"What, like it’s hard?" is an empowering line from the 2001 romantic-comedy movie "Legally Blonde," directed by Robert Luketic and scripted by Karen McCullah Lutz and Karen Smith from the novel by Amanda Brown. This iconic movie tells the story of the main character, Elle Woods, a sorority girl who fits right into the typical female blonde stereotype of wearing lots and lots of pink and loving everything fashion, and her journey to win back her ex-boyfriend by following him into law school. At first glance, this seems like a movie that focuses on the dumb blonde stereotype and offers a chance to share misogynistic remarks. Instead, this movie shows us the transition of Elle Woods from a clueless fashion student who was overlooked by the stereotypes of her golden strands to a successful Harvard law student. Legally Blonde shows how smart and strong a woman is, despite what society paints her to be. This film has many feminist qualities, as it challenges gender stereotypes and celebrates the intelligence and determination of women. …show more content…
She is known as emotional, loud, and even gullible; these personalities made her a target in law school, especially by the circle of Huntington, but that did not stop Elle. Everyone believed that this "dumb blonde" wouldn’t survive the legal setting; an example is the professor who took advantage of her in the workplace. Elle got revenge for her actions, took his position, and won the case, giving us the most iconic court scene ever. Even though Elle was a bubbly and positive person who often got picked on behind her back and even straight to her face, she never made this an excuse to quit law school. This highlights the female empowerment in the movie; the more that people overlooked Elle, the more she proved them wrong by showing her true worth. This simply means that women are strong even if they constantly get belittled, especially in a male-dominated
Roberts states that we have become a society that measures beauty, and those who cannot measure up, do not have a purpose. The film shows how women are all victims of industries that promote their products and an impossible standard
Each of these concepts are utilized at the advantage of men, and the disadvantage of women, and has shown to provide detrimental consequences and results for women in society. However, in this film, and other films by Tyler Perry, appear to take the added step to combat these aspects that are present in the media’s portrayal of women. While these are present in the movie, he often makes a point to combat it with an inverse portrayal of each
She is able to decry the injustice of women being punished while the men are not held responsible for the consequences. In the end, both women were only able to regain their respectability through the actions of
The biggest theme in Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have it” is the idea of feminism through women empowerment. In doing so, Lee creates a powerful female protagonist that can be a potential role model towards a younger generation; however, Lee completely dismisses the male characters in his
The roles of these women, whether viewed in a positive or negative light, bring together the plot and the influence that they posses. These female characters There is a message that these women bring beyond the surface of their
This movie did a great job in making people think about how media has manifested our thoughts. Also one interesting point raised in the movie is that many film stars and super models, rather than few succesful females, are considered to be the representations of all women. And one explanation of these misrepresentation given in the movie is beucase majority members of decision board are men. This is actually a visous cycle. Many young women would actuallly believe in those
According to Lean Rapport, “ byevoking stereotypes about the inferiority of women…, provided resources of male superiority.” Brook is again making fun of the white race when Hedley’s plan to destroy Bart backfires when Lili falls in love with him. Women in this film are stuck on stereotypes whose values are sexual. For example, the governor’s secretary, Miss Stein, has power, but she chooses to not use it; this exemplifies she is only there for him.
She mainly portrays this through her main character, Cher Horowitz. When first introduced to Cher, many may categorize her in the dumb blonde stereotype, and the film’s title certainly does not help. But, Cher forces the audience to rethink their prenotions of a typical blonde and makes it clear she is working towards self improvement (Mazmanian 5). Mazmanian also added that “...Hecklering taps stereotype and cliche to challenge the audience’s opinion.” (Mazmanian
Next, many gender and sexual stereotypes are perpetuated in media, through the ways of movies. In fact, the movie Legally Blonde fits under the category of stereotypes exceptionally well, since it shows many stereotypes of women in the society. For instance, there is one scene in the movie, where Warner, the handsome boy is playing football with his friends, and Elle, the dumb blonde sits on the sidelines to study and distract the guys playing as she wears nothing but a sparkly bikini top under a furry shawl on her upper half. This example evidently portrays the serotype of being a blonde dumb. Throughout the movie “Legally Blonde” Elle is shown as a material sorority girl, who is a duplicate copy of barbie in real life.
Throughout history women have been a lower class due to their sex. But not all woman is. Some females are stronger than the mean in their colonies, tribe, etc. Strength does not necessarily mean just big physical muscles, but mentally too. They are devoted a willing to do anything they set their mind too.
It centers on females and how they act at that certain age. The four mean girls, Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, Karen Smith and Cady Heron represent the stereotypes of the popular girls of high school. The role of gender plays an important role in the movie. The movie discusses the aspects of how a “typical” teenage girl should be, in order for her to fit in.
The film Girl’s Trip has been applauded for being a celebration of blackness in the primarily white film industry. The majority of the cast and the writers for Girl’s Trip are people of color. The film was much more successful than its “white counterpart” Rough Night in box office revenue and reviews. However, most of the black characters in Girl’s Trip shift through various controlling images throughout the movie. The reason these stereotypes are less obvious than they are in some other films is because each characters portrays multiple stereotypes and different times throughout the film.
All this has made me realize that it is not only a film for entertainment but it makes me comprehend that many of us woman go through and will always be expected to do. Ana’s mom, Carmen, is very harsh with how she tells Ana things. She body shames her all the time calling her “fat” and “ugly” and always speaks her mind without caring about her feelings. Ana had a passion for school and her dream school was a university that is located in New York which is far away from where she lives. Throughout the beginning of the film, Ana listened to her mother and did not do things she wanted all because of the expectations set from her mother.
Many believe all who attend a private school are wealthy due to the expensive cost per year, whereas at a public school education is free. Since outsiders see these students as offly wealthy, who are given everything and more, being stuck up is yet another stereotype. The movie legally blonde enhances this particular stereotype, when Vivian
She describes as a strong and beautiful woman. Also, a woman in the male-dominant world seen as a weak and vulnerable