![]() Troy is the same age as Brand but is driving in a new bright red convertible car. Perkins, the country club developer that is taking the Goonies homes. ![]() A little later, we see Troy who is of a wealthier class and is the son of Mr. From the looks of it, Brand is probably in high school while Mickey and his friends are in middle school. In the beginning, Mouth is seen airing out the tires on Brand’s bike and Mikey, Brand’s younger brother, says that he worked all summer for that bike. Socioeconomic discrimination can be found among the two different groups. The lower class has to work and fight twice as hard to overcome any obstacles that get in their way. Someone with higher social class and economics could get away with buying up a bunch of homes and bulldozing them to the ground to build a golf course for the local country club that only the wealthy can attend. ![]() It shows that being part of a social class defined who and what one is. This film like others produced in this era shows the difficulties that money and lack of money carry within themselves. A popular aspect for these new filmmakers was to use medium close-ups to close-ups of the actors to draw in the suspense. This film was produced towards the end of the New Hollywood era, where new filmmakers were making a name for themselves. In the mid-1980s filmmakers made it popular to have kids face challenges that their parents couldn’t fix. Screenshot of the Goonies discovering a treasure map. While on their adventure they also have to evade a family of criminals (the Fratelli’s) that are on the run from law enforcement and after the treasure for themselves. The treasure is protected by a trail of booby traps that the group of kids has to overcome or succumb to the fate of the pirate’s traps. After finding an old treasure map in the attic of Mikey and Brand Walsh, they set off in search of the long-lost pirate treasure of One-Eyed Willy, a legendary 17th-century pirate. The story of this film is about a group of kids that adventure out to save their small community from foreclosure in the Goon Dock neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon. The Goonies was written by Steven Spielberg and directed by Richard Donner released in 1985. As we go through, you will see the many different DPD points in the film The Goonies. I will be discussing how the rich take advantage and overpower the weaker or lower-income characters throughout this film. And that’s just in the first 30 minutes” (Mason). But within the film there are many other positions of DPD as Robert, author of “Things You Have to Ignore in Order to Enjoy Watching The Goonies”, points out there is “Fat shaming and bullying. The main position in this film is socio-economic discrimination and that is what this paper is mainly going to touch on. If you take a good look at what is happening in this film you will see the diverse positions of difference, power, and discrimination (DPD) in this film. The Goonies is full of adventure, pirates, and scary criminals that are out to get a group of kids, but that’s not all this film is full of. 11 The Goonies (1985) The Goonies Rich Vs.
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