Help needed - your film knowledge required

Pecker · 09-02-2009, 11:34 AM

I'm in urgent need of a few films on DVD.

The films must portray any one (or more) of the following:

- A multi-faith society
- A multi-racial society
- Sexism
- Racism
- A battle for equality

So anything like East is East, Yentl, Keeping the Faith, etc. You get the picture.

Name as many as you want - as many as you can think of.

Many thanks.

Steve W

LanceR · 09-02-2009, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Pecker

I'm in urgent need of a few films on DVD.

The films must portray any one (or more) of the following:

- A multi-faith society
- A multi-racial society
- Sexism
- Racism
- A battle for equality

So anything like East is East, Yentl, Keeping the Faith, etc. You get the picture.

Name as many as you want - as many as you can think of.

Many thanks.

Steve W

'Brick Lane' has it all!

Also 'The Colour Purple'

Todd Tomorrow · 09-02-2009, 12:12 PM

List of racism-related films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ruaridh66 · 09-02-2009, 12:15 PM

you should have a look at gattaca.

SeedyR · 09-02-2009, 12:33 PM

Racism - American History X, Romper Stomper, Remember The Titans

PoochJD · 09-02-2009, 12:43 PM

Hi Pecker,

Where do we start?!

Sexism / Equality
- Network
- any James Bond film, but especially "GoldenEye"
- Nine-To-Five (Dolly Parton comedy)
- Working Girl (Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith)
- Pretty Woman
- any films directed by Russ Meyer
- most mainstream "adult" films, e.g. Sliver, Showgirls, Basic Instinct, etc.

Racism / Equality
- Malcolm X
- Lethal Weapon 2
- When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
- Clockers
- The Wire (TV Series)
- Oz (TV Series)
- Jungle Fever
- Do The Right Thing
- NYPD Blue (TV Series)
- Hill Street Blues (TV Series)
- The Sopranos (TV Series)
- Mississippi Burning
- White Chicks (awful comedy, that is hideously racist)
- The Birth Of A Nation (1918 film from D.W. Griffith, which shows the Ku Klux Klan in a positive light!

)

Films/Shows that are about tolerance, rather than purely Sexism / Racism
- Freaks (Todd Browning)
- The Elephant Man
- The People Vs Larry Flynt
- Quantum Leap (Several episodes, but specifically "Jimmy", and "Black On White On Fire)
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- Crash
- To Kill A Mockingbird

Multi-Faith / Multi-Racial Society
- Lost (TV Series - specifically Season 1)
- Lethal Weapon 2
- Prison Break (TV Series - deals with sexual and racial tolerance in Season 1)

Pooch

Keith Hurst · 09-02-2009, 12:50 PM

All summed up in Gandhi.

KH

LanceR · 09-02-2009, 1:24 PM

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Originally Posted by PoochJD

Hi Pecker,

Where do we start?!

Sexism / Equality
- Network
- any James Bond film, but especially "GoldenEye"
- Nine-To-Five (Dolly Parton comedy)
- Working Girl (Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith)
- Pretty Woman
- any films directed by Russ Meyer
- most mainstream "adult" films, e.g. Sliver, Showgirls, Basic Instinct, etc.

Racism / Equality
- Malcolm X
- Lethal Weapon 2
- When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
- Clockers
- The Wire (TV Series)
- Oz (TV Series)
- Jungle Fever
- Do The Right Thing
- NYPD Blue (TV Series)
- Hill Street Blues (TV Series)
- The Sopranos (TV Series)
- Mississippi Burning
- White Chicks (awful comedy, that is hideously racist)
- The Birth Of A Nation (1918 film from D.W. Griffith, which shows the Ku Klux Klan in a positive light!

