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The film of Working Girl directed by Mike Nichols and Up Close and Personal directed by Jon Avnet has three themes of transformation, cross dressing, and aspiration. Both of the films has main character which is woman working hard with their jobs and romance. Transformation means it shows the main character how transform during the film from beginning to end. These two films has this theme since both of them had changed. In addition, another theme is cross-dressing which is how both of characters’ work class. The another theme is aspiration, which is both of characters from both films are looking successful jobs from the working class. Both of films, Working Girl and Up Close and Personal has these three themes but in a different way showing it. …show more content…

In the film, Tess McGill who earned her degree and works in New York City by taking Staten Ferry every day but she became a boss one day after her boss had accident and could not work. She made her own decisions for the company without letting her boss know. After she made that decision by herself, she met a person, which is her boss’ boyfriend to talk about her decision she made. After that meeting, they fall in the love and started new relationship as she started a new job as she has her own secretary since she always been a secretary for someone else.
Up Close and Personal is about a woman who is Sally aka Tally started become a news anchor but there will few problems because she faked her own audition tape to get her job as secretary for her news director, which is Warren Justice. However, Justice wanted her to become a weather woman but she did not do well on her debut so the news station gave her a new nickname, which is “Tally”. Nevertheless, Justice and Tally fall in love and he gave her a new position as news

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