Wisal
Silva
1/12/22
Prof. Britos
While viewing Magnum P.I Don't Eat the Snow In Hawai'i I felt a sense of nostalgia, I say I felt this way because through the trends at the time and how everything was from the scenery and the bar/club and even how communication was at the time with the type of phones they were using at the time. It's safe to say that things back then are not the way they are now, what I mean by this is that the main focus of the show was the substance of cocaine and how it was smuggled and dealt with from country to country and state to state just through word of mouth. Looking outside the show through a cultural aspect, this was a time where cocaine was at its birth some would say and its major boom was happening and so was the supply and demand of it was at an all time high with people wanting to pay top dollar for it. The well known drug dealer Pablo Escobar was known in this era as well being that he found anyway possible to deal these drugs (mainly cocaine) into the U.S by way of hiding it into things like secret pockets in jackets, inside of car parts, boxes of home appliances, and even faking women to be pregnant and managing to hide the cocaine packets in the shirts of these women giving the illusion that they are pregnant so the TSA or airport security at the time wouldn't thoroughly check them. Cocaine was the talk of the streets but it was causing a lot of legal trouble for the police because it was like the Corona virus where it was getting everywhere rapidly and nobody knew exactly where or what the source was. Being that cocaine was such a big deal to me it was kind of funny that a show like Magnum P.I picked up on this and made a whole episode about it. Outside of the issue of cocaine you could see that racially there was no local Hawaiian people at all in the Navy or Military and from what I remember I didn't see any local people in the scenes of the club either which to me was weird being that the show is being recorded in Hawai'i and not a single local was spotted or noticed anywhere which I felt like scenery and cultural wise I felt was not so authentic, but then again I wasn't alive at the time to know how Hawai'i was being perceived to people worldwide. In this day and age leaving out cultures of the area and its people would feel wrong in looking at any film or media because culture is ideally part of the understanding of the area being shown. My final thoughts on Magnum P.I is that it was very interesting to see the major differences from a major show back then and the 80's to what we would see in shows now today in 2022.
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