WS Project: New Girl

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  1. Hello, everyone.
  2. My project is about the TV.
  3. Siri's New Girl, New Girls, about a girl named Jess
  4. who moves into a loft with three other men.
  5. She has a best friend who is a model named
  6. CC. The show is about friendship, heartbreak and overall, just
  7. a comedy about her and her friends.
  8. So this TV series only has three episodes and all
  9. of the Siri all of the seasons that pass the
  10. Bechdel test.
  11. The Bechdel test is a test in Hollywood that is
  12. used to evaluate a shore movie portraying women in a
  13. way that it's sexist or characterized by gender.
  14. To pass the test, at least two women must be
  15. talking to each other, and their conversation must concern something
  16. other than men.
  17. So my first subject of relevance to what we learned
  18. in class is, um, an interview by Jake Johnson.
  19. So Jake Johnson is the guy who plays Nick Miller
  20. in the show, which is one of the main characters.
  21. So in his interview on The Tonight Show, he states
  22. that he was told to lose £15 because he landed
  23. the role as one of the main characters but was
  24. too fat for Fox.
  25. This relates to the body is not an apology.
  26. Um, here in the first bubble, we talk about the
  27. body Shame profit complex.
  28. So the body shame profit uses perfect models for their
  29. faces off their companies.
  30. By doing so, it represents the idea that only people
  31. who look like perfect and have no blemishes and are
  32. skinny are the only people that airworthy by telling Jake
  33. that he got the part.
  34. But he has to lose £15.
  35. That's like saying congratulations.
  36. Your personality is good enough, but your body isn't, um,
  37. in the second bubble.
  38. Here we talk about our government and body shame.
  39. So the relationship between the two is a very toxic
  40. and controlling one.
  41. It tells us toe look or act a certain way,
  42. but then tries to turn it around and tell us
  43. we're all unique in our own ways.
  44. So it kind of just doesn't even know how to
  45. make up its mind when telling people who they are.
  46. And by telling Jake to lose £15 they control his
  47. body. Uh, they gave him the ultimatum.
  48. Either take the part and lose £15 or don't take
  49. the part at all I think this would have such
  50. a negative impact on Jake and the other people like
  51. Jake, who have so much potential but then are told
  52. they're not good enough just because they're a little heavier
  53. than what's socially acceptable.
  54. In the next bubble, we talk about CC and her
  55. breast reduction, so C.
  56. C is a model and Schmidt demand sing in the
  57. picture with her.
  58. Here is her on and off boyfriend.
  59. So CC goes into get a breast reduction, and Schmidt
  60. is seen running into the office and telling her to
  61. stop and that he wanted a chance to say goodbye.
  62. She then goes on to tell him, Oh, it's a
  63. low risk procedure.
  64. Don't worry.
  65. Oh, wait, you're talking about my breasts.
  66. He then nods and convinces cc toe, let him say
  67. goodbye. Um, he makes her plug her ears and listen
  68. to some music, and he goes on and he talks
  69. to her breasts.
  70. Um, he doesn't even say anything to her, just her
  71. chest. He's in having a whole dialogue of movements and
  72. actions, and he just goes on to show that her
  73. feelings and her are incompetent to how much he loves
  74. her breasts in the next bubble.
  75. Here we talk about an episode where Winston and coach
  76. to other main characters on the show are so attracted
  77. to these young women next door that they help them
  78. move into their apartment just to the girls will sleep
  79. with them.
  80. When the girls find out, they play rock, paper scissors
  81. to see who will have to sleep with one of
  82. the men.
  83. This, along with the story of Sisi, relates to the
  84. misrepresentation. The TV show that makes makes these beautiful girls
  85. to be nothing more than their looks and their bodies.
  86. This sends the message that because they're beautiful, guys will
  87. want them.
  88. And because guys want them, they'll do anything for them.
  89. In this next bubble, we talk about gender roles and
  90. misrepresentation. So Winston becomes a cop around Season three, and
  91. his partner is named Ali Nielsen.
  92. When Winston graduates, his friends show up and his friends
  93. meet Ali Nielsen.
  94. When they say, Hey, introduce us to your badass partner.
  95. Winston calls her over, and the first thing that has
  96. said is she's so small after Ali asks, What's that
  97. supposed to mean?
  98. Coach steps in and says, I think what he was
  99. trying to say is we were expecting someone who looks
  100. more like a cop in a traditional sense.
  101. He then goes on to say, I'm not trying to
  102. offend you.
  103. I just meant a really strong man or a guy
  104. with a mustache.
  105. This relates to gender rules and misrepresentation because it shows
  106. that men can't handle the women in power, that women
  107. can't be placed in a position where men have to
  108. learn from her.
  109. I think this has a negative impact on women in
  110. power, and it makes other people see them as incompetent.
  111. And it shows that there should be a problem with
  112. women in power, which isn't true.
  113. So in the last bubble, here we have Winston, the
  114. cop, Um, in this episode, Winston becomes a cop and
  115. he meets this girl, and he really likes this girl.
  116. And then, after she invites him to go out and
  117. rally the police, he declines her offer.
  118. So I read an article about this episode actually, um
  119. in the Washington Post that talked about the man who
  120. played Winston co wrote an episode that he pitched to
  121. the producers of New Girl addressing the issue of police
  122. brutality, especially in the wake of Ferguson and Michael Brown
  123. and Eric Garner's death.
  124. The day the episode was released, police officer Michael Thompson
  125. Slager was charged with murder after shooting a black man
  126. at a traffic stop.
  127. So in the episode, Winstons invited out by the girl
  128. he to rally the police, and he tries to hide
  129. the fact that he's a cop.
  130. Later on, he's in the bar with the girl and
  131. a few of his fellow officers that come in and
  132. they say hi and they say, We'll see you tomorrow
  133. at work And then Winston says hi back to them
  134. and he turns it into the girl.
  135. And he's like, I'm not a cop, I'm a stripper
  136. so mainly because he just wanted her to sleep with
  137. him. But later in that episode, he goes home and
  138. he starts talking to his friends and he says, E
  139. can't believe I didn't tell her I was a cop
  140. with everything that's been going on.
  141. I just feel like she wouldn't respect me, which was
  142. kind of, Ah, reflection on a real life conflict.
  143. Um, He then goes on to tell Nick he won't
  144. understand racial profiling, Winston says.
  145. I love you, but your white I'm black.
  146. I understand where she's coming from.
  147. He then talks about how, when he was a kid,
  148. he would run from the please, even though he didn't
  149. do anything wrong just because the color of his skin.
  150. This is relative to say her name report, because the
  151. episode shows Winston being ashamed to be a policeman and
  152. talks about the problems black people face against white police
  153. officers. I think this was a positive part of the
  154. TV show where they addressed real life problems and made
  155. it relatable to other people.