Movie Overweight People example essay topic

Anyone who loves comedies as much as I do will notice that in many comedies overweight people are used as a tool of humor. Now I'll be honest I laugh along with everyone else at these movies but sometimes it's not really funny. Gwenth Paltrow acted out the role of an overweight woman in Shallow Hal. Mike Myers played Fat Bastard in the Austin Power movies. Chris Farley played Tommy in Tommy Boy as an overweight jokester. Jack Black also acted as an overweight jokester in Orange County.

Eddie Murphy played a whole family of overweight people in the Nutty Professor movies. Overweight people are misrepresented in comedies that deal with overweight people. Jack Black starred as Hal who was a very shallow guy when it came to ladies. After hypnosis Black can only see what people are like on the inside not the outside.

Gwenth Paltrow is very overweight in real life but to Jack she is perfect because on the inside she is very caring and loving. We have to remember that only Jack can see this inner beauty so his friends think he is just being nice to her. Since Gwenth is overweight she is used as a tool of humor. On their first date she orders tons of food and Jack wonders how she stays so "skinny". When Jack takes her out to dinner she sits in a booth and the entire booth shatters into pieces and she falls on the floor. In his mind Jack is furious because he sees her as being skinny and yells at the hostess of the restaurant because he thinks the booths are unsafe.

After this date they go back to her place and there is a sex scene, when she throws her underwear's at Jack they are huge and get wrapped around his neck. One day they go on a date and they decide to go canoeing in the lake and since she is so overweight the canoe is tipped down and Jack Black is all the way up in the air. These examples show that throughout this movie overweight people are misrepresented. Just think how it must feel being overweight and watching this movie. I know I would be upset.

This movie also brings up the point that many people judge based on what a person looks like not who they really are as a person. Mike Myers had multiple roles in the Austin Power movies. The main plot of all the Austin Power movies is the battle between Austin Powers and Dr. Evil. One of Mike Myers funniest roles was the part of Fat Bastard. Fat Bastard is used as a tool of humor since he is overweight. In Austin Powers 3 he is sumo wrestling with huge sumo wrestlers from China and beats them all.

After the sumo wrestling he is in the locker room and he is shown as very sweaty and smelly. This is mocking overweight people because it might make the audience think that all overweight people are like this. In the first Austin Powers, Austin's wife goes undercover and when she is in bed with Fat Bastard there are piles and piles of food all over the bedroom. When Fat Bastard first sees Mini-Me, Dr. Evil's clone, all Fat Bastard can think about is a little chicken running around and he wants Mini-Me to get in his stomach. These scenes are making the generalization that overweight people only think about food and that they can't even sleep without food around them. The Austin Power movies wouldn't be as funny without Fat Bastard.

The fact that this is true shows that people have a misconception of overweight people. Chris Farley stared in Tommy Boy as an overweight jokester who after his father death must try to save the family business by traveling around the country trying to sell brake pads. In this movie Farley is overweight and very stupid, but extremely funny. In the beginning he tries to go cow tipping and as he is trying he slips and falls in mud and gets covered in it. At the nearby gas station his friend is hosing him off with gasoline while Farley dances around singing. These two scenes mock overweight people by showing that all they do is joke around and are stupid.

Who would really dance around in gasoline singing? In a buyers office Farley loses his mind as he is demonstrating why his brake pads are better than the competitors and almost sets the office on fire when he makes an accident with some toy cars. This scene tries to show that overweight people can't do anything right and in fact puts them down. His friend Richard and he are in a hotel together and Richard is much smaller than Farley so Farley gets into his suit jacket and starts singing "fat guy in a little coat" and then rips the coat by accident. Chris Farley is known for his comedies and the fact that he is overweight adds to the humor of his movies. Chris Farley died overweight and maybe he wasn't as happy as he looked in his movies.

Jack Black stars in Orange County as an overweight jokester who still lives at home and decides to try to help his brother get into Yale. After his brother gets rejected from Yale, his girlfriend's grandparents come over because they are on the board and can get him in. Instead of staying out of sight, Jack walks out in just his underwear's and gets something to eat. Again this type of scene shows overweight people as only caring about food. Jack comes up with the idea that they should drive to Yale and try to get his name on the list of freshman.

After Jack breaks into the building he accidentally sets the whole office on fire. Again this type of scene shows overweight people as always messing things up and can never do anything right. Eddie Murphy stared as most of the family in the Nutty Professor movies. He also stared as Sherman, who was a scientist that develops a formula to make you lose weight instantly. This scene suggests that overweight people can't loose weight on their own but need other methods of help. The whole family was very overweight and they were constantly made fun of throughout the movie.

When Eddie takes his skinny friend from work home for dinner, they go to his parent's house. At the dinner table there are so many plates of food that it looked like a mountain range was sitting on the table. This again portrays overweight people as only caring about eating lots of food. Sherman's brother keeps hitting on the girl that Sherman brought home. Another very "funny" part is Sherman takes the formula that makes you lose weight and is in a sports car when suddenly the formula starts to wear off and he gets stuck in the small car.

When the firefighters arrived at the scene they had to use the Jaws of Life to pry him out. One part that was mean was when Sherman and his friend go to a comedy show and the comedian sees Sherman and makes fun of him as everyone laughed at him. This is very oppressive to overweight people because it shows them as not even being able to have a good time and enjoying their lives. These are just some examples of comedy movies that use overweight people as a tool of humor. Even though we all laugh at these movies maybe we should stop to think about how overweight people who are watching the movie feel. I know I wouldn't want to watch a movie where Italians or white kids were being made fun of.

Maybe we don't need to watch overweight people getting made fun of and doing crazy things just to laugh. So before you sit down and watch another comedy movie just think about who is being made fun of in the movie.