Title of movie: Wedding Crashers
Director: David Dobkin
Actors/ Performers: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrel
Distributer: New Line Cinema
Year: 2005
Medium: Film
1. The main characters in the movie act towards other males all buddies and joking around kind of thing. As with the female characters they are a huge flirts and sweet talkers. Yes I believe that their behaviour is masculine because that potraits the mans ambition to be the headman, someone that can be envy by others.
2. The movie puts more emphisis on male to female relationships because this was the main focus all throughtout the film. There is a connection that I see between the wedding crashers and the article "the girl hunt" which is that these males go around looking for women to have a one night stand with and with the accompany of a wingman, just what David Grazian pointed out in his article.
3. The ultimate message of the film is that the wingman or the "hunt" is that without a wingman there is a high chance of failure. I walked away with the idea that its all fun and games until you hurt someone's feeling and or run into a woman that is very investigative.
Work Cited:
Wedding Crashers. Dir. David Dobkin. Perf. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. New Line Cinema., 2005
My thoughts of the movie were that this is a great link to campare to "the girl hunt" article by David Grazian. Everything was real relatable and the movie itself was a great laugh. The whole wingman and while at the wedding both pals were hilarious and manage to score alot of women for that night. The message wasnt only with having a guy to girl relationship there was a male with male relationship that needed to be establish also. This is what I noticed and if the man to man relationship didnt work out niether would the man to woman, because again its a "bromantic" film.
I agree that the two male characters' behavior and their participation in the 'girl hunt' ritual is very masculine. And as you aptly point out, Grazian's article provides us with an analysis as well as vocabulary for this masculine behavior. But what is particularly interesting about your answer to question one, is the fact that you mention the man's "ambition to be the headman." But who will consider the guy who scores or picks up a girl, the headman? Not the girl, right? It is all a show for his wingmen and/or other men. So really the who 'girl hunt' is not about women so much as about appearing masculine to other men.
ReplyDeleteThink about this some more, and compose your paragraph reflection. Good job on the Work CIted entry.