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Young Frankenstein (1974) and Animal House (1978)

10/14/2018

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It is strange but not uncommon for movie scenes to be repeated. For instance, in both Young Frankenstein (1974) and Animal House (1978) a female is launched through the air and an open window before she lands on a bed. Young Frankenstein is a PG-rated comedy, and it is a little girl who is launched from a teeter-totter before landing safely in her bed. Then the covers are brought up over her. Animal House is an R-rated comedy and it is a woman dressed like a Playboy bunny who is launched off a parade float and through a boy’s bedroom window. When she lands on his bed in heels, rabbit ears, a cotton tail and little else the boy is looking at a Playboy magazine and he exclaims, “Thank you, God!” Having analysed 445 movies thus far I have noticed a lot of these repeated scenes. I happened to analyse both Young Frankenstein and Animal House last week and it struck me as an odd coincidence that they both contain such a scene. I’ve seen other women go flying through the air in movies, but they don’t usually land safely on a bed. This isn’t one of the dozens of things I’ve tracked in mainstream movies for my upcoming book on the sexualization of women in media, but I thought it was interesting enough to warrant a moment’s reflection on a Sunday. 

​© 2018 Alline Cormier

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    Canadian feminist and cinephile on the verge of publishing my film guide for women and my opus. My coffee table book about women,
    What is a Woman?,
    ​is now available at Blurb.ca.
    ​I have also posted some related movie clips on my YouTube channel (ACPicks), and you can follow me on Spinster: 
    @AllineCormier@spinster.xyz. I was locked out of Twitter 
    (​@AllineCormier) for five months before receiving an apology (alternate account: ACPicks1). 

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