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This document discusses stereotypes of foreign hockey players portrayed in American movies and how they can negatively impact perceptions. It provides several examples from movies where foreign players are depicted as "enforcers", "instigators", or "partiers" who are violent, get in trouble, and party excessively. However, the document argues that these stereotypes do not capture the true character of hockey players or the hard work and sacrifice it takes to have a successful career. The goal is to show that hockey players are just regular people and not defined by these stereotypical portrayals.

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By: Jason DeLong Class: IAH 207 730 Curation Project
Curators Statement This slideshow is to inform and protect the true vision of foreign hockey players in American movies and the character and identity of the people who played characters in these movies.To defend and protect the actual foreign hockey players playing, who have played or who will play Hockey in the USA. Hockey players face discrimination in their character as they are portrayed as athletic machines, enforcers, instigators, partiers, and jocks. Society treats foreign hockey players with dehumanizing views based on what they see in American Film andTelevision. My goal with this slideshow, is to show that hockey players are people too.They are hard working men who have dedicated their lives to a game that treats them well compensation wise, but sacrifice relationships with their families and friends.They may not to get to see their families very often due to the strenuous workout schedules, game schedules and traveling schedules they are on. Facing the challenges of being away from their families most of the time in a foreign country, they go through a lot. Film depicts these athletes as cowards, sex hungry animals, pill popping partiers, and angry fighters. Through each of these examples, I hope to explain how the film expresses these characters in an inhuman way, what stereotypes the hockey network is facing due to these movies and societies stake in viewership, and what the actual pretenses and characters are of these players and their backstory. By identifying and labeling foreign hockey players with stereotypical names, it dehumanizes them and characterizes them into negative categories. Though film, these negative categories hurt their image by labeling them what they are not. Not showing the true people who are wearing these jerseys and the struggle they have gone through to get to where they are today. Hard work makes you look talented as talent isn't something you are born with.The reason they are successful is because they put in the hard work most of the world wouldn'tt even think about, to achieve success. You get out what you put in, and this expression holds true to the foreign hockey players determent to success and forthcoming struggles they face as film portrays them in negative manor.
Background I have always been a fan of Hockey, since my first NHL game, to skating with my dad when I was little, to watching hockey every night. Hockey has always enticed me. Studying tropes, identities, and stereotypes in IAH 207 this semester, I have really realized the identity Foreign Hockey Players make for themselves or are portrayed on television and throughoutAmerican movies. Though these stereotypes and falsities that appear onTV and American Film always depict themes that aren't necessarily true; producers, announcers, and the generalized perception of Foreign hockey players is apparent.
The Enforcer Picture from The Goon https://www.google.com/search?q=the+goon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI8e3Q0f_SAhVr4oMKHToPBo8Q _AUICCgB&biw=1018&bih=568#tbm=isch&q=the+goon+hockey&*&imgrc=NHCXCsz8oBfOkM:
In the movie, the Goon, Doug Glatt, the main character is known for his athletic ability. His athletic ability which isnt skating or shooting the puck, But its sticking up for his team mates.Throughout the movie he rises to be a fan favorite because he is a fighter, or the enforcer as some hockey announcers call the grunt of the team.This movie depicts how foreign hockey players are forced to not be on the team for their hockey skills, but for their ability to defend their teammates and be used. Throughout the movie, Doug doesn'tt like what he has become. A tailored fighting machine with a reputation for winning fights. But he and his family aren't proud of the fact that he is just a fighter. His family knows he is not the smartest person in the world and they are angered at the fact that the team is taking advantage of him. Film makers portray Doug as the bad guy to the town, to the other teams in the league, and to his family. But deep down he is a sweet, gentle and caring person who doesn'tt want to fight but does it because he is told to do so.This shows how foreign players are forced to play a game they dont want to play. Doug loves hockey and loves playing the game, but is forced to be the enforcer of the team. The stereotype of the enforcer paired with Dougs gentle nature offers the viewer a very complex viewpoint on foreign hockey players in film.
