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Femmes Fatales in "Chicago"


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Femmes Fatales in "Chicago"
An analysis of the portrayal of femmes fatales in the movie "Chicago".
3,404 words (approx. 13.6 pages) | 0 sources | 2005 France


Paper Summary:

This paper discusses how the movie "Chicago" introduces Roxie Hart (Renee Zelwegger) and Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) as two examples of femmes fatales, whose stories are based on real facts. It examines how "Chicago" describes the making, the rise and the fall of two femmes fatales, through the choreographies, schemes, song lyrics and symbols.

From the Paper:

"A femme fatale is usually defined as "sexually insatiable" and as a "sort of sexual vampire". Roxie here fits the portrait as she commits a crime following her liaison with a salesman and after her medical appointment with a doctor it is obvious she has had sexual intercourse with him, involving him in her scheme by asking him to declare under oath that she is pregnant when in fact she is not. The fact that Roxie uses such an excuse as that of being pregnant as a way of winning her trial is stooping low judging from the declarations she makes to the press: "Well I just want to say that nothing more matters now than the life of my unborn child". "

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APA Citation:

Femmes Fatales in "Chicago" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Femmes-Fatales-in-Chicago/93736

MLA Citation:

"Femmes Fatales in "Chicago"" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Femmes-Fatales-in-Chicago/93736>




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