Film Analysis
The goals for this assignment were to analyze attitudes toward race, gender, class, or another element of culture found in the film. I analyzed gender and class in the film My Fair Lady. In the film there were definitive gender roles and social classes. The male gender was for sure the superior and of the course the upper class was the same. Then the student was supposed to find something cultural within the specified year that tied into the film. It was very hard to find something from 1964 to tie into this particular film because the film took place in England, in a whole different time period. I take full responsibility for that but I was able to find a cultural tie in through a women’s rights thing that took place in my year. The student was also required to write the paper in MLA format and that is the way I wrote it.
The film analysis was an interesting paper. I chose to write about the classic My Fair Lady, with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. The basic story line is a poor flower girl scrounges some money together to pay for vocal lessons. She is transformed from a poor flower girl into a convincing upper class lady. In doing so, she gets treated horribly but she falls in love with her teacher and the film ends with them together. In the beginning, I watched the film out of pure joy just to refresh my memory about the story line. Then I watched it for the second time, this semester, and I started taking notes on certain things like social class and gender roles. Then I watched it for the third time and noticed even more actions within scenes and various dialogues that further show social class and gender role situations. I was actually surprised at all of the stuff I noticed. Like if it was not for this class, I probably would have never thought twice about twisted social classes and horrid gender roles in this particular film. Well, after I got all of my information I went to the computer to look for cultural issues in the year 1964 that could back my thesis about gender roles and social classes in the film My Fair Lady. Now this was extremely hard because the film is based in Old England, not 1964 England, and it was made in America too. But when it came down to it, I did find some information about women’s rights in 1964 that I tied into my paper. After I found some cultural information, the paper pretty much wrote itself.
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