Both mediums instruct audiences to believe that attitudes and beliefs that differ from the norm are responsible for creating oppression, alienation and discrimination. The Woman Men Don’t See by James Tiptree, Jr (1973) and Thelma & Louise (1991), directed by Ridley Scott, both incorporate the effect stereotypes and beliefs that differ from society’s as the central idea. The texts depicts the difficulties that some face due to their gender, race or opinion of their institution.
Throughout both The Woman Men Don’t See and Thelma & Louise, the idea of, oppression has a profound impact on the characters. This ideological concept is highlighted in both mediums through the theme of Institution versus the Individual or Might is Right. This theme is seen on multiple levels and concerns one who tries to make a difference but is unable to due to institutional force and/or influence. The ‘might is right’ ideology is a form of suppression, as seen in Thelma & Louise, a struggle between Detective Hal Slocumb and the Police Force is presented. An example is presented when Slocumb pleads with a colleague, “You know what happens. The volume gets turned way up and the next thing you know those girls are going to get shot.” The detective’s request to speak and stop the girl from doing anything rash is denied by his superior. The term ‘volume’ refers to the fact that the officers will turn their head and ignore the experiences and viewpoints of these women and shoot them on sight.
The films, Remember The Titans and The Sapphires are both discovering significant social messages of racial conflict. With these messages and the techniques used in both films they have resulted in two powerful films that highlight racial discrimination. This essay will explore the relationship between the filmmaking and the social messages it is trying to highlight, as well as the similarities, differences and techniques shared between both films
I do not think that the OT should belittle the OTA as the OTA was probably just afraid they would hurt the child. I do believe that the occupational therapy assistant should have asked for assistance earlier in the therapy if she/he did have concerns. The OT should demonstrate beneficence to the OTA and the patient as it is still a need to be addressed. The OT should explain to the assistant the need of laying prone to and why it is so important to the child. The child may not have the best of insurance and could be on a limited supply of therapy benefits. They could also be so behind in their development just because the assistant was uncomfortable with the tube. This demonstrates justice as it will benefit the child to get the treatment
This movie depicts on how important it is to be true to yourself despite what anyone else thinks. I will argue that gender appears in society as a social construct; it is something that is performed and
This film paints multiple stereotypes and over exaggerates them to emphasize their relevance in society in hopes of changing the audiences' viewpoint of these stereotypes set before women.
(Part 1) Thelma & Louise received mix responses from film critics when it first came out. The responses to the film were largely based on preconceived notions about how women operate in the criminal justice system. Obviously, this movie subverted a lot of these presumptions. The first issue was gender. Women had not been perceived as outlaws until this film. The whole idea of a woman in the criminal justice system did not embody what the movie portrayed. Specifically, after Thelma was sexually assaulted and Harlan was shot, the women come to the conclusion that going to the police won’t help them. They do not have faith the male dominated criminal justice system will look past Thelma’s drinking, dancing, and flirting with Harlan. In the article “Outlaw Women: An Essay on Thelma & Louise”, Elizabeth Spelman and Martha Minow said “Louise and Thelma both hear and reject the echo of societal conversations about blaming women who get raped because ‘they asked for it.’” Louise immediately acknowledges this stereotype against them which is the fact if a woman was raped, the law will view it like “she had it coming”. In other words, she was provocative in some way that established consent. Another issue concerning gender was the one of outlaw women. Normally, the traditional outlaw film contains a white male that we as the audience view as virtuous. While most probably favored what Thelma and Louise were doing, there were some points where the deviancy might have been too much.
they must achieve, and that is to get to Mexico to avoid being caught by the law.
In conclusion, the film She’s the Man shows the audience how gender gets represented in films. It shows the traditional femininity as well as the traditional masculinity. This illustrates that gender has impacts on power and gender relations to contribute gender inequality. Gender norms are enforced in films which maintain the power inequality difference between both genders. These issues confine the way modern films represent gender and gives a direct effect to the
In both Rear Window and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul give a contrasting view of gender roles in relationships to the social norm and give different forms of women in society. With the readings of Hillary Neroni’s The Feminist Theory Julio Garcia Espinosa’s For an Imperfect Cinema and Sergei Eisenstein's Film Form: Essays in Film Theory, I’ll be examining the gender roles within the films of Rear Window and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.
This paper will look at how the movies portray women in a way that women can relate to regardless if it’s an insulting
Section A: Analyse the treatment of bonds between men and bonds between women in Thelma and Louise The film Thelma and Louise, directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1991 (Dir. Ridley Scott, 1991), is a movie that challenges gender expectations. It features two belligerent female protagonists, Thelma and Louise, who move away from the stereotypical ideas of a woman. Thelma is married to an over controlling and unappreciative husband who cares not for her, while Louise has relationship troubles with her boyfriend Jimmy who is always away.
“I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free,” says Cheyl Strayed from the film Wild. Both the films, Wild and Thelma & Louise present women pushing themselves and going out of their norm to find themselves. Cheryl from the Wild challenges herself by hiking a 1,100 mile trail from the border of Mexico all the way up to the border of Canada. Thelma and Louise from the film Thelma & Louise are on the run after shooting a man who tried to assault and rape one of them. Thelma and Louise decided to live and enjoy every moment they can with each other while they can. Both films are strong feminist films who break the societal boundaries and stereotypical roles of women.
The movie that I am going to be writing about is called Run Lola Run directed and written by Tom Tykwer, released in 1998. This movie is about a girl, Lola, who has to save her boyfriend, Manni, from the mob by getting 100,000 marks to him in twenty minutes and is about her efforts to get to him in three separate runs. The topic that I am going to focus on is the representation of gender in Run Lola Run compared to more typical representations in other movies. The four main topics that I am going to discuss are the history of gender representation, a look back at how gender is portrayed in movies in the past, gender in genre and with character, which is looking at different characters that broke or follow typical gender representation and
In this paper, I will write about “Thelma and Louise” (1991) movie. I choose a last scene of the movie which the police came to arrest them in the Grand Canyon (from 122 to 125 minutes).
These two different perspectives show that a woman(Passive), as depicted in the Hollywood films, are just inferior to the social control held by men(Active).
Both Laura Mulvey and bell hooks describe the idea of the “gaze” in film. In both of the theories presented by Mulvey and hooks, the “gaze” is the way in which viewers are subjected to a particular perspective because of their social standing. In Mulvey’s case, she argues that the “gaze” in which the audience is forced into is that of the “male gaze” while hooks argues a more nuanced “gaze” including the “oppositional gaze”. While some of Mulvey’s argument is accurate, hooks argues that it leaves out important other factors, in particular, race. Both arguments have many similarities and differences, and can be seen exemplified in many films, such as Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It.