On Deadly Ground Analysis

Danger and Power of Stories Do you, Alaskans, ever wonder why you get asked awkward and absurd questions while traveling to various states? For instance, do you the internet there? What kind of money do you use? Does everyone live in igloos? Aren’t you afraid of bears? These typical questions are asked to various Alaskans for years. These questions arise in outsiders’ minds when they watch stereotypical media or read stories. The media has been their culture for years, and consequently, affected them mentally; especially stereotypical movies like On Deadly Ground. Steven Seagal is about the director and star of the movie about Alaskan Natives concerned oil companies after the big amount of oil that spilled in Valdez (city) and affected its surrounding creatures and nature. The movie shows great concern toward the Natives and the environment, and cautions them that the oil company only cares about money and nothing else. However, the movie does not end there. Furthermore, it presents stereotypical scenes of Alaska, which creates stereotypes and reinforces to the audience. The movie, On Deadly Ground, begins by portraying the snowy beautiful mountain peaks alongside an eagle flying around it and a polar bear walking heavily on the snowy mountains. The movie starts off grabbing audiences’ attention with
As a result, these stories create danger to the audience due to fact that they are incomplete and create wrong mindsets, which leads to great disaster of iniquity. Therefore, these stories need to be balanced in order to repair that broken dignity, and to show the audience that there is more than a single story of Alaska, which is yet be discovered. If the audience realizes that they have the potential to change their perspective of