Midterm Summative

Legally Blonde

    

 The movie "Legally Blonde" depicts the reality of many things. Mostly, it depicts blonds, by implying that you can get far if you are blond and pretty. In the movie, she one day decides to go to law school, and it shows her studying while working out like it is not hard to do. A main reason that they show for why she gets into Harvard is the group of men who watch the admissions video of Elle in a bathing suit, making it seem like it was her beauty that secured her her enrollment. She does not seem to be in school long before she receives the internship to assists on cases, which is given to her by a man that finds her beautiful. Once again, it is the fact that she is an appealing woman that is getting her far in the law business. I am certain that there are many law students and lawyers that are blond that have gotten by on solely their intelligence, and not their looks, and that some of them have even come from sororities. 

    In this scene, I believe it depicts what happens in court incorrectly. Although the lawyers on the opposing side seem appropriate in the way they act and dress, Elle does not. Lawyers are not supposed to wear bright pink dresses while defending someone but rather a professional looking suit, or bring their dog to court in their purse that serves no health or safety purposes. Her two friends would not have been able to cheer her on in the middle of her questioning either. I would not think that a real lawyer would be allowed to tell personal stories as she did to relate to the case, or be very well thought of if she was giving the judge, "a vocabulary lesson when you should be questioning your witness." It does not seem very realistic either that you would fire one of your lawyers and bring in a new one in the middle of your court session.

  Although many parts of this movie seem to be depicted incorrectly, I realize it is all for the purpose of entertainment. It can also be seen as an inspiring movie, that a girl that did not seem to have much focus on anything other than boys and beauty, could work her way up to getting into Harvard Law School, winning a case, and being valedictorian at her graduation. Even though it is not very realistic, it is a nice story.