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Stereotypes In Jack Conway's Pancho Villa

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Jack Conway’s 1943 Hollywood film, Viva Villa, is a fictional representation of the famous Mexican Revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa. Based on the novel by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade, Viva Villa, is one of the most stereotypical and historically incorrect films produced. The movie is filled with historical inconsistencies and stereotypes that follow Hispanic Culture. False facts and dramatization make the film, not only fiction, but a joke to Mexican culture. Viva Villa commences when Pancho Villa’s father is murdered after trying to protect the land the Mexican Government has taken away from him. This is the source of Villa’s anger, what causes him to become the infamous bandido the world knows. The film proceeds and shows a scene where Villa murders the city court with no sign of remorse, setting the theme that Villa is but a murderer. It is at this point where the film introduces the “protagonist” of the film, the person whom the audience perceives as the good guy of the film: …show more content…

For the purpose of the film, it makes sense for the hero of the story to become president of the republic that he just saved, but in reality, this was not the case. An American viewer, after watching this movie, can walk out of a cinema believing that Pancho Villa took the presidency after Madero and Pascal’s assassination. If this movie claims to be a depiction of accurate history, then it should not be filled with added fiction that dramatize history to make a Hollywood movie a blockbuster. It is also a disgrace to see the legendary Pancho Villa die in the hands of the American Johnny Sykes. This moment reiterates what Ramirez mentioned in his article, “the dominant group creates subdominant stereotypes” (1998 p 107). The dominant group, takes credit for one of the most important moments of Mexico’s Revolution, and gives the last words to the only American,

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