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The underlying structure of most Hollywood drama is "man as competitor, woman as prize". Relate this statement to contemporary film.

One of the most basic and fundamental ideas of cinematic fiction is that of "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl again"(Green:79). This illustration can be seen to penetrate many contemporary Hollywood films including Pretty Woman, The River Wild, Ghost and Sleepless in Seattle, all of which I aim to discuss in this essay. This element of the film discussed by Green often revolves around an inherent social problem at the core of the films narrative and is resolved indefinitely "by the coming together of two individuals in heterosexual love"(Green:79). In contemporary film it appears that social order is always resolved through the realization that love conquers all.
However, there has been made evident by many critics a deeper structure to this simple and idealistic formula, a structure rooted in inequality, patriarchy and repression.......

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