In this week's class we watched the introduction to the movie "Soul Plane" and observed the racial stereotypes contained within. Maggy described it as a movie that is, "about as offensive as it gets..." It takes racial stereotypes over the top, which is one of the things that make it funny.
It starts out with an out of work African American man who has quite the negative experience on a major US airline. He ends up suing the airline for damages as his dog was killed in flight. The defense attorney points out that he is an out of work man trying to make an easy score. He ends up winning the lawsuit and starts his own airline.
The fun truly begins after that. His airline is based out of terminal "Malcom X" and 99.8% of passengers are African American. The terminal features many fine vehicles (mostly Cadillac), a basketball court, fried chicken, jewlery stores with plenty of bling available, etc.
The aircraft itself was pimped out as well. The plane was painted to be purple and it even had spinners on its wheels! First class was truly that: first class. Low class, as he called it, looked more like a subway car than an aircraft, and it even had standing room. Most of the flight attendants were African American, with the exception being the "sexed out" Hispanic.
The few passengers who weren't African Americans felt truly out of place. The one Arab man who boarded the plane was continually harassed by airline security and called "Ossama" multiple times. The white family we see was also typified with a last name of "Honky", had a gold-digging wife, a sex crazed teenage daughter, and a nerdy son.
We didn't get to finish the movie, but what we saw was worth watching nonetheless. After the movie we began a group project and will make PowerPoint presentations next week. I don't really have a deep analysis for this week's blog... class this time was more laid back.
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