Their Films Assimiilate To The Audience's Perceptions In Their Movies

Essay 1: Titanic

Movies maintain many perceptions in their films that can assimilate to the audience’s life or fantasy. In other words, movies can convey messages that are relatable or obtain meaning that capture an audience’s attention. In the movie, Titanic, it depicts transparencies through a sociological lens. Titanic, is based on a true story about a ship that sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean after crashing into an iceberg. The Titanic was a luxurious ship that maintained upper class people. The plot of this movie is based on a fictional romance between two people; Jack and Rose. Both come from different spectrums of the social strata. Rose comes from an affluent family and engaged to a wealthy man. whereas Jack, is a lower class artist.

The manifestations is the upper class shown to have luxurious rooms that maintain room service, and cleaners. In addition, the latent part of this shows that wealthy people hire people from mostly the lower class to do things for them because they have the money to do so. As well as by the upper class having services provided to them also shows the conspicuous consumption that they maintain in order to live the luxury life. According to “ Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences”, Hurts mentions in chapter four, Status Inequality, that “exclusion” is a primary technique by which those in powerful status groups keep others from gaining power”( Hurst, 2016). In other words, the wealthy try to refrain people from trying to move up the ladder. As in the movie, the people that are helping the ship function are people who are from the lower class. The scenes easily portray that the upper class try to stay away from the others as much as possible, and try to not have any social relationships with people who don’t

According to the article, “Power”, Domhoff defines power as “ power is the overall capacity of a group, class, or nation to be effective and productive….Second, power is also the ability of a group, class, or nation to be successful in conflicts with other groups…”(Domhoff, 799). In the film, you see upper class attain power within the other classes with their interactions and behaviors towards others shows how much their wealth is an influence for them to have power. Towards the end of the movie, the manifest of a scene shows once the ship begins sinking, many sailors are trying to evacuate people on for safety. The people they were saving first were the upper class. The latent of this scene shows that because the upper class is wealthy, and sustains resources, they see that as power for them to use against all other classes. These small boats that the Titanic maintained were very well equipped and comfortable, and made only for the upper class. In addition, at times, the upper class urged their power on needing to get saved, and left the other classes jumping onto crowded boats or falling off because they couldn’t associate themselves with the lower strata. In fact, this is also a prime example of commodity fetishism because the boats that were well built for the upper class conveys that the people who built them were most likely from the lower class. It portrays how much work was put into them for the