Norbit is a laugh out loud comedy film starring the famous comedian Eddie Murphy, who plays three outrageous characters in the film. The director of the film Brian Robbins, worked closely with Mr. Murphy into making this film a hysterical romantic comedy that is full of laughs and surprises. Norbit was released by DreamWorks Pictures on February 9, 2007, and hit movie theaters with a bang with its all star featured cast. The movie Norbit constructs a counter hegemonic representation of a strong black woman named Rasputia, who uses her assertiveness to dominate over her marriage with Norbit and her relationships with others in the town. This film demonstrates a counter hegemonic barrier between gender dominance, and also criticizes and mocks
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Later down the years Norbit stuck by Rasputia side however, over time Rasputia’s bossy antics began to drive Norbit further away from their once so-happy relationship. In the movie Rasputia dominates every aspect of Norbit’s life, she mistreats, insults, and abuses him physically and mentally to secure her dominance as the woman in charge. As stated in the, Gender, Gender Roles, and Physical Size Stereotypes article, “the dominance theory, proves that more power, such as being physically larger, are seen as more dominant and as leaders in society” (Ta). This is a great example of Rasputia’s character in the film, she fulfills her authority and power due to her size, she uses this as an advantage to terrorize people into doing what she wants or protecting what is hers. A particular scene in the movie where Rasputia uses her power to belittle Norbit is the car scene. Where both of them are getting in to Rasputia’s small lavender car, and inside her car she has cheetah print cloth on the seats, steering wheel, and on her clothes. This points out a motif and possibly a metaphor that Rasputia is like a cheetah, she 's assertive, quick, flexible
Later down the years Norbit stuck by Rasputia side however, over time Rasputia’s bossy antics began to drive Norbit further away from their once so-happy relationship. In the movie Rasputia dominates every aspect of Norbit’s life, she mistreats, insults, and abuses him physically and mentally to secure her dominance as the woman in charge. As stated in the, Gender, Gender Roles, and Physical Size Stereotypes article, “the dominance theory, proves that more power, such as being physically larger, are seen as more dominant and as leaders in society” (Ta). This is a great example of Rasputia’s character in the film, she fulfills her authority and power due to her size, she uses this as an advantage to terrorize people into doing what she wants or protecting what is hers. A particular scene in the movie where Rasputia uses her power to belittle Norbit is the car scene. Where both of them are getting in to Rasputia’s small lavender car, and inside her car she has cheetah print cloth on the seats, steering wheel, and on her clothes. This points out a motif and possibly a metaphor that Rasputia is like a cheetah, she 's assertive, quick, flexible