Calamity Jane

It's been a long time since I've watched this film, not since I was a kid, I didn't realise how dated it was.  Also I did not remember so much singing, but it is Doris Day. I thought when I put it on, oh I'm surprised there's never been a remake, but then I realised that actually the story is overly sexist and if you take that away there is no story and there's such a huge emphasis on marriage it's actually really ridiculous. I thought this was a western? It's not a western it's just set in that time period. I don't really know of any westerns with female leads, not that it matters. I guess you have Jesse from Toy Story, and there's that film coming out in April with Natalie Portman that's a western, upon a glimpse at the trailer the colour grading looks impeccable.




But back to Calamity Jane, the reason I included it was that although the plot is beyond astounding with such emphasis on marriage and what it means to be a woman, I really like the aesthetics of it. I love the town and costumes. It's clear they spent a lot of money on making this have a real western feel, but it's almost in a cartoon manner with the clean lines of everyone's outfits and set design. The design of the bar in my film is an imitation of Calamity Janes with the round tables, balcony and piano player. I also like how it show's that the show's are a typical theme. I think it'd be really cool to do a spin off of my story of one of the show girls doing incredible things instead of the predictable marriage etc storyline. It doesn't really bother me though how women are portrayed at the end of the day it's not real life it's just a film with pretty songs it doesn't really mean much, I think it's widely accepted that life is different now so it might to be like the race point I made earlier.