Hairspray is a 2007 film of the musical romantic comedy genre. The movie is based on the 2002 Broadway musical of a similar name, which was in turn, based on the 1988 comedy film of John Water (Bradshaw).

On the other hand, How She Move is a 2007 film is a drama genre and movie displays the street culture of step dancing. Hairspray is a 2007 movie is all about a young girl, Tracy Turnblad, who is obsessed with a local teen dance television show known as the Corny Collins show.  The youths who participate in show dance are in the same high school as Tracy.  They include Link Larkin and her girlfriend, Amber von Tussle. All the dancers on the show are whites except Amber who is African American. Amber’s mother is the show managers and only allows Africans to dance in the show during Negro’s day(Bradshaw).  Tracy attends an audition to be selected as one of the dancers on the show; however, the manager rejects her because she is overweight. The effort to become a dancer land her in troubles, and she is detained for skipping school. It does not kill her spirit. She soldiers on to learn the moves and ultimately becomes one of the favorite dancers on the show featuring all the time.

On the other hand, How She Move is 2007   is also about a young African lady, Raya who drop out of school due to financial constraints. She learned of a step dancing competition, with a lucrative of fifty thousand dollars as the grand prize for the winner, Rayanna decides to give it a try(Naish 106).  Amidst all the challenges, she ultimately achieves her dreams to become one of the best step dancers.  Both the two movies are about dancing competition with the stars being young African girls.

How She Move, reveal some of the absolute truths without in any way being heavy-handed about immigrant struggles, poverty, crime, punishment, and race. Instead, the audience deduces these pervasive currents from how the film twists the characters out of shape(Rabin).  The central theme of Hairspray is racial segregation. The film setting is in Baltimore, 1962, a time in which racism was at its peak. The movie was also written in the 1980s, another period in which racial discrimination was widespread and the Broadway music started in the late 1990s as well as premiering in the year 2002 both times were marked with rampant racism (Naish 125). At the start of the show, Africans were not allowed to always feature in the show except during Negro’s day. However, at the end of the show, African American were ultimately allowed to feature in Corny Collins Show always just like their white counterparts.

There is also discrimination against the body physique, “skinny” vs. “big.”  Tracy, Motormouth, and Edna are big while the other female dancers are skinny.   Tracy is rejected at first because she is overweight. She is implying the existing stereotype against obese people.  Link and Tracy, and Seaweed and Penny get involved in teenage sexual affairs (Rabin). Link and Tracy should not be together since Tracy is a huge girl and not the classic thin that Amber is. Seaweed and Penny should not be together since Seaweed is of color and Penny is white. The film portrays racial discrimination.

The two movies work towards desegregation often manifested in TV shows. The entire cast in both shows become part of desegregation movement, some against it and some for it. Both the movies achieve desegregation since the movie antagonists achieve their dreams and defeat all the society odds.

Both the movies also break the various stereotype within the society. Tracy in Hairspraymovie breaks the body image stereotype since she is the hugest girl in television something which is unusualwhile Raya in How She Move film breaks the gender stereotype by being in the male dancing troop which is strange.

Work Cited

Bradshaw, Peter. “Hairspray.” The Guardian, The Guardian, 22 Feb. 2018, www.theguardian.com/film/2007/jul/20/musical.comedy. Accessed 12 Feb. 2019.

Naish, Stephen L. U.ESS.AY: Politics and Humanity in American Film. 4th ed., John Hunt Publishing, 2014.

Rabin, Nathan. “How She Move.” Film, AVCLUB, 24 Jan. 2008, film.avclub.com/how-she-move-1798203688. Accessed 12 Jan. 2019.

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