"In the Heat of the Night"

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This paper examines the themes of prejudice and discrimination in the 1967 movie, "In the Heat of the Night". It also looks at how race relations in the North and South are portrayed before discussing the realism of behavior in the film. Finally, the paper looks at how the 1967 movie compares to the later 1988 version.

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"Race relations between the north and south were strained for many years before and after the Civil War; it has only been in the last 2 decades that we have witnessed abolition of such antiquated and unfair treatment of blacks and whites in respective areas of the country.
Skin color seems to presume guilt in this movie; when it emerges that Tibbs is a homicide investigator from Philadelphia, quick and able to solve the murder of the opportunistic business owner, the protagonist subtly shifts from Gillespie to Tibbs without obvious reversion in making Gillespie an antagonist."

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