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.