1 Assignment 4: Movie Review After watching a movie of your choice that deals with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion and ability produce a PowerPoint or Prezi of at minimum 10 slides (excluding title slide). The 10 slides should be thorough and meaningful; please do not submit a slide containing only a picture, video, or one sentence! The presentation should be based on the movie and all material covered to date in the course— covering areas indicated below. 1. 2. 3. 4. Summary of the movie, including the title. (5 points) Your interpretation and/or what you learned from the movie. (5 points) The movie’s relevancy or non-relevancy to diversity and cultural matters today. (5 points) Relate information from our class textbook (chapters 1-4) to any ONE aspect from the movie. Clearly state the class content, the chapter and page number, and how it is related to the movie. (5 points) 5. Choose at least 2 characters portrayed in the movie or book and either defend or criticize their roles with each other. You can share their strengths, shortcomings, positive or negative attitudes about the situation, etc. (5 points) • • • Proofread, then proofread, and then repeat proofreading your presentation! 1 -point deduction per every grammatical errors. If you do not know what a word means then look it up before you use it. Suggested Movies: A Day Without A Mexican Spanglish A Time to Kill The Gods Must Be Crazy Amistad The Joy Luck Club Beauty and the Beast Billy Elliot To Kill a Mockingbird Boys Don’t Cry Brokeback Mountain Dances West Side Story With Wolves Young Frankenstein Do the Right Thing A Patch of Blue Gandhi Akeelah and the Bee Babe Glory Bend it like Beckham In the Heat of the Night Birth of a Nation Boyz ‘N the Hood Mississippi Burning Crash Munich David and Lisa Osama Fried Green Tomatoes Philadelphia Ghosts of Mississippi Radio Hiroshima Real Women have Curves Roots Maiden Schildler’s List Malcolm X Snow White Monsoon Wedding 2 My Left Foot Patch Adams Pocahontas Rain Man Remember the Titans Save the Last Dance Shrek Sophie’s Choice The Color Purple The Hiding Place Thumbelina Transamerica Wizard of Oz