{"id":35530,"date":"2020-07-28T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-assistant-then-watch-these-movies\/"},"modified":"2020-07-28T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:42:00","slug":"watch-the-assistant-then-watch-these-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-assistant-then-watch-these-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"#Watch \u2018The Assistant,\u2019 Then Watch These Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c5571cc4eb\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c5571cc4eb\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-assistant-then-watch-these-movies\/#Behind_Office_Doors_1931_and_Beauty_and_the_Boss_1932\" >Behind Office Doors (1931) and Beauty and the Boss (1932)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-assistant-then-watch-these-movies\/#The_Women_1939\" >The Women (1939)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-assistant-then-watch-these-movies\/#Phantom_Lady_1944\" >Phantom Lady (1944)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-assistant-then-watch-these-movies\/#The_Best_of_Everything_1959_and_The_Apartment_1960\" >The Best of Everything (1959) and The Apartment (1960)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-assistant-then-watch-these-movies\/#Magnet_of_Doom_1963_and_Mouchette_1967\" >Magnet of Doom (1963) and Mouchette (1967)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-assistant-then-watch-these-movies\/#Jeanne_Dielman_23_quai_du_Commerce_1080_Bruxelles_1975\" >Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-assistant-then-watch-these-movies\/#9_to_5_1980\" >9 to 5\u00a0 (1980)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Watch \u2018The Assistant,\u2019 Then Watch These <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movies<\/a><\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><em>Welcome to\u00a0<strong>Movie DNA<\/strong>, a column that recognizes the direct and indirect cinematic roots of new movies. Learn some film history, become a more well-rounded viewer, and enjoy likeminded works of the past. This entry recommends movies to watch after The Assistant.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>There is an obvious real-life inspiration for <strong>Kitty Green<\/strong>\u2018s <strong><em>The Assistant<\/em><\/strong>. While its main character is not actually based on any employee who worked for Harvey Weinstein, the movie mogul and convicted rapist\u2019s story was an influence on the setting for the film. <em>The Assistant<\/em> (one of our favorite flms of 2020) is more broadly about all survivors of workplace abuses, but especially the kind of subtle offenses we see done to the titular protagonist, Jane (<strong>Julia Garner<\/strong>), in this day-in-the-life portrayal.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Assistant<\/em> is definitely a film for its time, representing not only sexual harassment in the office but also the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> mistreatment and under<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciation of women workers that has been going on forever (I recommend also pairing the film with the latest season of the podcast <em>You Must Remember This<\/em> about the invaluable but largely unknown Polly Platt). However, <em>The Assistant<\/em> is also timelessly informed by history as well as traditional depictions of assistant roles in fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Green (whose previous films <em>Ukraine is Not a Brothel<\/em> and <em>Casting JonBenet<\/em> are must-see documentaries) has named some of the classic movies and filmmakers that influenced <em>The Assistant<\/em>, none of which have to do with stories of assistants, receptionists, or secretaries. So the curation below of movies to watch after you see <em>The Assistant<\/em> (which is now streaming on Hulu) consists of a mix of direct and indirect precursors. And yes, a film actually about Weinstein is among them.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Behind_Office_Doors_1931_and_Beauty_and_the_Boss_1932\"><\/span>Behind Office Doors (1931) and Beauty and the Boss (1932)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Encouraged by films and television series of the first half of the 20th century, the stereotype of the assistant\/receptionist\/secretary was a young woman who hoped to land a husband while on the job, preferably her unmarried boss. Countless romantic comedies, especially those of the 1930s, focus on an office romance of this sort, and while the reality of the situation wasn\u2019t uncommon, it also wasn\u2019t likely as uncomplicated (or as happily ever after) as it appeared on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>The first of these recommendations, <em>Behind Closed Doors<\/em>, stars Mary Astor as a receptionist who is in love with a man whom she helps become her boss. But he\u2019s oblivious to her feelings and hires another young woman he does fancy to work in the office alongside the receptionist, which is similar to the situation with Kristine Froseth\u2019s character in <em>The Assistant<\/em>. Astor\u2019s character is also, like Jane in <em>The Assistant<\/em>, possibly the hardest worker at the company, which falls apart without her. Unlike <em>The Assistant<\/em>, this film ends with the woman winning her boss\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n<p>The second movie here comes to mind with the HR guy\u2019s comment in <em>The Assistant<\/em> about Jane not being her boss\u2019s type. Had the film been made last century, the situation would be the challenge of the main character. In <em>Beauty and the Boss<\/em>, the boss hires a secretary whom he doesn\u2019t find attractive so he\u2019s not distracted from his work, but she does everything she can to attract him anyway. This makeover idea also served the premise of an earlier silent rom-com from 1925 titled <em>His Secretary<\/em>, but that film, which starred Norma Shearer, is lost.