Diversity In Focus

In the film Focus, Will Smith is a Con Artist who has a little organization that steals jewelry, wallets, bags, ID's, credit cards and live off it, as their day job every single day. Will Smith is the ring leader in the film, his organization takes place in very discrete areas, moving place to place, Football Games to Baseball Games to Horse Races, where all the people involved in those things have debts to be settled. Throughout the movie, wee see portrayals of both men and women black, white, Chinese, all play a part of this game. From distracting a single person, a group, gambling, lying all for the one good thing they all want which is money. A blonde woman in the film who is Will Smith's right hand, is portrayed a s a beautiful dumb blonde who would attract men and get them to go their apartment with them, then the second inside man would break in and say "That's m wife" and steal the man's ID, Wallet, Credit Card Numbers, all in under one hour so that they can withdraw as much money as they can without getting traced. Another portrayal of diversity in men and women is Will Smith, he is seen at a party being loud, obnoxious, funny, and ready to fight the host, as a diversion. Later he encounters a Chinese Man who he gambles with and they end up wagering up to 2 million dollars, where Will Smith set up everything, to the song they would listen to, where he would be sitting, his hotel room, all ended in the Chinese man choosing one player off the field, and Will Smiths girlfriend had to pick a random number and he choose unwillingly, not even knowing Will Smith had scammed the man for 4 million dollars.

The way men and women worked in this film play in power, loyalty, romance, and crime all lead up to what role men and women are continuously portrayed as throughout time. Con Artist are very well known for what they do and it is still to this say continuing to use stereotypes of men and women to achieve wealth. Yes, people are forced into that type of business, but in film we rarely see the different racial background of people in these films, when was the last time you would see a movie like this involving White Americans, but nope, in this film we also see Drug Lords, Prostitutes, all non American, but different ethnicity than American. This film has a strong portrayal of how men and women are involved as being Con Artist, and it brings back villains being portrayed in different races as well, but it maintains our diversity on who men and woman are portrayed as, continuing to differentiate but still have race diversity in films today.

Diversity In American Me 10/19/15

In the film American Me, the diversity of men, women, ethnicity, appearance first starts off with the Los Angeles where the Zoot Suit Riots took place during WWII. At the time many immigrants and migrants got to LA for the defense effort and new servicemen roamed throughout Los Angeles. Many of the US Sailors and Marines attacked young Mexicans because they saw the way they dresses as Zoot Suits to be more or less unpatriotic and raped, beat, and verbally abused Mexican men and women. From the first scene we already see the father and mother of Santana get into trouble with Sailors as Santana's father is getting a tattoo finished and sailors break into the shop and take Santana's father and drag him into the streets where police officers ad other white civilians would join in and continue to beat him, while his wife was being raped by numerous disgusting Sailors.

Throughout American Me the film is based upon three bestfriends Santana, JD, and Mundo who created the gang known as La Primera. They end up breaking into a store escaping a rival gang and trying to be silent, the owner comes out and shoots JD in the leg. JD, the white one of the group grew up alongside Santana and Mundo was always left out and treated poorly by other people around them just cause he wasnt the same skin color as his hermanos were. After the incident we see Santana and Mundo end up in Juvie where Santana gets raped by another kid his own age, after it happened he killed him, which led to jail time and we see things get more into race and respect stance. Santana's gang grows, in prison Mexican, White, Blacks all control the what goes inside the prison and it conflicts with all of them as one hate crime can cause a total mayhem. When Santana and his men were in each owns cell they passed a wire of cocaine alongside to each other down the cells, and once it arrived to an African American man he tapped it, and took nearly half of the stuff and kept it to himself. Santana's group knew who tampered with the wire so they did what they would do to anyone who messed with their things and killed him. The blacks took it as a color assault and closed down the entire prison causing mayhem, killing guards and led to a stand off of Blacks vs Mexicans but ended in nothing to keep balance as it was not intended to be a act towards race. We see how deepthese guys are in the gang, from learning to live in and out of the prison, going against blacks, whites, asians, and adapting to how every little thing around them will lead to something worse if done wrong. No matter what the race of these people were, all had to learn to survive and react to people and places around them whether they liked it or not, as it was time around WWII if you were not white, everyone was in fear to even walk the streets, the way these people are born into lifestyles that they have to follow and arent able to change is unimaginable, our fear to evolve is what keeps the world to continue to worsen day by day.

Diversity In Rush Hour 10/5/15

In the trilogy of Rush Hour, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker both have poor representations of Chinese-American and African American throughout the entire movie. The Chinese are known to be very respectful, hard working, and have much wisdom contributing to each other and showing tough love. In the film Jackie Chan is portrayed to have a scratchy voice on the form of a Chinese/Vietnamese man, to be intelligent in Martial Arts, and have high respect. This may not be much disrespect or diversity in the film to the Chinese at first, buy many actors whom are Asian, Chinese, Vietnamese, are told to appear and speak in the form of mockery voices, instead of speaking proper English, many producers tell them to speak or try hard to speak in the Chinese language as if they were telling a joke. Chris Tucker on the other hand is also told to be portrayed as a loud, funny and the good sidekick. Chris Tucker throughout the movie makes funny jokes towards Jackie Chan and all the Chinese people throughout the movie, not so much in a racist way, but in a comedic everything that i say is alright as long as i don't go too far. There are both comedic reliefs towards African American and Chinese American in the movie, such as Chris Tucker pretending to not uderstand Lee and othr side actor and Jackie Chan acting loud and messing around such as Chris Tucker does throughout the movie.

The women in the movies are smart, beautiful, and fighters, the two of the three represent Geisha's which in Japanese culture are to never be known as prostitutes. Of course the producers make Chris Tucker appear as the man who would take some prostitutes in some scenes choosing from many women, multiple in fact to where he jokes around about having them in his hands. In the movie all we really see is Chinese American people, we see the bad guys portrayed as Chinese American smart evil geniuses, the irony of how movies were once portrayed since film started, continues on but not as serious as today, where many movies create comedic relief and irony in every possible way to take away the viewers from looking at the race of an individual.