In the movie Selma, president Johnson is hesitant to support King’s efforts despite being more supportive of him. Johnson is the president and needs the support of the people in order to maintain his position. A small amount of people did support the movement, so perhaps Johnson being portrayed in this matter is an attempt to symbolize that. If the white majority were shown to be solely hateful and oppressing, that would not bode well for the movie, as people could take offense to that. There was support from the whites towards the black civil rights movement, even though it was miniscule. This modern film may choose to portray Johnson in this manner because it’s entirely relatable and relevant. Society has a firm set of beliefs that everyone’s
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Accurate to the racism of the 1940’s through 1960’s, they’re shown to be demeaning, arrogant, disconnected, dismissive, and ruthlessly violent. The blacks are insulted and treated like they’re nothing; like they’re worthless. Even when J.Edgar is speaking with Johnson, he calls King a “degenerate” without even thinking twice. When King walks into a store, a white male walks up to him, asking if he can introduce himself. King extends his hand, but instead, the man punches him in the face. In this movie, white people are often seen as dumb, annoyed, and unhappy. When the black community tried to protest peacefully by marching to Georgia, the white police shot at them, punched them, and beat them until they bled or even died. A young man, peacefully walking with a crowd through the streets, after running away due to the police dispersing the demonstration, is hunted down blocks away in a restaurant and shot and killed. It’s like the white people are the hunters and the blacks are the hunted-the white officials and the commoner join together in an effort to hunt down and stop any effort to advance the black civil rights movement; destroying whatever may be in their path. I think the director may have portrayed them in this manner in order to really get across the severity of the situation. Scenes on the screen don’t mean as much as those experienced in real life; so more drastic actions may have to be taken in order …show more content…
At the time of the release of this movie, the shooting of Michael Brown after an attempt to assault a police officer and ensuing riots in Ferguson, Missouri had the black community in a frenzy. Police brutality towards blacks seemed to increase. The film would have to avoid political connections to the present day because it would cause conflict and likely offend part of its audience. Let’s take the black lives matter movement, for example. If the movie showed any support to it, white people may take offense. Even today it’s such a hot-button topic to talk about the black community and its political issues.
As time goes on , we tend to romanticize historical figures. Polls taken at the time of MLK show low support for him , but today it’s overwhelming. Our evolving views of historical figures revolves around the fact that social values change over time and we learn more about people through history. How we are as a person in the present day and what our values are will place a filter over the historical figure and we’ll end up seeing them how we want to or think we should-even if it’s not entirely
Accurate to the racism of the 1940’s through 1960’s, they’re shown to be demeaning, arrogant, disconnected, dismissive, and ruthlessly violent. The blacks are insulted and treated like they’re nothing; like they’re worthless. Even when J.Edgar is speaking with Johnson, he calls King a “degenerate” without even thinking twice. When King walks into a store, a white male walks up to him, asking if he can introduce himself. King extends his hand, but instead, the man punches him in the face. In this movie, white people are often seen as dumb, annoyed, and unhappy. When the black community tried to protest peacefully by marching to Georgia, the white police shot at them, punched them, and beat them until they bled or even died. A young man, peacefully walking with a crowd through the streets, after running away due to the police dispersing the demonstration, is hunted down blocks away in a restaurant and shot and killed. It’s like the white people are the hunters and the blacks are the hunted-the white officials and the commoner join together in an effort to hunt down and stop any effort to advance the black civil rights movement; destroying whatever may be in their path. I think the director may have portrayed them in this manner in order to really get across the severity of the situation. Scenes on the screen don’t mean as much as those experienced in real life; so more drastic actions may have to be taken in order …show more content…
At the time of the release of this movie, the shooting of Michael Brown after an attempt to assault a police officer and ensuing riots in Ferguson, Missouri had the black community in a frenzy. Police brutality towards blacks seemed to increase. The film would have to avoid political connections to the present day because it would cause conflict and likely offend part of its audience. Let’s take the black lives matter movement, for example. If the movie showed any support to it, white people may take offense. Even today it’s such a hot-button topic to talk about the black community and its political issues.
As time goes on , we tend to romanticize historical figures. Polls taken at the time of MLK show low support for him , but today it’s overwhelming. Our evolving views of historical figures revolves around the fact that social values change over time and we learn more about people through history. How we are as a person in the present day and what our values are will place a filter over the historical figure and we’ll end up seeing them how we want to or think we should-even if it’s not entirely