Should The Movie Legally Blonde: Making Women Look Powerful

Should the intelligence of someone decide their survival, lifestyle, and fate within the early 1900’s. Correspondingly, The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald and Chicago Directed by Rob Marshall, have two types of Women: the intellectual and the naive. While those who are intellectual manipulate others, those who are naive are manipulated by men. To be naive means to lack experience and judgement, mostly the characters in The Great Gatsby portray This by their actions. Conversely, the characters in Chicago have higher intellect, allowing them to control the media, accordingly Jordan from The Great Gatsby as she knows most of the things anyone is talking about and knows what to do. Gatsby and Tom manipulate Daisy and Myrtle, this makes it harder for them to do things for themselves, the limitation of their freedom, there is an example of this when George Wilson locked Myrtle not allowing her to leave. Moreover tom had another relationship with myrtle although he is married to Daisy, but he would not allow Daisy to be with Gatsby at all. Conversely, The more intelligent women have more freedom and do more things compared to the naive women. Jordan Baker expresses this by being able to go many places, she has had the ability to visit gatsby’s party, allowing her to learn about the situation and try to help Daisy. Notwithstand Roxie Hart’s intelligence, Roxie is naive at first, but learns and becomes smarter in jail, this makes her qualify as naive, though

The Breakfast Club is a wonderful example of pubertal timing in adolescents. Throughout the film the viewer can see where the characters are at in their development as well as the impacts of their pubertal timing. The Breakfast Club highlights physical changes, relationships with parents, relationships with peers, and the timing of early and late maturation. Claire is portrayed as the stereotypical popular girl and can be described as an early maturing girl. She wears expensive clothes, diamond earrings and wealthy accessories. Throughout the film, Claire relies solely on her looks, and is viewed as conceited, privileged and spoiled. Claire shows characteristics of an early maturing girl because she is strongly influenced by social and cultural views. Claire says in the film, “Your friends wouldn 't mind because they look up to us.... I 'm not saying that to be conceited! I hate it! I hate having to go along with everything my friends say!” Claire is aware of her social status among her peers and holds herself to higher expectations to uphold her reputation. She states, “Do you know how popular I am? I am so popular. Everybody loves me so much at this school.” To fit in with her peers, she must act a certain way in public to impress them. Claire is

     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.

There are also such needs as psycho-social needs that people must have accomplished in order to feel good about themselves. Some of these psycho-social needs are achievement, approval, beauty, and recognition. Precious’ mother, Mary, always told her how stupid and dumb she was and how she will never be able to achieve or do anything. Her mother also never approved of her because she thought that Precious stole her boyfriend, Precious’ dad, from her. She thought that it was Precious’ fault that her father, Mary’s boyfriend, raped her. Precious, who had an eating disorder and was obese, was always told how fat and ugly was she was by both her classmates and her mother. Therefore, Precious never felt that she met the “social requirement” of being beautiful: skinny, blonde, and light skinned. Additionally, none of her classmates in her old school or her mother recognized her for a lot of what she achieved in school. In fact, her mother thought she was so dumb that she was better off on welfare. Her mother’s negative attitude motivated Precious to prove her wrong and to become a robust, independent, smart woman. Furthermore, Precious wanted to complete the Each One Teach One program because she wanted to attain her GED, get a job, and take care of her children. Consequently, these were some extrinsic motives that she had in order to do complete the alternative school program and achieve her

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

Further damaging the view of Elle as a feminist icon is the fact that she consistently reinforces harmful stereotypes about women. Elle is clearly meant to be presented as a sorority stereotype, but rather than overcoming and breaking free from it, she proves it to be true time and time again. Firstly, Elle reinforces the idea that women are overly emotional and quickly disheartened. In the very first scene of the movie, Elle is dumped by Warner and proceeds to have an emotional breakdown, crying and shrieking loudly in a public setting. This is further reinforced later in the

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.

This new look showed how young girls finally just did not care and wanted to stand out showing they had a say of what they could and could not do. These girls did not care what the older generation thought and made a point in society.

