Legally Blonde

December 2015 Final Paper The movie I chose to watch was Legally Blonde Elle Woods is an incredibly girly and popular sorority girl fashion major at a university in LA who gets dumped by her boyfriend Warner, so he can “stop dicking around” and date someone “smart” before he goes to law school at Harvard. In order to prove her seriousness and commitment to education, she applies to Harvard and gets in. Everyone believes her to be a misguided dumb blonde; even her parents think Law school is for…

portray stereotypical blonde bimbos, the protagonist in Legally Blonde, a comedic and inspiring movie published by Type A Film in 2001, defies the dumb blonde archetype by depicting a blonde hair female with both beauty and brain. Reese Witherspoon plays a ditzy sorority girl, Elle Woods, who is a bubbly, attractive, and Caucasian female with blonde hair. She is completely in love with her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III, who soon breaks up with Elle stating that she’s “too blonde”. In essence,…

opportunity to escape the daily stresses of life, but they also can spread a poignant message to wide audiences. The film Legally Blonde comes to my mind on capturing both qualities. The heroine of the story is Elle Woods, a pink-clad, Chihuahua-carrying girl from a privileged background, who seems ditzy, dumb, unfocused, and blonde. Elle Woods defying the stereotype of a “dumb blonde” by showing her intelligence, persistence, and motivation, which land her at Harvard Law School, where she later…

freedom. Though truth is the only way to receive justice, wealth can manipulate the law to favor one’s side. This is demonstrated through the defense team in the O.J. Simpson murder case, the dual trial in Great Expectations, and the murder case in Legally Blonde. With this method of wealth buying the verdict, it leads to corruption, blinding justice from the truth. For it is corruption that allows for the guilty to find innocence in a trial. Corruption can…

It is never too late to fall in love for the first time in your life. I could not help myself ,but think of the Facts of Life theme song after seeing the new romantic comedy/drama movie Saving Face. Saving Face is a 2004 movie directed by, Alice Wu, is about an American theatrical release featuring an Asian American lesbian couple. One character that stands out in the story is, Vivian Shing, (Lynn Chen) because, Vivian Shing, is a typical boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl,…

Legally Blonde: A Meditation of Stereotypes Gender stereotypes are simplistic. Stereotypes do not bother to take account of the thoughts, behaviors, and individual desires of a person, merely taking interest whether or not the person is male, female, or nonbinary. In film franchises, such as Legally Blonde, writers and directors insist on propagating stereotypes despite the ongoing evolvement of archetypes in current society. Although in the final moments of the flick, Elle Woods surpasses such…

Legally Blonde is an American comedy film directed by Robert Luketic1. This movie is about a girl named Elle Woods. Elle is an attractive blonde, apparently dumb girl, who only think of cosmetics, fashion and grooming, and whose only goal seems to be thriving is to marry her boyfriend Warner Huntington. But her boyfriend wants to enter into politics and thinks that a wife like Elle represent an obstacle in his career, so he decides to break up with her before joining the prestigious career of…

President-elect Donald Trump is already getting so much done so seamlessly that he’s conveying the attitude of Reese Witherspoon’s character, Elle Woods in “Legally Blonde,” when she informs a skeptic that she’s been admitted to Harvard Law School: “What, like it’s hard?” We have been told over and over again — by the bipartisan ruling class that protected its power by shrouding issues and process in mystery — that certain problems were simply too vexing to solve. They struggled with them every…

Although a high school production, Legally Blonde by George Washington was an instant classic as the director dealt with scene issues masterfully and how the actors also dealt with lines and preparing for the unexpected. Legally Blonde was on show for a short period of days yet will always leave a lasting legacy in drama history. The director, Kyle Woollums, demonstrated the passage of time cleverly but did so without changing scenes. For example, the scene that contained “chip on your…

self-understanding. Given the ephemeral nature of tangible items, self-identity is more accurately expressed through the unique qualities people have and how they use them in order to better themselves and the world around them. In the movie Legally Blonde, main character Elle Woods seems to have it all: looks, money, popularity, and what seems like the perfect relationship. However, it isn’t until a tough breakup ruins her so-called “perfect life” that she is able to reinvent…