Having to rewrite my first essay I decided to take the professors advice on some of his movie selections. He recommended me watching Alfred E. Greens Baby Face. This was such an interesting movie that took place during the depression and revolved around woman's power over man. The director uses one of the main actors Lily to portray this dominance in society. Lily is a daughter or a abusive spittoon owner, who uses his daughters appealing looks to make his business thrive. Forcing his daughter to have sex with his customers this interns keeps them comming day by day just to see lily. One day lily is fed up with these abusive actions and decides to run away from her father. A man once told her that the power a woman beholds is far stronger than a man. Taking this advice to heart she catches a train with her maid chico to find a wealthily business man to sucker. To sum things up she finds the gotham trust tower where some of the wealthiest men stay. There she goes and bribes her first victim for employment. She pulls the man into a room and what do you know she went from there being no position to having whatever she wants. Form there on she kept climbing the ranks of the building in search of living a lavish life.
Baby Face is an interesting film, Vijay. It's pre-code and so the Barbara Stanwyck character can sleep her way up the corporate ladder and still live happily ever after.
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