MDSC02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Keanu Reeves, Kunio Yanagita, Tom Hanks
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Week 2: hollywood films and the binaries of race and class. Airline owner tom mullen (mel gibson) has amassed a great deal of wealth. When a group of criminals want some of his money, they kidnap his son for a million ransom. Encouraged by his wife (rene russo) and an fbi agent (delroy lindo), tom prepares to pay the money, but the ransom drop goes awry. Man is not allowed to drink, while woman who was serving mullen"s allowed it. White middle class is able to call the fbi rather than the police. White male (tom mullen) has to succumb to black male"s (agent hawkin"s) orders. He"s not used to being told what to do, esp. from a man of colour. The housekeeper/servant was the same woman who was giving son drink. Fargo, directed by joel and ethan coen. (1996) Set in minnesota in 1987, fargo follows jerry lundegaard (william h. macy) a car salesman in.