The Instigator Picture fromThe Mighty Ducks and of Zdeno Chara https://lowdownblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/mighty-ducks-fulton-reed-zdeno-chara.jpg
A Disney classic know for a fairytale storyline with a young coach bringing together a bunch of boys from town, misfits you might say, to win a peewee hockey championship. One of the misfits from the team is a boy named Fulton Reed.The directors depict Fulton (a Canadian boy living in the inner city of Philadelphia) as a thug. A boy that grew up on the rough side of town, but has on talent that cant be missed. This portrayal continues throughout the team when he cant get along with the players. But with his wicked slap shot which could blow a hole through the net, the team comes to term and accepts him as part of the team. Before his acceptance he caused drama on the ice. As the instigator he would pick fights with his own team mates on the ice, the opponents team and was in the penalty box for more than he played. As this instigator is compared to present players, he is compared to Zdeno Chara, a known instigator in the NHL. Chara is a 6 9 tall 260lb forward who plays for the Boston Bruins. His playing style is much like Fulton's in the sense that his vocal idiocrasies on the ice get him a lot of penalty minutes (hence the Instigator nickname). Chara is a Slovak player known to not be liked by his team mates or his opponents alike. But plays a good hockey game and generates points for the team. Both of these characters/players hold their own on the ice but depict a deeper meaning of a hockey player than most think.Their powerful slap shot offers their team a great benefit to score points, but their lack luster personalities hurt their team with penalty minutes. Stereotype's that generalize the bad personality of the team are generalized as the instigators.
The Partier Picture is from the movie The Swingers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117802/
In the film,The Swingers (1996), this movie depicts a character with not a care in the world. As a star hockey player, the main character Trent(played by the famous VinceVaughn) shows the careless lifestyle of a hockey player from Sweden. His friend on the team Mike shows him around the big city of NewYork, who is also European. And together they make a mockery of their team, getting on the news and partying like animals. This film depicts the stereotype that all NHL players are partiers. Since they make the big bucks they are able to behave like animals. A young talented hockey player does drugs, drinks every night and the director shows these scenes as if its an every day thing for the players. Group outings to strip clubs, the bar scene, and throwing money around like they are billionaires. The movie depicts foreign hockey players as rich party boys abusing their power while making a lot of money without a care in the world. This lifestyle may be for some players, but this portrays a false impression of the everyday NHL player.The movie shows a fake representation to the end result of 15-20 years of hard work, dedication, and perseverance to develop their hockey game, only to throw it away on cheap hookers and alcohol. The partier lifestyle only can last so long before it catches up with someone.This movie doesn'tt depict the start or ending, just the golden time of a career. Which is very passive and not accurate to the way most athlete's woud uphold themselves to a set of standards.
Picture from The Love Guru http://www.hollywoodmoviejerseys.com/the-love-guru.html
The the movie The Love Guru, Mike Meyers, a love guru enthusiast finds himself a new client. The star of theToronto Maple Leafs NHL team. Recently divorced by his wife, the Hockey star enlists Pitka (Mike Meyers) to help him find love again because he cant play hockey without his ex-wife being his wife. His ex- wife left him for a rival hockey start who is well endowed. This story is full of stereotypes that are crude, sexual, and dehumanizing.The main storyline is of a broken man, dazed by the recent turn of events of his wife leaving him for another man. But cannot function without woman.This stereotype is very popular in hockey films as they portray foreign hockey players as womanizers and obsessive of woman. So much so, that if they dont have a woman in their life, they physically and mental cannot play hockey. Having to rely on a weird, degenerate, love guru that talks with terrible innuendoes, just to find spiritual love, really is appalling to watch. Its supposed to be funny, but explains hockey players so rash. The imagery in the movie explains very abruptly and dirty the way a hockey player thinks. These stereotypes hurt the audacity and character of thousands of foreign hockey players because immediately when they come to America to play in the NHL, they are hit with this freight train of a stereotype has hurt hockey players in the past because woman dont want to be in a relationship with an athlete.This is because they are scared they will be cheated in, womanized, and victimized by the hockey players. This movie shows that hockey players are dumb, hockey players cant make mental choices for themselves without a woman in their live, and hockey players are reliant upon other people to find love. Through and through, this video shows that hockey players get a stereotypical name of being dramatic, but realistically, hockey is one of the most brutally intense sports around and takes a physical and mental determination and strong will power to fight through three periods of hockey.This movie makes it seem that hockey players are weak minded and ignorant to the world around them
