be analyzing the character of John Ryan who is played by Matt Dillon. Ryan is a white middle-aged police officer who has been with the force for quite some time. He appears to be racist from his many encounters with the black characters. From the beginning of the movie‚ you can tell John is an arrogant person. He seems to feel like he is superior to the other characters. This is displayed in the way he carries himself and the way he condescends to pretty much every other character he interacts with
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individuals but in systemic and institutional ways. There’s little hint of such understanding in the film‚ which makes it especially dangerous in a white-dominant society in which white people are eager to avoid confronting our privilege. So‚ “Crash” is white supremacist because it minimizes the reality of white supremacy. Its faux humanism and simplistic message of tolerance directs attention away from a white-supremacist system and undermines white accountability for the maintenance of that
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Brian Dragan Com 200 Dr. Susan Kilgard 10/1/12 Film Analysis Paper #1 Crash This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie symbolizes what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on their ethnicities. This movie intertwines
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Crash was a film that debuted in 2004. The movie told the story of various individuals and families of different ethnic backgrounds. The film showed a lot of different scenarios through the eyes of the people living in Los Angeles‚ California. This shows that everyone no matter race or other group identity face discrimination in their own right. The message shown was that many people of other ethnic backgrounds either face discrimination directly or acted upon discrimination as their paths cross
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Law 4U-ISU Crash Part A: Racism was a huge factor in the movie “Crash”. The movie demonstrated how many people in America and around the world act towards certain races and cultures. An example of this occurred at the beginning of the film when the Persian family was attempting to purchase a gun. The clerk at the gun shop made a few blatantly racist comments about the perceptions of the customers. There were several references to the twin towers and planes. It didn’t
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Identify a character in the film that presented both their public and private self  I believe that Anthony is a character that showed both his public and private self throughout the film. He was very opinionated about not liking white people and he did not care about what people thought of it. Anthony was very proud to be an African American and it showed throughout the movie. You also got to see a softer side of him towards the end when he discovered the van full of foreign women and children
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Crash’s main white characters are depicted in comfortable positions‚ both socially and economically. Jean and Rick Cabot‚ played by Sandra Bullock and Brendan Fraser respectively‚ are well-off L.A. socialites‚ as Rick is the District Attorney of Los Angeles. Tony Danza makes a cameo as a television executive producer who tells Black producer Cameron Thayer (Terence Howard)‚ one of the few financially secure (but not exactly socially secure) minority roles in the film‚ to make one of his actors speak
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Sociological Analysis of “Crash” Paul Haggis created an excellent film that depicts stories of subtle racism showing through in today’s America. In his film‚ characters with different racial backgrounds collide with each other. He ingeniously titled his film “Crash” (2004). I believe this movie is telling it’s audience that social stereotypes exist in just about all of us; social stereotypes in this movie typically are learned from specific incidents or collisions between people. An example
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movie “Crash”‚ directed by Paul Haggis‚ shows us how racism can sneak up on you and subconsciously affect your decisions and the way you act throughout day-to-day life. Even the best of people can incidentally succumb to racism‚ as exemplified by Officer Tommy Hansen‚ played by Ryan Phillipe. Officer Tommy shoots Larenz Tate’s character‚ Peter Waters‚ when they get into an argument in his car. Tommy reaches into his jacket to pull out his statue of the Patron Saint of Travel but Officer Hansen mistakes
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Crash: A Disturbing Mirror on Humanity Thesis: The 2005 film Crash is an explosive exploration of prejudice. I. Plot Summary A. Vignette structure B. Characters both positive and negative C. Inter-relatedness II. Title as metaphor A. Car accident B. Accidental occurrence C. “rough contact” (312) D. Conflict of cultures E. Destruction F. Collision of opposing forces G. Contrasts and contact
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