The movie The Longest Yard is a comedy movie about a ex pro football star, going to prison and beating a corrupt prison in a football game. But if you really analyze the movie, it gives you an in depth of culture, race, and stereotypes in prison. The Longest Yard portrays the themes of redemption and teamwork through the story of a disgraced former NFL player who leads a group of inmates to challenge the prison guards in a football game, ultimately discovering the power of unity and sacrifice in achieving a greater goal.
The first subtopic I'm going to analyze is stereotypes. Prison inmates. When you first hear prison inmates, the average human thinks of low life people, drug addicts, violence, and gang members. Although some may argue that not all inmates are bad people, which is true, but the first thought when you hear of prison inmates is that they are bad people. The Longest Yard does a very good job portraying this in the movie. When the main character “Paul Crewe”
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Culture can be many different things. From how you grew up, to how you hunt your food. The prison system throughout America also has their own culture. The Longest Yard shows this by having 4 different groups. The basketball players, the cheerleaders, the outsiders, and the guards. The basketball players are mainly all African Americans and they would only hang out at the hoops and together at lunch. They all have that aggressiveness, all are fast, and they all look intimidating. The cheerleaders are all very outgoing, very flirty and interact with everyone. The guards are all stereotypical white men. They all are big buff jacked guys who play football and run the prison. Alot of them take steroids and this would be a culture thing for the guards. Last but not least are the outsiders. These guys don't really interact with anyone. They are usually disliked by everyone else and they just do their own thing and mind their own