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The BlacKkKlansman expressly confront stereotypical race and gender norms. The film BlacKkKlansman sheds light on how bad things were, and how things has changed but not really. The film high lights white supremacy. The superiority and the belief that whites are the superior race, and they were meant to dominate society. You would think that they are the superior race case and point whites boldly reveal their racism and hatred for Black people and they are continuously being found not guilty for the repeatedly the unwarranted, excessive, and illegal use of force against African Americans. This Spike Lee film broke the mold of how African American women were historically and traditionally depicted in Hollywood film productions as maids and servants, like actresses, and spike lee gave us Patrice. Patrice is a strong and resilient Black sister that participated in the fight for justice.

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Like the film The Birth of a Nation the Ku Klux Klan is shown to be a courageous force with good reason while black men are crudely depicted (by white men in black face) as buffoons and sexual aggressors. In BlacKkKlansman it is black power activists who have a good reason, and the Ku Klux Klan are depicted as nonconformist. The BlacKkKlansman is based on true events and the film Get Out is fictional. But both films are amazingly directed by two Black African American men that has broke down barriers and pave the way for up-coming Black directors, and film writers.   

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GET OUT

Get Out is a horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial first. The 2017 movie, Jordan Peele, becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the first African American to be nominated for producing, writing, and directing in the same year.  In the film, Chris is invited by his white girlfriend to her family estate in upstate New York for the weekend. He arrives and notices an odd black maid, caretaker. Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

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The Help, unlike Get Out, is filled with bicultural stereotypes and blatant discrimination. The Help geared our attention to black women, especially black women servants that clean white family's home and raise their children. Get Out is a film that depicts everyday racism that is ever so common in our society.

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Rose's father, neurosurgeon Dean and hypnotherapist mother Missy overly tries to convince Chris that they are not racist. They are also joined by Rose's weird brother Jeremy who taunts Chris throughout the movie. That night Missy hypnotizes Chris to cure his smoking addiction and puts him in a trance; Missy calls the "Sunken Place." The next day Rose's parents host an annual get-together which is really an undercover auction where the wealthy guest secretly bid on Chris for a sinister attempt to take control of his young, healthy body. A blind art dealer wins the bid, and Chris is then put into a trance by hearing a spoon stirred in a teacup and passes out. When he awakens, he is restrained in the basement, where the procedure will take place to take control of his body. Throughout the movie, Chris stays in contact with his friend Rod who is minding Chris's dog while he is away. When Chris does not return, Rod believes they have kidnapped Chris into a sex cult and made him a sex slave. Rod is not that much off as the plot unravels, and his friendship is Chris's saving grace. The movie's unique theme is a new idea that took moviegoers, critics, and fans by surprise. Black cast mixed with white, no usual stereotypical roles or magical negro tropes and mammy figures. The black domestics working for the family are missing black people that bodies have been used to salvage older dying white people.  The black-written drama, comedy, and thriller delivered a suspenseful and impractical take on racism. Careless arbitrary attitudes towards racism and discrimination continue to undermine sustainable change.

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Jordan Peele (writer and director): states “I had never seen the uncomfortableness of being the only black guy in a room played in a film. That notion is a perfect state for a protagonist of a horror film to be in, to question his own sanity. Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives were movies that did with gender what I wanted to do with race. And then, [once I] decided that I wanted to bite off the difficult task of making a film about race, that was a scary notion. If you fail at that, you have really failed.

The connection to Barack and Hillary was that for the first time, I was looking at gender and race as two parallel civil-rights movements that you could go crazy with. It almost felt like, “Who has been waiting long enough? Is it the woman?” All boiled down. Racism and sexism were seen as two parallel problems. So, I thought if you could make a movie as entertaining as Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives, which have what should be an equally offensive notion — that men are going to conspire against women — you could do it with race.”

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This is a video of Mary J. Blige recording a song for the movie the The Help 

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In 1960s Mississippi, Southern society girl Skeeter (Emma Stone) returns from college with dreams of being a writer. She turns her small town on its ear by choosing to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent white families. Only Aibileen (Viola Davis), the housekeeper of Skeeter's best friend, will talk at first. But as the pair continue the collaboration, more women decide to come forward, and as it turns out, they have quite a lot to say.

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The term “Jim Crow” typically refers to repressive laws and customs once used to restrict Black Americans' rights, but the origin of the name itself actually dates back to before the Civil War. The help paints us a picture of how African American maids in the South were being mistreated by their employees and the children of their employees. This is a clear-cut movie of racial justice daily discrimination, segregation, and violence experienced by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color every day during the Jim Crow era. and this movie (The Help) also depicts the white savior usual commentaries of a white woman coming to the rescue of the oppressed Blacks.

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The Help, like the Gook, on the racial comments, stereotypes, and content; both films depicted undisguised discrimination. The Help geared our attention to the domesticated black women that clean and raise the children of white families. The women caught busses or walk to jobs every in the white folk's homes where they were met with rudeness, dirty looks, and exploitation. Gook gave us had the Rodney King verdict and the violence that followed. The Help gave us the Jim Crow laws and the and the segregation, discrimination and the violence that followed. Although both movies took place in a different time in history, they both depicted the segregation, racial discrimination, and violence that exist to this day.

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This is a song from the Movie The Gook Little More Time

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Gook is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by Justin Chon, who plays Eli in the movie. It tells the story of two Korean-American brothers running their father's shoe store, and their unlikely friendship with a neighborhood 11-year-old black girl, during the first day of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

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On April 29, 1992, four Los Angeles Police officers were acquitted by a jury for the senseless beating and the discriminatory treatment of an unarmed Black man named Rodney King. The Gook is a film geared around the riots that occurred after the verdict was handed down. The movie is about a day that two families' lives in the middle of a community's frustration and bitterness about the ruling, the likelihood of more police brutality, battle with their conflicts, and the racial tension between the Koreans and African American Communities. The Gook is about family, relationships, politics, cruelty, poverty, and racism while depicting racial stereotypes and gender roles with a distinct look at the LA riots in 1992. The two families in the film are drawn together by a Korean male owner of a shoe store and a single African American woman. Both are deceased, leaving behind two Korean American brothers Eli, Daniel, and three African American children, Kamilla, Regina, and Keith

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The Korean American brothers inherited their father's shoe store, and Kamilla, the youngest of the three Black children, plays hooky from school to hang out at the shoe store with the two males that she considers family. The film enlightens us about the unstable home life of the Black family since the death of their mother; Keith assumed the typical gender role of the dominant male, "the breadwinner" that provides for the family. Kamilla stated that she wears a flower in her hair every day because there are none where she lives.  The movie takes place in South Central Los Angeles, a socially marginalized and disfranchised community where there are no flowers, only garbage-filled streets. Also, the racial stereotypes of people of a color gang bang, sell drugs, and steal. The Mexicans robbed and beat up Eli, the blacks robbed and beat up Daniel, and Kamilla stole the Twinkie cake from Mr. Kim's store. The film uses the insulting racial slur Gook a word that stands for foreigner, especially a person of Philippine, Korean, or Vietnamese descent.