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    Clockers Film Analysis

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    Spike Lee's 1995 film Clockers uses ethnic stereotypes to reflect the harsh realities of a world dominated by drugs and crime. The murder of a character creates suspicion between the protagonist and antagonist, allowing stereotypes around black communities and crime to emerge. Through the language and interactions between characters from different cultures, Lee represents real-life scenarios and tensions between African Americans and law enforcement. By depicting black-on-black crime and how police profile black males, the film highlights social issues like racial profiling and the challenges minorities face.

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    Spike Lee's 1995 film Clockers uses ethnic stereotypes to reflect the harsh realities of a world dominated by drugs and crime. The murder of a character creates suspicion between the protagonist and antagonist, allowing stereotypes around black communities and crime to emerge. Through the language and interactions between characters from different cultures, Lee represents real-life scenarios and tensions between African Americans and law enforcement. By depicting black-on-black crime and how police profile black males, the film highlights social issues like racial profiling and the challenges minorities face.

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    Spike Lee's 1995 film Clockers uses ethnic stereotypes to reflect the harsh realities of a world dominated by drugs and crime. The murder of a character creates suspicion between the protagonist and antagonist, allowing stereotypes around black communities and crime to emerge. Through the language and interactions between characters from different cultures, Lee represents real-life scenarios and tensions between African Americans and law enforcement. By depicting black-on-black crime and how police profile black males, the film highlights social issues like racial profiling and the challenges minorities face.

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    Clockers Film Analysis

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    Spike Lee's 1995 film Clockers uses ethnic stereotypes to reflect the harsh realities of a world dominated by drugs and crime. The murder of a character creates suspicion between the protagonist and antagonist, allowing stereotypes around black communities and crime to emerge. Through the language and interactions between characters from different cultures, Lee represents real-life scenarios and tensions between African Americans and law enforcement. By depicting black-on-black crime and how police profile black males, the film highlights social issues like racial profiling and the challenges minorities face.

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    Paola Robles

    Dr. Keith Harris


    English 20C
    April 27, 2016
    Clockers Film Analysis
    In the 1995 film adaptation of Clockers, director, Spike Lee, uses ethnic stereotypes to
    reflect the harsh reality of a world revolving around drugs and crime. The mystery that arises
    from the murder of one particular character gives way for these stereotypes to present themselves
    as suspicion creates conflict amongst protagonist and antagonist. While other themes, like black
    on black crime, and hardship, become prominent throughout the film, it is these themes that
    allow stereotypes to demonstrate and represent real life situations and issues over controversial
    topics.
    Whether it be culture, acquaintances, or mentality, each character shares a few similar
    traits. The most important however, and one of the primary forms through which Lee brings
    stereotypes alive in this film is language. The idea that the manner in which a person speaks
    classifies their level of intelligence has become a very common and popular perception.
    Generally, and given our society in the last few decades, people have grown accustomed to
    associating particular slang terms or verbal mannerisms with certain cultures or groups of people.
    I believe the type of profanity used in the film, which many would also consider offensive, is a
    visual representation of the lifestyle many believe African Americans carry out. Everything from
    the actual dialogue, to the way in which the characters like Strike and Rocco interact as members

    of two distinguished cultural groups (white and black), could be seen as an art form that is put in
    place by Lee to reflect real day to day scenarios and events.
    Over the last fifty years, black on black crime has been a widely trending topic, and
    especially in the U.S. The core conflict of the film not only visualizes this, but also how other
    key influences play a role in the way these crimes are resolved and perceived. In this case, we
    see specifically how the white side of law enforcement treats situations involving drugs and
    violence. The interactions between the two distinct ethnicities in this film- white and black- set
    the stage for the way in which both sides will be affected. For example, the routinely process of
    being searched or questioned by the police, not only goes back to stereotyping black males, but it
    also does a good job of presenting the extent to which whites have involved themselves in black
    crime. As Lee develops these ideas, we are reminded of the harsh reality minorities face and have
    faced over the past years. Clockers does more than solve a mystery as Lee establishes a sense of
    authenticity through dialogue, culture and setting.

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