I quite enjoyed this movie but it did seem to have an obsession with the high heels that Demi Moore wore throughout the film. There were several close-up shots of the stilletos plus countless others when they were prominently in the frame, not to mention the endless click-clack.
Is this something to do with emphasising Demi's charcater having a position of power in a male-dominated environment or just some good old shoe fetishism?
Haha, maybe a combination of both? It was probably more in line with your first suggestion though, to show how "professional" she was and the way she was trying to move up the ladder. She seemed like a real hard-boiled egg in this movie. Hehe, Michael Caine's character was right in that she needed to loosen up and live a little.
shareIf you see a lot of movies made in those times the high-heel was synonymous with women. In this movie I believe the effect was to empathize her sex in contrast to the male-dominated corporate world.
share. . . also, women were required to dress "professionally" in the 1960s especially if you worked for a corporation. I agree with the effect you mention, but I have to say that in the early 1960s it was very different for corporate women, few as there were.
shareThey were not "obsessed with high heals"...the film makers were simply focusing on professional style of the 1950's - 1960's era.
And they are practically dead bang perfect. I've seen photo's of my grandmother who worked as a payroll secretary for General Motors (which is light years away from the kind of prestige an international diamond broker would have) and the styles are practically identical; very heavy (almost paste thick) makeup with extremely read lips and very tall high heals.
I can even remember my grandmother telling me that she couldn't dance without heals on having learned that way when she was a teen during WWII.
Its nothing unusual and it certifiably isn't a fetish...its just the style.
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High heEls have ALWAYS been fetish objects, and 1960 was still part of the "Golden Era" for them. Certainly the clunky high heels that came along in the late 1980s, while more comfy for the wearers, lost almost all the "sizzle" of stilettos.
Sadly, stockings with the seam up the back had gone away by 1960, thus we did not get to see Demi's dynamite legs in such. Pity.