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,
In a world where technology has taken over, being different is a thing of the past. Titus is attracted to Violet from the very beginning simply because she is different. After Violet’s feed is hacked and she starts to malfunction, Titus begins to feel real emotions, something he hasn’t felt before. Whenever he feels these emotions, his feed tries everything in its power to put an end them, almost knowing that Titus is thinking on his own. Titus doesn’t know how to handle not just the mixture of the real emotions he feels from Violet and what the feed wants him to feel, but the fact that he’s feeling those emotions about her. Day by day, as Violets health rapidly declines, Titus begins to get angry at the fact that she’s acting so much different
The movie “Wit” is a great educational tool for healthcare professionals in terms of dealing with terminally ill patients. It teaches that nurses and medical professionals should always remember that their patients are not a case nor illness nor experiment but rather human beings with souls and pains. Palliative care is one of the most disputed issues of worldwide importance. While bureaucrats in different countries are making laws on the use of palliative drugs, patients with excruciating pains learn how to “take deep breaths and be strong” (Nichols & Brokaw, 2001). That is what nurse Susie Monahan from “Wit” advises her dying patient Vivian Bearing suffering from unbearable pains due to stage IV ovarian cancer after eight painful rounds
"I don't need back-ups. I'm going to Harvard." With this line Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) begin begins her journey to Harvard law in the iconic movie Legally Blonde. This movie follows Elle's progression from sorority girl to Harvard law graduate. After her future is shaken by an unexpected breakup she decides the best way to get her love back is to head to Harvard after him. However, through some unexpected turns, hard work, and hard lessons, she comes out stronger and more accomplished that she could have ever expected. This fun loving movie has many things to offer including a title that clues the audience in on the theme, a well picked lead actress, and a good message.
The movie, Requiem for a Dream (Selby & Mansell, 2000) exposes the multiple faces of addiction. Addiction can change a person’s identity and therefore, impacts each person differently. This movie explores the life of four addicts who push the boundaries of their own lives leaving the viewer to wonder, how far will they go to use drugs? The focus of this paper is on what addiction looks like for the character, Harry Goldfarb.
-What is the purpose of her character? So that women of the forties could empathize with her situation more
In the movie boys of St. Vincent’s it shows how One of the biggest reason why child and adolescent victims may be reluctant to cooperate with the criminal justice system is that they are afraid of what their attacker may do to them if they report the attack, in the movie Brother Peter Lavin frightened the kids telling them that if they say something to the police they would end up in the street. Also when 10 year old Kevin Reevey say to brother Lavin that his not his mother brother Lavin “punish” him by beaten him, so we can assume that Kevin is terrified to say something against Brother Lavin because he is afraid of all the physical abuse he may receive thinking that if he speaks against brother Lavin the punishment is going to be even
These types of feminists in the 1980s broke many barriers to be represented for their intelligence and not their appearance or status. The other stereotype that contradicts the opposing feminist, is the woman that betrays her feminist ideals in order to climb the business mountain which is embodied by the Kathrine Parker character. By using her femininity and gender to advance, then eventually cheating over her fellow female worker, reveals the character’s inconsistency. For example, Kathrine Parker flirted with a businessman to get what she wanted at a business meeting in the “Dim Sum Scene,” by using her womanly aspects to get what she wanted. Resulting in turning into the problem: oppressive powerful business employe, by disrespecting, disregarding, and robbing ideas from other employees, some of the problems women faced in the early stages of their career.
Theorist Vsevolod Pudovkin claims that narrative films are mainly a “product of construction” and cautious compilations of “selections of images that have been shot” (Renée).
Life is a rollercoaster filled with ups and downs. Left turns, right turns, and sometimes completely upside down loop de loops. The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a story about a colored woman named Celie who writes letters to God while living through extreme oppression and abuse. Celie eventually overcomes her oppressors by finding her purpose in life through friendship, love, hope, and change in faith. Discovering hope, love, and faith leads to a fulfilling life through difficult times.
Other changes occur within the world of the play to foreshadow events that are to come within the characters’ lives, such as the sky changing to the color red. This is similar to the New Testament, where the sky turns red to represent times of transformation and the upcoming apocalypse (Matthew 16:2-3, Acts 2:20). The sky first changes when the carpenters are making fun of Pontius’ deformities, and again after the Visiting Friar deflects Mary 2 when she questions whether homosexuality is right or wrong (14, 28). The sky also turns red after the Village Idiot inserts the name of Jack into the passion story, and she later on turns the sky red herself after being tied to a tree by the Director for disrupting rehearsal (22, 48). The sky also becomes red when Mary 1 and Mary 2 kiss, and later on
A trope states different categories of figures of speech e.g. similes and puns. They used to describe and analyze a convention that can easily be understood and recognized as its common applied. Popular cultures are the images, perspectives and ideas that are within a given culture and is directing a certain mass. Final girl, a horror movie is among those movies that have many tropes in them. This movie is about a certain woman who becomes the last in line to ever confront the killer. She becomes the only person to ever narrate the story. This all happens after all her friends were killed by the killer holding her. The killer won’t let her go as he is holding a knife to finish what he had started. Hence, the essay below analyses tropes in pop cultures in the movie, the final girl.
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“Legally Blonde” is a wonderful musical because the colorful scenes gives audience a visual enjoyment, and the beautiful music gives them a fresh acoustic experience. “Legally Blonde” is presented by Performance Riverside and RCC Fine & Performing Arts. It is directed and choreographed by Roger Castellano, and the musical director is Dennis Castellano. I went to watch this great show, which was performed at RCC’s Landis Performing Arts Center, on September 27,2014 at 2 p.m. I would like to comment on this musical in three ways: the plot, the design, and the acting.
The motion picture ‘Precious’ gives us a powerful experience, mainly because the story line has a thin hopefulness in the dark-clouded life of Precious, Precious is resilient, even though her tragic life influences her personality greatly.
The film “The Prestige” is one of many masterful Nolan films that walks the line between being a meta film about the film industry, and being focused on immersing the audience in the actual content of the film. At a close inspection, comparisons to the film industry can be seen, but they are not so obvious to distract the audience from the central conflicts that are at the forefront of the film. The subject of the film could most easily be defined as surrounding the topics of obsession or fame. More specifically, the obsession of fame, and the illusion of happiness that fame projects. The main characters of the movie both urn for the fame of being the world’s most successful entertainer, even if for different reasons.