Portrayals of Masculinity in the Films Tough Guise and Oceans Eleven

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Tough Guise is a documentary about how the media constructs how the male masculinity is formed and how it is to be a man in our society today. The man speaking throughout this film is discussing how there is a crisis in today's masculinity. Arguing there exist a crisis in today's masculinity and how everything that bad usually happens is because a man did it. The media advertises and portrays how men should act, but often how men are portrayed in the media are of violence acts and the degrading of women. Some of the examples in the film included WWE wrestling, going to a school and asking students what they would be called if not acting tough such as soft, fag etc. Music from such artists boys from the hood shows African males acting like thugs and getting money is how boys should act. Another part of the film it showed how all students that shot up a school were men. But in the media it would never say men is responsible for all the negative things that happen in the world such as war. If women were in charge I really doubt there would be so much violence in the world. To my conclusion it's not only the media and video games that shape boys but everyday society. Violence seems to be a normal everyday thing that happens all around us and it's a normal masculinity for men. This video enlightened me to rethink my own participation in masculinity.

Ocean's Eleven

I picked the movie Ocean's Eleven, this film was one of my favourites growing up I looked up to these stars and I felt like they were what a real man should be like. It's about a group of con's and ex-cons who work together for a big heist to rob 150 million dollars from a vault in Las Vegas. The main character is Danny Ocean he's fresh out of prison and looking ...

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...cho men, I have yet to see any films where a non macho man is the film star. All these slick cool guys have the best timing as well, they always accomplish there goal with the perfect timing if they were a second off everything would fail.

To my conclusion the media plays a big role in how men's masculinities are, if the media decided to choose that to be a man, was to wear pink and do ballet than that would be okay then. Since the media says to be a man you have to degrade women and objectify them and be really strong, that's what you have to do in society to be even considered a real man. They make it seem like they have no emotions or feelings and they are careless what they do to other people. Are we to blame for this male lifestyle? Masculinities are constantly changing who knows what will be the norm of male masculinities in the next ten years.

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