
February 22, 2014
a) Which diversity dimensions does this film vividly show? Consider all possibilities such as age, gender, social class, race and the like.
The first incident in the movie took place when a Persian family went to go purchase a gun. While trying to make a purchase, the man who worked there made remarks about 09/11, twin towers, and called the Persian man Osama. He automatically looked at them and assumed they were Arab, and called them terrorists.
Another incident was when Sandra Bullock’s husband, who was the district attorney, was trying to find out what to tell the news. He mentioned he didn’t want to lose the black vote and needed to pin a medal on a black man. He brought up a firefighter’s name who he assumed was black. The man on his team mentioned he wasn’t black, he was Iraqi. Bullock’s husband assumed because he was dark-skinned, it made him black.
When Don, the detective working with LAPD called Ria, the woman he was having relations with Mexican, when her parents are from Puerto Rico and El Salvador.
b) Does stereotyping appear anywhere in the film? Give examples.
At the beginning of the movie there was the “Mexicans can’t drive” and “Koreans can’t see over the steering wheel when there was an accident in the beginning of the movie.
Another example of stereotype I saw in the movie was when a young Hispanic man was changing the locks in Sandra Bullock’s house. She took a look at him then turned around told her husband that she wanted to have the locks changed again the next day because he was a thug and was going to sell a copy of their key to one of his homeys. She just saw his exterior and made the assumption not even knowing he was a hard-working man and an amazing father to his little girl.
c) Is stereotyping a basis for any conflict incidents shown in the film? Not some examples. - Again, with the Hispanic locksmith. He was to change the locks for the Persian store owner. When the store
MGMT 339
Crash Movie Analysis
February 22, 2014
a) Which diversity dimensions does this film vividly show? Consider all possibilities such as age, gender, social class, race and the like.
The first incident in the movie took place when a Persian family went to go purchase a gun. While trying to make a purchase, the man who worked there made remarks about 09/11, twin towers, and called the Persian man Osama. He automatically looked at them and assumed they were Arab, and called them terrorists.
Another incident was when Sandra Bullock’s husband, who was the district attorney, was trying to find out what to tell the news. He mentioned he didn’t want to lose the black vote and needed to pin a medal on a black man. He brought up a firefighter’s name who he assumed was black. The man on his team mentioned he wasn’t black, he was Iraqi. Bullock’s husband assumed because he was dark-skinned, it made him black.
When Don, the detective working with LAPD called Ria, the woman he was having relations with Mexican, when her parents are from Puerto Rico and El Salvador.
b) Does stereotyping appear anywhere in the film? Give examples.
At the beginning of the movie there was the “Mexicans can’t drive” and “Koreans can’t see over the steering wheel when there was an accident in the beginning of the movie.
Another example of stereotype I saw in the movie was when a young Hispanic man was changing the locks in Sandra Bullock’s house. She took a look at him then turned around told her husband that she wanted to have the locks changed again the next day because he was a thug and was going to sell a copy of their key to one of his homeys. She just saw his exterior and made the assumption not even knowing he was a hard-working man and an amazing father to his little girl.
c) Is stereotyping a basis for any conflict incidents shown in the film? Not some examples. - Again, with the Hispanic locksmith. He was to change the locks for the Persian store owner. When the store