Bamboozled Blog

I thought that Spike Lee did a good job writing and directing this movie. I have watched many of movies that he has directed, and this Bamboozled seems to be along the same lines as his others. I thought that Damon Wayans' character had the right indea in his mind since he was sick of "writing too white" all the time, but i think he went somewhat to the extreme in trying to get his point across. This movie shows you how bad racism was, and that it still exists today. There were many scenes in the movie that dramatically showed you the level of racism and its impact it had on people. I do however think that Spike Lee might have gone to the extreme with getting his point across. To me, it seems like he thinks that the viewing audience is too nieve to understand his point, so he had to be dramatic about it. I thought the ending was really dramatic and violent, but I think it was appropriate because it puts an ever-lasting thought into people's minds about the effects of their racism.

Blog-April 3rd

The part of class the stood out to me the most was the pictures and information that everyone found on the information about diversity in media. The amount of diversity in all media is seemingly endless. Most groups had a picture of what is known to be "the ideal man" and "the ideal woman". These types of images are what puts these pictures and ideas in people's minds and somewhat brainwashes us into thinking this is what we all should strive to be like. There is also much diversity in class levels that I noticed that people found. You just type in diversity into google's search bar and you could find infinite amounts of information and pictures of the different areas of it in media. I also tried to watch tv and pay attention to see if I could find diversity in it this week, and I noticed much of the same things.