I chose the movie Endless Love for this assignment, this
movie scored a 9 or a B on The Representation Test. This movie is the typical
love story about a boy and a girl who fall in love but the boy doesn’t meet the
fathers standards so they have to fight against him to be together. One way
that this movie is different from some others that put women down is that the
girl in this movie is considered more successful than the boy. She is going to
Brown to become a doctor eventually and he works on cars and will not be
attending college. This is a different story than some where the male is more
successful and the girl is just the housewife. That being said, this movie
scored a 3 in the “women” section of the test. There were two protagonists in
this film and one of them was a woman. This scored two points, the other point
came from women being portrayed as more than “objects for the male gaze”. The
male in this movie really loves the female and he admires her for many reasons
other than just looking at her. He loves everything about her and although she
is a pretty sight, it is very clear that he loves her deeply for other reasons
besides being nice to look at.
The
“men” section of the test scored 3 points, there are violent men in the film
but they are in no way glorified. When the men in this film get violent it is
frowned upon and seen as a very bad quality so this film is not glorifying
violence at all. This film also avoided perpetuating an extreme and unhealthy
body ideal for men, it did not focus much on the looks of men. There were a
couple of scenes where there were shirtless men but it was not focused on much
and these men did not seem to have unrealistic body shapes like they do in some
portrayals. This men also casted a man of color as one of the main characters,
he plays the role of the main males best friend. This man is not portrayed as
any racial stereotypes, he is just a normal member of the cast. This movie
scored well in the men section so it does a relatively good job of portraying
men.
This
film scored all points possible in the race, ethnicity, and culture section of
the test. It has no stereotypes that I noticed, the cast of the film was mostly
white but when there were people of different races it was not noticeable
because they were treated the same and acted the same. Therefore, there were
not noticeable stereotypes.
In
the LGBT people section and the people with disabilities section this film
scored no points because it didn’t feature either of these things at all. All
of the romances in the story were between a man and a woman, they weren’t
perfect relationships and they showed that the relationships had problems but
there weren’t any lesbian or gay couples. This film did a poor job of showing
people who might be different because of their sexuality or their sexual
orientation or even a disability. This film did score two bonus points because
it was written and directed by a woman. There were multiple writers in the film
but the same woman who directed the film was also a writer for it.
The
Representation Test does a relatively good job of grading this movie but it
could be done better. Endless Love
scored a B on the Representation Test although it left out a significant amount
of society. In my opinion, this movie did not deserve a B because it left out
lots of different races, LGBT people, people with disabilities and people of a
variety of ages. To make this test better I would simply change the grading
system so that movies that score a 9 like the movie that I graded will not be
awarded such a high grade because I don’t think that’s accurate. Movies should
represent so much more of society than they do and they should be held
accountable for that and not just getting a good grade because they represented
a couple of different aspects.
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