Pretty Women: An Analysis Of The Film Pretty Woman

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The romantic comic drama film Pretty Woman began on Hollywood Boulevard and progressed to Beverly Hills which transitioned from the impoverished areas to the richer area in Los Angles California during the 1990s. The film stars Richard Gere, who played Edward Lewis and Julia Roberts, who played Vivian ward. In this film, Vivian is a Los Angeles prostitute battling with her way of life associated with sexuality and poverty and needing money to pay the rent. Edward is a rich businessperson who purchases companies that are in difficult financial situations and sell them in pieces. On a business trip to Los Angeles, Edward proposition Vivian to be his escort for business, personal, and social functions while he accompanied his wealthy groups of …show more content…

Vivian's transformation from a whore to an exquisite woman of extravagance is focused through her luxury clothes. Vivian began to ooze self-worth and want for a better for life and learned to take better care of herself. Her new appearance showed conformity to regulations of the wealthy elite social class and opened her up to plethora of opportunity. I can relate this back to reading 10.2: "Lessons from Ugly Betty: Business attire as a conformity strategy" Ugly Betty is about a young girl who get a job at a big-time fashion magazine company. Unfortunately, she doesn’t really dress the part. She is looked down upon by many of her fellow employees who make her feel like she isn’t good enough or doesn’t belong. Dressing by the aspect of the workplace open up an individual to a lot of opportunity and by not conforming can result to losing many career opportunities. Vivian realizes that in the public eye her own exertion is simply the way to supporting and in the long run securing a superior future to leave prostitution in the past. She wants to set a life in the city of San Francisco to finish her high school education and tries hard to search for an occupation. Her objective in life is basically to help herself by her own particular exertion as opposed to letting another person organize and control her life. This, in itself, speaks to a soul of dynamic exertion for somebody like

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