Analysis Of Legally Blonde

Gender within the Popular Culture In the movie, “Legally Blonde”, it talks about a girl named Elle Woods. Elle Woods is a blonde girl that goes through different obstacles to be able to stand where she is at right now. In the film, it shows a myth of feminism and the power of being a woman. It also shows how the society was during the time the film was playing. Elle Wood was not just a feminist that play a role as a woman who does house chores like the other women. She is one of the woman that fought her way through as one of the greatest feminist in the pop culture. I believe that in the film, “Legally Blonde,” Elle Woods is viewed or portrayed as a female empowerment. The first reason why I believe that Elle Woods is viewed as a female …show more content…
During the film, Warner broke up with her because he feels as if she wasn’t a serious person to be with. As she fought through the tears, heart-broken, and so many emotions, she came up with the idea of going to the same school with her ex-boyfriend just to get back with him. She wasn’t interested in being a lawyer because her major was to go into the fashion school and graduate with a degree. She pushed herself to overcome the situations and succeed in getting her so called soul-mate back. With so much efforts that she puts in, she finally passed the Law assessment to get into the Harvard Law School. In the film, she’s just not portraying as a feminist only, but an intelligent woman that had come to a realization of becoming true to herself. For example, in the film the saleswoman was trying to sell Elle an out-of-season dress at a ridiculously price thinking that Elle would buy the dress because she is an unintelligent blonde girl that used her dad’s credit card. Elle listened to the lady and said, “…So, if you’re trying to sell it me to for a full price, you pick the wrong girl” (Legally Blonde). This shows that she is just not a blonde girl that runs after her ex-boyfriend, but she is very smart and wise at choosing what she believes is right. Elle Woods stands as a person that succeed in everything she does because she …show more content…
In the film, she wasn’t fully cover up like the other women from Harvard Law School. She dress herself as she wanted to be because of how fashionable it is. In the film, she is always wearing something that shows her cleavage, or her body structure. For example, she was wearing a play-boy swim suit to a party while everyone was wearing casual and cover up clothes. This caused the film to be a distraction to many people because of it. According to the article, “Dress Code,” it said that, “Many schools respond to criticism of dress codes by citing the importance of maintaining a ‘distraction free’ learning environment, or of teaching young people about the importance of dressing appropriately considered their dresses too ‘sexual’ or ‘provocative’” (Dress Code). This means that the school regulated the dress code because they don’t want the girls to wear clothes that show a little skin because it is a distraction to the males. On the other hand, I believes that this shouldn’t be a big problem because majority of the male should know feel comfortable seeing things like that when they go out to the mall or anywhere outside of the school. Majority of the people will agree with me that Elle Woods is and will stand for the female empowerment. She represents many women in this society that everything will work if we put our time and efforts into it. This film just not show