Movie: All About Eve
analytical Essay
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Movie: All About Eve
English 30
Spring "97"
In the film All About Eve, (directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and released in
1950), Eve Harrison (Anne Baxter) was a young woman with evil running through her veins. She wanted to be "somebody" and chose to get there through Margo
Channing (Betty Davis) who was a famous stage star. Eve would do whatever it took to get where she wanted to be, including hurt the ones that trusted her and took her in as a "lost lamb". Though Eve was already evil within and throughout, the people around her made it even easier to acomplish her goals.
Margo was one of the most popular stage actresses and put herself high on a pedastel, and looked at someone like Eve as being below her, a poor soul that could be of no threat to anyone, especially Margo Channing. Eve played the meek and shy girl that idolized Margo. She claimed to attend all the preformaces of the play that week due to the fact that she adored Margo and she would have nowhere else to go anyway. Doing this allowed Eve to get her foot in the door.
If it wasn't for Margo's conceitedness, Eve would have had to work a little bit harder to get this. Margo took her into her home.
Margo's secretary-aid, Birdie (Thelma Ritter), was the first to sense something was strange about Eve, but her position made it not her place to speak her mind. Eve knew this and also knew it would be easy to take control of her position because of this. It would only seem to Margo that she enjoyed doing things for her.
Eve charmed Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill), director and Margo's lover, with her feminine qualities that Margo lacked. Eve just seemed to be overly interested in everything Bill had to say about the theater. She used to keep him admiring her and at the same time, drove Margo crazy with jealousy to tear their relationship apart. Little did she realize, Bill had no romantic feelings towards Eve at all, so she blew her cover when she made a pass at him.
Karen Richards (Celeste Holm), Margo's best friend, was the one that found and introduced Eve to Margo. She was the type of person that would anything for anyone, sort of niave and trusted Eve from day one. Karen was amazed by Eve's devotion towards her idol. After getting into Margo's home, she used Karen's kindness to subtly suggest that she would love to replace Margo's pregnant understudy. Once again she got her way.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how bill's admiration for the theater was evident in everything he said about it.
- Analyzes how eve blew her cover when she made a pass at him.
- Analyzes eve's show so she can have her big moment...thinking that she was doing good for all.
- Opines that de witt changed her and blamed it on him.
- Explains that eve was the perfect age for lloyd to think.
- Opines that by this time most people have figured out her evil ways so she knew she had to get rid of them.
- Opines that de witt would let everyone know if she got the part.
- Opines that de witt knew nothing of this, but it was easy for karen to believe due to his knowledge.
- Analyzes how eve was able to play out her evil ways because of the people around her.
- Explains lloyd's blindness due to the thought of his plays being acted out exactly how he wanted.
- Opines that eve was already evil within and throughout. she hurt the ones that trusted her and took her in as a 'quot;lost lamb.
- Analyzes how margo was one of the most popular stage actresses and put herself high on a pedastel, and looked at someone like eve as being below her.
- Analyzes how eve adored margo and had nowhere else to go, which allowed her to get her foot in the door.
- Explains that eve's position made it not her place to speak her mind. eve knew this and knew it would be easy to take control of her.
- Describes eve as the type of person that would anything for anyone, kind of niave and trusted eve from day one. karen was amazed by eve's trust.
- Analyzes how margo's idea that she would be perfect for his new play, which was created for her, got him to believe that he came up with the idea.
- Analyzes how eve got everything right back at her. de witt checked out her past and discovered all of her dirty little secrets and said now she belonged to.
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- Analyzes how eve was described as logical, for men at that time did not view women as intelligent.
- Explains that his own judgment emphasizes his opinion that in order to succeed one needs only to have a certain degree of success.
- Explains that adam has the undying faith necessary to remain in paradise, but eve doesn't.
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- Opines that they will be able to get more work done since they won't be distracted by each other.
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