My Beautiful Launderette

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scene where Johnny and Tonya ride the bike is an allusion to

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Singing in the Rain

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the bright colors are visually representative of

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romantic comedies

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not an ordinary romcom: it’s a more … film

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serious

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conventions of romcom: … meets …, something gets in the way, they ..
In Bollywood, the thing that gets in the way is …

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boy; girl; end up together; family

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British rewriting of … and … –> two traditions coming together

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Hollywood; Bollywood romcoms

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one of the first … romances

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immigrant

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romcoms are a … form

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heterosexual

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at beginning, Johnny and Omar are immune to everything going on around them–establishes the … between them, but it is difficult to recognize because it is … –> … to each other

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sexual tension; homosexual; exclusive attention

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80s was the …, so homosexual relationships became more … because of the panic –> this is how the … was played out in the movie, people were saying that it was … for homosexuality

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AIDS crisis; mainstreamed; AIDS crisis; God’s punishment

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Kureshi: radical

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Indian filmmaker

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Stephen Freares: also radical

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English playwright

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Omar is punishing Johnny for his … his revenge is by .. at him, … him around

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racism; yelling; ordering

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the film has an … plot

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episodic

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no soppy

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sentimentalism

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even though Omar and Johnny love each other, there is a lot of … between them

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conflict

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Omar’s marriage proposal is entirely

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cynical

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Omar is not a … protagonist. The racist English boy, Johnny, turns out to be more likeable, because he is more ..

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likeable; lost

Question 18

Pakistanis turn out to be equally …: when they kick out a Jamaican guy (…) –> implosion of …

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racist; Rastafarian; Black Britain

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uncle uses … to throw the Jamaican out, and there’s a mural with a … and the … in the guy’s apartment

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Johnny; sickle; black panther salute

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Black Britain: profound ..
shortage of labor, and English people invited … and … immigrants to come to England and work there
In 70s, there is a racist movement because they couldn’t … the … people
- Anti-racist plot: radical .. movement, identified as ..
- … riots

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anti-racism; West Indian; Pakistani; assimilate; “brown”; anti-racist leftist; blacks; anti-race

Question 21

black britain starts breaking out, and this film is about the … of that. it is also showing how Asian businessmen colluded with … (ronald reagan’s friend, …)
pakistani businessman willing to make out alliance with … to throw out the … –> showing South Asian racism against Blacks
This moment in the film is symbolic of destruction of … Even Johnny understands that there’s something wrong about this. He says that there’s no … among the Pakistanis.
… in this movie: even immigrants who are discriminated against can be ..

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collapse; Margaret Thatcher; neoliberal-capitalism; skinhead; Black Rastafarian; Black Britain; solidarity; self-critique; discriminatory

Question 22

Paki is a … term, which Johnny uses …

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racist; ironically

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racism means discriminating against other groups when you have more … than them (this is why there’s no racism against whites, bc of the power dynamic)
racism is when dislike has … impact due to …

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power; structural; power difference

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part of why Omar proposes is because he wants

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his uncle’s money

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Tonya runs away because she knows that her father is ... her, by giving her to Omar to keep the money ..., and he would be able to manage ... and the ...

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disposing; in the family; her; money

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Tonya runs away because of her father's ... and ... she is the classic immigrant child who is being subjected to ..., while she is surrounded by ... idea that she should live in a different culture but not ... --> Tonya represents this dilemma

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hypocrisy; inequality; cultural normative; hypocrisy; become of that culture

Question 27

complexity in ... experience that the movie tries to depict. the movie does not ... it. --> complex ..., goes to the edge on everything

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immigrant; romanticize; morality

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ideas that man can fall in love and still be a ... to him, that those who receive racism can ..., etc.

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jerk; hand it out

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Omar in England bc his father was a ... who was a ... that went to England and was friends with the ... --> They come from a family of ... Father is now alcoholic bc government in England ... and leftists were ..

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journalist; leftist Pakistani; prime minister; privilege; changed; pushed out

Question 30

movie has many ..., and the main plot is the ...

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subplots; romance

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subplots include: ..., ..., shift toward ..., ...

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immigrants; queerness; right; neoliberal-capitalism

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romcom is filmic version of ... My Beautiful Laundrette ... the marriage plot by making it .. accomplishes this through the ... and the ...

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marriage plot; deconstructs; antiheteronormative; immigrant conflict; queerness

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heteronormative: ... is the norm, causes surprise when things deviate

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heterosexuality

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the movie deconstructs ... as well | it also acts as a ... film through Tonya

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parent's marriage; feminist

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Johnny is ../..., doesn't have the same ... s Omar does

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lonely; alienated; family structure as

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film trying to take apart the concept of ... --> Omar is very much ..., but he comes from a ... background

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culture; English; Pakistani

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a man would not lose his social standing/respectability if he has a .., whereas a woman does. This is why Nasser gets away with it

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mistress

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an individual is not an authority of their ..., because they mostly learn about it from ..., and different sets have different ... on their culture

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culture; parents; views

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culture is a system of ..., in which most things are ... --> often ... and ..., despite the ... that are present

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contestation; argued over; redefined; changed; parameters

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for nasser to have a white woman as a mistress is a

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status thing

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nasser's wife is presented as .., indicating that she has no real ... but she is not completely ..., because she ... and exacts ... movie showing a certain hypocrisy --> shifts into something ..., in that the wife's concoction actually works

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mute; authority; powerless; breaks up the affair; revenge; surreal

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Nasser's daughter (tonya) calls him on his

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hypocrisy

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rachel claims that tonya is feeding off her father's money too, but this is unfair because tonya is very ... and is living in a situation in which she is supposed to be obedient. tonya is more ... than she is accused of being because she ... to make it on her own

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young; principled; runs away

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what tonya does is she blames rachel, when she should be blaming ... Emphasizing how the movie is ... in its relationships movie has complex portrayal of ...

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her father; complex; immigrant family

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plot is ...: goes in and out of certain situations

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picaresque

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beginning of film is intentionally ..., and the film itself is ...

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disorienting; episodic

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question of ... is important in this movie: ... of film is being accessed to represent specific ideas

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conventions; history

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plot seems disorienting because of the kind of ... thing going on and the fact that it is a ... romance

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love triangle thing; homosexual

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Hollywood films now are ... in terms of how queer, and all, stories are represented, how the ... is used, etc. This movie is not a mainstream film because it defies these conventions with the ..., etc.

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conservative; camera; jumpy shots

Question 50

In paradise lost, ... becomes important, in pride and prejudice this idea is made into a ... (made into something ...)

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companionate marriage; storyline; novelistic

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Paradise Lost is presenting one of the earlier attempts to imagine .., which comes out of Protestant notion that even ... should get married, that marriage is not only for .., it's also for ..., ..., and ...

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companionate marriage; priests; procreation; love; friendship; companionship

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pride and prejudice shows how the novel as a form, as a genre, takes on the idea of ..., and makes it part of the ..., which gives you the ... in which the novel moves towards .. as a ...

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companionate marriage; storyline; marriage plot; marriage; resolution

Question 53

My Beautiful Laundrette still has ..., but is deconstructing the conventions of a ... and of a ... It does so by changing ... expectations, among other things, subverts .. convention of marriage plot ... lens frames the way we view the movie deconstruction of marriage plot occurs through deconstruction of ...

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a marriage plot; romantic comedy; marriage plot; gender; heteronormative; heteronormative; romantic comedy