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I decided to commentate on the film 'Save The Last Dance'. The film is primarily a romantic drama, lying on the theme of racism. The two protagonists, Sara and Derek, share a love for dance, which leads to romance. However Sara, a small - town white girl finds herself in a predominantly black neighbourhood after her mother dies. The three extracts I have taken from the film demonstrate how Black English, otherwise known as patois shown among friends in informal situations. The extracts illustrate how it can diverge upwards towards more ordinary English when speaking with white people. I also intend to show the essential characteristics of spoken language, and how one can see that this is scripted and not 'spontaneous speech'. The extracts all show informal speech between the characters such as 'yeah', 'doesn't' (extract 1), 'why you sweatin' me' (extract 3) I presume as the film aims for an audience from...

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