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Clint Eastwood’s Character Walt Kowalski play an important role in the community and society in the film “Gran Torino”(2008). This drama American film talk about the story happened on Walt Kowalski. He was a veteran of the Korean War who had recently lost his wife. He was estranged from his family and angry with the world. Walt's young neighbor, Thao was forced by his cousin to steal Walt's 1972 Ford Gran Torino because he started a gang. Walt defeated the theft with his gun, and then established a great relationship with the boy and his family. Another film directed by Spike Lee called “Do the right thing”(1989), this film talk about a restaurant owner Sal growing in the black community with his two sons. They have great relationship with each other until Sal broke the Rahhem radio. This is the beginning of the war between white and black. Both film have discuss the sympathetic racist in the character. Dan Flory in his article states “ make the experience of racism more easier to understand for the white audience”(68). Flory’s theory makes me think both character Sal and Walt are sympathetic racist.

Flory theory mainly talk about how the sympathetic racist offer to the character. In his article “Spike Lee and the Racist”, Dan Flory defines the “sympathetic racist” as “characters with whom mainstream audiences readily ally themselves but who embrace racist beliefs and commit racist acts” (Flory 68). He argues Lee’s character Sal in the film “Do the right thing”,