Small Scale Presentation How to Marry a Millionaire

Barbarella Just One of the Guys

How to Marry a Millionaire They’re three beautiful models, looking for he man and the money of their

dreams. Almost broke, they pool their funds to rent a posh Manhattan penthouse in which the plan to lure their victims. But the gold diggers plans suddenly go awry when two of them fall for men who appear to be poor.

I did find an article from the Films in Review however It was just that, explaining what the film was about, so I felt no need to photocopy it. I feel that a lot of my research is going to be internet and primary based for this film as I do not think many people thought of analysing the women's role in this film in the fifties.

How to Marry a MillionaireMy Opinion When watching this movie it seems harmless however when you notice all

of the desires that the women have you notice that women are portrayed in a style that is needy and as if they are damsel's in distress. When comparing it to women in movie now we can see that within this movie the women are relying on the men to give them a wealthy home and family, without them they are lost, his can make women look like gold diggers and only interested in money. However this perception is slightly changed when two of them fall in love with poor men, but they end up becoming rich...no surprise there. Women in this film have no independence and rely on men for their wealth and fortune.

Barbarella As this was not one of my focus films at the time I did not get an awful lot

of information on it however I did come across a couple of bits that I found were rather interesting.

When reading a review they mention straight away that it is ‘Jane Fonda’s pre-feminist anti-gravitational strip-tease.’

‘it was a sexploitive from start to finish’, when watching the film you certainly were able to agree with this statement as it is mainly sex orientated.

‘The brave babe astronaut suffers all manner of sexual encounters tracking down renegade scientist Durand Durand.’ ‘She must also take on the evil lesbian Black Queen’ ‘Cannibalistic Barbie dolls with chattering metal teeth and guards with

whips for arms’. ‘She is fully identified flying sex object.’

BarbarellaMy Opinion

When watching this film I couldn’t believe my eyes all the different connotation within were incredible but not only that but the fact is that this film was showing that women are only good for one this…sex. This is how I felt any way, throughout the whole movie Barbarella was having sex with every man she met and even when she was faced with death she was to be pleasured to death…what nonsense.

I found it interesting that she was never able to keep her clothes on and when she did they were very skimpy. I have a lot to say about this film so this isn’t the end.

Just One of the Guys These quotes are from a book by Shakespeare and his thoughts on women

and acting. ‘The female character, even when they are dressed as men, cannot fully claim equality, in love or sport, with their male counterparts.’

‘This film invokes the sexism that Terry encounters in high school in conflicted ways…challenge objectifications of women...benefits from the marketing of the female form over the female mind.’

‘Terry’s vocal objections to sexual objectification and her own implication as a bodily object is never fully explored or restored, the sexist obstacles to her journalistic ambitions are handled more subtly.’

‘Stereotyping of her masculinity…’grapple with bias…reveals her desire for the guy she has deceived…two young men collaborate.’

Just One of the GuysMy Opinion

When watching this film it was really funny to see how a female looks at a male, however regarding the feminist side of things I think that within this film we finally see women being shown in a clever and realistic light. Not for the fact she dresses as a boy to get her article published but for the fact that we do not see her in skimpy out fits all the time and she is fashioning a short hair cut. We get to see the views men have on women as she is inside to enemy lines and this is interesting as

Feminism Regarding this subject I gathered a lot of information about it but there is so

much that I need to sift through it. There is a lot on female’s within the film industry and such but also what I found most interesting was that I found a little on the film ‘Alien’ and what it had to say about it was very interesting.