Analysis Of The Film 'Working Girl'
The film “Working Girl” illustrates the feminist fight and struggles of women in the work force in the 1980s to the present, every contradiction relates to the main problems that women face. The two main women characters in “Working Girl” represent the two types of stereotypes of women that establish themselves in the corporate world, Kathrine Parker and Tess McGill. Despite the film being an inspirational feminist story, the writer Kevin Wade created a love plot between the main character, Tess McGill and a side character, Jack Trainer. This side love plot takes away from the main tone and contradicts the original goal of the film, to inspire women to break barriers. The movie did not require this love trope, if the film had a stand alone
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The irony of having men direct and write this women’s right film is similar to person with fully functioning legs writing literature explaining the struggles of being disabled. Since the literature is written by the oppressors of women’s rights, their make of the situation and view is extremely inverted. Furthermore, the main character, Tess McGill was not based off of any businesswoman, Wade created this character without inspiration from a woman that actually drove that path, which makes it seem unattainable. Having no real life woman to look up to, after turning off the television, made the journey seem romanticized and unrealistic in the 1980s. Young women were not given many or no female business role models to follow after since business and politics are such a male dominate fields. The importance of women in the media is extremely consequential since they impact the young girls that grow up, thinking that working is a man’s game. A group or person outside of a minority group will never understand the oppression and write about women’s struggles respectively or correctly. It is the difference between someone experiencing sympathy, but think they can put themselves in the opposing side and empathy, knowing the fight and discrimination. The message behind the film “Working Girl” would have been more influential if an actual businesswoman had done what Tess McGill achieved or at least based off of some individual. While Kevin Wade did a fantastic job at capturing feminism in the 1980s and everything, the cause faced, it contradicts with the theme of the
The irony of having men direct and write this women’s right film is similar to person with fully functioning legs writing literature explaining the struggles of being disabled. Since the literature is written by the oppressors of women’s rights, their make of the situation and view is extremely inverted. Furthermore, the main character, Tess McGill was not based off of any businesswoman, Wade created this character without inspiration from a woman that actually drove that path, which makes it seem unattainable. Having no real life woman to look up to, after turning off the television, made the journey seem romanticized and unrealistic in the 1980s. Young women were not given many or no female business role models to follow after since business and politics are such a male dominate fields. The importance of women in the media is extremely consequential since they impact the young girls that grow up, thinking that working is a man’s game. A group or person outside of a minority group will never understand the oppression and write about women’s struggles respectively or correctly. It is the difference between someone experiencing sympathy, but think they can put themselves in the opposing side and empathy, knowing the fight and discrimination. The message behind the film “Working Girl” would have been more influential if an actual businesswoman had done what Tess McGill achieved or at least based off of some individual. While Kevin Wade did a fantastic job at capturing feminism in the 1980s and everything, the cause faced, it contradicts with the theme of the