Blog Number Seven

I haven't watch many movies lately I never have time to sit down and watch one. The movie though that popped into my head was Legally Blonde. This movie shows the ultimate stereotype for blonde headed girls. The movie I remember was advertised with commercials all the time. It was advertised as a ditzy blonde becoming something big. This movie the main character Elle Woods lived in a sorority house and almost all the girls in the house had blonde hair. Elle wanted to go to law school to show her ex boyfriend that she could be a lawyer. In the end Elle ended up being the best lawyer and graduated from Harvard with a job in place and her ex boyfriend didn't have any job offers. The significance was that the movie showed how most people view blonde headed girls but in the end it showed that they too can be something great. I think that this portrayal is what made the movie so popular and such a big hit.

Movie Review:
Written by: Karen McCullah Luzt, Kristen Smith
"If you've ever doubted how much a star can carry a movie, look no further than Legally Blonde, Robert Luketic's pop fluff about a sorority girl who becomes the reigning brain at Harvard Law School. The film tries way too hard to be pop fluff, but thankfully it also understands the comic glories of Reese Witherspoon. As Elle Woods, the supposedly dimwitted heroine, Witherspoon gives a high-wattage performance that somehow comes across as both lusciously cartoonish and warmly human. It's a radiant comic turn worthy of Marilyn Monroe, and Luketic throws the whole movie at her, even though its intentional kitsch and sledgehammer... "


Response to Readings:
The F-Word chapter 7 was about relationships and how the majority of women in today's time either don't get married or it ends in divorce. I think that the reason this is so high is that marriage isn't taken seriously anymore people don't stick to their voes. I find that very sad that it means nothing to a lot of people. I also think that a lot of it has to do with people not waiting until marriage to have sex. In today's society sex is something that is thrown around and people just do it because they feel like it. I grew up in a home where my parents taught me that you have to wait until marriage to have sex and they it should be a very special thing and its something that shouldn't be taken lightly. I was brought up in church so that is what I have always believed. In chapter 8 of the F-Word it talked about motherhood and how women are losing their balance with being a mother and work. I think that this has to do with all the teen pregnancies that we have in this country. Which then again has to do with people not waiting until marriage to have sex. I don't think we would have near the problem we have today if people would just learn to wait!!!