African American in Gangster Movies
In American gangster movies, we can see that many gangsters are black people. The formation of this situation has a lot to do with people’s stereotypes.
In the early 20th century, there were only five stereotypes of black Americans and one of them was a “barbaric thug”. In Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation, a barbaric black image was created. In the movie, black people like to cause trouble. The audience will conclude that their barbarism stems from the fact that they were once suppressed by whites. This is a vent. Because of this, one of the stereotypes that blacks give people is barbarism.
Because of the issue of social identity, black people are still unacceptable in the 20th century. Although slavery has been abolished, people have thought that their image is barbaric because of their looks and body. In the book The Invention of Race, scholars even regard blacks as transitional species between humans and gorillas. This statement is obviously to show that black people are barbaric.
Data: Black actors are cast as gang members in movies
Bruce Nash, who works in The Numbers, has spent years compiling a database of 160,000 acting credits from 26,000 major US movie releases.
Black Gangster in Moives
“New Jack City “, a bloody and violent American street movie in New York, tells the story of the rampant drug trafficker and the darkness and inaction of the police department on the street.
“Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” is a criminal comedy directed and acted by Gay Richie. The film was released in the UK on August 28, 1998.
White Gangster in Movie
A middle-aged crime boss smugly reflects back from 1999, narrating the brutality which made him triumphant – and feared. As an unnamed young hood in Swinging 60’s London, he aped his mod boss Freddie Mays, and seemed to do anything for him. But his narration exposes all-consuming envy: of Freddie’s supremacy, and especially his tall bird. The baby shark develops his viciousness and backstabbing, scheming to be Gangster No. 1.
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