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.

In the acclaimed 2001 film, Legally Blonde, the main character, Elle Woods, is a fantastic feminine icon for females. The film represents the struggle of women to prove their ability. Remarkably, Elle never succumbs to those who so strongly see her as being stupid. While others put down her abilities and intelligence, Elle hardly ever doubts herself. She moves through the world with pure confidence. As Callahan, a law professor at Harvard who later selects Elle Woods for his internship quips, “it’s as if she just woke up one day and said, ‘I’m going to law school.” She decides on a goal and knows she can attain it, even if others only respond with incredulity or mockery. Legally Blonde has many positive depictions of women and femininity for a 2001 film.

Her devotion to a cause also leads her to spend an enormous amount of time working on a foolproof toothpick bridge for the Physics Olympics, but on the day of competition it is suddenly stolen, never returned. Despite receiving an A on the project, she is devastated by its loss, and how she can’t go to the physics competition with it. After this, she starts realizing that it might not be as crucial to devote so much time to these types of things, and accepts a lower position at the Black & White. Audrey is included to show the effects of the perfectionist mindset, and the effect of placing such a high value on grades and college admissions. Another meaningful purpose of inclusion is the fact that Audrey is Hispanic, which gives her turmoil due to the advantage it gives her in college admissions. I relate to this greatly, due to my Hispanic heritage and how I am applying for scholarships I sometimes feel I don’t deserve. I’m only a quarter Mexican, and most people can’t tell I’m Hispanic from looking at me. This look into mixed students dealing with racial self-image issues really made me like Audrey, and applaud the author for including it in The

Since the 1940’s, movies have predominately portrayed women as sex symbols. Beginning in the 1940’s and continuing though the 1980’s, women did not have major roles in movies. When they did have a leading role the women was either pretreated as unintelligent and beautiful, or as conniving and beautiful: But she was always beautiful. Before the 1990’s, men alone, wrote and directed all the movies, and the movies were written for men. In comparison, movies of the 90’s are not only written and directed by women, but leading roles are also held by older and unattractive women. In this paper I will show the variations and growth of women’s roles in movies from the 1940’s though the 1990’s.

Feminism has become the great issue in this modern era. The emerging of second wave feminism in the late 60s had bring a huge impact toward the position of women in the society. Women are free from the male values, while women have the equal rights in politic. Women also can quit from their domestic sphere. The movement of feminism still continues in the early 90s. The women’s movement experience a phase which the ideology of feminism had changed to be Third Wave Feminism. It is because the existence of poststructuralists, postmodern and postcolonial theories in that era. Third Wave Feminism focus on popular culture which has been construed as a form of post feminist backlash (Gillis and Munford ; p. 2 ,

First of all, audience is attracted by the excellent plot when watching this musical. Elle Woods, who is the chairperson of the Sister Institute, is very popular among her friends. She thought her boyfriend Warner planed to propose to her; however, Warner decides to break up with her due to her “blonde.” At that point, Elle makes up her mind to study in Law School of Harvard in order to revive their relationship. Elle passes the assessment of Harvard successful with the help of her friends and because of her hard working. However surprised Elle Harvard study life is very dull, and Warner has made up with his ex-girlfriend. At the beginning of Elle’s study at Harvard, she is often sneered at by her classmates, especially Warner’s girlfriend Vivian, and the professor has kicked her out of the classroom. Since Elle chooses her occupation as a lawyer, she becomes energetic, hardworking

This excerpt shows how more emphasis is put on women’s appearance and its keep up, and also shows the negative connotation of this prettiness; it is associated with shallowness. Not only is there an assumption that women spend much of their time on their appearance, but also there is the connected fact that others pay more attention to their appearance than their other character traits. This is still a reality of today as can be seen on the red carpet. Female celebrities have a whole industry devoted to making them look fashionable and pretty for events. The focus of these events becomes what they’re wearing rather than their work as actresses and singers.