This essay will talk about the depiction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the film Munich and how the film used common stereotypes to exaggerate the character's role in the story, and how this affects people's perception in common culture. I will do this by analyzing the plot and the techniques used to present and form the characters on screen. Representation which is the description or representation of someone or something in a particular way means to depict or show an image of something that already exists for example news, when used by the mass media it creates stereotypes about people and countries, re- the presentation gives a meaning to the things depicted. Because the things that are depicted are pictures of what the thing, story or person really is, because it can never be 100% accurate, because it is not the real thing, it is simply the way the writer or journalist he sees the event, and you're seeing things from his perspective (Stuart Hall in his video lecture "Representation & the Media"). Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay A certain group of people can be represented by the media using written, filmed or other means, for example immigrants and immigration are topics that are very controversial, which means that these topics are represented by people who are biased for the own gain and the true meaning is unclear which means no one can see the full picture, but most people still have an opinion depending on where they get the representation. “There is no such thing as immediate access to reality” (dyer 1993), which means that you as a spectator or reader will never see the whole picture, even if you were on the scene you will see nothing but your own interpretation of the event. Cinema is a very traditional way of imposing stereotypes and points of view on the audience, so cinema in some way shapes the way we treat and think about individuals and cultures even if we have not been directly exposed to them, for example, the way we see the world. The events of Operation Wrath Of God are seen from the perspective of the Mossad agent and the killings against them are fully justified as they are killing enemies of Israel and terrorists, the PLO members who kidnapped and killed 11 athletes Israelis, but if we see it from Another point of view, the PLO members needed and deserved a fair trial under international law, but in the film this was not suggested or proposed, or even mentioned, which would suggest to the public that their actions were fully justified, to understand this better we must It is necessary to understand coding and decoding. Encoding and decoding were first developed by cultural studies scholar Stuart Hall in 1973 and provide an approach to how media messages are created, received, and interpreted. It states that the audience is presented with messages to decode and digest depending on the individual's culture and personal experience, unlike other theories that disempower the audience, it states that the audience can have an interactive role in decoding the message, depending on the person and people might interpret a message differently from others and the audience can come together to change a message, decoding it is basically understanding the message that someone already knows. To someone who knows nothing about the history of the conflict or the culture, this would paint the Palestinians in a bad light. Even though they are killers, Mossad agentswho carry out the targeted revenge killings of Palestinians in Munich are all presented as human beings and caring about people. The only personality conflicts that emerge is when one of them begins to question the morality of his revenge killings, and even when such issues appear, the character with moral conflicts is quickly killed off. The next message seems to be that questioning the morality of such acts can only end in death. Furthermore, the effort to avoid civilian casualties. At one point, one of the Mossad agents declares that "it's strange to think of yourself as a killer." None of these scruples are mentioned by the film's Palestinian characters, for whom the morality of killing is natural and never questioned. News outlets are supposed to be honest, but most of the time they have a hidden agenda to provoke the reader's emotions towards one side of the debate, the audience may not know they are being manipulated, the words the writer uses to describe they are profoundly important and can swing the reader's opinion to the left or right, one of the most controversial topics of which we can see an example in articles on immigration, some arouse sympathy for others as the Sun newspaper describes them as swarms of insects. The portrayal of Palestinians in Munich is an example of how stereotypes can influence how people view a group, Palestinians are mostly portrayed as religious fundamentalists, what this essay suggests is that media generalization deprives culture of what makes it unique. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has often been at the center of films produced in the West, which try to explain the crux of the problem. Claims for a truthful representation of reality have traditionally been linked to a parallel assumption of cultural authority over Palestinians who, unlike Israelis, until recently had little access to cinematic means of representation. Through a series of films, produced by both Palestinians and non-Palestinians. Monaco and other Palestinians to the point that any productive message is lost in the orientalist representations it contains. for almost thirty minutes the words "Palestine" or "Palestinians" are not uttered by any of the film's main characters. Prior to this mention, Palestinians are referred to as “Arabs,” “fedayeen,” “Arab terrorists,” and “people like these.” The existence of the Palestinians appears in the film for a few minutes, when Black September member Golda Meier describes the Palestinians as follows: "The people want to destroy us... Forget peace for now... We have laws, we represent civilization.. .I don't know where they come from' Munich spectator uses context to understand the Palestinian cause, Black September's motivations for engaging in terrorism, and who the Palestinians really are. Instead, we are presented with a clear example, that is, evil and, in Meier's words, "unrecognizable", while Israel represents Western civilization. In one of the scenes the main character Avner, the Mossad agent, is presented as a sexual being, a lover with a lot to lose. in the form of wife and unborn child. Avner is loving, affectionate. Meanwhile, the only representations of Palestinians we find in Munich are hysterical women crying because the "Arab terrorists" of Black September are dead. The Mossad agent is then presented as a lover and family man pitted against nameless, faceless terrorists, whose families only appear in a very limited sequence in the film. When Palestinian families are shown, they speak Arabic, but they are often not providedsubtitles, altering the Arab characters and making them even more "unrecognizable" and disconnected from the viewer. This film is inspired by real events and the operation was an Israeli mission, the film was made from the Israeli point of view so it is necessary to show how the Israelis responded and their judgement, the Palestinians were treated as antagonists in this film for the first time when they were shown celebrating when they heard about the massacre from the news, which in itself, and to someone who doesn't know the history of the conflict, may seem as if the Palestinians were celebrating a murder and when Avner has a conversation heartfelt with PLO member Ali about their homeland and that she deserves to rule those lands, Ali was justifying the acts committed by the Palestinians and the main character's response shows the audience both sides of the coin but still portrays the Palestinians in a bad light because this it is not the view of all Palestinians, as they think they are freedom fighters, but the film shows them more as militant fundamentalists and paints all Palestinians with the same brush. At various points in the film, parts of the orientalist perception of the history of Israel and Palestine also emerge. Revenge killings are framed in terms of Israel's apparent weakness because it is only "a small country." The Palestinian connection to their land is rendered inauthentic or false when a Palestinian character is told that they should leave Palestine and settle elsewhere because "they are Arabs, there are many places for Arabs." This perspective essentializes all Arab cultures into one, painting them as a mass of people of the same culture who are no different from anyone who speaks Arabic, thus robbing them of their individuality and identity as Palestinians, which has usually been a method of othering peoples of the Middle East throughout Western orientalist history. a culture might have several groups of Arabs" is a cultural and linguistic term. It refers to those who speak Arabic as their first language. Arabs are not a race. Most Arabs are Muslims, but there are also millions of Arabs Christians and thousands of Arab Jews . there are 22 countries you can't paint all these people with one brush. When Avner truly questions his commitment to the Mossad, he is constantly reassured by the other characters regarding the righteousness of his actions, among the other justifications, Avner is explicitly told that "if these guys survive, the Israelis die... you know it's true" and "you killed for the future, for peace". in the final scene of the film and communicates his doubts to him, he is left alone, in the background the New York City skyline fades away, we see the Twin Towers in the background (which would be destroyed decades later in the September 11 attacks) Monaco was chosen specifically for this analysis because Munich was a big-budget film by a group of internationally renowned actors and actors producers, In Munich the Palestinians are terrorists who are killed in the context of justified revenge. Munich Features Realistic Depictions of Violence and Murder Even when the killing of Palestinians is ostensibly the subject of the film or, at the very least, when the morality of the killing is questioned, Orientalism still permeates their representations at every corner. Perhaps even more damaging, as this film attempts to address the morality of Israeli killings of Palestinians, is the fact that old conventions are reinforced when Palestinian characters are transformed into Others, rendering them completely absent and removing their human identity and nature ,?