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2) I chose the movie Girls Just Want to Have Fun as an item for my media portfolio. Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular couple, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The only problem is that Janey's father doesn't approve of that kind of thing (Murray Chapman). During the dance competition Natalie, a rich girl tries to rig the dance competition so that she can win. I chose this because it shows how the richer social classes were better than the poorer social classes.
3) The movie Girls Just Want to Have Fun relates to Johnson’s chapter 3 Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of Domination because during both the rich classes act as though they are better than the poorer classes. In the movie Girls Just Want to Have Fun Natalie, one of the rich girls in town, convinces her father to rig the dance competition that both her and Janey, a new girl whose family is poorer than Natalie’s’ family, are in. Natalie wants to win the competition so that she can be on Dance T.V. and knows that based on talent she will not. Natalie also believes that since her family has more money that she is better than Janey and deserves to be the winner. In Johnson chapter 3, he talks about how people of privilege can easily dominate other groups of people. In the movie, Natalie is trying to dominate the other competitors by using her father’s money to bribe the judges. She feels that since she is richer and part of a higher social class than Janey, that she deserves to be the one on Dance T.V. Johnson also talks about how the better classes try to oppress the people who are not like them. Natalie is trying to oppress the other competitors by bribing the judges to let her win and not let the poorer people reach their goals.
4) I believe that there are some people who believe that since they have more money that they are better than others. One reason this occurs in society is because those people can afford more luxury items than what the poorer classes can. Like in the movie Natalie believed that she could afford to win the dance competition and be able to be on the dance show. It is wrong that society has been made to view each other in ways that they cannot control. Janey cannot control the amount of money her family makes, yet she is viewed by Natalie to be a bad person and not deserving to be on Dance T.V. I think that no matter how hard society tries to change the gap between the rich and poor that there will still be the rich who believe that they are better because they can own better stuff. The movie also makes it seem like that rich people deserve everything in the world, and that the poor only deserve what the rich do not want to have.
2) I chose the movie Girls Just Want to Have Fun as an item for my media portfolio. Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular couple, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The only problem is that Janey's father doesn't approve of that kind of thing (Murray Chapman). During the dance competition Natalie, a rich girl tries to rig the dance competition so that she can win. I chose this because it shows how the richer social classes were better than the poorer social classes.
3) The movie Girls Just Want to Have Fun relates to Johnson’s chapter 3 Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of Domination because during both the rich classes act as though they are better than the poorer classes. In the movie Girls Just Want to Have Fun Natalie, one of the rich girls in town, convinces her father to rig the dance competition that both her and Janey, a new girl whose family is poorer than Natalie’s’ family, are in. Natalie wants to win the competition so that she can be on Dance T.V. and knows that based on talent she will not. Natalie also believes that since her family has more money that she is better than Janey and deserves to be the winner. In Johnson chapter 3, he talks about how people of privilege can easily dominate other groups of people. In the movie, Natalie is trying to dominate the other competitors by using her father’s money to bribe the judges. She feels that since she is richer and part of a higher social class than Janey, that she deserves to be the one on Dance T.V. Johnson also talks about how the better classes try to oppress the people who are not like them. Natalie is trying to oppress the other competitors by bribing the judges to let her win and not let the poorer people reach their goals.
4) I believe that there are some people who believe that since they have more money that they are better than others. One reason this occurs in society is because those people can afford more luxury items than what the poorer classes can. Like in the movie Natalie believed that she could afford to win the dance competition and be able to be on the dance show. It is wrong that society has been made to view each other in ways that they cannot control. Janey cannot control the amount of money her family makes, yet she is viewed by Natalie to be a bad person and not deserving to be on Dance T.V. I think that no matter how hard society tries to change the gap between the rich and poor that there will still be the rich who believe that they are better because they can own better stuff. The movie also makes it seem like that rich people deserve everything in the world, and that the poor only deserve what the rich do not want to have.
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