Compare and Contrast Films

COMPARE AND CONTRAST

Hallelujah was filmed and released in 1929 . It casts an all-black casts and directed by King Vidor for MGM studio . Vidor was nominated for best director for Oscar on this film . The filmed was taken at Tennessee and Arkansas and since the location was far from the studio the voice was later dubbed along with the music . This film was of a musical and drama genre . It depicts the life of the past African-American society in which they still get their part of the cotton harvest from the white

Americans . Zeke (Daniel Haynes ) is a young farmer who once sold his share of cotton for 100 . But Chick (Nina Mae McKinney , a young con-girl saw what he wants from an ignorant looking man , his money . She knew what to do . Chick was pretty lady and for him she was the most adorable girl he had ever seen . She introduced her friend , Hot Shot to bring Zeke into a gambling den to double his money . Being trustful with Chick , Zeke and his brother went with them . But the couples did it again with their cheating which ensued to a brawl and cost the life of Zeke 's brother

Realizing his mistake and wanted to repent for his brother 's death , he turned himself to God and eventually was made into a preacher . This is where he met Missy , a local and decent girl whom he cared . But Chick and Hot Shot , without any new prospect suddenly came into Zeke 's decent life again . He made Zeke to fall for her again and confess for her sins . She even made herself baptized by Zeke to prove her willingness to belong to Zeke 's religion . But born as a cheater she married Zeke , took him out of his flock and made him do hard labor for her . Zeke was shocked when he discovered that his wife was seeing her lover Hot Shot whenever he is away . Zeke was furious and out to get them . The two escapes with a speeding car but eventually had an accident . When Zeke found Chick and hold her in her arms dying she asked for forgiveness . Chick died in his arms and now his fury turned to Hot Shot who ran away into the woods . He ran for him and caught up with him killing him with his bare hands

While in prison he came back to God again and led a life of holiness After serving his sentence , he came back to his family with open arms and became a real person again

This story was played by an all-black casts and no white appeared in this movie . Incidentally , one cannot assume that there was any racial or prejudice in this movie . No color contrast and injustice of the white because in that period being a cotton picker for the black was their main occupation . What this movie taught although it is considered a musical movie was the atrocities of the society to the...