Extra Credit Blog

The movie that I watched was Daddy's Little Girls. It is a movie about a man named Monty who is black and his story of trying to get his girls back & his love story.  The movie starts out with us seeing Monty working at a shop where he repairs cars for a living. He is a hard working man just trying to do best for his girls. Next we see him go to his ex- girlfriends mom's house ( she is the mother of his children) and he is dropping off food for the girls. I think it's very interesting that in this movie they stereotype the area by having people outside gambling and loud music playing making the area look sketchy and not welcomed. Long story short the ex-girlfriend's mother went to the courts to have Monty get custody of the girls because she felt her daughter wasn't a fit mother to the girls. The grandmother then ended up passing away. Monty had to get another job and was working one night when his oldest child ( 12, then 7, and 5) set fire to his apartment and the girls were placed with full custody with the mother. He gets this lawyer who was the passenger in his cab job ( they weren't friendly to each other in the beginning). She was in the back of the cab and said she wanted to find a nice black man who could use proper English and protect her and just be a gentleman. Monty is nothing like that, he is himself a man who is from the "bad side of town" and a hard working man who wants to protect the ones he loves. There relationship gets more serious the more they work on his case together. The director places Monty as a tough man who works with his hands, but at the same time a lover and almost a romantic. Julia ( the lawyer he hired) is an uptight woman who has high standards and puts every black man into a category. One thing I found interesting about this movie is that they are always labeling each other like Julia says that Monty is like every other black man just wanting his kids for the money state help ( when he really doesn't she's just being judgmental). He takes Julia to a bar down town and she feels unsafe and he says I will protect you. He is telling her what she wants to here ( like she said earlier someone who will protect her) in the bar she labeled as too white when she isn't white she black. Monty's daughter say she has a wig and has a white ladies name.
Their love story increases after this they make it clear to each other that they like each other. one term we learned in class is 9 elements of romance. one of those elements works here because she's taking a risk on him. People judge him because hes from the wrong side of town and she is a lawyer. but they take the risk and work on it. And other element would be takes hard work. She tells him she doesn't want to be in this relationship alone and tells him what happened to her in her past. This is showing hard work and another example would be when she found out in court while trying to defend him that he went to jail for rape- she wouldn't even ask if he did it or not, but the fact that he was put in jail was a no-no for her. ( he didn't do it by the way). In the end, this movie is a male lead movie and the guy gets the girl. She basically " can't live without him" " she's the one who has to say sorry for what she did" and they show him having "power" by Monty t-boning the ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend for the boyfriend forcing the 12 year old daughter to sell weed. In that moment he has the power and she comes running in and kisses him. In the end he opens his own shop up and that's the happily ever after. He got his kids back and he got the girl.