I do not know much about the Arab culture, only from what I see in films such as these still in our textbook. From these interruptions, I can only see that the culture from that of Holloywoods eyes has not changed much in the last 20 years. Now I am not a believer at all when it comes to the rendisions of cultures of people by Holloywood, so this is not how I veiw to be the lifestyle or look of an Arab. From just looking from the photos, however, the culture looks vastly different from the ways I am used to. In these two particular films Arabs are portrayed as the bad guys, the one who are stepping in the way of Indiana Jones getting to the girl who has been taken by even worse guys... Nazis. I really do not see how this portraying of Arabs is legitimate, it seems to have been formed by a stereotype that was formed a long time agao. The only thing I can look for to argue in its favor is that at one point or another, all stereotypes were based on some sort of the truth, at least to the truth at the eyes of the people writing truths down. Is it right to make any sort of people the bad guys for some sort of real life portrayal as such, of course not. But who the hell else is going to play them, and if someone else did would we believe that world? Who knows... but until then, we are just going to stick picking on those look different from us.
-Corte
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amen.
CC: Again, be careful when assuming stereotypes are the end result of a critical examination. What possible elements of truth would there have been in portraying the lavish palaces of LoA or the less-than "civilized" fighting techniques of RotLA? Do we always just pick on people who look different from us, or are there cultural shifts which affect those representations and resulting stereotypes? :EE
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