This is also the plot of Saving Private Ryan (admittedly Spielberg cut his teeth in the 80s). White Anglo captain dies to “redeem“ the others, is replaced at the end by the other Anglo. The Irishman (Ryan) and the German ”earn” their place in society.
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“Cut his teeth”??
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If you think about the way The Karate Kid ends, w/ Lawrence accepting LaRusso, it’s a retrospective acceptance by WASPs of white ethnics & their reluctant approval of their presence in the Reagan coalition. Avildsen’s previous films are also important for context: Joe, & Rocky.
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Quiz Show (1994) excellently narrates a key moment when WASPs lost control of American literary and cultural studies to the "ethnics."
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