Anchorm The Legend Of Ron Burgundy

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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, is a cult-comedy classic that details the story of San Diego television news anchor, Ron Burgundy, and his boisterous journey of being the star of news television to becoming ostracized by his entire network. Ron and his news team are introduced as having collectively arrogant, cavalier, and sexist personalities. Subsequently, Ron and his tightly-knit crew’s inappropriate behavior is consistently evident during the movie through their varying interactions with a newly recruited and highly attractive female news reporter, Veronica Corningstone. During a scene that takes place 25 minutes into the film, Ron has Veronica called to his office where she discovers a topless Ron Burgundy pretending to just have completed a set …show more content…

His ridiculous attempt at impressing her backfires on him when Veronica responds with an irate and undermining verbal response that indicates her distress over her unexploited time. Afterwards, Ron tries to redeem himself by insisting that he had unadulterated intentions and was truly interested in getting to know his new co-worker. Again, Ron fails to triumph with Veronica when she notices his explicitly obvious erection underneath his clothing and rapidly walks away.
The dialogue and camera work throughout the scene satirically showcases the media representations of gender-specific sexuality and double standards. Firstly, Ron Burgundy is zoomed-in on topless showing off his ‘guns’ (arms) to Veronica. This action verifies that Ron will go to great extents to impress Veronica. Also, Ron indirectly demonstrates his strength and masculinity to her by portraying himself as a tough and driven man. Furthermore, his dialogue captivates the strength of his arms and how he struggles allocating time for the gym. Ron’s tone throughout the conversation is firmly arrogant and domineering because of his aggressive sexual implications. Therefore, Ron believes he can just obtain any

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