Fandoms In Free Enterprise

Free Enterprise follows the lives of Mark Altman and Robert Meyer Burnett, two men who are basically the ultimate fans of Star Trek amongst other series. The film gives off a couple different messages dealing with fandoms and how they can affect different relationships in your life. Free Enterprise also touches along the lines of people that are not in the media see pop culture, fandoms, and the all round fiction of the media. It is not always about how the media represents reality but sometimes how we, in reality represent the media. A lot of the time media can control what they want their image to look like in reality but there are also time we society has an affect on the image of media. This film focuses on two men heavily involved in the Star Trek fandom and several other fandoms ranging from sci-fi to superheroes. This involvement and borderline obsession affects their relationships in each of their lives. For example the scene where Robert’s girlfriend is breaking up with him but he seems more interested in the Star Trek ornament she is taking back from him rather than the fact his girlfriend is leaving him. This scene gives off a negative
For example when someone asks, “Is there a doctor in the building?” I have to refrain myself from saying yes because watching Grey’s Anatomy does not mean I am an actually doctor even if I have learned some medical jargon from the show. I can quote some dialogue from some movies and I can do it often. I know meaningless facts about actors in my favorite television shows that no one really cares about. I call my favorite characters, “My children”, or “My babies” because I would never want anything bad to happen to them even though they are fictional characters. My fandom is not as extreme as Robert and Mark’s but it is similar in its own ways. We all have these strong feelings for the fandoms that we are in and I feel like that connects us in a