Synopsis

The Tables Have Turned

The film is centered on the friendship between three women, all with contrasting personalities however they do share one major common factor: their hate for their boss: Greg Marlon. 

The three woman: Cortina Ford, Miura Lamborg and Minnie Cooper all work in the head office of Elite Logistics, located in the busy commotion of Central London in the 1970's. Cortina Ford is a longtime employee of Elite Logistics, a intelligent and independent woman, with a determined drive to success. Cortina represents your hardworking business women and obeys her boss's every demand in order to get that promotion that she deserves. One of the other female protagonists within the film is Miura Lamborg , a fiesty, brazen and attractive woman who is the desire of all the men within the workplace, especially Marlon. Despite the fact that Miura has made it continuously obvious that she is not in any way interested in Marlon, Marlon continues to make inappropriate and sexist actions towards Miura, pushing her to the limit. The last and newest addition to the Elite Logistics head office is Minnie Cooper, the timid and clumsy newbie that Marlon constantly takes advantage of and has befriended the experienced duo; Cortina and Miura. 

After a dictating employee meeting run by Marlon, the three woman divide a plan in the staff kitchen to get revenge on their boss.

During the meeting, Marlon gives out sexist comments to the women of the workplace, with the last straw being Marlon giving better benefits to the men of the work place than the women, one being giving away the promotion to a unqualified male member of the team rather than Cortina. 

After the three women discuss a plan to get their revenge on Marlon, they sneak into the deserted office building and into Marlon's office after hours to give him a piece of his own medicine.

Marlon is petrified of the three women after their torturing ways against him and agrees to give them more respect and the fair treatment that they deserve, obeying each and every command they give him. 

This disruptive scene finishes off with all three women saying to Marlon that he has just done too much for them to forgive and forget. Suddenly, this is where all three women now point their guns towards Marlon's crotch whilst he is begging for mercy.

As they pull the trigger, the scene transitions to the three women back in the kitchen, all with day-dreamy looks upon their faces. Whilst the three women are in a deep daze, they are then abruptly interrupted by Marlon demanding them to get back to work; it was all a daydream. 

Relation to my research: 

It was vital for me to be able to clearlyy communicate the information that I gathered about the feminist film theory in my textual analysis through my short film. Therefore, I set my film in the time period of th early 1970's as this is when the film theory first came about. Therefore I will edit my hoots to appear with a vintage filter overlayed on them to express this time period further through my key frames. Also I thought a creative part of my character development with my film is the three women's names: Cortina Ford, Minnie Cooper, and Miura Lamborg. The three protagonist names were inspired by three of the most popular cars during the 1970's: The Ford Cortina, the Minnie Cooper, and the Lamborghini Miura. Moreover, my characters were inspired through the personality of these cars. Cortina Ford was the main character, the smart leader and the most independent woman in the group. Miura Lamborg was very attractive and was a desirable figure with a sharp tounge. Minnie Cooper was very shy, petite and timid. I found that this idea will communicate a irony of a stereotypical male object;cars, to be the base of the representation of the female characters, therefore challenging stereotypes which I occasionally came across through my textual analysis. I have positioned these women in certain character profiles that represents the bad nature in men. For example, Miura reinforces Marlon's sexual desire, whilst Minnie presents the oppressed nature of a woman when she is dominated by a man, and Cortina reinforces the inequality between men and women. All these instances of the sexist nature of men in films is represented within my primary texts; Boys Don't Cry (Steve's sexual violence), Nine to Five (Greg's oppressive control over the women of the work place), and Thelma and Louise (Thelma's housewife role towards her husband). As the film continues, we experience a abrupt turn in gender roles when the women confront their boss. We see the women give their boss a taste of his medicine by inheriting his bad traits; similar to Thelma and Louise. I've chosen to end my film with a plot twist of the three women's revenge upon Marlon was all a daydream, with Marlon appearing into the kitchen whilst they are daydreaming. He awakens them with his usual demands. This relates to my research of the independence of women in a "mans" world not being liberated in the film industry. I saw through my films that as the years have gone on through my primary texts; both independent and Hollywood, the role of the feminist film theory has been slowly represented. However even in the most recent film out of all my primary texts: Thelma and Louise, ends with them driving off a cliff. They rather die than be oppressed in a mans world; representing that female independence is not possible within the film industry.