Body 3

• Wilder


  The director
• Wilder does not always highlight the obsession with stardom and outstanding
• Betty


  A character who wants to be a star, but the director doesn't accept her
• Betty finds a way to work behind her dream career
• Wilder uses high key lighting when having Betty Schaefer in the scenes


  1. Symbol of her grounding into reality

  2. Hard worker

  3. Flexible

  4. Passionate
• Betty hopes to find a career success like her family had, "I come from a picture family"
• Betty studies and learns dramatic lessons, how to dance and phrase for "ten years"
• The studio takes a test on Betty and they don't want her
• Betty gets "nose job" because "it slanted" which she tried to fit the beauty expectation of the film industry
• Betty faces the reality that a career as an actor doesn't fit for her
• Betty


  Looks for another method where she can work behind the camera as a reader
• "What's wrong with being on the other side of the camera?"
• "I don't want to be a reader all my life"
• Betty dreams to become a screenwriter in the Hollywood industry
• Betty asks Joe Gillis to collaborate with her on a screenplay "Untitled Love" together at night, by sharing the same ambition to become a successful script writer
• Wilder showcases Betty who has the ability to acknowledge the fact that she doesn't suit Hollywood's expectations, so she moves forward and looks for a job where can be part of them