The women who exert the greatest influence on the life of Scott Hastings are Sherley Hastings, Fran and Yaya (Frans grandmother), this will be explored with reference to the film strictly ballroom as a whole. The women in the film Strictly ballroom are all portrayed differently, and as they are differently portrayed Scott’s reactions and response also varies. Sherley Hastings is portrayed as an artificial person who is obsessed with her image, she wears bright pink which exaggerates her false femininity, Sherley is also controlling as she bullies Doug Hastings, is so obsessed about Scott winning to the point that she will not let anything or anyone in her way and even the house of Scott Hastings is filled with pink objects as seen by the interviewing frame, Sherley Hastings is shot from an low angle camera which makes her look superior and powerful, Sherley also gets lit from the …show more content…
Sherley is a negative influence to Scott at the beginning of the film as her prejudice to Fran rubs off on him. Scott also responds negatively to Sherley as the truth comes out that she and Doug lived their lives in fear and the fact that Sherley does not want Scott to dance his own move at the pan pacific, nor does she want Scott to dance with Fran. Fran is portrayed in the beginning of Strictly Ballroom as the ugly duckling, she wears mutilated and pastel colours as she is an outsider and wants to blend in and she also has a lack of self-confidence. Fran is shot with a high angle camera which makes her look insignificant and inferior to Sherley, Fran also gets lighting from the back which makes her look innocent. Fran has an underlying courage which is shown when she asks to dance with Scott at the Pan Pacific’s and to dance his own moves. As the film progresses Fran is now portrayed as a swan and starts wearing more bold colours such as red and her grown confidence starts to show. Scott
Other than trying to make it day to day at their company Frank is one of the things these three ladies have in common. Frank is their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical, bigot of a boss. He lusts after most of the women under his authority at the office but has taken a special liking to Doralee, who despises him. Though despicable as a man he has just been promoted to Head of that division. He has a loving wife who ends up divorcing him to be with one of his associates. He gets another promotion and has to leave the country, he is never to be heard from again.
... because she has lied to her husband ,friends and family and even Edward being her own son. Mickey feels guilty about the lack of support for himself and his family (Linda and Sarah) he relays on Mrs Johnstone to support him.
while his wife Bunny and daughter Maude are reminiscent of the two Sternwood daughters, Vivian and Carmen” (Bergan 201). These two women also provide that all-important aspect of the femme fatale. Bunny is the impulsive, sexualized woman who acts without thinking, and lives by the charity of the elderly husband who just can’t tell her no. Maude is the dark, intelligent, manipulative woman. She works in the background, accomplishing what she wants, only telling others what they need to hear for her to get what she wants.
Eleanor Powell was born on November 21st, 1912 in Springfield, Massachusetts. At the age of two, her father abandoned her family, leaving her mother working hard to make ends meet. Her mother had told her that her father had died. At twenty three years of age, her father had re-introduced himself to her.
Heroines in screwball comedies always had much more positive reaction in the process of pursuing what they desired to, like “female catalyst.” For instance, in My Favorite Wife, Ellen rushed to the airport and tried to save her marriage with an old- fashioned dress, which is even tittered by others, as long as she was told that her husband Arden was about to spend a sweet moon with his new wife Bianca in the same hotel as they had. Both in Leo McCarey’s The Awful Truth (1937), out of suspicious, Lucy decided to divorce with her husband Jerry; however, after Lucy saw Jerry’s fantastic series of behavior on Mr. Duvall’s private concert, she realized that she was still in love with Jerry. As a result, Lucy claimed as Jerry’s sister and tricked him and his new girlfriend on Barbara’s appointment to debunk Jerry’s falsehood and to lower the impression formed by Barbara’s family. For sure, both Ellen and Lucy get their husbands or...
In addition, Priestley shows the stereotypical traits of women as when Sheila gets sacked, it's because of pride, vanity, and jealousy.
