The media should be the ones who change the world. Gangs are shown in films so much more often than, eg., chess clubs. People aren’t supposed to think that crime is cool, and yet every image that a young black boy sees on TV is of someone who wears what he wears, and lives on a steet just like his, so he thinks “maybe I am like that”, and the cycle is not broken but extended. Therefore, stop portraying the chess club as geeks, and stop making kids think they have something to prove.
Jenny Bartle, Colchester, United Kingdom
Hmmm, maybe Jenny is onto something. A remake of 8 Mile, with Nigel Short as a chess hustler, down on his luck, and with one last chance to shine? It’ll be massive. The hoodies will lap it up and we’ll all be one step closer to the land of milk and honey.
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You miss Jenny’s point: there are more hoodies because much of the media glorifies them and their thuggery. (It is a contributing factor, not the sole one).
Don’t remake ’8 Mile’, show someone who moves up and out, and contrast his life with someone who stays in scumworld. There are such, and their stories are waiting to be told.
Thanks Frank. That was inspirational.
Wasn’t 8 Mile exactly about someone moving up and out? As was Good Will Hunting, or Dangerous Minds or… Sister Act? Getting young thugs to watch these wonderfully inspirational and well acted movies is the hard part.