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Women have been portrayed as not as important people back in the days. Especially black women, and men. Most movies didn’t show black men and women in a major role or playing someone of a success. Usually someone who does not do well or is a bad person. Even if movies that were maid and directed by a black person, did not do so good in the box office. That’s how it was until the movie, Waiting to Exhale. Where four black women lived their lives and their problems with finding male friends. All for four women were successful, which was a different from other movies. This movie had a lot of talks because of its different approach in the movies, with having four black women play major roles and really have no racist or discriminating roles. I personally never seen this movie and would of never even heard about if I didn’t have this class and have to read it. I think even if I seen this movie, I would of not seen those points I showed early, because when I watch movies I usually don’t notice these like racial or discriminating things unless its really oblivious. Like in the movie, Flight Plan, with Jodie Foster, where she loses her kid on the plan and there is no record of her being on the plane. She eventually blames these Middle Eastern guys on taking her, which starts the rest of the passengers to call them, highjackers and other racist things. Which I thought was really racist especially with the 9-11 attacks.

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Today on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Hillary has to do community service and is sent to a medical clinic. This is a nig change for Hillary because she not used to be around poor sick people and in a building that is broken down and old. Once she goes in, she is disgusted. She then sees a doctor that she thinks is cute, and is then happy about doing this community service. Will then tells Hillary that guys like, the doctor, don’t like girls like, Hillary, they like smart, intelligent girls. So, Hillary changes her physical traits to get the doctor. Also, Jazz, Will’s best friend needs a place to stay after getting kicked out of his apartment, and after lots of bleeding, Phil lets Jazz stay, but will work around the house because Geoffrey was on vacation. Jazz’s nice clean-ups and neat routines shock the whole family because they are not used to see this side of Jazz. This is true; you always see guys or girls that change their style of living for another to try to attract them into liking the person. Guys or girls may not drink as much or smoke if their with a person that doesn’t do that kind of stuff. People always try to act like some there not to get someone attention but always on TV shows the person comes to realizes that the person should like the person for who they are. Sometimes people find that out the hard way.

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I think that the writer was trying to say the Batman is gay. The Batman Forever supposedly shows signs to the writer that Batman had to be gay. Things like how Robin was at Batman’s bedside when Batman was hurt, and when Bruce, Batman, comes out of the shower in only a towel. That is kind of wired to me too but I don’t think his gay at all. When I was a kid growing up and watching all the new installments of this series, I never thought it was gay or noticed anything gay. She also said how the Riddler, Jim Carey’s character always said, “Spank me!” and wore tight green spandex. She also noted that there wasn’t really any guys and girls action, getting really intimate; they, Bruce and Chase, just kiss with their clothes on. But, when its time for the guys to change into Batman and Robin, the directors show them changing. Although, she only talked about how Batman was gay, there have been talks about how all comic book superheroes are gay. I personally never noticed this and would have never noticed it, if I didn’t read the article. How the superhero has a secret identity, and never really has a girlfriend. She also talked about camp characters. How this character, like Jim Carey’s Riddler was the camp in the movie. I think that if I never had read this article, I would have never noticed this, and I would just watch the movie as is and would think nothing of it.

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Today I watch the new show on MTV; the Real World/Road Rules challenge Inferno 3. I like to watch these shows and seasons of it. I like the conflicts and challenges that the competitors do. Today was the first episode of the new season and it was good. It had the good guys versus the bad guys. It had all the bad guys and girls on one team, and all the good guys and girls on one team. They had one competitor, CT, who supposedly hit another competitor, which is a big NO, in these series; it’s an automatic sent home. So, CT got sent home on the first night. But, the directors brought in another competitor for that team. The funny thing I saw was when a competitor was put on the bad guys team, he was shocked at first; but then when his team started winning the first team challenges, he starts saying things like, oh the good guys suck, bad guys are going to win. And at first he didn’t want to be on the bad guys team. It was like his persona changed, and he was Mr. Bad Ass now. Another thing, that you usually see in this challenges is that the new guys and girls are always going home first or being sent in to the elimination round of the game. Also, in these shows, the competitors make a lot of new enemies and alliances to stay in the game until the end, where there is a big jackpot waiting for the remaining competitors.

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The movie, The Land of the Dead, was good. I did found it weird how it started out in the middle and didn’t give any information about how the disease spread. It was weird that the people didn’t really care about the zombies, they never really talked about them, and they had a shrine to the zombies. I found it stupid that when they zombies came into the city, the soldiers shot everyone accept the man with the gun, Big Daddy. Even when zombies are roaming the Earth, money is still in issue. I also don’t know why, no one tried to contact anyone else in different area and try to get some help. It looks like the zombies are starting to talk. Which is a big change from other zombie films. This film fell into other films, the main good characters stayed alive and the characters that were bad dead, except for Big Daddy. There was real no story in this film, the soldiers just see each other, say high and say I lived here. I don’t know why the humans decided to let the zombies go, and let them live outside of the city. I mean, won’t the zombies come back when its feeding time for them. For the zombies to survive, the zombies got to eat humans. So, how’s that going to work? To me, most movies are predictable. I know most of the time what’s going to happen. Sometimes I’m wrong but most of the time I’m right.

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Today on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will cheats on his fiancée Lisa. He kisses another girl named Denise, a girl that had a lot in common with Will. Will gets afraid and goes to talk to his uncle about it. Phil tells him, not to cheat and just be careful with what you say in front of your fiancée. The next day, Will tries to ignore Denise, even putting glasses to hide his eyes. Will tells her he can’t cheat on his fiancée and leaves. Denise then befriends Will fiancée, Lisa; by telling a straight lie and having Lisa invite Denise over Will’s house, for Lisa’s wedding shower. Will ends driving home Denise and at her apartment is where she tried to seduce Will. But in the end, Will said no and walked away. Stuff like this is always going on with relationships. Guys or girls sometimes want to cheat on the other and they hope they won’t find out. Sometimes you have a guy’s night out or a girl’s night out, and you might have somebody come up to you and start flirting and hitting on you. Some people actually cheat on their girlfriend or boyfriend and don’t have any regret, some people do. Some couples have an honesty policy and tell each other everything. I can say I have a made a few dumb mistakes in my life with that issue. Some people cheat and some people don’t but that is an issue that goes on with relationships.

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The movie The Land of Dead, so far looks good. I don’t like how it just started right into the army man in the hunt for the zombies. It’s funny that how the zombies have started to grow thought out the series of zombie films. At first, they couldn’t do anything, then they grew, and now some of them now how to use a gun. Which was really weird at first because I have never seen a zombie with a gun and know how to actually use it. Also, the zombies have a language of their own, they understand each other and talk to each other so they can find a way to get to the humans, so they can get to the humans and eat them up. In the movie, it looks like the community has made another life, away from the zombies and like it’s not a big deal to them. There is still rich people living in good places and poor people living on the streets. I would think, the community will be helping each other and making a place for everyone. In the movie, there is a big boss man, that really doesn’t care about anyone else but himself. I would be the same in that kind of situation, but all he is thinking about is money when there are hundreds of zombies running around, killing and eating everyone. I like Charlie in the movie because he has one hell of a shot. The funny thing is that the leader of the zombies is named Big Daddy.