1. Caroline Noble- She is the protagonist/hero and her plausible motivation for not wanting to build the new summer house was her musical past and how the garden lodge reminded her of that. She quickly says to how it would be “ almost a shame, doesn't it, after d'Esquerre has used it”(Cather 3) as a good excuse for not replacing the lodge. She eventually changes her mind after she had “slept over it”(6). Caroline is a static and is a round character being described as “paramountly cool-headed, slow of impulse, and disgustingly practical” (1) and musical with even more characterization that makes her stand out more than the other characters.
What’s Fitzgerald’s implicit views of modern women in this novel? Daisy and Jordan dress the part of flappers, yet Daisy also plays the role of the Louisville rich girl debutante. A good question to ask is perhaps just how much Daisy realizes this is a “role,” and whether her recognition of that would in any sense make her a modern woman character.
... differ which reveals their character traits to the audience. Hilda and Hally’s mother are from different classes. They play similar roles in their domestic lives however their positions differ in the broader social society. Both females are not physically present in the play; they are portrayed through other characters that have their own issues. This brings a bias element into the play as the women cannot represent themselves. The men in the play are the ones that ultimately bring the women to life in the play. The men consequently portray double characterisation. Both of the women are ruled by men, however, they respond differently. Hilda is represented through Willie and Sam. Hally’s mother is represented to the audience through the telephone conversation that she has with Hally. For both women, we cannot merely assume that the descriptions of them are accurate.
The first of many women of Dean’s to be introduced to Sal is Marylou. She is described
Mad Hot Ballroom, directed by Marilyn Argrelo, is a documentary about the ballroom dance program in the New York Public School system. The documentary follows the journey of fifth grade students as they learn how to ballroom dance, and enter a citywide competition. The children in the documentary express their perspectives on ballroom dancing, goals and inspirations, and what it is like to grow up in their neighborhoods. The documentary highlights the benefits of exposing urban youth to ballroom dancing (Agrelo, 2005).
If we consider Helga Crane's development through the novel, we can see that she is rather ambivalent concerning her sexuality and one of her conflicts is the way in which she tries to make her sexuality fit in with notions of social respectability. Although she attempts to reject the objectification of what it means to be a woman.
c. Bailey, he is the head of the family. Due to the request of her mother this family visit the old plantation house. d. John Wesley, a obnoxious eight-year-old boy who wants to visit the house of the grandmother talks because of the secret panel out there. 24 e. June Star, a young girl who loudy speaks her mind and cutting observations to her surroundings.
How the film techniques used by Baz Luhrman to influence the portrayal and development of characters in the film Strictly Ballroom?
Our first sighting of Agatha Trunchbull was her buying a car from Matilda’s father (croaky car dealer), although this scene was not clear on her appearance, it used low key lighting from behind to create a shadow which showed her large body figure and created suspicion for the audience on her appearance. It also made the audience feel threatened, curious and scared because of her body size and height compared to Matilda’s father. Ms Trunchbull first big entrance of her character was used to show the audience that she was the malicious and evil character of the movie compared to way they introduced Miss Honey who was acting kind and sweet with front and high key lighting. They depicted her character as the evil personality and appearance by using side lighting to make her look unflattering and scary, this lighting made the audience feel threatened and it created a concerned tone for the children around Ms Trunchbull. The next main scene of Ms Trunchbull was in the assembly, this was when Ms Trunchbull forced Bruce to eat a massive cake. The lighting used in this scene summarised Ms Trunchbull as a bitter character as it used low key lighting coming from the side angle (side-lighting) which was shining through the blinds making a line effect on her face. This created a daunting and nerve-racking scene for the innocent character Bruce, making the scene suspenseful and created an extremely violent look on Ms Trunchbull face. During the movie the lighting changes as Ms Trunchbull becomes less powerful and malicious and more vulnerable. In the scene where the children over power Mr Trunchbull the director uses high key lighting to open the scene and make Agatha’s face clear but still unflattering. The lighting in the film changes throughout the movie because Ms Trunchbull loses her strength of threatening and