During the Great Depression movies were a real distraction for people in the 1930s. Some examples of films are "Public Enemy", released in 1931, "Gold Diggers", in 1933, then "Modern Times", in 1936, finally "Room Service", released in 1938. These films all served as distractions. of the Great Depression for people and also showed what it was like during that time in different ways. For example, the treatment of women was depicted in some of these films. My opinion on how women have been portrayed in some is that they were treated poorly based on some things in the movie "Gold Diggers". For example, it was more difficult for women to find work than for men. In the film, three singers from a Broadway show, Carol, Polly and Trixie, cannot find work at first. Roger also sings the song “We're In the Money” in Porco Latin. The chorus of this song shows the sex appeal of girls as a way to earn money. Their costumes also had coins on the body which symbolized money. They also show Trixie looking for the rich lawyer's "fanny", which could show the women chasing guys for their money. All the "gold diggers" end up marrying rich men, except Fay. In “Modern Times” Charlie Chaplin wrote and directed the film that shows that women cannot do a man's job. This also proves that they couldn't direct a movie because no woman directed any of these movies, and Charlie did both, produced and directed. One of the main roles was played by Paulette Goddard, who spends time as his wife, and is the only woman involved in the film. All the roles go to men, which is sexist to make a film with a woman. In the movie “Room Service” the approach is different, Lucille Ball is a companion and has a real job in the movie...... middle of paper......gold diggers. Even in the film you can see that there were different roles for each gender. The women in the film tried to show that they were not just an object for men, when a woman comes out in metal clothes, then the man cannot touch and handle them like an object. Lawrence was surprised to see Brad planning to marry an effeminate girl, because later some of the money might be lost. Another example is that women didn't express laughter and loudness, and Trixie still did things like that in the movie, which shows that women weren't allowed to do that and she did it. In “Modern Times” there are no women working in factories, showing that women couldn't do such jobs, but nowadays they do. These are all examples in all these films, in my opinion, that show how women were treated and how they were expected to be and act in the 1930s, the time of the Great Depression.