Class Notes

10.07.02

By Amy Runge

Schedule for today:
1) Attendance sheet was passed around
2) Quizzes from Friday were returned. Dr. McBride made a copy of the quiz
you made and the quiz you took and stapled them together. Each group should
take the copy of the quiz they made on top.
3) The term paper was introduced. There is a link on the syllabus on
today‚s date October 7, 2002. Read over those pages about the term paper.
There will be a question on Friday‚s quiz related to the term paper
assignment. Dr. McBride also gives you an example of an opening paragraph
in a term paper that should be looked at. Two versions of the term paper
need to be turned in. One for a workshop and the other as a final copy.
4) Wednesday the rest of the movie the Full Monty will be shown.
5) We turned in Resource Report #2. Make sure your resource is attached
with your name on it.

Full Monty
A little background:
- The story takes place in the midlands of England.
- 20 years ago there was a booming economy but in many areas there was still a 60% unemployment rate in males.
- In England class is very important. There is the working class and the middle class. In many cases you can distinguish between to two classes with the individuals accent.

Characters:
- Gary (otherwise known as Gaz): He is divorced from his wife who is now remarried or involved with a man. He has a son. He would do anything to get custody of his son. He is an unemployed working class man, probably a factory worker.
- Nathan (otherwise known as Nathe): He is the son of Gary who lives with his mother and newly involved man. He loves his father but is embarrassed by how he lives and the things he does.
- Dave: He is Gary‚s brother (or at least a good friend; Nathan calls him uncle Dave). He is married to Jean. He is an unemployed working class man, probably a factory worker. He is very insecure with himself.
- Aunt Jean: The wife of Dave. She enjoys going to the male strip club (Chippendales). She loves her husband even though he has become very insecure with himself.
- Gerald: A man Gaz and Dave know form the Jobclub. He has been unemployed for six months, but his wife believes he has a job. He is a very upset man and does not like many people.
- Lomper: He tried to commit suicide in the beginning of the movie. Dave and Gaz save him. He works as a security guard. He has an ill mother at home.
- Horse: About a 50 year old man. Tries out to be a stripper with them. He is called „Horse‰ for one reason only.
- Muscle man: He is a man with very big muscles and other large things. He also tries out to be a stripper.

The Movie:
- The movie starts out in a steel mill twenty years back, when the economy was booming in England. It quickly moves to the present where unemployment is more common than having a job.
- Gaz and Dave have a loving relationship, yet they are quite smart asses to each other. Nathan, the son of Gaz, hangs around Gaz and Dave for most of the movie. The three of them walk around England. The first scene shows the three males walking by a male strip club.
- Gaz comes up with the idea of them becoming strippers to make money.
- Dave needs money to support his wife Jane who spends most of her spare time at the male strip club.
- Dave is very insecure with himself and believes his wife would rather be with other men over him. She continuously reassures him that she loves him and he is the only man for her.
- Gaz needs money so he can get custody of his son and be able to see him. His ex-wife is threatening him with seeing their son, unless he gets a job.
- Gaz and Nathan do not have a normal father son relationship. Gaz uses language that should not be used in front of his son and Nathan steels with his dad and sneaks into the male strip club for his dad. Nathan is often embarrassed by the things Gaz does.
- Gaz and Dave are part of a jobclub with Gerald. Gerald seems as if he is a higher class than they are. They are all constantly fighting.
- Lomper comes into the movie because he is trying to kill himself in his car and Gaz and Dave run by and stops him. They all become immediate friends. He has a sick mother at home and works as a security guard. He joins them in their mission to become male strippers to make money.
- Gerald and his wife take dance classes and Dave, Gaz, Lomper, and Nathan accidentally run into him at a practice. The men try to convince Gerald to teach them how to dance so they can become male stripper. He refuses.
- Gerald‚s wife believes hat their financial situation is good and Gerald has a job. Without his wife knowing he goes on a job interview. Gaz and Dave ruin his interview so he does not get the job. He is desperate so finally agrees to teach them how to dance.
- The men hold an interview process to find other male dancers. Nathan is in control of the music while the other men judge. Gaz, Dave, Lomper, and Gerald are the judges. They find two men that work, Horse who is 50 year old man and a very young muscle man with a big „you know what. The last scene he saw, the men were at Gerald‚s house and Gaz decides they all need to get naked to get comfortable with their bodies. As the men are all standing there in their underwear, the doorbell rings.