Crash
...by Clint Eastwood and Crash directed by Paul Haggis. Both these films carry controversial subject matter, relating to how race, class, stereotypes and discrimination are portrayed in the media. This report will focus on Frankie, played by Clint Eastwood, Maggie Fitzgerald, played by Hillary Swank, Eddie ‘Scrap Iron’ Dupris, played by Morgan Freeman from Million Dollar Baby and Jean Cabot, played by Sandra Bullock, Officer John Ryan, played by Matt Dillion, Farhad played by Shaun Toub, Anthony, played by Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges and finally Peter, played by Larenz Tate. This analysis will also include complimentary information on the distinction between classes that these characters display, the way their stereotypes (and reverse stereotypes) affect their interactions, the power struggles that occur and finally the ideologies that develop from these.
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Crash Summary
“You think you know who you are. You have no idea” – Tag
Crash is the story of several characters from a variety of different ethnic backgrounds after a collision in one incident, a car crash. These different characters all belong to different stereotypes and this in turn their judgment, beliefs and actions are affected. Several stories interweave during a two day period in Los Angeles involving a collection of loosely related incidents and characters, these being a black police detective with an ill mother and a thieving younger brother, two young African-American car thieves are philosophize on their current condition within society, a district law attorney and his pompous wife, a chauvinistic police officer and his younger, naïve partner, a successful black movie director and his wife, a Persian immigrant family and finally a Hispanic tradesman and his family. The film endeavors to show the importance of base values such as respect and loyalty, and how these have been lost in modern...
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