Throughout the movie, the men of the Corleone are depicted as dynamic that are well involved in the family business, where their wives, or even the daughters of the family seem to take no part in the business. In multiple scenes of the movie the women are often revolving around the men, they are seen in the background washing dishes cleaning up or other stereotypical womanly pastimes of the 1940’s. That being said however I am not accusing the director of being sexist, as I am not sure weather or not this was intentional. However what I do suspect is that this is for shadowing for something serious that is to later come take place in the movie, involving one of these women.
I totally agree with you there that the women are in the background and not really getting involved but remember Kay is asking Michael a lot of questions about the family business so i don't think the director is sexist and she also stood out the most with her almost red dress when ever she appeared. Other then Kay i totally agree with you that the women weren't really in any scene like the men were in.
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ReplyDeleteNikhil: I don't think that the 'weather' is the right 'whether' that you had the intention of using.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your idea to a point. Remember that scene where they (Sonny, Connie, Carlo, Mama Corleone and other members of the Corleone family) where having lunch together, and Sonny was talking about business at the table and connie and Carlo were fighting. While Sonny was talking about the business, Connie mentioned that their father "never talked about business at the table" and Sonny stopped because his sister told him to stop.
Then Carlo and Connie were having a disagreement about something and Carlo told Connie to "shut up" and Sonny started to stand up for his sister, then their mother (Mama Corleone) said that he shouldn't intervene, and Sonny and Carlo stopped talking.
Yes, women are portrayed as having more stereotypical roles as a woman (washing dishes, raising children etc...) in this film, but they also have the upper-hand when it comes to disagreements or what shouldn't be said. On one side of this argument, it still means that women cannot participate in anyway, but in a way-- they can, in a clever sneaky way that may not seem obvious.
I do agree with you, that is just another side of the argument