Gender Role Film Analysis

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RACE: Gender Group SOCI 3401 Film Analysis Film title: The Proposal Dir: Anne Fletcher Performers: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds Distributor: Disney Year of Release: 2009 The Proposal is a film that covers a multitude of dynamics. The dynamics covered include social, economic, and family dynamics. The film portrays the way inequalities work between the two main characters Bullock, and Reynolds. Economic and Social inequality play a role in the development of the plot, conditions of the characters, and situations portrayed in the film from two different points of view. The first view is from Margaret Tate a successful self made chief editor of Ruick & Hunt Publishing who is loathed by her coworkers. The second view is from her executive assistant and aspiring editor Andrew Paxton who has been working with her for three years without any recognition. Margaret who is an immigrant faces problems due to an expired visa, and is essentially threatened with deportation unless she comes up with a way to become a legalized U.S. citizen. She hatches a plan to blackmail her assistant Andrew to marry her. He (Andrew) in return accepts the offer but only if he could get promoted to editor and publish his book. In relevance of the movie to our course subject; the movie covers specific topics of gender roles, and economic inequality between sexes. Usually it is the male who earns the big dollars and females earning less, but in the movie, she (Margaret Tate/ Sandra Bullock) is earning more money than her male counterpart Andrew Paxton. Throughout the movie their male and female gender roles seem to be reversed albeit to
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