Film Theories: Representation

Representation Representation and stereotypical or stereotype are how people identify each other, this is depended on many things, for example, to identify someone as something first is from how he or she appears, second is from their belief in order to identify someone as something. The stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular group or class of people and common use in character development in pre-production of film making in order to divide each character into a group so it easy for an audience to understand each character from their stereotype and easy for the audience to relate it the real world. In today blog I will identify some stereotype that common use in film making, especially from the western film making perspective and the film that I will use as an example for today blog is Tuxedo from 2002 staring by Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Tuxedo is that talking about a Chinese taxi driver who has to become a spy in order to find the truth behind his boss assassination, there are many scenes from Tuxedo that identify Asian stereotype from the perspective the westerner for example when Jackie Chan get being assaulted by an anger cyclist he was hinting under a car and being asked by his friend why doesn’t he fight back and the answer of Jackie Chan is clearly identified on how the westerner seeing Asian people and the answer is “Not every Chinese know Kung fu” Asian or Chinese stereotypical is you have to know Kung fu. Next scene from Tuxedo that also answers of stereotype and presentation is when Jackie Chan disguise as a spy to meet with a new partner of his boss, in this scene the reaction of a character staring by Jennifer Love Hewitt is surprised because of she expects him to be a tall good-looking white American, not a shot Chinese man. From Jennifer reaction, it clearly says that from the western perspective a stereotype of Chinese men could not be a spy. Chinese or Asian stereotype is common to use in American cinema in order to uprear the stereotype of white American or any other white nation in western cinema.