Women in Films - User or Victim?
Designed to prove that a woman can be anybody she desires to be, the legendary film,
Evita, is now shown to millions of movie viewers. Alan Parker=s Evita is a reflection of the
much-publicized images of two popular self-made heroines of different era, Evita and Madonna.
The discussion of this essay will show us how these ladies got far and revered once by their
followers.
The life of Evita Peron is almost like a dramatization of a romantic fiction, about the
tale of a young and poor illegitimate girl, who escapes the cruelty and poverty of her hometown,
and Aflees to the big city to become a movie star, fights her way to the top through succession of
men, marries her country=s president, only to die at a young age of 33' (Harbinson 154).
Eva was born illegitimate in a small remote town of Argentina, and spent most of her
childhood life under a cloud of illegitimacy.
Español: Juan Domingo Perón y Eva Perón
Eva Duarte (Evita). Casamiento con Perón.
Evita Perón first lady of the Argentina and Golda...Besides being poor, Eva and her sisters were
regarded as bastard children , and for this reason, they were Alooked upon as >brats= and often
prevented from associating with the other children of thevillage. This sense of rejection and the
ridicules that young Eva and her family received from the other villagers, formed the basis of her
hatred of Argentinas middle and upper classes@ (19).
Eva grew up to be an intelligent, beautiful, and glamorous teen-ager, who attracted
many men=s attention. Aside from her good looks, Eva had the charm that could get her all the
things she wanted, the character of a woman who never gave into negative circumstances, and a
determination so strong, she found her way to the balcony of the presidential palace of
Argentina. The painful rejection, and the traumatic events...