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Women_1939\"><\/span>The Women (1939)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This classic film from director George Cukor also stars Shearer, this time as a married woman who learns her husband is having an affair. What\u2019s notable about <em>The Women<\/em> is that the husband is never seen. In fact, there are no male characters in the film at all. They don\u2019t deserve to be onscreen, same as how and why the boss character in <em>The Assistant<\/em> is never seen. The \u201chappy\u201d ending of <em>The Women<\/em> is unfortunate given the man\u2019s actions, but it\u2019s interesting to consider compared to <em>The Assistant<\/em>, where Jane likely stays at her job despite the abuses she suffers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Phantom_Lady_1944\"><\/span>Phantom Lady (1944)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Employees in <em>The Assistant<\/em> are expected to let their boss get away with murder. Well, not literally, but they do have to cover for him a lot when he\u2019s committing adultery and probable criminal offenses. What if the job did call for someone to literally deal with a boss\u2019s murder charge, though? <em>Phantom Lady<\/em> is a film noir starring Ella Raines as a secretary who goes the extra mile in proving her boss\u2019s innocence. In this case, the boss isn\u2019t actually the bad guy he\u2019s set up as, and yes, of course, Raines\u2019 character is in love with the guy, too.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Best_of_Everything_1959_and_The_Apartment_1960\"><\/span>The Best of Everything (1959) and The Apartment (1960)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>By the late 1950s, the subject of office romance was being portrayed as less of a fairytale. Sexual harassment in the workplace was still decades away from being addressed on a grand scale in the real world, but a drama such as <em>The Best of Everything<\/em> would depict bosses more as lecherous abusers of their assistants than a working girl\u2019s true love\u2019s prize.<\/p>\n<p>Even better, though, is Billy Wilder\u2019s <em>The Apartment<\/em>, released a year later. The film stars Jack Lemmon as not an assistant but a lower-tier employee taken advantage of by bosses because he has the perfect home for hosting the men\u2019s adulterous inter-office affairs. Like Jane in <em>The Assistant<\/em>, Lemmon\u2019s C.C. Baxter begins to feel awful about what he\u2019s allowing the higher-ups to do to the young women they\u2019re preying on and stringing along. It\u2019s mainly due to him having a crush on one of those women, but still.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Magnet_of_Doom_1963_and_Mouchette_1967\"><\/span>Magnet of Doom (1963) and Mouchette (1967)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Kitty Green credits filmmakers Jean-Pierre Melville and Robert Bresson as major influences on <em>The Assistant<\/em>, though she doesn\u2019t name any specific works. I admit I don\u2019t know precisely what fits best since it\u2019s their overall minimalist aesthetic that she\u2019s likely citing, but I\u2019ve chosen one film from each that seems relevant enough.<\/p>\n<p>Melville\u2019s <em>Magnet of Doom<\/em> (a.k.a. <em>L\u2019a\u00een\u00e9 des Ferchaux<\/em>) stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a broke boxer who is hired as an assistant\/bodyguard to a former banker and winds up an accomplice to his new boss\u2019s crimes, albeit far from unwillingly. Bresson\u2019s<em> Mouchette<\/em> concerns the life of its titular protagonist, the school-aged daughter of an alcoholic who is overworked and exploited and abused from all sides of her dreary existence.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jeanne_Dielman_23_quai_du_Commerce_1080_Bruxelles_1975\"><\/span>Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This landmark feminist film by Chantal Akerman is specifically noted by Green as the biggest influence on <em>The Assistant<\/em>. She\u2019s mentioned it enough that I honestly thought Green\u2019s film would take a similarly dark turn at the end. I was also surprised <em>The Assistant<\/em> is as short as it is, but there aren\u2019t many other films that could get away with being over three hours of austere portraiture of a woman going about her daily life.<\/p>\n<p>The titular Jeanne Dielman is a single mother and prostitute, and we watch her in such menial routine tasks as peeling potatoes and ordinary-for-her sex work. While Akerman\u2019s film takes place over a few days and The Assistant is just one day-in-the-life, there\u2019s a similar examination of the routine, which here includes the cycle of abuse and apologies and promises that Jane and many women endure as part of their daily job experience.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"9_to_5_1980\"><\/span>9 to 5\u00a0 (1980)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Forty years before the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and the progress his arrest has inspired in the world, a popular office comedy offered a fantasy for all women working for lecherous and misogynistic bosses: absolute queens Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda kidnap and shame their boss, played by a first-rate Dabney Coleman. Interestingly enough, <em>9 to 5<\/em> was originally conceived as a drama, but Fonda, who\u2019d first proposed the film, decided that idea was \u201ctoo preachy, too much of a feminist line.\u201d So, instead, it\u2019s quite cartoonish, but it\u2019s still an appreciably feminist product of its time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Next Page\" height=\"99\"  src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/next-page.jpg\"  width=\"364\"><\/img><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/movies-to-watch-the-assistant\/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=movies-to-watch-the-assistant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Watch \u2018The Assistant,\u2019 Then Watch These Movies&#8221; Welcome to\u00a0Movie DNA, a column that recognizes the direct and indirect cinematic roots of new movies. 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