American History X :: Movies Film

In the opening scene, we see Danny Vinyard, a young etiolated supremacist, sitting in the principals office, waiting to be summ angiotensin converting enzymed. As we move into the office, we hear and see Dannys history teacher (Elliot Gould) explaining to the principal, Dr. Sweeney (Avery Brooks), that Danny wrote a allow report on Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf. The teacher tells Dr. Sweeney that he is offended by Dannys app arnt movement and he wants to see him punished, declaring that Danny was pressured into musical composition the paper by his older pal Derek, although Sweeney assures him that Derek was not involved. Instead, Sweeney asks the teacher to confide and asks Danny to step in.Danny then puts an American personal identification number toothpick in mouth, Danny steps into the office and sits down. Dr. Sweeney begins yelling at Danny, telling him that writing what he did is offensive. Sweeney tells him that he is now his new history teacher. The class is called American History X and the next assignment is due tomorrow break of the day a paper on his brother, Derek (Edward Norton), analyzing all the events leading up to Dereks enslavement and the subsequent impact on Dannys life. After this, Danny walks out. The next scene opens with tercet black boys beating up a unobjectionable boy in the mens bathroom for telling the teacher that one of them cheated. Suddenly, Danny appears out of one of the stalls and blows the smoke from his cigarette into one of the boys face. As the black boys leave angry, Danny helps the white kid from the ground and tells him that he needs to learn to turn out up for himself. Soon we see Danny walking home from school through and through a park where some black boys are playing basketball. maven of the players is the boy from earlier in the bathroom. Dannys voice begins to narrate the scene. Danny says, Before Derek went to jail, the white kids didnt have to be afraid of the black kids. Derek made it safe. 1The next scenes are flashbacks explaining Dereks journey from a suburban white teenager to a vengeance-seeking white supremacist. Derek had already been influenced by his fathers critical views on African American gloss and affirmative action (which his father refers to it as affirmative black-tion), and also how he doesnt trust two African-Americans on his squad who scored lower on a hiring test than two whites. He believes they were hired as a go of affirmative action in order to meet racial quotas.