This critical essay of the movie the Three Kings was written by Lila Kitaeff, who is a writer for Jump Cut. Kitaeff discusses how David O. Russell's film represents Arabs in his movie. In the article, Kitaeff first talks about how Arabs are stereotyped in America through the media, military, politics, and even through our economy. Here is an excerpt from her article dealing with this:
In both popular culture and government policy, anit-Arab stereotypes since the 1970's have affixed a stigma on Arab ethnicity in America...The Arab as villain has been a favorite scape-goat of American culture.Kitaeff then goes on to discuss how Arabs are looked at in this was in the Three Kings by showing the movie through the American soldiers eyes, and by having the American soldiers be the heroes. However, in the next part of the essay, Kitaeff does show the other side to this argument as well. Here's another sample quote:
This same reviewer even suggested that the film addressed 'the amorality and lack of consistent principles in American foreign policy. No Hollywood film in memory has addressed such an issue.'"I think everyone should read this essay not only because it is interesting, but because it is great to look at to get ideas for our final project.
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