The satire-esque film is enhanced by its leading protagonists portrayed by Audrey Tautou and Gad Elmaleh who's charming and naive approach to a film about prostitution is lauded due to their different approach. It’s a far stretch from Tautou's acclaimed Amelie where she portrays the innocent and quirky titular character compared to Priceless's hardened gold-digger Irene and also Elmaleh's work where he is most popular from his one man French shows as a comedian. The darker and morally grey characters are what engages the film the most. Salvadori's multigenerational cast depict the vital and recurring question of the film whether money can buy love, or ultimately can it fill the void with excessive…
Newsom effectively convinces the audience of Miss Representation that mainstream media has definitely misled the public about how a woman should look like through the use emotional stories, facts, and experts’ views. In attempt to convince audience, Newsom shows viewers emotional stories to seek their empathy. Pathos is presented as soon as the film starts with Newsom’s and other high school female students’…
In both independent and mainstream cinema, viewers and critics are usually most aware of how females are represented and portrayed. However, it is also important to consider how men are represented. There are many different types of masculinities within our modern society, but one hegemonic idea still reigns supreme. The films of Todd Haynes challenge the idea that there is only one accepted masculinity and prove that there is in fact a hierarchy of masculinities. Haynes’ films, such as Poison and Dottie Gets Spanked, show how, while not as widely accepted, there are more kinds of masculinity than straight, white, middle-class man.…
Each anecdote describes an archetype of a woman that is often portrayed in romantic comedies; for instance, The Klutz. The word “Klutz is defined as a clumsy person and that’s the type of woman Mindy describes in this anecdote. Therefore, Kaling describes this archetype, as “100-percent-perfect-looking female is perfect in every way, except that she constantly falls down” (Kaling, 73). The seven anecdotes…
“But Fred Tom loves her anyway” (Kaling, 73). (… but she is essential to the male fantasy that even if a guy is boring, he deserves a woman who will find him fascinating and pull him out of himself by forcing him to go skinny-dipping in a stranger’s pool” (Kaling, 73). Through these phrases we see the standards that Hollywood as well expects and demands on female characters to fulfill their standards in order to satisfy the “male fantasy” as Mindy puts it. It is very clear that Hollywood…
Again, she submits to the male authority’s desire, Noonan is hero and victim and Stacy returns to her marginalized role as “a babe” (35) whom everyone wants to get a piece of—the objectified, sexualized woman, easily trapped and controlled by male…
Many of the same characteristics that Shakespeare used in his comedic plays are found in White Chicks. Being educated on these topics can help us to identify and understand why so many comedies in today’s society follow the same type of plot line. All of the characteristics including puns, clever wordplay, mistaken identities, and happy endings, create that classic comedy that all of us are accustomed to. Many of us wouldn’t know that characteristics such as these, date as far back as the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare helped to build a foundation based on his plays, and thanks to his work, we are still using his elements in today’s…
The film portrays the career-life of Alex “Hitch” Hitchens. Hitch works as a professional “date doctor,” coaching men in the art of wooing the women they are interested in. As the movie progresses, Hitch, while coaching client Albert to win the heart of celebrity Allegra, finds himself falling for Sara, a woman that resists his so-called guaranteed-to-work techniques. Through the romance and comedic actions of both couples, gender ideology…
Mindy Kaling in her personal narrative, “Types of Women in Romantic Comedies who are not Real,” criticizes the movie industry in a humorous way. Kaling uses her love and extensive knowledge of Romantic Comedies to begin to expose the unrealistic images of women that Hollywood immortalizes. She provides extensive details throughout her essay to prove her overall point. Kaling applies allusions, segmented organization, and sarcasm to prove the improbability of these women in real life. Mindy Kaling frequently incorporates allusions in her essay.…
The article, ‘Film Bodies: Gender, Genre & Excess’1 by Linda Williams explores whether the forms of sex, violence and emotion found in the genres of pornography, horror, and melodrama (specifically the woman’s weepie) respectively, are as gratuitous as my film scholars and critics believe them to be. Setting out to disprove this idea, Williams’ investigates and compares the form, function, and system of the three genres. Ultimately, William’s central claims reveal the value in the supposed excess of these three genres that benefit a spectator in a variety of ways. Seeking to argue her idea, Williams’ firstly uncovers why elements of these genres are regularly deemed as excessive. This is presented with the contrast of Classic Hollywood and…
The hypersexualization of women has created a societal norm that women are objects of desire for men to obtain and creates an unachievable standard of beauty for women to constantly strive. By disseminating this idea the media outlets have successfully kept a majority of women focused more on their physical appearance than any their part of their existence. This ensures that women are not focused on achieving positions of power and ensures those positions are held by the white, heterosexual, old males for another generation. It has also become readily apparent that women need more strong on-screen female role models to encourage them to strive for those positions of power in society. The lack of female filmmakers is largely…
Instead they are aesthetics whom act as ‘fillers’ in the male driven plots. This can be seen in seen in a film like Rear Window (1954). Lisa Fremont, Grace Kelly, acts as a catalyst to the male…
English SACE STAGE 1 Bridget O’Brien Women play a central role in “The drovers Wife” by henry Lawson and the film, ‘Australia’ by Baz Luhrman. With references to the narrative elements and cinematic conventions, discuss how women were portrayed in both Genres. Both the text ‘The Drovers Wife’ and the movie ‘Australia’ focus on the independency of Australian women and the aboriginal society. In the short story "The Drover's Wife," Henry Lawson acknowledges the hardships of Australian women whose bravery and perseverance is unfairly overlooked. It is often the men who receive all the glory while the women suffer silently in the background.…
The Romantic Comedy genre is one of the most popular yet overlooked genre in the film industry. The cheesy dialogues, witty behavior, sexual tension, heart melting monologues and the friction between the main two characters in a romantic comedy film, is what makes this genre so loved and cherished. According to most people, the romantic comedies are viewed as ‘guilty pleasures’. In his book Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre, Jeffers McDonald disagrees with that statement by saying that “the appeal to audiences of such films in more complex, especially if the viewer inhabits a position where conflicting pulls of realism and fantasy operating” (McDonald 2007).…
Mona Lisa Smile: Joan Brandwyn Character Analysis “So the choice is yours, ladies. You can conform to what other people expect, or, you can…” “I know. Be ourselves.”…