Commentary On The Film 'Steel Magnolias'

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While watching the film ‘Steel Magnolias’ I was automatically sucked in and truly felt for each character. Each scene was ripe with emotion, whether it be joyous or drenched with despair. This intimidated me as I had doubts on my ability to showcase such emotion. The two scenes we had to choose from seemed particularly challenging as both dealt with sensitive subject matter that I have not had any experience with. Tracey, Maily and I all decided to do scene one which showed Shelby breaking the news of her pregnancy to M’Lynn. We decided on this scene because we thought it showed a range of emotions from anger to sadness for both characters involved. We also thought this scene would be best as we were each comfortable with it, whereas in scene

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