Working Girl

Director: Mike Nichols
Star(s): Segourney Weaver,
Melanie Griffith, Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford
Date: 1988
Themes: Revenge and girl power

Review:

The story is about how a woman's ambition in the workplace. The story is about a secretary (Griffith) who's boss (Weaver) is injured during skiing and asks her to look after the business while she is away but she does more than look after the business and takes over by pretending she is really the boss. She comes up with a really good idea and puts it forward to the company but when she turns up to the meeting her boss is there and has discovered what she has been up to. The boss pretends that the idea was hers and now she has to prove otherwise.

I believe that this film is a standing point in the femine fight for equality and shows that women can be just as ambitious as men and can also be successful in business like men. Yet what is interesting is that the major conflict is between two ambitious women and how many films can you say you have this in?

I think that Melanie Griffiths was well chosen for this part. Her soft voice and innocent looks give a feeling of weakness but in the film she gains courage and becomes deceitful and ambitious. Many people watching this film would think that she plays a bitch yet this sort of behaviour is thoroughly accepted in a man but not as much in a woman.