Diversity in Full Metal Jacket 9/28/15

In the movie Full Metal Jacket, we see the portrayals of young men going into the Marine Corp and what they face with the struggles of surviving training, getting brainwashed, also objectifying women with themes of rape and prostitution, leading to men with weak mindsets doing they they would not do, but are affected by the peer pressure of those around them. As the movie progresses we see the intimidation of the training by their General Senior Instructor who's introductory to them all at camp is "There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers.". As he looks upon each of these men in their bunks, he chooses and nick names people based on their ethnicity, appearance, and background. Most of these men are young, filled with adrenaline to go out and kill, regardless they do not know how they will be associated as, in war and outside of it.

Throughout Full Metal Jacket, the Vietnamese women are proposed as prostitutes, the men in the Marine Corp are given prostitutes and all have sex with them and do not care for them at all. Its the pressure some of these men have from killing, living with each other, and having no women around, having to prove themselves to each other of what a real "man" is, gets to their heads. The jokes in the film conjugate African Americans, Mexicans, and Vietnamese, where a joke is being told sch as "Hey, what does it take to stop 5 black guys from raping a woman? A basketball". The fact that the men they have to fight side by side it have to prove themselves, take advantage of omen, and laugh and make jokes of rape, is absurd. Its unreal of how this actually has played a role in history throughout time. Both men and women have had to show their role in society just so they would not appear as odd or different, many are forced to do things that they aren't because of the people around them, no matter race, background, religion, each in their mind "must have to" follow the way each role is supposed to just to fit alongside with others, without even having a sense of right or wrong.

Diversity In The Power Rangers 9/20/15

Throughout the series known as The Power Rangers, the ethnicity of the actors who play each colored Power Ranger has created much controversy as the series still continues till this day. Since many of us were young we did not really look at it in the perspective of race, from the first season of The Power Rangers, the colors with each characters were Austin St. John (Jason Lee Scott, Red Ranger) a Native American portrayed teen who is into martial arts, Walter Emmanuel Jones (Zack Taylor, Black Ranger) an African American teen portrayed to be funny, silly and know how to fight in scene where he is alone, David Yost (Billy Cranston, Blue Ranger) the White American teen who is smart, nerdy, and can fix anything, Thuy Trang (Trini Kwan, Yellow Ranger) a Vietnamese born teen who is portrayed as a smart, loyal, noble girl to the team, Jason David Frank (Tommy Oliver, Green/White Ranger) the Mexican-American teen who appear as an evil teen against the Power Rangers, who also is a great fighter , Amy Jo Johnson, (Kimberly Hart, Pink Ranger) the White American teen who is blonde, smart, pretty, and feminist strong type of fighter.

As the seasons progressed the diversity in each character at times went from better to worst. Of course they weren't going to make the mistake as the first season, even though many producers and directors working throughout the Power Rangers series did not think of it as a mistake. The colors were not truly based upon race, but on personalities to fill such as the leader, the jock, funny guy, the nerd, the sweetheart, and the smart girl. The most common races used in every season involved White, Native, Asian, every now and then they would add one African American or Hispanic to the group. Based upon the setting in every season it all differentiated based upon location and character portrayals, there were times where it would be one African American, White American, Asian American, or Mexican American, would either be goofy, serious, leader, or odd one out of the group. The role of the Red Ranger was meant for the leaders, strong, apprehensive, tall, where as the Blue Ranger was to be the smart sidekick, nerdy, but intellectually strong, yellow ranger, quite but a fighter, loyal and pretty, Pink Ranger, the beautiful girl of the group, smart yet pretty to surpass it and every now and then in need of hope. Finally, the Green/Black/White Rangers, all are basically extras who fit in with the Power Rangers, these are usually the evil yet comedic guy, also strong and second hand leader traits who are portrayed by teens in ways of serious, tough guy, mysterious ways. Even today as they are on the 22th season its amazing how the diversity has grown, the leader Red Ranger, is now a Mexican American smart, and tough while being apprehensive, a Filipino teen as the Blue Ranger who has a caveman back story, learning to communicate in the 21st century, a White American teen Green Ranger, is smart yet witty being the crazy one of the group, a Black Ranger, Mexican American who has the american jock feeling, staying relaxed and maintaining street smarts, and now the Pink Ranger, a African American teen who is smart, beautiful, and beginner of the Rangers. Many do not look past these traits because the Power Ranger all appear s heroes, we were told to not judge a book by its cover at a young age, and we looked up to these 5 heroes. As we mature we realize the how different each character is portrayed, all there is left is to make a woman a leader of The Power Rangers, even though the series is as huge as it once was, shows like these are what influence most of our children today, as they develop to live between right and wrong they play a major part of what we fight for, the good or evil in the world in school, work, family, and ourselves.

Diversity in The Avengers - September 13, 2015

In films today both racial and gender diversity have sparked controversy of the basic male and female roles in both reality and imagination creating wrong thoughts of what we the people are truly meant for in this world. Men in films have been portrayed as muscular, romantics, funny, or serious leaving the women in films to appear as hopeless, adventurous, and witty at times. The percentage of women to have been known to have lead roles in movies is below 15%, while men have been portrayed to have the main role in films at a percentage of over 85%. Its unreal how men can be portrayed from modern day father, to at night father killing people left to right, tracking down his kidnapped daughter (Taken with Liam Neeson), and women to being the beautiful blonde neighbor next door, to badass kung foo master killer (Kill Bill).

Marvel Inc. has been known for films, comic books, toys, shows and much more. The films created and inspired by Marvel comics has had a surplus of male roles as many super heroes are portrayed as, but what many people do not look or pay attention to much is the color of the skin and whether the lead role is by a male or female. Now, all superheroes are believed to have the simple traits of being tall, handsome, strong, smooth, smart, etc. From Spiderman to The Hulk both characters have these traits which make them approachable to the mind thought of a superhero, and in past Marvel films they have both been portrayed by white men, where in society today many know the controversy the film would have if possibly a Mexican, or an African American man. Throughout the movie The Avengers only one woman is portrayed to have a major role in the movie and that is Black Widow,beautiful, trained, sharp shooter woman, who is unafraid to die, kill, and stand up for what she believes in. In the Avengers there is a 5 to 1 ratio of men to women in the movie, some may say its not intentional but the roles have been like this in all of Marvel films and comics for years. The amount of omen superheroes are barely found in movies today,if she is not pretty or has a unrealistic power, its not what the people want or would even care about. The next films that are going to come out and even things up about the racial and gender diversity are Captain Marvel(Emily Blunt Date Not Released) a superwoman with the ability to fly, have super strength, and shoot lasers from her hands and also Captain America 3 where the character Falcon(Anthony Mackie May 6, 2016) will have a major role where it might possibly lead to a movie of his character in a later on film. Overall i see a huge difference on roles in both men and women racially and gender-like growing in the world, many of today's films continue to show what both men and women are more capable of doing then just having one gender be more dominant than the other.