Essays on Jungle Fever

Introduction

Jungle fever is a movie that focuses at on the setbacks to interracial relationship and dating. However jungle fever reviews the luminal space that join black Americans with whites rather than the issues hindering the progress of these relationships. Several reviewers have shown the inefficiency of the jungle fever and thus coming up with several limitations which include the wrong idea of black and white relationships that was shown by the playwright, the obvious scorn for incorporation, and thirdly the playwright was found to have used the wrong art. In the effort to explore on the problem, Lee made a ...

Introduction

This is a review paper about the movie “Jungle fever”. This review paper interprets the film in another light other than the interpretation offered by Spike Lee that Jungle Fever is simply the result of people from different races succumbing to curiosity, but that the end result will always be problematic.

Discussion

The film portrays a different theme of racism. Throughout the movie, the theme of racism recurs in almost every scene. A number of examples throughout the movie can support this argument. For example, when flipper a happily married black architect has affair with his Italian-American secretary Angie, everything tumbles down. His ...

Introduction

The jungle fever movie by spike lee concentrated on sexual attraction and relationships between members of two different races. An interracial affair that was between two different communities had a lot of repercussions as this is well examined by Spike Lee. One interpretation of Spike Lee's film is that Jungle Fever is simply the result of people from different races succumbing to curiosity, but that the end result will always be problematic. This is clearly seen in the movie from the way Wesley snipes behaved. Wesley snipes (flipper purify) was a very successful architect and he was happily married to ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, even up to the early 1990s, African American film was experiencing a renaissance. In this time, following the Civil Rights Movement, African-American youth needed new heroes to follow, navigating this post-segregation period of lingering prejudice and the pressure for black Americans to "make good" on their chance to make something of themselves. The pressures of the inner city and gang and drug influences profoundly impacted the black community, and raised racial tensions even further between blacks and whites. However, throughout the years, these pressures were explored in black films of that era, presenting heroes for ...

Interracial Relationships and Their Attitudes

In the 1991 Spike Lee film Jungle Fever, Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes) starts an affair with an Italian-American named Angie Tucci (Annabella Sciorra), and both encounter significant resistance from both sides of their family. In many ways, the basic plot is similar, if a bit seedier, than the 1967 Stanley Kramer drama Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, starring Sidney Poitier and Katherine Houghton as an interracial couple who focus on winning over her distrustful white parents. While both films deal with the complications of two people of different races starting a relationship, the outcomes and themes of the films are quite ...