intellectual beings. Coming into college‚ I was aware that women are not held to this standard anymore‚ but I was still worried that some people would continue to not take women seriously. Even as late as 2001‚ gender stereotypes persisted in film and in the media. In the movie Legally Blonde‚ starring Reese Witherspoon‚ Elle Woods gets dumped by her scholarly boyfriend because he wants a “serious relationship” with an educated and successful sorority president. Elle Woods is at first portrayed as
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How Legally Blonde Subverts the Female Stereotype At a first glance‚ Legally Blonde seems like a stereotypical chick flick‚ with millions of female stereotypes abounding the first 20 minutes and beyond. However‚ when you look deeper‚ at the underlying themes and messages‚ you begin to realize that there is something different about this movie. In most movies we see two basic types of females‚ with other sub-branches: the traditional‚ ditzy‚ feminine woman (Type 1)‚ or the “I’m not like other women”
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Legally Blonde In many ways today’s society‚ even though women have come a long way‚ we still live in a patriarchal world. There are many examples of this in everyday life‚ whether it be that there aren’t very many women CEO’s or the mere fact that we’ve yet to have a woman president. No matter where you live‚ there is the presence of a male dominated world. It especially extends into the working fields. There are professions that are categorically women’s’ jobs like nursing‚ school teacher‚ or
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arguments‚ not on my gender”. Lawyers are advocates of the law as well as advisors to their clients. Stereotypes are present in the law profession‚ and it is recognized as a man’s territory. Legally Blonde‚ a film directed by Robert Luketic‚ reveals the generalizations made about a blonde sorority girl pursuing a career in law. Sex does not determine the quality of a lawyer; their knowledge‚ performance and representation of the law reflects a lawyer’s potential. Gender discrimination exists
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Legally blonde and the ideologies involved. Legally blonde is a film about Elle Woods a blonde sorority queen who is dumped by her boyfriend‚ she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and‚ once there‚ learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined and is thrown into solving a case in which she will make lots of friends and maybe even some enemies. The first thing I notice is that a common ideology used throughout the film is stereotypical ideology the main way this is used
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I am analyzing the musical Legally Blonde that has music and lyrics written by Laurence O’ Keefe‚ Nell Benjamin‚ and Heather Hach who wrote the libretto. The musical is based on the novel Legally Blonde written by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film version of the same name that tells a story of a UCLA sorority girl Elle Woods who enrolls at Harvard Law School. While at Harvard she is on a quest to get back together with her ex-boyfriend Warner that already has a girlfriend. Throughout the musical Elle
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“Legally Blonde” Analysis Feminism has become the great issue in this modern era. The emerging of second wave feminism in the late 60s had bring a huge impact toward the position of women in the society. Women are free from the male values‚ while women have the equal rights in politic. Women also can quit from their domestic sphere. The movement of feminism still continues in the early 90s. The women’s movement experience a phase which the ideology of feminism had changed to be Third Wave
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Directed by Robert Luketic‚ Legally Blonde is a film about a stereotypical valley girl‚ born into a rich family‚ used to getting everything she wants‚ and then breaking molds to prove she can rise above society’s expectations of privileged kids. Elle Woods‚ the main character and heroine of the story‚ is a wealthy and beautiful young girl from Malibu. She is the president of her sorority and she adores all things pink and fashionable. Her boyfriend Warner is a type-cast pretty boy who happens to
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An Acting Critique of Legally Blonde the Musical On Friday night‚ May 3rd at & p.m.‚ my mother and I attended the opening night of Legally Blonde in the Buena P.A.C. I must begin by saying that I am slightly biased towards one of the actors who just so happens to be my sister‚ so the roles of Chutney‚ the girl who accidentally murdered her father‚ and a Delta Nu sister have never been played more perfectly in my eyes. While I found the play both amusing and enjoyable‚ there were some big issues
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2015 Feminism Portrayed in Legally Blonde In the film Legally Blonde‚ sexism and feminism are two very evident features‚ beginning in a negative‚ stereotypical way‚ and ending in a positive‚ strong willed spirit‚ promoting confidence and understanding your own self-worth. The film was released in 2001‚ potentially misleading viewers to believe that it was just another “dumb blonde” joke made into a movie. But what they encountered was more or less the opposite. Stereotypes were thrown left and right
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