Controversy In Kill Bill And Legally Blonde

Today’s filmmakers have three areas to focus on: the event or theme of the film, the audience who will be watching the film, and lastly, the individual characters and the roles they play and how they are portrayed and interpreted. Many of these films bottom line objectives are to focus on the “erotic needs of the male ego.” The focus on fetishistic scopophilia tend to slant the view such that we see the world as being dominated by men and that woman are

In Hollywood film women 's roles have varied quiet considerably between genres, geographical placement, and period settings. These factors contribute to the different representations of women 's roles in the film they are present in. The roles are diverse going from the traditional maternal role to that of manipulative murderer. Women 's roles in movies can be almost equal to the male roles, and the co-stars are not given the majority of the acclaims just because they are male. Society has set certain standards that women are supposed to follow. The most common image of women is that they are very passive and try to avoid conflict in any situation. More and more in society women are breaking down the social barriers that confine them to their specific roles. The films Rear Window and Resident Evil show women in roles that are untraditional for our society. These two movies help to show how women are rebelling against social norms and that they are taking more active and aggressive roles. In film noir’s we can see women represented as the femme fatale, a woman whose mysterious and seductive charms leads men into compromising or dangerous situations. In action movies we see the heroine who is strong both physically and mentally, and has the ability to use weapons. Women seem to be more trapped than men because they are supposed to live up to society’s standards dealing with beauty and size, which are more physical characteristics. These specific guidelines have been set by

After lots of trying, she realizes it is not going to be a breeze to get him back in her grip with the fact she is in Harvard and looks alone, so she decides to hit the books to outsmart the awful fiancé. In the progress, she meets and great guy who helps her succeed and becomes one of the top students in her class. Elle also meets her a new beautician who she befriends and helps get the man of her dreams with the “bend and snap”. During the process, Elle starts to like herself for who she is, and her true self comes out. She is a bubbly, happy, girly woman who will not take no as an answer. With all her hard work, she even ends up receiving an internship, along with her ex-boyfriend and his fiancé, to work with a client. For one of the few times in her life, Elle was receiving things that she worked for, not that were given to her.

Despite the fact that there is only one woman in a starring role, a multitude of

Bridesmaids, as a full on comedy, is interesting as it is a full cast of female lead roles. As a female version of the hit ‘The Hangover’; it has a level of raunchiness that is usually only seen as acceptable when acted out by male characters. The success of this movie’s ability to overcome this stereotype (that women shouldn’t act or think like this) is hopefully opening a door to new avenues for women in lead comedic roles similarly now to ‘The Heat’, ‘Spy’, ‘Identity Thief’ ‘Tammy’ ‘Pitch Perfect’ ‘The Other Women’ ‘Gone Girl’ women using foul language, sexual references, passing wind and

Elle believes her perfect life is about to get even better when her boyfriend hints that there will be changes in their future and she assumes he's about to propose. However, she is shaken when her boyfriend breaks up with her to find a girl who will be a better fit for his political aspirations. Instead of wallowing in sorrow, Elle decides she can win him back if she can only show him her serious side by chasing after him to Harvard law. Her confidence is weakened however, as she encounters difficult professors and snobby students. Nevertheless, she persisted in her studies and because of this she is given an exclusive internship. This leads her to take on challenges she never imagined she could and demonstrates the knowledge she had all along.

Although, I do not agree with this. I feel that there are many films today in which women play the biggest roles and are the main character. For example, Julia Roberts plays a huge role in all of her movies, being a very strong, independent women. Many people may agree that all 'chick-flicks' are women film based as well. Not only 'chick-flicks' have women that play important roles though. Angelina Jolie plays in plenty action packed, adrenaline rushing movies. For examples; Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Tomb-Raider, Wanted, and Changeling are all movies Jolie has played major roles in and been successful. She represents a very strong and independent women in each role she plays in all her movies, showing that she doesn't need a man to accompany her in her films to make them better.

     In many ways today's society, even though women have come a long way, we still live in a patriarchal world. There are many examples of this in everyday life, whether it be that there aren't very many women CEO's or the mere fact that we've yet to have a woman president. No matter where you live, there is the presence of a male dominated world. It especially extends into the working fields. There are professions that are categorically 'women's' jobs like nursing, school teacher, or secretarial jobs. The rest of the professional world is mainly male dominated, i.e. engineering, CEO's of major companies, and Law Firms. Which brings us to the movie I picked to watch, Legally Blonde.

With help from her sorority sisters, this is possible, but much more difficult than she expected. Elle faces many challenges, yet finds that she is growing as a person. Elle becomes a respected student, wins an internship, and eventually defends Brooke Windham in court. By the end of the film, Elle decides she doesn’t need Warner to make her happy. She graduates a respected lawyer with an unexpected best friend and a future fiancé despite facing problems along the way.

Delve deeper, action movies for generations have ingrained restrictive roles for women to society. In 2016, only 27 percent of the dialogue came from women in the top ten highest grossing movies (Syfret 1). Yet, speaking less often in

An important note that most reviews failed to touch on in their contemporary reviews, is the portrayal of race and gender in the films. Technically each film features a strong female lead, just in extremely different ways. Comparing Jezebel’s Julie’s manipulative headstrong ways, to Drums Along the Mohawk’s Lana’s strong frontier’s woman, supporting her husband and her community, to Unconquered’s Abby’s quick tongue and more damsel like nature. Each woman reflects what the public view of what woman were.

So, I feel like any conversation had with another female will be male focused. Additionally, there are not as many women attending law school as men in this movie. This leaves less female to female conversation and less opportunity for story lines that do not revolve around men. Hopefully, Legally Blonde, proves me wrong and turns out to be the inspiring story I remember it to be as a kid.

In contemporary film women's roles in films have varied quiet considerably between genres, geographical placement, and between

From an article, critic Jessica Valenti states “That’s what make movie so forward-thinking:it’s not feminist because Theron’s character gets to engage in as much violence as any other action lead, but

The presentation of women on screen is another highlighted issue in many of the gathered sources. Because men were ultimately in control of what went on the screen much of what the audience perceived were women from the male imagination or fantasy. Bernard Beck elaborates in his article Where the Boys Are: The Contender and other Movies about Women in a Man’s World that, “…women have been used to dress up a male story or motivate a male character” (Beck 15). Women were often insignificant and trivial characters. Although, Kathe Davis disagrees to a point. In her article, Davis offers a dissonant opinion to the fore-mentioned insignificance of the female character. She instead describes many female characters as “predators,” and analyzes the roles of lead women in three prominent films of the nineteenth century. In each film, she finds parallels and similarities of cases of “female emasculation” and instances where “women are turned into objects of male desire” (Davis 47-48). Davis does not perceive female characters as being insignificant, just stripped of their power and misrepresented. She discusses how females of power are often portrayed as crazy