Clue and the Crisis of the American White Male Essay -- Movie Film Ess

Clue and the Crisis of the American White Male Nothing is to a greater extent American than the crossover appeal of products in the mass media this appeal is what propelled the idea for the 1985 release of the bourgeon Clue, based on the Parker Brothers board game. Furthermore, in keeping with the games theme, the film appeared in theaters across the country with different endings. With an ensemble cast of talented but little known actorsTim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann Warren, Martin Mull, Madeline Kahn, Eileen Brennan and Michael McKeanClue seemed like a film apprenticed to slip into obscurity. After all, it was a comedy, clever but crass. A deeper analysis of the film provides some insight into a running commentary that presents not scantily a murder mystery involving several comedic characters, but rather a complex allegorical situation that presents characters as archetypal figures for repressed forces in the ascendant American ideology. In reality, Clue is a f ilm about the crisis of the upper class white male in American culture. In the piece moving picture/Ideology/Criticism, Jean Luc-Comolli and Jean Narboni define the critics job as the discernment of which films, books and magazines allow the ideology a free, unhampered passage, transmit it with crystal clarity, serve as its chosen language and which films attempt to make it turn back and reflect itself, intercept it, make it visible by revealing its mechanisms, by blocking them (753). by means of their examination, seven film categories are outlined. Clue falls into the E category, which is defined as films which seem at first sight to belong firmly inside the ideology and to be completely under its sway, but which turn out to be so only in an ambiguous manner (75... ...itty dialogue. As Wadworth said, it should be no surprise that the FBI (dominant ideology) is trying to cover up the murder of these repressed forces. The FBI is used to cleaning up after multiple murders. W hy do you conceptualise its run by a man called Hoover? By continually making fun of the very powers it is supposedly reinforcing, Clue becomes an important film in criticizing American bourgeois ideology.Works CitedGledhill, Christine. Recent Developments in Feminist Film Criticism. Braudy and Cohen, 251-72. Braudy, Leo and Marshall Cohen, eds. Film Theory and Criticism Introductory Readings, Fifth Edition. new-sprung(prenominal) York Oxford UP, 1999. Comolli, Jean-Luc and Jean Narboni, Cinema/Ideology/Criticism. Braudy and Cohen, 752-59.Lynn, Jonathan. Clue. Paramount, 1985.Mulvey, Laura. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Braudy and Cohen, 83