Want to sound like a genius rather than a moron when writing about representation?
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Please find below a 'hall of shame' and a 'hall of fame' for comments about representation - Hopefully the 'hall-of-shame' will not look too familiar!
Check out the Wolf of Wall Street halls of shame and fame...
Wolf of Wall Street - Hall of Fame
Throughout the trailer for the Wolf of Wall Street, rich, white, young-American financiers are represented as being stereotypically wasteful with money and as people who have no regard for anyone but themselves. Di Caprio, who plays the lead-role in the film, is depicted throwing $100 bills in to the bin, hosting lavish and wild parties, and using a number of women as sex objects, purely to be exploited for his own pleasure. It suggests that the American Dream, which the film is all about, actually only makes a few people very wealthy and leaves them with no morals, and no long-term relationships. During the trailer, a number of the 'victims' of the American Dream are also represented deliberately pathetically by the director, Martin Scorcese. A drawrf is thrown towards a cash target in order to entertain the wealthy bankers, a black man can be seen waiting on others - reinforcing the stereotype that during times of great wealth, vulnerable people in society often do not access any of the wealth, and remain vulnerable...
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Sophisticated vocabulary where appropriate (financiers, stereotypically, reinforces, lavish, vulnerable)
Specific examples from the trailer (throwing dollars away)
Full sentences (NOT BULLET POINTS)
A wide range of points fully explained
Hall of Shame
White people are represented as party animals. they like to party and spend money. Stereotypically, white people are rich. Di Caprio is represented as a man who likes women. He wastes money. White people are shown to waste money. Women are represented as sexy. They are all going to parties and not wearing many clothes.
Students - ask yourself this...are you a hall of famer, or a hall of shamer?
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