His Girl Friday charts the marriage and divorce and remarriage of Walter and Hildy and the engagement -- and near marriage -- of Hildy and Bruce. What is this film saying about that state of marriage in the modern world?
His Girl Friday portrays a different view on marriage then one would expect in the modern world. This film makes fun of the traditional marriage and instead flips the thought of having a husband/wife and a family, to making out that one can be just as happy with individual success. Hildy is such a strong woman in this movie and although she has two men in her life, she comes off as a very independent woman who does whatever she pleases. The film tells the viewers right in the beginning the story behind Hildy and Walter and how they got divorced and now Hildy has a new man in her life that she is planning on getting married to and start a family. This at first shows a modern world view on marriage but soon enough it's revealed that this is not what is the key to Hildy's happiness but instead working with the press and becoming independently successful. Hildy and Walter and both two strong-headed people who are very powerful and manipulative. Bruce, on the other hand, is opposite and seems not to fit into their world because he does not have much power (because Walter gets in the way of it most of the time).
I think that the film is saying that sometimes people marry because they feel that they have to start a family and be a mother and father, which might not be what they really want. A family is what is expected in a marriage, but it is not always what a person wants. This movie shows that you should do what you want, not what is expected or will look the best in society. At first, Hildy saw herself moving and starting a family because she thought that is what she wanted. With some help from Walter, she gradually understands that he passion is with journalism and she does not want to leave it. Walter is her key to happiness. He provides her with the world of journalism and without him, she will not be doing what she loves. The movie shows that once you are away from what you truly love, you will realize how much it means to you. When Hildy claimed that she was done, she was missing all of the action and she could not resist getting involved. It is in her nature to be a journalist. On the other hand, Hildy could have been testing Walter with Bruce to see how he would react and if he still loved her. We can see that she was interested in Walter because she cried at the end because she thought he did not love her. This movie could also be saying that marriage is just a term that does not really matter. They play with marriage as if it is nothing. Which signifies that it is not that marriage that matters, it is what comes with marriage.
His Girl Friday shows marraige in a much different light than what society normally sees it as. The most common perception with marriage in society is that of two overly happy people living behind a white picket fence with their children. His Girl Friday partly makes fun of this by portraying marriage in a much different way. By doing this, His Girl Friday shows that the common conception of what marriage will be like is incorrect and almost unachievable. It shows that what marriage is supposed to mean in the common world is almost in disintegration. This is shown when Hildy eventually leaves Bruce to go back to Walter. In the beginning, Hildy believed she wanted to move to Albany and start a family with Bruce. By the end of the movie she understands that that is never what she wanted. In this way, she is throwing out the stereotype of what marriage should be like. His Girl Friday shows that what marriage is conceived to be in the modern world is not correct.
The film, His Girl Friday, portrays marrige in a different light then we as a society might view it today; marrige and the steriotypical family life take a back seat to a career. This film pokes fun at the idealistical marrige, and to some extent even the frequency of divource in ourn society. Hildy Johnson isdepicted as a strong willed independent girl who just so happens to have two men hanging off of her. Throughout the film it appears as though she is switching off between the two men and who she likes more. She may like the notion that she could be that steriotypical house wife with Bruce, but she later is appears than she realizes that she like the thrilling, exciting, and unknown side of Walter and the paper buisiness. Moreover, from the beggining of the film we see the relationship between Hildy and the two men develope, and through the entire time, Hildy is always in control of her fate. At one point she certainly could have left the paper to go off and marry Bruce, but she was overcome by a stroy and opted to work on it instead in order to assert her independence. Thus demonstrating that she does not wasnt the steriotypical marrige where the women takes a back seat to a man, shw wasnt power and control. The once perfect indeology of marrige is no more, and is thrown to the wayside in His Girl Friday.
His Girl Friday portrays a different view on marriage then one would expect in the modern world. This film makes fun of the traditional marriage and instead flips the thought of having a husband/wife and a family, to making out that one can be just as happy with individual success. Hildy is such a strong woman in this movie and although she has two men in her life, she comes off as a very independent woman who does whatever she pleases.
ReplyDeleteThe film tells the viewers right in the beginning the story behind Hildy and Walter and how they got divorced and now Hildy has a new man in her life that she is planning on getting married to and start a family. This at first shows a modern world view on marriage but soon enough it's revealed that this is not what is the key to Hildy's happiness but instead working with the press and becoming independently successful. Hildy and Walter and both two strong-headed people who are very powerful and manipulative. Bruce, on the other hand, is opposite and seems not to fit into their world because he does not have much power (because Walter gets in the way of it most of the time).
I think that the film is saying that sometimes people marry because they feel that they have to start a family and be a mother and father, which might not be what they really want. A family is what is expected in a marriage, but it is not always what a person wants. This movie shows that you should do what you want, not what is expected or will look the best in society. At first, Hildy saw herself moving and starting a family because she thought that is what she wanted. With some help from Walter, she gradually understands that he passion is with journalism and she does not want to leave it. Walter is her key to happiness. He provides her with the world of journalism and without him, she will not be doing what she loves. The movie shows that once you are away from what you truly love, you will realize how much it means to you. When Hildy claimed that she was done, she was missing all of the action and she could not resist getting involved. It is in her nature to be a journalist. On the other hand, Hildy could have been testing Walter with Bruce to see how he would react and if he still loved her. We can see that she was interested in Walter because she cried at the end because she thought he did not love her. This movie could also be saying that marriage is just a term that does not really matter. They play with marriage as if it is nothing. Which signifies that it is not that marriage that matters, it is what comes with marriage.
ReplyDeleteHis Girl Friday shows marraige in a much different light than what society normally sees it as. The most common perception with marriage in society is that of two overly happy people living behind a white picket fence with their children. His Girl Friday partly makes fun of this by portraying marriage in a much different way. By doing this, His Girl Friday shows that the common conception of what marriage will be like is incorrect and almost unachievable. It shows that what marriage is supposed to mean in the common world is almost in disintegration. This is shown when Hildy eventually leaves Bruce to go back to Walter. In the beginning, Hildy believed she wanted to move to Albany and start a family with Bruce. By the end of the movie she understands that that is never what she wanted. In this way, she is throwing out the stereotype of what marriage should be like. His Girl Friday shows that what marriage is conceived to be in the modern world is not correct.
ReplyDeleteThe film, His Girl Friday, portrays marrige in a different light then we as a society might view it today; marrige and the steriotypical family life take a back seat to a career. This film pokes fun at the idealistical marrige, and to some extent even the frequency of divource in ourn society. Hildy Johnson isdepicted as a strong willed independent girl who just so happens to have two men hanging off of her. Throughout the film it appears as though she is switching off between the two men and who she likes more. She may like the notion that she could be that steriotypical house wife with Bruce, but she later is appears than she realizes that she like the thrilling, exciting, and unknown side of Walter and the paper buisiness.
ReplyDeleteMoreover, from the beggining of the film we see the relationship between Hildy and the two men develope, and through the entire time, Hildy is always in control of her fate. At one point she certainly could have left the paper to go off and marry Bruce, but she was overcome by a stroy and opted to work on it instead in order to assert her independence. Thus demonstrating that she does not wasnt the steriotypical marrige where the women takes a back seat to a man, shw wasnt power and control. The once perfect indeology of marrige is no more, and is thrown to the wayside in His Girl Friday.