Fatal Attraction

How are Women Portrayed in a Male Dominant Society? In the movie Fatal Attraction, directed by Adrian Lyne, females are portrayed to be recessive toward men. Fatal Attraction has two female characters, Beth (Dan’s wife), and Alex (Dan’s mistress). However, this story isn’t about rainbows and unicorns. As we, audience members, interact in the movie, we compare and contrast both Beth and Alex with the dominant character Dan. Adrian Lyne is portraying two different women in society; Alex is the working woman and Beth is the housewife. Therefore, this movie support male dominated society and how women are portrayed as needing a man in their lives to feel completed. In a male dominant society, the male is the rule maker. Things must always be approved by him. In Fatal Attraction, Dan is the main male character, which he has two different relationships with two different women. In one specific event in the movie Dan is turned down by his wife for sex. He take advantage of…

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Film Response Paper Released on September 11, 1987 and directed by Adrian Lyne, the film Fatal Attraction leaves audiences cringing at just the mere thought of an obsession. The film features two main characters. Primarily being Mr. Dan Gallagher. Dan Gallagher is a happily married attorney, who lives in Manhattan, New York. Mr. Gallagher encounters a female editor named Alex. Ms. Alex works for a publishing company. While Mr. Gallagher’s wife, and daughter, are out of town for the weekend, Mr.…

Fatal Attraction "Fatal Attraction" is a psychological film directed by Adrian Lyne and starred by Michael Douglas as Dan Gallagher and Glenn Close as Alex Forrest (Rebaza, n.d.). In the story, Michael Douglas portrayed the role of a lawyer who was happily married for nine years (Ebert, 2013) and his marriage with his wife was blessed with a 6-year-old daughter. He loves his wife very much and he had no particular problems with his wife until the day that he met an intriguing blond, Glenn…

Fatal Attraction Personality Disorder Fatal Attraction the movie is based off of the personality disorder known as fatal attraction syndrome. The definition of fatal Attraction is defined as an attraction that can and sometimes and does lead to death. The death may be of the one who is attracted. The targets of the attraction also are in danger of dying from murder when the full, deadly attraction disease is at work. Sometimes both people die, as all too often happens in a murder-suicide…

Disability is often used as a device to drive a narrative’s plot forward. So, in Fatal Attraction Alex is characterized as mentally ill and a violent character in order to portray her as the villainous antagonist. Longmore described in “Screening Stereotypes” that giving disabilities to villainous characters reinforced the idea that people with disabilities resent people that are not disabled and would destroy them by any means. As demonstrated in the film, Alex despised that Beth can live a…

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho, and Glenn Close as Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction, each played the character portrayed as mentally unstable. The two actors seamlessly fell into their parts and led the audience to believe they were truly insane. In the beginning, each of the two lived what appeared to be normal lives. Anthony Perkins managed his mother’s motel that had become a ghost-town after the new highway had been build, which completely cut off access to the motel. Glenn Close…

This 1987 sexy, thriller film introduced a few characters to tell the story of a cheating husband and a crazy mistress. Fatal Attraction’s characters Dan Gallagher was the father of a six-year-old daughter, Ellen and was married to Beth Gallagher for nine years. The mistress, Alex Forrest played a sneaky, unstable, hot, single woman. The beginning of the movie portrays Alex to be calm and collective. Soon we find out how unstable and psychotic she really is. Dan gets involved with someone he…

The Sport industry is enormous and has a connection to every possible event occurring in the world. Sports played by children to professional athletes creates an attraction for people. The kind of attraction depends on the type of the sport and people’s belief towards that particular sport. The business world uses different techniques to perceive and attract people towards the sports, techniques such as advertisements, shows, news, charity, games, and more. Through these, they create a community…