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Bridesmaids (2011)

Film
DirectorPaul Feig
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Form & technique
  • The food poisoning scene in the bridal shop
Tropes
  • The film's overwhelmingly white cast and social milieu
  • Annie Walker's character arc of regression and failure
  • Annie's meltdown at the Parisian-themed bridal shower → Carnivalesque Inversion
  • The film's climactic use of the song "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips
  • Annie Walker's romantic relationship with Officer Nathan Rhodes
  • The economic and social rivalry between Annie and Helen → The Enterprise of the Self
  • The central friendship between Annie and Lillian and its near-collapse

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