Fatal Attraction
Dynasty
Dallas
Dynasty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcdhdzfbR_o
Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired from 1981 to 1989. The series revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado.
Analysis: This clip is hilarious! Two women: Alexis (yellow) and Krystle (pink) fighting over a man. Alexis is obviously the baddy, she comes across as bitchy (like Edie from DH). She is constantly trying to aggravate Kyrstle. The names themselves reflect the characters, Kyrstle=angelic like. Alexis=conniving. This scene is set in a clothing factory/studio. Alexis is a fashion designer (im guessing). Kyrstle comes along to ask her if she can have a broach that Alexis bought which was in fact Kyrstles. This broach is of sentimental value because it was given to Kyrstle by a...MAN. Alexis tells her it is sobby and she got rid of it. Kyrstle then asks her "aren't you woman enough to understand that?" (the sentimental value). This connotes that women should know how precious a gift from a man is and what it means to a woman. In Kyrstle's case, it obviously means a lot as she starts a fight by grabbing her hair and chucking sequins over her! This fight is over a man, shows woman as man obsessed. Alexis gets to Kyrstle by making her feel jealous about a certain man. At the beginning of the clip, Alexis tells Kyrstle to stop 'gloating' (A feeling of great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction)=shows they are contstantly trying to compete with eachother.. They are obviously rivals, and here is some information i got on the two characters from the net:
Krystle and Alexis
The rivalry between Blake Carrington's current and former wives became a driver for the melodrama. Alexis resented Krystle's supplanting of her position as mistress of the Carrington household and tried to undermine her at every opportunity.
Alexis caused Krystle's miscarriage and tried repeatedly to ruin her marriage, most notably by finding Krystle's former husband (Samuel) Mark Jennings and proving that their divorce was never finalized (and that, consequently, Krystle's marriage to Blake was invalid).
They had many verbal confrontations. On one occasion Krystle overheard Alexis gossiping about her in an adjoining cubicle at the beauty parlour. Krystle appeared and announced that she too could "throw mud", and tossed a bowl of face mud over Alexis.
There are a handful of trademark catfights, beginning with one in Alexis' art studio on the Carrington estate (in which Krystle won soundly, destroying Alexis's art studio and a painting of Blake in the process. Another in the lily pond, one in a mud pool in a park and a final spat (in Dynasty: The Reunion) in a fashion studio. The verbal spars between Krystle and Alexis also marked one of the first times the word "bitch" was used on US television.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_(TV_series)
From this description, it shows how all the women cared about was the man, he was the object they all wanted and so faught over him. it says it was the first time the word 'bitch' was used on US television. This word is often used as a synonym for "woman". . It is a very offensive word because it dehumanises the woman by referring to her as a female dog.
http://www.saidit.org/archives/jun06/article4.html
Fatal Attraction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYpeKbHKVbU (trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZmbXN_pcjI (tormenting the man)
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Attraction
After reading the synopsis of this film (which i will soon be watching to get a better idea of the rep of women) it totally represents the woman as 'mad', 'crazy', 'man obsessed', 'whore', 'conniving' and many more objectifying words which i can not think of at this present moment.
I have now watched the movie. This movie is where the phrase 'bunny boiler' came from. I now understand. Out of all the women from Desperate Housewives, the one who most relates to Alex is probably Susan because she is the most obsessive. Also Edie can be compared to her, she is single and blonde and comes across as calouss at times, like Alex.
Dallas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3X90dCJAOQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvylYy8ccGc&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NhG78xcNWo&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL2GwhyZgSg&NR=1
In all of these clips the women are shown as :
objects to look at "couldn't look that good on a hanger". A guy talking about a dress a woman is wearing, saying that her body makes it look good (pervert).
Present to make the man feel good about himself.
Act as a maternal figure (packing the man's clothes).
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