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
The protagonist is a 16 year old girl named Rachel. I think Rachel is one of those shy girls that don't like to talk to anybody like her crush Steve Millar and his mean sister Brianna. And thus all happens when Rachel sees Steve and the drama comes in.
Overall, I believe “Loving” was a fantastic movie. I enjoyed watching it, and it was fascinating throughout. I was very interested to learn the story behind Richard and Mildred Loving and the pivotal struggle they had to face in their lives.
A new and alarming trend that has been occurring in American society is the increase of violence committed by young women. The documentary Girlhood offers an insight on the emotional, psychological, and social reasoning behind the girl’s actions. Girlhood focuses on the life of two young juveniles, Shanae Owens and Megan Jensen both incarcerated for violent crimes. Shanae and Megan both experienced similar circumstances that yielded different outcomes. They were followed for a period of about three years which allowed viewers to really see what kind of role the justice system, family and peers have on the success of an at risk juvenile.
Tess tries to show excitement to Mick, her current boyfriend, after starting her new job as an assistant for Katherine Parker. Katherine explains to Tess their relationship is a “two way street,” essentially making Tess believe that working for her first female employer will easier while even holding the possibility of advancing her career. With every reason to be joyful, Tess could not wait to Tell Mick about the new opportunity, but Mick is a sexist 80s working man in the 1980s: getting the pizza home before it gets cold has more importance than his girlfriend’s career. Cyndy is not supportive of Tess either—something uncharacteristic of a best friend. As the film progresses, Tess receives a visit from Cindy at work while working on a big deal for Trask Industries. Cyndy has witnessed Tess’s extraordinary and questionable strategy to make it big, and Cyndy confronts her. Acknowledging her recklessness, Tess swears that she will come clean when the time is right and that she knows what she is doing. Cyndy replies, “Yeah, so do I. Screwin' up your life!” (59) Although Tess has no moral support, she seizes the opportunity and eventually thrives. Mick and Cyndy are both limited by a lack of vision and ambition, and Nichols’ negative portrayal of these working-class stiffs further suggests that the film has a pro-capitalist agenda. Nichols infers that if you have the resourcefulness like Tess, you can succeed in America. Mick and Cyndy, on the other hand, are
Cinderella Man was an incredibly magnificent and uplifting film that followed the life of the “Bulldog”, later entitled “Cinderella Man”, starring Russell Crowe as James J. Braddock, the American heavyweight boxer. Primarily, Cinderella Man embodies strength and willpower as once-undefeated heavyweight fighter, Braddock’s loses started to rapidly accumulate, so bad that he was released from his boxing contract and was merciless impeded from fighting. Correspondingly, deprived of work the bulldog began to undertake hard labor during the Great Depression to counterbalance myriad bills and overdue payments. Moreover, Braddock and his wife Mae together had three children to nourish. Correspondingly, years later, Joe Gould played by Paul Giamatti, was Braddock’s old boxing manager and contracted him one last concluding fight, which he won. Hence, the Bulldog started to train again and James J. Braddock was reborn after countless winning comebacks. Ultimately, Jimmy undergoes a fairy tale rise from a poor local fighter to the heavyweight-boxing champion of the world.
is getting bullied by his new boss and tries to find the courage to talk to the girl he
In this essay, I will explain a cultural object from a scene from the movie Girls Trip, which was released on July 21, 2017. Girls Trip is about four women by the name of Ryan Pierce (Regina Hall), Sasha Franklin (Queen Latifah), Lisa Cooper (Jada Pinkett Smith), and Dina (Tiffany Radish), who have been friends for over 10 years, and are traveling to the annual Essence Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana. The cultural subject is Ryan Piece assistant Elizabeth Davelli, who uses terms and body language to define “blackness”. To reinforce and challenge the discourse that is taking place is people of color have to speak up about the discourse and inform people who are not of color, to show how people of color are offended by those actions.
The movie The Hot Chick is a 2002 comedy film that focuses on a high school girl named Jessica Spencer who tries to find a way to get her body back after it is switched with a man named Clive Maxtone. Jessica is the typical popular, cruel and spoiled high school girl that one night switches bodies with a gas station robber Clive, due to a pair of earrings Jessica stole from a occult shop that day, one of which ends up in Clive's hands. She wakes up dazed and confused trying to figure out what might of caused this. Throughout the movie Jessica tries to find a way to get her body back while learning first-hand the pros and cons of being a man, while at the same time Clive takes advantage of the situation to commit a crime so he can blame it on
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood leaves the audience questioning, asking, and wanting more. The entirety of the film is a recollection of memories and experiences throughout the course of Mason’s childhood. Overall Boyhood is like an unsolved puzzle with missing pieces that aren’t enough to solve the puzzle. The entire movie is questionable and has so many gaps in-between each memory that there really is no plot. Since there isn’t a plot it makes you question if it is really about boyhood, about family, maybe Mason’s childhood, or girlhood. Certain questions begin to formulate like, why doesn’t Linklater use the typical format of storytelling during Mason’s childhood? How come we never know what happened between Oliva and Mason Sr? Why doesn’t
The movie Mean Girls is set in a high school setting. The movie starts with a new girl coming to the school as a first time public school student. Cady, the new student, is immediately accepted into a group of friends, but later invited to another. The first clique she joins pushes her to become friends with the second group. This subsequently led to a typical high school drama scene. The ways these high school students go about their normal life seem very alike to the “typical” high school. Even though the movie Mean Girls by Mark Waters, uses humor to portray some questionable realism, it effectively depicts characteristics of ordinary high school life and uses realistic characters.
My second week in the class, I was introduced to sexualization and parents priming their
“Working Girl,” depicts important battles that women are still fighting today, it brings light to the ridiculous judgments and barriers that women had to smash to establish themselves in the business field. The film was written by Kevin Wade and released in 1988, the story is based in New York City from the inspiration of New York commuters and the noticing that many young women were wearing white tennis shoes on their way to work, carrying high heels to change into once arriving to work. Tess McGill, an undervalued and mistreated sectary to the ultimate feministic triumph, Kathrine Parker who steals Tess McGill’s idea for a radio deal for their company, are the main characters. While Kathrine Parker is on a skiing trip and breaks her
In the film ‘Her’, directed by Spike Jonze, the main protagonist,Theodore Twombly conveys the idea of alienation via technology and its possible effects, due to his depression via his divorce and his easy going relationship with an artificial intelligence operating system named Samantha. The idea of alienation and technology and its possible effects on human relationships is conveyed via the quote, “Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt.” Theodore recently experienced is his divorce depression, and therefore becomes vulnerable, anti-social from society and isolated himself, by spending time with the artificial intelligence
Born into Brothels, shares the chaotic lifestyle of eight children and their mothers from the Brothels of Calcutta, in the perspective of the director, Zana Briski, and the deprived children. Using the basic techniques of photography, Briski teaches the children to document their lives through photos, which are then used as a baseline for the documentary. Born into Brothels revolves around Briski’s attempt to gain awareness and education for a small group of children whose lives are filled with tragedy. Being identified as a ‘white-privileged’ female from the United States of America, Briski carries a completely distinct perspective of the life in the ‘red light’ district, than the children themselves. She sympathizes with their situation
Movie shows the betrayal or unfavorable depiction of the sisterhood, an important concept in feminist ideology, emphasizing that women are bound in a communal oneness. The movie