Posted: September 17th, 2022

Fun with Dick and Jane

Film Analysis
Introduction
Fun with Dick and Jane is a typical film that depicts most if not all of the aspects in film making. The aspects captured include theme, style and elements of the theme. It also, just like any other film, inflicts different reactions and feelings depending on the audience. The film achieves all that as discussed below;
QUESTION 1
i. After losing his job as the newly appointed vice president at Globodyne Company, Dick starts tarmacking almost immediately. He however engages in a fight with a former Globolyne employee on the way to a job interview. The two develop a fight as they battle each other to get to the front of the job interview line.
ii. In one of their robbing incidences, Dick Herper asks his wife he could pistol-whip a man they were robbing. They make the helpless man rest on his couch and Dick places a dog collar around the helpless man’s neck. This collar always gave the man an electric shock and chocked him whenever the man shouted for help.
iii. In one of his pursuits of a new job, Dick joins a group of men of his age also looking for jobs. A man passes by in a relatively old truck requesting to hire one man who knew how to paint. Dick is among the first people to board the truck and he is punched in the face by one of the men hence falling off the truck.
iv. During one of the couple’s bank robbery attempts; a second pair of bank robbers, Oz and Debbie Peterson who also happen to be a couple enter the bank in masks and shoot into the bank’s ceiling scaring everyone who was at the bank during the time of robbery attempt.
v. In one of his usual drinking sprees Dick happens to meet his former boss, Frank Bascombe at the club. He tackles Bascombe to the ground and punches him in the face before his wife Jane intervenes.

QUESTION 2
i. Acting
The acting in the film is realistic. Most of the actions in the film could be performed by any ordinary human being. There are no incidences of fiction in the film. The habit of over drinking however depicts the film in a negative manner. Even though the drinking is supposedly instigated to light up more incidences of violence, it doesn’t. The characters in the film are dynamic. In the beginning we are introduced to a descent couple Dick and Jane. The two later on change to an untidy, poor and life struggling couple who have resorted to crime to make ends meet. Just like Dick and Jane, we also meet another couple; Debbie and Oz Peterson the latter being a former employee at Globodyne company who, towards the end of the film has turned out to be an armed robber.
ii. Cinematography
My best scene was when Jack McAllister was addressing the press after writing Dick a million dollar cheque. He is dressed in a suggestively expensive suit and looks like a real president of a leading company.
The graphics are also eye catching as the crowd is observantly seen as a group of journalists even without saying or asking. Dick is also dressed like a real vice president of Globodyne Company, a very important factor in film making; that the characters roles speak out automatically when the audience watches.
QUESTION 3
a) The director involves satire and sarcasm in most cases. For instance it is sarcastic that Frank, who was once Dick’s boss, resorts to drinking just like Dick. This is evident at the club when the two meet.
b) The film was initially meant to be for children’s audience but ends being an adult audience act. The sex and romance and the alcohol abuse scenes were not necessary in the film as its initial target audience were children.
QUESTION 4
I personally disliked the film because it intentionally exposes social vices which are not favourable to family viewing. It has several scenes that require parental guidance while watching.

Conclusion.
The film in question is a real representation of the current society of all time. Corruption is the main cause of joblessness, drug abuse and violence. However this can be brought to a halt if the future generations learn to handle various leadership positions.

Work Cited
Fun with Dick and Jane. Directed by Ted Kotcheff, Performances by George Segel, Jane
Fonda and Ed McMahon, 1977.

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