All About Eve

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“I’d do much more for a part that good” all about eve has much to tell us about the dangers ambition. Throughout the film of All about Eve directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, ambition plays a major role in the film and many characters endure the dangers that it presents in order to be successful or to fulfil their lives. Margo and Eve in particular show the dangers that can lead from an overwhelming ambition to achieve what they really desire in life and ultimately what can occur if they fail. Ambition plays a key factor in the development of the plot in All about Eve and we realise the circumstances that occur from ambition. Margo’s ambition in All About Eve is what leads to the downfall of her great career. In The Film it is quickly noted that Margo is an ageing woman and an actress that is beyond her years. She is also very self-conscious of her age and mostly keeps it a secret until she confesses to Lloyd that she is “40, 4-0”. We see though out the film that the director Joseph Mankiewicz uses lighting techniques to make Margo’s skin seem very old and weathered. Margo’s main ambition in the movie is to ensure that Bill still loves her. During the film it feel as if Margo is trying to look as young and be as young as she can just so Bill still desires her. Though if Margo is to Marry Bill she has to stop her livelihood which is her acting career in the theatre. At the beginning of the film we see that Margo’s ambition is to excel in the theatre so she sacrifices her relationship with Bill for her ambition to succeed as an actress but as the movie progresses and Margo realises that she is an ageing woman we see her discard her acting career for a chance to marry Bill and become what was seen as a true woman in the 1950’s. Eve’s Ambition to become an actress is why she succeeds in the end but there are many repercussions because of her actions. She
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