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Analysis Of The Movie ' Violet 's '

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The film is based on the lives and experiences of three women who work at a large corporate office known as Consolidated Industries. The three women are Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda), Violet Newstead (Lily Tomlin), and Doralee Rhodes (Dolly Parton). The head of the corporate offices is Franklin Hart Jr. (Dabney Coleman), and he is a chauvinistic tyrant who works everybody hard especially the women. He believes that women are inferior to men and says so to Violet when she gets passed over again for a promotion that she deserved. In the movie Violet is very gifted at her job and has had a number of brilliant ideas, which Frank simply passed off as his own. She is the supervisor of her department and is sick of being passed up by men even …show more content…

After he gets a concussion the girls think that they killed him and go to the hospital to hide the evidence by stealing his body, which turns out to be another man’s body. When they get to work the next day and find that Frank isn’t even hurt and discuss what happened last night, they are overheard by Frank’s friend Roz. When Frank tries to use this information to force Doralee to finally sleep with him she hog ties him with his phone cord and pulls a gun on him. Realizing that they are all in serious trouble now they decide to hold Frank captive in his own home until they can find enough blackmail on him to keep him quiet. While waiting for an inventory list to prove that Frank has been stealing inventory, the three women come up with many ideas about how to change the company for the better. So they draft changes for the office and forge Frank’s signature on the paper to make it legitimate. After the many changes that the girls make the office is more productive and efficient than ever before, and the employees are much happier. The changes they make include part-time work, a daycare, and allows for people to have personal items at their desks. Three days before the invoice comes from the corporate offices Frank escapes and is able to rectify all of the theft which he has done without the girls knowing he was free. Frank,

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