The Jock Picture is taken from the movie The Miracle https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miracle/
One of the famous hockey stories, and hockey movies of all time is the story of the USA Olympic team going to the final game and winning against a strong and fast Russian team, in the movie The Miracle. This story is portrayed mostly about the innocence of all of the USA skaters and the first coach but also talks about the Russian team full of extremely well coached, agile, and robust players. Thought not fully engaged in the story line the entire time, its in the back of the USA players heads as they train and get ready for the winter Olympics.These European, Russian, and Canadian hockey players are all portrayed in this film as Hockey players, and thats it.There characters are not discovered, they are purely Jocks. The backstory to this: Olympic hockey players aren't payed, they are fortified athletes with one goal in mind, hockey.These players are portrayed in this film as machines, destined to win.They aren't portrayed as humans, they are shown to be used for one purpose and one purpose only. HOCKEY.The film suggests these foreign skaters and dehumanized robots, bred to play hockey and the USA would have no change against these Jocks. The stereotype fails to mention that these foreign players are people too.They aren't just jocks, or athletes.They have families that want to spend time with them, and have heart ache being away from them.This movie, though having a powerful message for American pride, hard work, and determination. Fails to mention that these players (all of them for that matter) are people, not just athletic jocks.
Annotated Bibliography https://lowdownblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/mighty-ducks-fulton- reed-zdeno-chara.jpg http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117802 http://www.hollywoodmoviejerseys.com/the-love-guru.html https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miracle/ https://www.google.com/search?q=the+goon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa= X&ved=0ahUKEwjI8e3Q0f_SAhVr4oMKHToPBo8Q_AUICCgB&biw=1018&b ih=568#tbm=isch&q=the+goon+hockey&*&imgrc=NHCXCsz8oBfOkM:

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Curation project draft: Jason DeLong

  • 1. By: Jason DeLong Class: IAH 207 730 Curation Project
  • 2. Curators Statement This slideshow is to inform and protect the true vision of foreign hockey players in American movies and the character and identity of the people who played characters in these movies.To defend and protect the actual foreign hockey players playing, who have played or who will play Hockey in the USA. Hockey players face discrimination in their character as they are portrayed as athletic machines, enforcers, instigators, partiers, and jocks. Society treats foreign hockey players with dehumanizing views based on what they see in American Film andTelevision. My goal with this slideshow, is to show that hockey players are people too.They are hard working men who have dedicated their lives to a game that treats them well compensation wise, but sacrifice relationships with their families and friends.They may not to get to see their families very often due to the strenuous workout schedules, game schedules and traveling schedules they are on. Facing the challenges of being away from their families most of the time in a foreign country, they go through a lot. Film depicts these athletes as cowards, sex hungry animals, pill popping partiers, and angry fighters. Through each of these examples, I hope to explain how the film expresses these characters in an inhuman way, what stereotypes the hockey network is facing due to these movies and societies stake in viewership, and what the actual pretenses and characters are of these players and their backstory. By identifying and labeling foreign hockey players with stereotypical names, it dehumanizes them and characterizes them into negative categories. Though film, these negative categories hurt their image by labeling them what they are not. Not showing the true people who are wearing these jerseys and the struggle they have gone through to get to where they are today. Hard work makes you look talented as talent isn't something you are born with.The reason they are successful is because they put in the hard work most of the world wouldn'tt even think about, to achieve success. You get out what you put in, and this expression holds true to the foreign hockey players determent to success and forthcoming struggles they face as film portrays them in negative manor.
