I don’t know, will it? The movie begins with the advertisement of different products that don’t seem to work right. There is a shiny bran nee car, but its door falls off. New soap, but it creates mounds of soap. Shampoo that gets rid of dull hair but it actually gets rid of your hair. These things are absurd, yet funny. No one would buy these products, but it someone famous has it then you must have it too.
This film criticizes the famous, the wealthy, and everyone else that does not fit in that category. Everyone fits to conform to whatever is the newest and most popular. Rock Hunter becomes vice president at his company. There is a seen in the film when he puts on clothes that are not his and he is falling over because of the shoes and the clothes are swallowing him whole. This is a metaphor. Rock Hunter is trying to conform but it just isn’t working out. He is conforming to be Rita’s lover doll so that he may become vice president. Another scene, Jenny wants Rock Hunter to only look at her so she does pushups until she falls asleep and then gets stuck that way. She is conforming to look better so that Rock Hunter will love her more.
Everyone in the film is looking for their happiness. Rita wants George but uses Rock Hunter to forget about him. Rock Hunter wants to be vice president so he uses Rita so he can provide a perfect marriage. What they do not realize is that happiness is not on the outside, but the inside. During the film, Rock Hunter refers to his pipe in the sense that he cannot keep it lit. This is obliviously a metaphor for his happiness. He cannot keep it lit because he is looking for happiness in the wrong place. Not in his pipe, but metaphorically speaking.
There is not a whole lot of laughter to where you fall out of your chair, but enough to help get the point across. Seeing the movie in a comedy sense helps others see the elements in movie in their lives. This movie does not just convey the problems in the lives of the character but also the lives of the audience. Society, anywhere you go, conforms to whatever is the most popular, to whatever the most famous person is doing, or to whatever they think will make them happy. Seeing this movie from a funny perspective helps one see these things in their life.
I didn't really notice until you said it but everybody is just using everybody else to get what they want. Good Blog.
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