Throughout the age of cinema, Latin American actors have usually been stereotyped in.
They are often seen on screen as poverty stricken individuals that.
gather in packs, gangsters and or drug dealers involved in some seedy part of the underworld, or.
at the least people with no education that value getting a fast buck. Another stereotype that.
conflicts these aforementioned stereotypes is their deep rooted religious beliefs and family.
values. In my personal opinion stereotyping the Latin American race in movies is not a problem. .
Stereotyping of every race is something that will continue to go on in movies, it adds to the story.
line, it conveys the authors message and vision, it is necessary when telling the story. When a.
screenplay is written its writer has a specific vision in how the film should be carried out. Each.
character even in the smallest role is designed as an integral part to the piece of this puzzle that.
the writer is presenting to the audience. When I personally view a movie, I go in with the.
intention of being entertained not with the intention of critiquing the writer and director of the.
film as racists. I believe that stereotyping in movies is an important ingredient in depicting.
characters as seen through the vision of the screen writer. .
There are many movies that portray Latin Americans as criminals searching for the.
American dream of being rich, living in a big house, but never having to work for their money. .
No film better conveys the lengths to which these individuals will go to in their quest for money.
better than the 1983 Oliver Stone film Scarface. In Scarface, Al Pacino plays Tony Montana, a.
poor Cuban convict whose rise to power involves murdering selling drugs and stealing his bosses.
mistress. The movie shows the Cuban race as extremely poor where the Cuban dream would be.
to come to Florida and live as the rich white people do in the United States. Cubans are seen as.
