Evaluation Of King Vidor's Hallelulah
Submitted by Dmbaddict on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Evaluation Of King Vidor's Hallelulah
While watching King Vidor's HALLELUJAH, the setting is of great importance to what you are to get out of the movie. Watching it in the scholarly classroom setting, such as we did, forces the viewer to take a more objective stance on the movie. We were watching it closely and pay attention to details that we would have otherwise not even thought about. I for example would have never thought the movie as a racially stereotypical feature since I am accustomed to viewing movies with more extreme stereotypes such as the gang-banging done in Boyz in the Hood or the comical stance of the same topic taken in a movie such as Friday. Without the classroom setting, and Prof. Van Deburg's quick history lesson, I would have viewed Hallelujah! as a very early predecessor to this current genre of movie. Without the classroom setting I often overlook the timeframe of when the movie was created, and not having very much historical knowledge I often forget to put the scenarios into context.
If I were to have watched this movie in the theater, being a frugal college student, I would have spent much of my time wishing I had better spent my money on a more comical or adventurous film, but that is why most movies are not timeless and many of today's blockbusters will never be viewed by following generations. The audience in the theater would have also been of great influence as to my perception of the movie. Since Hallelujah! is not as racially charged a movie as Boyz in the Hood, I don't believe that shootings and riot would break out in the cineplexs, but I do believe that the majority of the audience would be black, which even in today's "enlightened" society can make me feel uncomfortable.
Weather Hallelujah! had been viewed in my apartment here in Madison or my home in Racine, I think there would have been a lot of joking and laughing being done during the movie. Being that the movie was made in 1929 it does show a lot of out of date stereotypes that...
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