GI JANE

A detailed Summary of GI JANE

The film G.I. Jane takes place in the 1990's and shows discrimination of a women in the United States Navy. Lieutenant Jordan O' Neal played by Demi Moore, is a naval intelligence officer who has ambitions of moving beyond her military desk job, to become a member of the Navy Seal. Thanks to the political maneuvering of a female senator, O' Neal becomes the first female candidate for the Navy Seals. The Seal's are the military's elite Special Forces team. O' Neal becomes the guinea pig of senator Lillian DeHaven in this film. DeHaven bullies the Navy into taking O'Neal as a Seal recruit in order to become the first female member of the Navy Seal. O'Neal is put through a series of tests and her main obstacle is Master Chief John Urayle, a man so menacing that the music slows down each time he enters a scene. 60% percent of all male recruits quit or do not make the cut, O' Neal must overcome this statistic and others to become a part of Navy Seals.

The most memorable scenes in the entire film are two extended music sequences in which Demi shaves off all her lovely locks, and does one-armed push-ups in a tight tank top. Her struggle is about survival of the fittest. This is made plain by three words spoken by O'Neals

When the military bases in Senator Dehaven State are threatened to be closed unless she guarantees O'Neal 's failure, the senator sabotages her and decides not to support her. O'Neal says, "I am not interested in being some poster girl for womens rights". She just wants to prove a woman can survive Navy Seal training. There is a bell next to the parade ground, ring it and you can go home, Master Chief "I always look for one quitter on the first day, and that day does not stop until I get it". He got it but not from O'Neal. Master Chief is a intriguing character in an early scene he quotes a famous poem by D.H. Lawerence, both for its imagery and (of a bird's unattended death) and in order to freak out the trainees by suggesting a streak of subtle madness.

In the film Senator Dehaven was pushing the military to accept females in all possibiile military positions. In contemporary society, women are already now accepted into combat situations and previously all-male military academies. Of the nearly 260,000 combat and combat support positions opened to women in 1994 more than half were in the Navy. Still, the Navy has the highest percentage of non-restricted jobs after the Airforce, 91% and 99% respectively. In contrast one third of Army and Marine corps jobs are off-limits because women are barred from the ground infantry armor and artillery units (USA Today, 1998) .

Jordan O'Neal is a Navy Veteran who resents not being allowed into combat during the Gulf War. Now there is a move under way for full female equality in the fighting forces. One quarter of U.S. Navy jobs are still off limits to women still today. On April 28, 1993 Secretary of Defense Les Aspin announced a policy to open up nurse specialists and assignments to women

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Approximate Word count = 1184
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Arts