Event Website
https://www.canva.com/design/DAExvaZM6G8/zPW_oSGhtQbyg6GWc_kGTw/edit
Start Date
17-12-2021 9:40 AM
Description
This research critiques the misrepresentation of Vietnamese people in the Vietnam War film Da 5 Bloods (2020) and deconstructs the filmmaking process leading to it. I will identify and resolve ideological limits in the filmmakers as well as external challenges in production that constitute this false African-American fictionalization of another minority outside the United States. In doing so, I reject a hasty inclusivity that misunderstands different experiences with racial oppression and emphasize the efficiency of a respectful identification with injustice among different minorities worldwide. By advocating for a decentering of the American trajectory of antiracism and refocusing on non-American ones, I also hope to inspire a more critical and less reliant consumption of predominant cultural sources about the Vietnam War within the United States. My outline for a new screenplay that moves away from the flawed racial dynamics in Da 5 Bloods will exemplify how the antiracist theme can be globalized with a more responsible narrative voice, informed by more than one perspective.
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Explaining Vietnam in "Da 5 Bloods" to Globalize Antiracism and Improve Activist Storytelling
This research critiques the misrepresentation of Vietnamese people in the Vietnam War film Da 5 Bloods (2020) and deconstructs the filmmaking process leading to it. I will identify and resolve ideological limits in the filmmakers as well as external challenges in production that constitute this false African-American fictionalization of another minority outside the United States. In doing so, I reject a hasty inclusivity that misunderstands different experiences with racial oppression and emphasize the efficiency of a respectful identification with injustice among different minorities worldwide. By advocating for a decentering of the American trajectory of antiracism and refocusing on non-American ones, I also hope to inspire a more critical and less reliant consumption of predominant cultural sources about the Vietnam War within the United States. My outline for a new screenplay that moves away from the flawed racial dynamics in Da 5 Bloods will exemplify how the antiracist theme can be globalized with a more responsible narrative voice, informed by more than one perspective.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/honors-research-and-exhibition/2021fall/section-01/10
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Mentor: Miranda Banks