Dewey decides that he will cast for his band. He picks the shy Asian for keyboards, the white boy for drums, a white girl for base, a white/Jewish boy for lead guitar, and three girls for the chorus; a white girl and two black girls. Then he assigns work positions for all of the other characters, some boys for the crew, other boys for security, a gay boy for designer, and the rest of the girls for groupies. At first glance this assignment could be totally benign. Once you analyze the power dynamics and roles that are chosen for them by the white-male teacher, it becomes a little more problematic. First, the assumption by the teacher to chose the genre of music they were going to perform and which of the children were capable to fill it. This is particularly important when examining gender dynamic. The only girl in the band is the bassist, and he makes it seem like the easiest task, every other instrument is given to the boys. Only the women sing, and of course the only black girls in the class are back up singers. As far as the technical support and security, this goes practically all to boys, and the only thing left for the girls was to be groupies. Why could not there have been boys as groupies and girls as stagehands? The film is still asserting well-established stereotypes of women and women of color in certain roles that are of lesser power and respect.

Women are portrayed as the lowest of the low in this film. The men in the gang the Warriors see women as something to “lay” and dominate. The first woman they see, they call a whore without any basis for this remark. Afterwards, she goes out looking for them, and when they see her they assume it is their right to attack her and almost rape her. Their justification seems unclear, but the film makes it seem that their masculinity depends on it, because she was bickering at them earlier, that they must show her who has the power. Afterwards, she is kept as a willing prisoner. Portraying the fantasy that young Latina girls like being roughed around, raped, and being a puta or whore. Which adds to another stereotype that Latina women are loose and like abusive men.

The next film I will dissect is The Warriors, by Walter Hill (1979). It is a story about gangs in New York. There is a huge gathering of the gangs, that results in a collage of all colors; Black men and white men in the same gang, an array of people, Latinos, Black, Asian, white, all together in separate and multi-ethnic groups, almost creating the perfect gang community. The person who called the meeting is Cyrus, a Black man and leader of the largest gang in New York. As he is trying to unite all of the gangs so that they can take over the city, a white man from another gang assassinates him. However, the blame is put on the Warriors, an interracial gang. Their leader is black, but is attacked as the blame is put on him for the death of Cyrus. He is assumed dead. The man who takes charge is Swan a white man. The film focuses much more on the characters of the white men in the gang, and the opposite, the white man and his gang. Also, more white gangs than by gangs of other colors attack the Warriors. Therefore, regardless of the diversity you see, white people are given much more character development. On the other hand, the biggest and most powerful gang is seeking revenge for the death of Cyrus, and is sending out all gangs against the Warriors. The head of this gang is a Black Panther-like militant black. This element adds a complex dynamic, although

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