Although any movie i like to watch just happens to be a sports movie, there are a couple exceptions. One movie that comes to mind is Anchorman. Every time i watch that movie, no matter how many times i watch it i can't help but to die of laughter. In the movie a news channel gets a new co-host to the normal anchorman, Ron Burgandy. The new co-host to Ron just so happens to be a very attractive woman that he intends on trying to have sexual relations with. Throughout the movie as Ron tries to get with his new co-host, Veronica, he loses his mind and causes the news station to go down in ratings and eventually gets fired. As he is unemployed he temporarily loses his mind and sees Veronica on the tv reporting news everywhere that he goes. While he is going insane a story happens at a zoo and Ron realizes all the sudden that he has to go there to report it. When he arrives at the zoo he finds Veronica in trouble and rushes to save her. As the movie comes to a close Ron saves Veronica, gets his job back and they live happily ever after.
Although this movie is meant to be funny and flat out pretty stupid with very little of a plot, it does contain some factors that we see in every day American films and society today. The "underdog" is a very important and significant role in American culture. Any underdog for any scenario tends to automatically become a hit with society. When Ron lost his job and ended up losing everything he had, he turned into the underdog. His appearance became dirty and everyone would try to help and encourage him to get his job and his life back on track. When the day came that Ron decided to do something about it and get his job back everyone came together around him and was pulling for him. And of course in movies the underdog prevailed.
Another factor displayed in this movie was chasing "love". How often do movies come out about someone trying so hard to get someone that typically is out of there league and ends up going partly crazy while they try to achieve this perception of "love"? The number of times that plot basis has been put into some sort of media form is higher than I'm willing to count. This "love" feeling is displayed all through out the movie and in the end Ron does get Veronica achieving his goal of feeling love.
Although sports movies are much more of a joy for me to watch, all together even movies not about sports still deal with much of the same culture issues. It is clear to see how media is effecting society through movies.
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