Romantic Comedy

The Romantic comedy “10” could be considered a trendsetter. The film has a sexual ideology of how sex in the 80’s may have been perceived. The main character George Webber a married man is seen as an escapist, who has reached a midlife crisis and searches for sexual exploration. He becomes interested in younger women and stumbles into a young beauty that is soon on her way to be wedded. The comedy here soon develops as George falls in love with this woman and follows the couple to their honeymoon in Mexico. In Mexico George saves the woman’s husband life and becomes a hero. The husband out of the picture due to his sunburn injuries the two are then off into an evening of escapade. After a long night Georges wish of having sex woman finally comes true, but only to be disappointed by her confounding behavior in bed. George then returns back home to his true love.

This film is contemporary to its time and that’s where its success has derived from. The characters are all sexually contemporary as well; especially the young girl. She is who is most explored as we can describe her as a casual, sexual hippie. She may also be considered as a symbol of that time and age. Georges character is what makes the entire film comical. Georges imagination gets the best of him, as he seeks for a perfect woman. George stumbles into this young beautiful woman who he then follows to her wedding then to her honeymoon. Throughout this, we see George as a hopeful towards love. In reality this act would considered immoral, however we fall for this character and maybe because we have all been there and have had escapades of finding or thinking the IDEAL girl/boy is out there. As George finally has sex with this young girl the plot is developed. George realizes that he has made a mistake and the perfect 10 wasn’t whom he throughout it would be. Georges sexual realization is now settled, he then heads home as he attempts to rekindle his true love.

Technology in films.......

  As I read Images of Technology I became uninterested of its purpose and message. I personally love and enjoy sci-fi and action movies. I truly dislike how this reading picks apart some great movies, however I do have somewhat of an understanding to what is trying to be said. it seems that scientist/engineers haven’t been depicted as they should in films and I do agree to an extent. However, this concept of misconstruing such a profession is false and society actually accepts these professions of a higher status towards knowledge and of course income. For example, many dislike and speak badly of dentist, but we all know it’s a reputational profession.

  Now back to motion pictures, who wouldn’t want to watch a laser cut trough 12inch thick steel as it reaches its victim. This is possibly far from reality, but interesting and thrilling to most audiences. These ideas come from imagination; no one wishes to watch a dull film with genuine acts of technology. Imagination gives us the ideas of stimulating and futuristic technological advances that are used in todays Sci-fi & Action films. As a fan of these two genres, I could think of two characters from a technological profession. The first character is Spock from Star Trek; he plays the role of a Science Officer/Pilot. Star Trek is a futuristic space film series that portrays images of technology, but Purely Fictional and shouldn’t be held to judgment -- of this sort. Spock however is portrayed as having only a sense of logic and no feelings (or at least half). This could be considered as a negative association towards scientist, of being ONLY literary logical. I choose to differ becasue I see Spock as a genius, a hero and an icon of science. Lets switch to something recent, modern and relevant - the new Iron Man movies! The character Tony Starks who is Iron Man, is an engineer of military special weapons. He however portrays the role of an arrogant ladies man but his creative intelligence has led him to create his flying iron suit. We all know that this type of technology is unrealistic to date but it makes a very interesting plot for a film. Watch this short clip to see the amazing Iron Man.

    As like Spock, Tony Starks is also a genius, a hero and an engineering icon. Though these professions are sometimes mocked or portrayed differently in movies, we all wish to be the scientist that finds the cure, the astronaut in space or the one that builds the flying suit. Lets not forget the majority of these films are only fictional and not documentaries.  

You Asked For It!

For our Casino Royale Presentation the group will be covering many ideas throughout Bonds Era. From Connery to Craig, from Casino Royale to Dr. No and others. However, I will be presenting information & ideas of the books acceptance in the 50’s. Such as where its success developed and how conservative views and lifestyles accepted a plot with so much sex, violence, sadism, gambling, womanizing, espionage and more women! The book was sophisticated and brutal considering the 1950's the normative family consisted of a breadwinner father, homemaker mother, and several children, all living in homes in the suburbs on the outskirts of a larger city. In the 1950s sexual expression was supposed to be restricted to marriage, and premarital sex was taboo. Where nearly everyone conformed to a pattern of early marriage and several children. Casino Royal’s success may have came from the sense of the Man Who Saved Britain-he had a license to kill, the secret agent who saved civilization from a series of nefarious villains while staying in the world's fanciest hotels and romancing a multitude of beautiful babes. In addition, After the war 1951 women were asked to return to the role of a mother& wife, they wanted to stop feminism and bond helped with that message. The truth is that all the bond girls had great professional careers – some pilots, CIA, business owners, Spies --and they all did extraordinary things. They were progressive.