  • 3. Background I have always been a fan of Hockey, since my first NHL game, to skating with my dad when I was little, to watching hockey every night. Hockey has always enticed me. Studying tropes, identities, and stereotypes in IAH 207 this semester, I have really realized the identity Foreign Hockey Players make for themselves or are portrayed on television and throughoutAmerican movies. Though these stereotypes and falsities that appear onTV and American Film always depict themes that aren't necessarily true; producers, announcers, and the generalized perception of Foreign hockey players is apparent.
  • 4. The Enforcer Picture from The Goon https://www.google.com/search?q=the+goon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI8e3Q0f_SAhVr4oMKHToPBo8Q _AUICCgB&biw=1018&bih=568#tbm=isch&q=the+goon+hockey&*&imgrc=NHCXCsz8oBfOkM:
  • 5. In the movie, the Goon, Doug Glatt, the main character is known for his athletic ability. His athletic ability which isnt skating or shooting the puck, But its sticking up for his team mates.Throughout the movie he rises to be a fan favorite because he is a fighter, or the enforcer as some hockey announcers call the grunt of the team.This movie depicts how foreign hockey players are forced to not be on the team for their hockey skills, but for their ability to defend their teammates and be used. Throughout the movie, Doug doesn'tt like what he has become. A tailored fighting machine with a reputation for winning fights. But he and his family aren't proud of the fact that he is just a fighter. His family knows he is not the smartest person in the world and they are angered at the fact that the team is taking advantage of him. Film makers portray Doug as the bad guy to the town, to the other teams in the league, and to his family. But deep down he is a sweet, gentle and caring person who doesn'tt want to fight but does it because he is told to do so.This shows how foreign players are forced to play a game they dont want to play. Doug loves hockey and loves playing the game, but is forced to be the enforcer of the team. The stereotype of the enforcer paired with Dougs gentle nature offers the viewer a very complex viewpoint on foreign hockey players in film.
  • 6. The Instigator Picture fromThe Mighty Ducks and of Zdeno Chara https://lowdownblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/mighty-ducks-fulton-reed-zdeno-chara.jpg
  • 7. A Disney classic know for a fairytale storyline with a young coach bringing together a bunch of boys from town, misfits you might say, to win a peewee hockey championship. One of the misfits from the team is a boy named Fulton Reed.The directors depict Fulton (a Canadian boy living in the inner city of Philadelphia) as a thug. A boy that grew up on the rough side of town, but has on talent that cant be missed. This portrayal continues throughout the team when he cant get along with the players. But with his wicked slap shot which could blow a hole through the net, the team comes to term and accepts him as part of the team. Before his acceptance he caused drama on the ice. As the instigator he would pick fights with his own team mates on the ice, the opponents team and was in the penalty box for more than he played. As this instigator is compared to present players, he is compared to Zdeno Chara, a known instigator in the NHL. Chara is a 6 9 tall 260lb forward who plays for the Boston Bruins. His playing style is much like Fulton's in the sense that his vocal idiocrasies on the ice get him a lot of penalty minutes (hence the Instigator nickname). Chara is a Slovak player known to not be liked by his team mates or his opponents alike. But plays a good hockey game and generates points for the team. Both of these characters/players hold their own on the ice but depict a deeper meaning of a hockey player than most think.Their powerful slap shot offers their team a great benefit to score points, but their lack luster personalities hurt their team with penalty minutes. Stereotype's that generalize the bad personality of the team are generalized as the instigators.
  • 8. The Partier Picture is from the movie The Swingers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117802/
  • 9. In the film,The Swingers (1996), this movie depicts a character with not a care in the world. As a star hockey player, the main character Trent(played by the famous VinceVaughn) shows the careless lifestyle of a hockey player from Sweden. His friend on the team Mike shows him around the big city of NewYork, who is also European. And together they make a mockery of their team, getting on the news and partying like animals. This film depicts the stereotype that all NHL players are partiers. Since they make the big bucks they are able to behave like animals. A young talented hockey player does drugs, drinks every night and the director shows these scenes as if its an every day thing for the players. Group outings to strip clubs, the bar scene, and throwing money around like they are billionaires. The movie depicts foreign hockey players as rich party boys abusing their power while making a lot of money without a care in the world. This lifestyle may be for some players, but this portrays a false impression of the everyday NHL player.The movie shows a fake representation to the end result of 15-20 years of hard work, dedication, and perseverance to develop their hockey game, only to throw it away on cheap hookers and alcohol. The partier lifestyle only can last so long before it catches up with someone.This movie doesn'tt depict the start or ending, just the golden time of a career. Which is very passive and not accurate to the way most athlete's woud uphold themselves to a set of standards.
