Gi Jane

The film G.I. Jane takes place in the 1990’s and shows discrimination of a women in the United States Navy. Lieutenant Jordan O’ Neal played by Demi Moore, is a naval intelligence officer who has ambitions of moving beyond her military desk job, to become a member of the Navy Seal. Thanks to the political maneuvering of a female senator, O’ Neal becomes the first female candidate for the Navy Seals. The Seal’s are the military’s elite Special Forces team. O’ Neal becomes the guinea pig of senator Lillian DeHaven in this film. DeHaven bullies the Navy into taking O’Neal as a Seal recruit in order to become the first female member of the Navy Seal. O’Neal is put through a series of tests and her main obstacle is Master Chief John Urayle, a man so menacing that the music slows down each time he enters a scene. 60% percent of all male recruits quit or do not make the cut, O’ Neal must overcome this statistic and others to become a part of Navy Seals.

The most memorable scenes in the entire film are two extended music sequences in which Demi shaves off all her lovely locks, and does one-armed push-ups in a tight tank top. Her struggle is about survival of the fittest. This is made plain by three words spoken by O’Neals words that become sort of the mantra for the movie “Suck my - - - -“. What these words means is that O’ Neal has become fully assimilated, she has transformed into a lean mean fighting machine. What DeHaven and O’Neal’s superiors and peers did not realize was that she dose not just try but she succeeds. She makes it through the horrifying grueling rigors of multilevel training despite the distrust and animosity of some of the men and without gender-based aids.

She encounters a great deal of sexism and discrimination among the troops. Just as naturally, she shaves of her hair, gets buff, perseveres and earns everyone’s respect in the end. Lt. Jordan O’Neal a woman fighting for the right to stand shoulder to shoulder with her male counterparts in the U.S. Navy. Her traning officers and fellow applicants confront her regulariliy with sexist attitudes, the press spied on her with telephoto lenses the military men who wanted to maintain a male institution would hound her with unfounded charges of lesbianism. But non of her advesiariers counted on O’Neal singular strength. Even when she beco...

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...wing this littile experiment in order to seem sympathetic to feminist views. Since 60% of the male trainees drop out of the Seals basic training, everyone thought that no women thrown to these lions will last longer than a week. Twenty-hour days of physical exertion, with dinners eaten from garbage cans while officers yell eat faster, well its enough to make me want to take 2 Tylenol and see the rest of the movie on the morning.

When the military bases in Senator Dehaven State are threatened to be closed unless she guarantees O’Neal ‘s failure, the senator sabotages her and decides not to support her. O’Neal says, “I am not interested in being some poster girl for womens rights”. She just wants to prove a woman can survive Navy Seal training. There is a bell next to the parade ground, ring it and you can go home, Master Chief “I always look for one quitter on the first day, and that day does not stop until I get it”. He got it but not from O’Neal. Master Chief is a intriguing character in an early scene he quotes a famous poem by D.H. Lawerence, both for its imagery and (of a bird’s unattended death) and in order to freak out the trainees by suggesting a streak of subtle madness.