Introduction The Longest Yard, featuring Adam Sandler, as an ex-pro football player and present convict named Paul Crew, is a story of the struggles and tribulations prisoners endure during their track to becoming free citizens. The movie starts with Paul Crew being arrested for a DUI in the state of California and being sentenced to a prison called Allensville Penitentiary in Texas. While in this prison, Crew discovers what it is really like to be a convicted felon and what it is like to have to deal with other convicts, prison guards and the officials of the prison. Right off the bat Crew gets off to a bad start, which is not his fault, he gets in an argument with the warden of the prison about being the coach for an inmate football team that the
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Almost every American knows what the term “don’t drop the soap” means and what it is referring to. This movie portrays the homosexuality aspect of prison in a somewhat mild manner, at least in comparison of how it portrays certain other prison problems. There is a main character named Brucie, Brucie is Shamalleger’s terms is a “Teddy Bear,” which means a non-aggressive wolf, “Wolf,” meaning an inmate who takes the dominant role in sexual activities (Shamalleger,2014). There is a scene in the movie where Brucie secretly meets up with another inmate named Ms. Tucker, through a shaded window it shows the two inmates participating in mutual consenting sexual activities. The movie makes it seem like homosexuality in prisons is a very mutual consenting activity; in reality that is not entirely true. According to Shamalleger 8,463 forcible rapes were committed in prisons in 2011 and of those 1.8% were reported to be committed by juveniles. Even more shocking is that 48% of these sexual victimization cases involved staff members. However heinous these crimes may be, due to human nature they will always
Almost every American knows what the term “don’t drop the soap” means and what it is referring to. This movie portrays the homosexuality aspect of prison in a somewhat mild manner, at least in comparison of how it portrays certain other prison problems. There is a main character named Brucie, Brucie is Shamalleger’s terms is a “Teddy Bear,” which means a non-aggressive wolf, “Wolf,” meaning an inmate who takes the dominant role in sexual activities (Shamalleger,2014). There is a scene in the movie where Brucie secretly meets up with another inmate named Ms. Tucker, through a shaded window it shows the two inmates participating in mutual consenting sexual activities. The movie makes it seem like homosexuality in prisons is a very mutual consenting activity; in reality that is not entirely true. According to Shamalleger 8,463 forcible rapes were committed in prisons in 2011 and of those 1.8% were reported to be committed by juveniles. Even more shocking is that 48% of these sexual victimization cases involved staff members. However heinous these crimes may be, due to human nature they will always