Interpersonal Communications During The Movie Steel Magnolias

“Steel Magnolias” is a story about the close-knit relationships between six eccentric Southern women living in a small town in Louisiana. The film has a home spun, unpretentious feel to it. The plot alternates between humorous, everyday events with good-natured quips and the seriousness and heartaches to life’s unexpected crises. Through the laughs and tears, the six women learn to endure hard times and emerge from the struggles with grace and dignity. The film is set in the 1980’s with a tight knit homespun atmosphere. The Southern belles who are goofy on the outside but strong enough inside to survive any challenge that life deals them. Friendships help with a

This movie is about institutionalized girls who are receiving treatments for multiple mental health disorders. Claymore Psychiatric Hospital is in Belmont, Massachusetts, this movie is based on a true story. Daisy Randone, Susanna Kaysen, and Lisa are the three main characters in this movie. Mrs. Randone’s is hospitalized for depression and bulimia nervosa disorder. The way this movie portrays numerous mental health disorders is excellent. A variety of clients from different cultural and diversities are being treated at Claymore. It is an awesome movie, the way the patients’ act out the personalities and disorders gives an excellent understanding of the disorders. Susanna is being treated for depression, and borderline personality disorder. While, Lisa is a sociopath and isn’t very complaint with treatment regimens and has been in and out of the facility several times. While Susanna attempts suicide by chugging a bottle of vodka with at least twenty – five aspirin and is unsuccessful, Daisy sadly ends up hanging herself from harsh words and manipulative, provoking from Lisa. She is successful in her attempt by hanging and the day of her death is on her birthday.

Steel Magnolias is a classic comedy-drama between six fabulous women who go through and a short part of their life to creating love and happiness to each other while enduring pain and sorrow. The screenplay and playwright Robert Harling created a beautiful love touching story based on his sister and nephew to show others how strong and delicate women are and how supportive everyone was with them. The director of the 1989 movie Steel Magnolias, Herbert Ross took his production with producer Ray Stark in a magnificent way and add in an actress who fit each role and dedicated their time to make Harling plays into a non-stop loving friend to the end. The setting of the movie starts out in a small town in Louisiana in the afternoon on Easter, where

The film begins with Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon), living repressed lives in Arkansas. Both women have stereotypical roles in this movie. As best friends, they decide to go on an adventure that takes a dramatic turn and ends up being an adventurous police chase to the sudden death. Thelma is an unhappy housewife who despises her husband (Daryl), who is a bumbling, controlling and narcissistic. Her character is somewhat infantile, in that she relies completely on her husband for support. She is too timid to confront him about going on a weekend getaway with her best friend Louise. Her timidity is evident in every act she displays. She is unhappy with her life as a housewife but doesn't blatantly show it. She cooks

The film opens on modern-day Louisiana and tells the story of a circle of friends on the wedding day of Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts) daughter of M'lynn Eatenton (Sally Field). Shelby suffers from type one diabetes.

“That’s why they were only taking a few things at a time; they weren 't really coming for ivory and paintings. They wanted me!” Even when she wasn’t in her room she was always afraid of something. “I always dreaded that my parents would divorce. It was my third biggest fear, right next to the fear that one of them would get abducted by heartmen on the road to Sugar Beach, or my first fear, that I would get sucked into the lagoon by neegee.” Out of all three fears only one seemed to happen. Her parents relationship finally came to an end after a lot of fighting, disagreement, and cheating. “Daddy, I hold your foot, don’t leave us. Daddy, please, I beg you” she cried that day. From then on, except the servants and cook, “it was only women at Sugar Beach.” Even after dealing with something so hard in her life that wasn’t even what affected her the most.

The plan of the “Steel Magnolias” is an autobiography or a bond narrative. While a lot of the action occurs offstage, the on stage (Salon) is the culmination of the emotions generated by the action that takes place off stage. Shelby numerous challenges such her aspiration to become a pregnant besides her illness, breakdown of her health due to diabetes, and her conflicts with her mother takes place offstage. Annelle’s troubles with her husband, who is a villain, and pregnancy and remarriage follow the offstage action. Emotive complexity drives the film (Grandin, 2013).

This film is about the main character Janie Crawford's search for happiness. Throughout this film the viewer sees the different struggles Janie faces. This includes several different marriages, and even some life threating situations. This film is a drama because a story is brought to life through dialogue and action. The audience can see and feel the conflict Janie endures. The conflict in this movie includes person vs. self, person vs. person, and person vs. nature. This film fits perfectly into the genre of drama because of the elements, characteristics and conflict seen

The film is a comedy about three women seeking justice after their husbands became successful and divorced them for younger women. Brenda, Elise, Cynthia and Annie were close friends in college, but after graduation from Middlebury, they lost touch with one another for 27 years. When Cynthia committed suicide after her ex-husband married a much younger mistress, the other three women met at her funeral for the first time since college. Seeing that their friend grew unhappy after her husband left her for a younger woman, they found themselves in the similar situation.

The plot is driven more by the inner conflict of both women more so than by their external goal. There are solid themes about grieving, healing, fear, and forgiving. It’s a story about learning to move on and forgiving one’s self.

Little Miss Sunshine is a movie that features a typical busy, overworked, somewhat dysfunctional family. Each member of the family has their own hopes and dreams, these hopes and dreams do not necessarily fit into the other family members’ plans. The movie is about acceptance, particularly of family members whose weaknesses and social deviations maybe obvious. Little Miss Sunshine features several interpersonal dyads, however the dyad that I will focus on is between mother (Sheryl) and seven year old daughter (Olive).

In Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ 2006 movie Little Miss Sunshine, they depict the tribulations of a dysfunctional family trying to get their daughter to a beauty pageant, while encompassing strong portrayals of common issues in the United States today. It communicates the individual’s struggle to be perfect, as well as the difficulties of the average middle class family in society. In this paper I will analyze three characters; Olive, Dwayne, and Richard Hoover, identifying their life stages, psychosocial development, role in the family and their resiliency through the stories challenging circumstances.

EBOOK COLLECTION: Beebe, S. A., Beebe, S. J., & Ivy, D. K. (2009). Communication: Principles for a lifetime. Volume 2: Interpersonal communication. Boston, MA: Pearson Allyn and Bacon.

Interpersonal communication is open to interpretation and can be defined in different ways. According to our reading EPME defined interpersonal communication like this, “Interpersonal communication is a face-to-face, multidirectional exchange of verbal messages and nonverbal signals between two or more people, for the purpose of gaining a shared meaning.” One reason why I gravitated to this topic for discussion is that I have personally experienced firsthand and witnessed how lack of effective communication can be detrimental to an otherwise competent working group.

Interpersonal communication is the technique we use to communicate our ideas, thoughts and feelings to one and other. (Eunson 2012:256) People use visual, written, oral, sense and nonverbal means to communicate. Individuals have communicated with each other for centuries through the medium of letters, telephone, groups with public speaking and one to one conversations. With the introduction of mass media ideas could spread to larger audiences however the means of imparting information required high level skills and equipment not available to the individual. The highly effective tools of the mass media have now become the tools of the individual to use in the digital age to help with interpersonal communication. Electronic communication has