How is your Group of people/ place represented typically in the media? Use detailed examples from your primary sources. Explore specifically how the representations are constructed.
The general representation of muslims within films are as terrorists/extremists who have disagreements with western traditions and values. This is reinforced by such characters:
Four Lions:
Waj- 'we'll blow something up'
Omar - 'What we gonna blow up waj?'
Barry - 'Yeah! Bomb the mosque, radicalise the moderates, bring it all on.'
Fessal - 'My plan is, right, to put a bomb on a crow and fly it into one of them towers full of Jews and slags.'
Hassan -'Let's blow up a load of fit slags at the marathon, yeah?'
My name is Khan:
Rizwan- 'My name is Khan, and I am not a terrorist.'
Traitor:
Samir: 'oh I'm a terrorist'
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