Nine To Five Themes

Nine to Five (Colin Higgins, 1980) is a comedy about three working women having fantasies of taking revenge of their “sexist, egoistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” boss and at the same time change their office – an allegory of the society-. At the beginning of the 1980s, there was a sense that women had conquered equality and professional success. But this movie is filming in an ironic way and it is even premonitory, because the initial success was countered during the 80s in the backlash against feminism. The scenes object of analysis show the fantasies that the protagonists have on getting revenge on their boss. These fantasies anticipate not only the development of the film when they materialized at the end. To achieve their revenge and

In the two former ones, Judi Bemli (Jane Fonda) and Doralee Rhodes (Dolly Parton) assume a masculine role in getting revenge on their boss, Franklin Hart Jr (Dabney Coleman). Judi transforms herself in a heartless hunter who pursuit her prey till the end just to the taste of holding his head in her office. In the case of Doralee, she is a cowboy in a rodeo, just as a way to humiliate Mr. Hart in the same way he humiliated her. Conversely, it is only the third fantasy using a feminine method - a poison- that completes the revenge. Violet (Lily Tomlin) transforms in a fairy princess, surrounded by the little cartoon animals. She seems to be an innocent and beautiful princess, who revenges in the name of her sex. The superiority of this female character is shown by the high angle of the camera in her boss´s office, in which no matter how many masculine books he possessed, he is condemned to the final of his tyranny. In fact, only in Violet´s fantasy, he admits his faults. Thus this revenge becomes only an excuse to take the control over

Because even as a fantasy, those conquests were perceived as a menace in the new society of the 80s, so the film industry reduced again the role of women in the movies to a more discrete position in some cases or to the representation of the