)

Films/Shows that are about tolerance, rather than purely Sexism / Racism
- Freaks (Todd Browning)
- The Elephant Man
- The People Vs Larry Flynt
- Quantum Leap (Several episodes, but specifically "Jimmy", and "Black On White On Fire)
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- Crash
- To Kill A Mockingbird

Multi-Faith / Multi-Racial Society
- Lost (TV Series - specifically Season 1)
- Lethal Weapon 2
- Prison Break (TV Series - deals with sexual and racial tolerance in Season 1)

Pooch

In fairness The Birth of a Nation was the product of it's time however abhorrent the subject was and Griffith himself did try to respond with Intolerance.

pRot3us · 09-02-2009, 5:43 PM

Racism
Sam Fuller's great White Dog (which was only finally given a dvd release by Criterion in December)

The Be Black, Baby segment of the early De Palma/De Niro film Hi,Mom!

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Its most memorable sequence is one where a black radical group invite a group of WASPs to feel what it's like to be black, in a sequence called Be Black, Baby. It is both a satire and an example of the experimental theatre and cinéma vérité movements. Shot in the style of a documentary film, it features a theater group of African American actors interviewing Caucasians on the streets of New York City, asking them if the whites know what it is like to be black in America.

Later, a group of theater patrons attend a performance by the troupe, wherein soul food is served. The white audience is then subjected to wearing shoe polish on their faces, while the African American actors sport whiteface and terrorize the people in blackface. The white audience members then attempt to escape from the building, and they are ambushed in the elevator by the troupe. As two of the black actors rape one of the white audience members, Robert De Niro arrives as an actor playing an NYPD policeman, arresting members of the white audience under the pretense that they are black. The entire sequence plays with natural sound, and is "unrehearsed" and in "real time." De Palma's familiarity and collaboration with experimental theatre informs the sequence and ratchets up the emotional impact of those who view it, simultaneously engaging their personal responses to racism and commenting on the deceptive and manipulative power of cinema. "If truth itself is plastic," the sequence asks, "then filmed truth is deeply flawed."

The sequence concludes with a thoroughly battered and abused audience raving about the show, showering praise on the black actors, crowing "Clive Barnes [New York Times theater critic] was right!"

Be Black, Baby remains one of the most challenging and intriguing sequences from its era, and its use of an audience's willingness to become emotional accomplices sheds light on De Palma's subsequent career.

Leumas_10 · 09-02-2009, 5:59 PM

Men of Honour for racism/equality in the forces.

Pecker · 09-02-2009, 6:13 PM

Fantastic stuff, cheers.

Steve W

Vorm · 26-02-2009, 10:16 AM

Dangerous Minds comes close to having all of that and is quite modern too.

**Garrett** · 26-02-2009, 2:38 PM

Wouldent the X-Men films fit Racism / Equality

LanceR · 26-02-2009, 3:56 PM

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Wouldent the X-Men films fit Racism / Equality

The first 2 might but the third tries a little to hard to beat you over the head with it.

There are a lot of films out there that deal with the subject directly and not with the use of allegory which i think sometimes muddies the water.

DICKIEDUVET · 26-02-2009, 4:15 PM

This is England

Sonic67 · 26-02-2009, 4:39 PM

Mel Brooks would be good with Blazing Saddles for equality/racialism.

Alien Nation.

Bamboozled?

Roots

*thearrowmaker* · 26-02-2009, 6:17 PM

I have to second an earlier posters recommendation of Gattaca. A truely outstanding film about injustice in society and overcoming the odd's.

davidwatsonok · 28-02-2009, 1:06 AM

The most recent film I can suggest would be Crash

dunks517 · 28-02-2009, 9:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Sonic67

Mel Brooks would be good with Blazing Saddles for equality/racialism.

Alien Nation.

Bamboozled?

Roots

Great minds eh? You beat me to it with Blazing Saddles.

'The Sheriff is near'

ITFC Jack · 28-02-2009, 7:26 PM

Higher Learning would be a good one.

iainoco · 28-02-2009, 7:32 PM

Got to echo This is England, such a powerful movie.

amgard · 03-03-2009, 8:49 PM

A little lighter hearted, but "Bend It Like Beckham" ticks a lot of your boxes.

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