Hustle essay

Introduction

We watched a clip from Hustle. Within this clip we analysed the characteristics of male and female characters. We focused on four main characters; Sarah, Shop assistant, older woman, and the con man. Through analysing this section I discovered that the men and women were portrayed very differently. It showed a sophisticated woman, and a working class woman. Both were acting as I'd expect a woman to act, but each differently to one another. It showed the men as different people as well. The con man was portrayed as quite street wise because of his strong London accent, but with a lot of money show by his suit. Whereas it showed the shop assistant as a feminine, stuck up, self-obsessed man, but very well spoken.

Within the clip of Hustle we see a much contrasted set of characters that display different assets of gender. This is a good clip to compare gender. Taking the two women we see for example. The older woman and the younger woman. The older woman is wearing more down to earth clothing, casual usual clothes, with scraggly going-grey hair. The younger woman, looks more sophisticated in the way she dresses, in her grey stone suit, and perfect hair, blonde, takes pride in appearance. This gives a contrast already on the two women and their gender, and how women can act differently. The men that are represented in the clip, the con man and the shop assistant, seem very different. For example, the shop assistant, he acts quite feminine, and he clearly loves his job. The older lady shopping in the shop, he asks what they want and he rushes her out of the shop, being quite rude, and judgmental. After this he practically runs over to the younger lady, because he can obviously tell she’s going to be a big spender. He picks out a dress for her, again showing his feminine side, and she tries it on. He comments on how she looks etc. Next we see the con man, who compared to the shop assistant is a lot more masculine. His language is quite normal, London cockney language and we see a contrast of this as the shop assistant speaks well spoken. The con man is in a suit which I would say doesn’t contrast with the shop assistant, but we can tell that the con man looks well off with money. He seems to be a little over-powering over the shop assistant. You can tell a lot about gender within characters and contrast them well, just by looking at the clothes they wear and the languages they speak in and accents. The fact that the shop assistant is working in a high-end woman’s clothes shop, suggests to us that this could also be pointer that he is very feminine.