Big Eyes Research Papers

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The film Big Eyes, is based on the true events of Margaret Keane, a painter, whose paintings of children with oversized eyes were falsely sold as her husband’s, Walter Keane.

The plot of the movie starts off in the late 1950s in Northern California when Margaret Ulbrich (later changed to Keane) leaves her first husband (Frank Ulbrich) with her daughter Jane, and her paintings to start a new life in North Beach, San Francisco. While there she falls head over heels for Walter Keane, a fake painter and part-time real estate broker. Margaret’s first husband filed for divorce and threaten to take their daughter Jane from her. For fear of losing her daughter, Margaret wed her second husband, Walter Keane in Hawaii. Shortly after, Margaret began …show more content…

Afterwards, Walter threatens to kill Margaret, if she tells people that the paintings are actually hers. She then decides to leave her abusive husband with her daughter and move to Hawaii. While in Hawaii, Margaret began to go to church confessions, because she was concern about being dishonest for so long. Before long she began to gain confidence in herself. During a radio interview, Margaret reclaims her position as a painter and that Walter is not a painter and has been taking credit for her paintings for the last ten years. Finally, Margaret decides to take Walter to court for slander and ends up winning the case on emotional distress, defamation, and damaged …show more content…

Conley explains that hegemonic masculinity is “the condition in which men are dominant and privileged, and this dominance and privilege is invisible.” In the movie, Walter Keane dominants Margaret Keane by imprisoning her in various studios and forcing her to paint her work for long periods of time. Also, he dominants her by threatening to kill her if she tells anyone that those paintings are actually hers. After a decade of dealing with his dominance, she finally decides to leave him. When the two go to court, Walter acts as his own attorney and questions Margaret about why she went along with the scheme. Margaret then states that she did it because she felt afraid, forced, and dominated so she allowed Walter to take credit for the big

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