Ethnicity the show
The show has an all Black family cast for the show which will smith plays in, the show doesn't abide by what a stereotype for a black person may be in the show as the family live in a large house int the Beverly hills area, the family are positivity shown for having good sturdy jobs with lots of money.
But Will Smith when he joins the family has a different background from Philadelphia , which usually has a stereotype of having crime rates and other problems. The reason for will joining was because he had problems in bel air after some sort of scrap (displayed as comedy in the show) but the way he dresses and his background could be described as more of stereotype than the rich Beverly hills family he joins.
Do you mean steady jobs? ( not sturdy!?)
ReplyDeleteI think this is a good example of how audiences make judgements about characters based on colour; listen to the butler's accent and it is impeccably British and not what we expect at all.
Comments on mise-en-scene and more specifics here would be better.