  • 10. Picture from The Love Guru http://www.hollywoodmoviejerseys.com/the-love-guru.html
  • 11. The the movie The Love Guru, Mike Meyers, a love guru enthusiast finds himself a new client. The star of theToronto Maple Leafs NHL team. Recently divorced by his wife, the Hockey star enlists Pitka (Mike Meyers) to help him find love again because he cant play hockey without his ex-wife being his wife. His ex- wife left him for a rival hockey start who is well endowed. This story is full of stereotypes that are crude, sexual, and dehumanizing.The main storyline is of a broken man, dazed by the recent turn of events of his wife leaving him for another man. But cannot function without woman.This stereotype is very popular in hockey films as they portray foreign hockey players as womanizers and obsessive of woman. So much so, that if they dont have a woman in their life, they physically and mental cannot play hockey. Having to rely on a weird, degenerate, love guru that talks with terrible innuendoes, just to find spiritual love, really is appalling to watch. Its supposed to be funny, but explains hockey players so rash. The imagery in the movie explains very abruptly and dirty the way a hockey player thinks. These stereotypes hurt the audacity and character of thousands of foreign hockey players because immediately when they come to America to play in the NHL, they are hit with this freight train of a stereotype has hurt hockey players in the past because woman dont want to be in a relationship with an athlete.This is because they are scared they will be cheated in, womanized, and victimized by the hockey players. This movie shows that hockey players are dumb, hockey players cant make mental choices for themselves without a woman in their live, and hockey players are reliant upon other people to find love. Through and through, this video shows that hockey players get a stereotypical name of being dramatic, but realistically, hockey is one of the most brutally intense sports around and takes a physical and mental determination and strong will power to fight through three periods of hockey.This movie makes it seem that hockey players are weak minded and ignorant to the world around them
  • 12. The Jock Picture is taken from the movie The Miracle https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miracle/
  • 13. One of the famous hockey stories, and hockey movies of all time is the story of the USA Olympic team going to the final game and winning against a strong and fast Russian team, in the movie The Miracle. This story is portrayed mostly about the innocence of all of the USA skaters and the first coach but also talks about the Russian team full of extremely well coached, agile, and robust players. Thought not fully engaged in the story line the entire time, its in the back of the USA players heads as they train and get ready for the winter Olympics.These European, Russian, and Canadian hockey players are all portrayed in this film as Hockey players, and thats it.There characters are not discovered, they are purely Jocks. The backstory to this: Olympic hockey players aren't payed, they are fortified athletes with one goal in mind, hockey.These players are portrayed in this film as machines, destined to win.They aren't portrayed as humans, they are shown to be used for one purpose and one purpose only. HOCKEY.The film suggests these foreign skaters and dehumanized robots, bred to play hockey and the USA would have no change against these Jocks. The stereotype fails to mention that these foreign players are people too.They aren't just jocks, or athletes.They have families that want to spend time with them, and have heart ache being away from them.This movie, though having a powerful message for American pride, hard work, and determination. Fails to mention that these players (all of them for that matter) are people, not just athletic jocks.
  • 14. Annotated Bibliography https://lowdownblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/mighty-ducks-fulton- reed-zdeno-chara.jpg http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117802 http://www.hollywoodmoviejerseys.com/the-love-guru.html https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miracle/ https://www.google.com/search?q=the+goon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa= X&ved=0ahUKEwjI8e3Q0f_SAhVr4oMKHToPBo8Q_AUICCgB&biw=1018&b ih=568#tbm=isch&q=the+goon+hockey&*&imgrc=NHCXCsz8oBfOkM: