Racism in film

               In this blog I will be talking to you about racism in films that we watched. The films that we watched that deals with racism are Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee, Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg, and Glory by Edward Zwick. The question that we are supposed to answer is would these  films be different if they were directed by a person of a race. My immediate answer is yes it would be different if the director was a different race.
               The film Do The Right Thing is a film that is based on several races living and surviving on a typical day on this certain block in Brooklyn. The different ethnicities are Asian, Italian, African American, and Hispanic. This film mainly takes place in a pizzeria named Sal's Pizzeria. Spike Lee actually acts in the film as well as directed it. His character Mookie is African American and works at Sal's as a pizza delivery man. Sal's is owned by Sal an Italian-American and his two sons, Pino and Vino also work at Sal's making pizza. There are other characters that are vital to the plot but I wont be talking about them. Sal ends up getting in an argument with some of the African Americans that are angry and Sal for "being racist". Sal and the African Americans end up fighting and one of the African Americans end up dying and so the rest of the African Americans trash Sal's and set it on fire. I don't believe that this film could have been depicted the same way if another person of another race directed it. Even though this film had other races mixed in with it African Americans were the majority population. Lee knew what is was like being an African American so that's why the film was able to be depicted the way it was. If it was some other race the film would have followed their race or just not have been the same.
                The film Schindler's List is a film based on religion. This is based on World War 2 and how the Nazis' were killing and keeping Jewish people as slaves. This business man Schindler started to feel for the Jews and started saving as many as he could be moving them to his factory to work until the war was over and the Jews were free. He saves 1200 of them. I think that this film could have been done by a person of different race but it would be has meaningful and frightful.
                 The film Glory is about Robert Shaw leading the first volunteer African American company during The Civil War. I think that the film could have been directed by someone who was of a different race but it wouldn't have been the same.
                All in all these films would have changed and been different if they were directed by a person of a different race for multiple reasons one because no one person sees the world the same. Two because they have a different take on what happened.