Filtered Analysis
Female stories
The Power of the Dog
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Do the Right Thing
While You Were Sleeping
The Help
Ford V Ferrari
The Big Lebowski
Roma
Mississippi Burning
Moonlight
The Americans
Kubo and the Two Strings
Sophie’s Choice
Short Term 12
Brief Encounter
The Social Network
Ida
The Sixth Sense
The Producers
Terms of Endearment
La Dolce Vita
Juno
Rebecca
Field of Dreams
Let The Right One In
The Sound of Music
The Palm Beach Story
My Brilliant Career
Network
Jerry Maguire
Blazing Saddles
Team America: World Police
Harvey
His Girl Friday
My Fair Lady
Eat Drink Man Woman
Amélie
A Face in the Crowd
Into The Blue
Just Like Heaven
City of God
Donnie Darko
Mrs. Miniver
The Exorcist
The Exorcist
Chicago
There’s Something About Mary
The Others
Peyton Place
Y tu mamá también
The Contender
The American President
Auntie Mame
Moulin Rouge!
Some Like It Hot
The Matrix
Princess Mononoke
Desk Set
Return to Me
The Thomas Crown Affair
A Streetcar Named Desire
Bridget Jones’s Diary
City Slickers
City Slickers
The Optimist’s Daughter
Eve’s Bayou
Working Girl
Dogma
Beauty and the Beast
The Manchurian Candidate
My So-Called Life
Splendor in the Grass
Election
Pecker
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Central Station
Like Water for Chocolate
Scream
Ever After
Planet of the Apes
Breaking Away
The House of Yes
All About Eve
Sula
Witness
The Wild Bunch
Washington Square
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Rosemary’s Baby
Rear Window
Pride and Prejudice
Platoon
The Piano Lesson
Lawrence of Arabia
I Love Lucy
The Glass Menagerie
A Doll’s House
Bull Durham
Female
Main Character Mental Sex
Witness
When Amish elders object to harboring Book—because if he dies, the policemen will come, investigate, disrupt, cause publicity, etc.,—Rachel looks at the bigger picture. She responds that they must make it so that they never find his body, without going into details of how they would accomplish that.
The Wild Bunch
When his “family” members squabble amongst themselves, Pike gives them pep talks in an effort to hold the Wild Bunch together:
SYKES: That was a mighty fine talk you gave the boys ‘bout stickin’ together. That Gorch was near killin’ me—or me him—
(Green and Peckinpah, p. 33)
With Thornton closing in, and his own men ready for fight or flight, Pike looks at the bigger picture:
LYLE: We kin stay right up here and kick hell out of ‘em.
PIKE: No water.
DUTCH: Make a run for the border?
PIKE: They’d be after us every step of the way—I know Thornton. No, I’m tired of being hunted—we go back to Agua Verde and let the general take care of those boys.
LYLE: You’re crazy!... Back with those greasers!
PIKE: He’s so tickled with the guns he’ll be celebrating for a week and happy to do us a favor. Thornton ain’t going after us in there. While they’re busy picking over old Freddy’s pockets, we’ll take the back trail off this mountain and head for town.
(Green and Peckinpah, p. 99)
NOTE: The obstacle character, Deke Thornton, also has a female mental sex. He too, tries to hold together his group of misfits, but by using threats. He’s able to grasp the bigger picture of how things work, which allows him to work for Harrigan and to join Sykes at story’s end. He can intuit what Pike is thinking at any given time, as they share the same problem solving techniques.
Rear Window
Jeff tries to hold together his theory of Thorwald as a murderer in the face of opposition from Stella, Lisa, and especially Doyle. He’s more interested in the why and when of the murder, leaving the how to Stella and Doyle to consider, and piecing his ideas together to form the big picture.
All About Eve
Margo uses holistic problem solving: When she first becomes suspicious of Eve’s motives, Margo smokes a cigarette and thinks about all that’s been happening; she asks Birdie’s opinion of Eve; her intuition kicks in before Bill’s party, and Margo predicts “a disaster in the air.” After her blowup at the audition, Bill asks her what is wrong:
MARGO
I—I don’t know, Bill. Just a feeling, I don’t know. . .