Thelma and Louise or Feminism on the Road In 1991 MGM releases the Academy Award winning screenwriter Callie Khouri’s “Thelma and Louise”, that embodies the genres of road movie, buddy film, feminist film, comedy, melodrama, and action movie. The movie attempts to show a feminist perspective, as these two women leave behind the restrains of their normal lives in order to find freedom. The road symbolizes their ticket to liberty and as they are driving away, they are trying to escape all that bonds them to home. A controversial film, which presents the way feminism impacted the film industry by challenging Hollywood and the patriarchal society of America. The controversy that the film provoked of the second wave of feminism has led to decades to scholarly interpretation, study, and teaching.
The freedom women once felt turned into a life of fear. Riverbend shows many feminist views throughout the novel, but more so a view of a woman wanting peace and equality for both sexes in her country. Riverbend’s life changed drastically because of the war on terror and led to changes in gender issues, in her daily life and professional life. The United States only aided in further oppressing Arab women by not being fully
According to the Journal Beyond the Feminine Mystique, it listed two popular magazines that show the emergence of women beginning to believe in themselves and participating in the society (Meyerowitz). The movie Mona Lisa Smile described the American social culture prevalent during that period. When facing unexpected things that happened in Giselle’s life, she was strong and bold to move on and appreciate the changes that were being introduced. Giselle was a victim of the1950s America as her parents were divorced after the war. Her parents’ love had faded and she was stranded.
They also share similar stories of two women who have overshadow how desperate women in Hollywood can be, and two men trying to make it into the Hollywood life style. Both Sunset Blvd, and The Day of the Locust show how the two leading female characters use men and manipulate them to get whatever they dicier. In the film Sunset Blvd, you see Norma Despond played by actress Gloria Swanson. Swanson really brought her character Norma performances to life in this film because she really made sure that the audience saw how sympathetic Norma was, and was in denial of the fact that she wasn’t a big star no more. One reason how Norman use her leading man Joe was when, Joe was sick and tired of dealing with Norma that he decided to leave her.
Raya and her friend escape from there traffickers, and are being taken care of bye the U.N Convention. Kathryn sends them to a shelter set up for girls who has been trafficked or victims of sexual slavery. Through Raya’s case Kathryn discovers some scandals about sexual slavery and human trafficking which the U.N are covering up. The U.N has covered it up to protect some security contracts. Now Kathryn are trying to take the cases to a higher level in the U.N Convention, where she finds out that the scandals and the corruption are much bigger than she could imagine.
Over the course of the novel she learns to see past color and living with the Boatwright sisters allowed her to learn more about herself, her mother, and of course, bees. The first sign of maturity was when she ran away from her abusive father and helped Rosaleen escape from the hospital. (pg. 41-65) She was determined to find out what really happened with her mother and lead herself and Rosaleen to Tiburon. This requires a great deal of courage and boldness to find your way somewhere and you have no idea where it is.
Therefore, in recent films, female roles have comes to include the traditional household, motherly role. Yet this is mainly in contemporary films about periods in the past, in the modernistic films out at the moment women's roles in the films were more dominant and masculine and all the while maintaining there feminine qualities that have always been represented in films. The genre can affect the role of the female character as for example in film noir there is always a femme fatal get in a science fiction there maybe no femme fatal iconology get there maybe a sci-fi connection to a femme fatal yet the genre of it alters it completely. This can be seen in the modern film, Kill Bill, where the lead was an aggressive, strong and powerful character and yet this aggression and revenge was steaming from the lose of her child thus the feminine mother aspect can be seen clearly in comparison to a film from the 1980's such as Little Shop of Horrors in which the leading lady was
So while the girl detective was trying to talk to her, she said that she knows that she’s hiding is because the only time she came out is when she got beaten and raped. (US=being raped, UR=fear from being raped, CS=the rapist, CR=fear of the rapist). This probably caused her to be traumatized by the guy she was raped by so now that when she sees that guy or any other guy she will fear that she will probably be raped or beaten. C. 1. (Take away US, while still performing CS to get rid of the UR and the CR).
After the murder, Neff begins to care about what might happen to Lola, Mr.Dietrichson’s daughter, both of whose parents have been murdered. Neff is also worried about Keyes, the determined manager of the claims office, whom we later discover he is confessing to on the Dictaphone. Later, in a confrontation between Phyllis and Walter, she shoots him in the chest, but he has the strength to shoot and kill her. Neff goes back to the office, wounded and confesses what happened through the Dictaphone. In the majority of noir films, the femme fatale remains committed to her independence, rarely allowing herself to be converted by the hero or captured by the police (Blaser).
When Billy has sex with a girl, Candy, at the ward, Nurse Ratched confronts Billy. Billy speaks without stuttering. A showing of confidence on his part. Then Nurse Ratched through the power of suggestion says she would have to tell Billy’s mother about this, which in turn causes Billy to commit suicide from the shame of his mother knowing and of turning McMurphy in as the one who caused the meeting of Billy and