English 101.0800
Magdalena Bogacka
November 6, 2010
Title of the movie: Wedding Crashers.
Director: David Dobkin
Actors/Performers (at least two): Owen Wilson (John Beckwith) and Vince Vaughn (Jeremy Grey).
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Year: 2005
Medium: Film
How do the main male characters behave in the movie toward other male characters? Toward female characters? Do you consider their behavior masculine? Why? Explain.
The behavior of the main character is very influent over the other character male because your dominant and positive attitude drives him to be the perfect male model and popular for conquering women. On the other hand, their behavior toward women is of a gentleman which creates a real image of the perfect masculine.
Does what seems the movie place more emphasis on the relationship/bonds between males or between males and females? Are there any connections between the movie and the David Grazian discusses about males’ behavior in “The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity”?
The movie places more emphasis on the relationship of men because it reflects the behavior and attitude of men towards women. The relationship between the movie and What David Grazian said "The Girl Hunt" is that in both cases the man is focused on his manhood to achieve his goal which is to conquer women every day.
What seems to be the ultimate message of the film? In order words, what ideas about men and masculinity do you, the viewer, walk away with from this film?
The idea about men and masculinity that I look in the film is that a specific masculinity allows the man getting his true objective; in this case conquer women every day.
The movie Wedding Crashers is about the lives of two men who through his masculinity achieved to conquer many women every day. Those men John and Jeremy began to attend many weddings with the aim of conquering woman for that specific day .Both of them are very intelligent, talk many different languages, are professionals and overall they have a good physical appearance all turn allow them to socialize in any wedding even though they're lying. Their main goal was to get a woman to that day no matter who they were or what they did. Consequentemente, one day his goal led them to the wrong place where they were conquered, but there they realized what they were really doing with the women was differente what they wanted for their lives. In fact, they disappeared after each night of pleasure, until one of the men actually fell in love with the daughter of the president . He tried to do everything possible to continue with her, but unfortunately his lies came to light and the president and his family discovered they were lying about their identity. Finally, they stopped from lying to women, and changed their way of thinking about the female. Their masculinity was a perfect weapon to conquer women and achieves its goal.
Wok Cited
Weeding Crashers. Dir. David Dobkin. Perf. Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn. New Line Cinema, 2005. Film
You did well with the Work Cited entry, but you need to remember how to differentiate between long, large works like books and movies, and short works like articles or essays.
ReplyDeleteYour reflections sounds like a summary of the movie's plot. You did reflections for your annotated bibliography and these did not ask you to summarize.
I really like your point, the one you make in answer to question two, about how the male relationships are emphasized in the film, which is a similar point that Grazian makes in his article. So how important is male bonding to men feeling masculine in the presence of women? other men?