I have recently seen the movie "Dont Be A Menace In South Central" I believe that this movie would be a good movie to write about because different views and tones. I saw a lot of different examples in this movie about rhetoric that made it confusing because it would change from serious to comedy. The movie dont be a menace is a movie dealing with the life of a few gangsters in the city of South Central. They try to show you the sopposable daily life of people in the hood. Through out the movie they dont really use many different rhetorical devices but they do incorporate devices such as logos pathos and ethos in their tones.
"Tray i dont want you hanging out in the streets, i want you to stay in school because without an education the only job you will get is selling drugs, pimping woman, or working security for eddie Murphy. Now i have done what i can i got my education and worked two jobs to support you but i cant teach you how to be a man only your father can do that." This was one of the quotes the movie began with, this quote can be used both as Ethos and Pathos. It can be seen as Ethos because the Tray's mother is using her background and education to backup what she is telling him about being someone in life. She is creditable because she has actually become a positive black female in the movie. She is also using Pathos in her small speech because she is applying all the hardships she went to towards her son and telling him that all shes gone through was for him. She applies to his sense of emotion to make him feel more on the fact that he has to become some one in life.
Another example well used in the movie to cause a sense of seriousness as well as comedy is preechs a formal gang member turned activist. When he is introduced he starts saying." You all need to stop using nigger. You see It is terms like nigger that the white community uses to take the self esteem from another race. Oh yea. Remind me to pick up my laundry from that mother F$#$%^ chick up the street." the sense of seriousness he causes by explaining the situation of the term "niger" causes a serious effect but turns into comedy when he changes it when he uses another curse word to describe someone else.
This movie is really interesting, it causes interest because of the tone they use through out the movie. The change in word usage and rhetoric through the movie causes a hook and makes you wanna keep watching it. I really recommend this movie to anyone who likes comedy perodies. This movie is a parody done to an actual drama from the actual hood.
Friday, October 17, 2008
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