She loses her job, she falls into a sad series of booty calls with a sleazy man, won’t take care of her car, and ruins every event for her best friends wedding as the maid of honor. In relation to Annie’s friends, she is constantly being ridiculed throughout the film. Not only does she fall into Ted’s spell but also begins to fall in love with another man, Officer Rhodes. Viewers can already see that Annie’s character is placed against the relationships with the males on the screen. It becomes clear to the audience that they are completely incompatible when it comes to sex. In the very first scene of the film, we witness Annie having sex with Ted (Jon Hamm). However, the leading ladies of this film still exemplify typical gender roles that are commonly seen throughout the women’s film.ĬHARACTER ANALYSIS: Annie Walker (Kristin Wiig)Īnnie Walker is the protagonist of this film. She must wait for the man to make the first move or to express himself, because the prerogative belongs to him.” (Basinger, 195) Unlike most of the romantic comedies where the woman is always swooned at the end by the man, Bridesmaids was rather a film about friendship and the relationships amongst these women. Jeanine Basinger’s article “ Ways of Seeing Her” writes, “A woman cannot show how she really feels because it isn’t right, and because it isn’t right, she might “make an idiot of herself.” Her position is a passive one. The film allows this almost all-female cast to stand on their own two feet in their physically comedic roles.
The film was considered to be one of the best comedies of the year and a comedy for and about women. She has a no-strings-attached sexual relationship with the self-absorbed Ted ( Jon Hamm) but hopes for something more from him. Her business’s failure was so painful that she has given up baking entirely. Following the failure of her bakery in Milwaukee, she loses her boyfriend and her savings, reducing her career to a sales clerk at a jewelry store and forcing her to share an apartment with an obnoxious roommate and his sister. The film takes a deep look into the life of Annie Walker (Kristin Wiig), a single woman in her mid-30s. Almost everyone has seen the 2011 romantic comedy film, Bridesmaids.