{"id":474337,"date":"2022-07-15T17:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/still-working-9-to-5-highlights-the-ongoing-fight-for-equal-rights\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T17:09:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:09:55","slug":"still-working-9-to-5-highlights-the-ongoing-fight-for-equal-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/still-working-9-to-5-highlights-the-ongoing-fight-for-equal-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Still Working 9 to 5&#8242; Highlights the Ongoing Fight for Equal Rights"},"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-6a35c0d453df2\" 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-6a35c0d453df2\" 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-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/still-working-9-to-5-highlights-the-ongoing-fight-for-equal-rights\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Still_Working_9_to_5_Highlights_the_Ongoing_Fight_for_Equal_Rights%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Still Working 9 to 5&#8217; Highlights the Ongoing Fight for Equal Rights&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/still-working-9-to-5-highlights-the-ongoing-fight-for-equal-rights\/#Recommended_Reading\" >Recommended Reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Still_Working_9_to_5_Highlights_the_Ongoing_Fight_for_Equal_Rights%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Still Working 9 to 5&#8217; Highlights the Ongoing Fight for Equal Rights&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-media \">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/still-working-9-to-5.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Still Working To\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/still-working-9-to-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/still-working-9-to-5-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><br \/>\n                        <span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\">Artemis Rising Foundation<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>        <!-- START BYLINE --><\/p>\n<div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\">\n            By\u00a0Naomi Elias\u00a0\u00b7 Published on July 15th, 2022\n            <\/div>\n<p>        <!-- END BYLINE --><\/p>\n<p>        <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9 to 5<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was released on Dec. 19, 1980. As a Christmas release that wasn\u2019t a Christmas movie and featured three female leads \u2014 sardonic stand-up co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n <strong>Lily Tomlin<\/strong>, controversial activist\/actor <strong>Jane Fonda<\/strong>, and a rising country singer and newbie actress named <strong>Dolly Parton<\/strong> \u2014 the odds seemed stacked against it. But, the feel good movie became a surprise box office hit that year second only to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Empire Strikes Back. <strong>Still Working 9 to 5<\/strong><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a new documentary directed by <strong>Camille Hardman<\/strong> and <strong>Gary Lane<\/strong>, examines the comedy\u2019s lasting cultural impact over forty years later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The documentary kicks off with a cold open. Archival footage shows Fonda, one of the original film\u2019s main producers, on a chat show describing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9 to 5 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as \u201ca movie about secretaries fantasizing about murdering their boss.\u201d The host sitting opposite her blankly follows up with \u201cso, it\u2019s not a political statement is it?\u201d Fonda\u2019s face doesn\u2019t give much away in the moment but this documentary \u2014 partly expository and partly reflective \u201cmaking-of\u201d \u2014 answers the question in the affirmative. Yes, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9 to 5 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was intended to be a political statement, and as the documentary proves, a lasting one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using a blend of archival footage, talking heads, and clips from the original movie, the documentary brings us into the behind the scenes battle to get this now beloved classic made. Though it is hard to understand now, we see that it was no small miracle that Fonda and her producing partner Bruce Gilbert managed to bring this movie to fruition as the industry at the time saw it as a risk on every level. The twosome had a clear agenda in building a movie around an idea; a mission to educate about the concerns of American working women. Gilbert \u2014 who like Fonda, is fully aware of the power of <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> and media in influencing public perception \u2014 cites the social commentary films of Preston Sturges and Fonda\u2019s own nuclear warning thriller, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The China Syndrome<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as references for the kind of issue film they set out to make. The documentary is a showcase for their winning strategy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fonda\u2019s connection to the then-raging second wave feminist movement helped give her a direct line to the women <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9 to 5<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is about \u2014 the documentary notes that as many as 1 in 3 women were clerical workers in the 1970s \u2014and ensured their concerns about equal pay, access to childcare, sexual harassment, and wage theft were both heard and incorporated into the film\u2019s message. She was inspired by talks she had with activists Ellen Cassedy and Karen Nussbaum who co-founded the 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women and serve as talking heads in the documentary. Other interviewees in the documentary include the original cast, Fatima Goss Graves, CEO of the National Women\u2019s Law Center, and Lilly Ledbetter, namesake of the Lilly Ledbetter Pay Act of 2009.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Per Nussbaum, the image in the average American\u2019s mind when they thought of work and workers in that era was \u201cmen in hard hats,\u201d and this movie offered an opportunity to change that. The film\u2019s costume designer, Ann Roth, underscores how <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9 to 5 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">set out to show \u201cthe kind of women in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> magazine not <em>Vogue<\/em>.\u201d The documentary supplements their statements by weaving together footage of the core three actors\u2019 off-screen connections to the women\u2019s movement with movie clips. Alongside footage of Tomlin at a 1977 rally in support of the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in Virginia (which the state wouldn\u2019t ratify until 2020), or on-the-street interviews with clerical workers explaining why they think they are being shortchanged by the current pay system, are scenes from the film like Tomlin\u2019s character rightfully pointing out the inequity of being passed over for promotions because of her gender while the men she helped train leap up the corporate ladder or a scene in which one of the women\u2019s coworkers is fired for discussing her salary with another coworker \u2014 a classic tactic meant to keep workers from asking for their worth and\/or unionizing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the end result of the original movie was more of a comedy, the documentary delineates how Fonda and Gilbert managed to successfully hide the medicine in candy as it were and tell a very funny but empowering story about the plight of female laborers that featured gags like a fantasy sequence showing Tomlin as a deranged Snow White poisoning her boss. That scene, we learn, was one that Tomlin almost quit the movie over for fear it was too much. Surprising revelations like this give the documentary a fun director\u2019s commentary (check out our listen to <em>9 to 5<\/em>\u2018s actual commentary track) feel as they are spliced with scenes from the movie while the actors reflect on them. Tomlin\u2019s repeated threats to quit over things like not understanding director <strong>Colin Higgins<\/strong>\u2019 novel blending of live action and animation, or how funny she was delivering her character\u2019s lines, help us understand how big a risk the movie was. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t talked about then,\u201d Fonda says of sexual harassment, \u201cnow it seems like \u2018duh\u2019.\u201d Now, a movie featuring Tomlin, Parton, and Fonda talking about sexual harassment or anything at all seems like duh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The documentary successfully argues that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9 to 5<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s legacy is not the spin-offs it inspired in the form of an eponymous television series, or two theater productions (one on Broadway in 2009 and the other in London\u2019s West End in 2019), but rather the fact that those spin-offs demonstrate the original film\u2019s enduring relevance. Concerns that the movie and its spin-off media would feel dated in the years following the original theatrical run \u2014 voiced by cast members from offshoot productions like Allison Janney \u2014 quickly dissipated thanks to real life events like the Anita Hill trial, and the Me Too movement keeping the topics in the film culturally relevant. The documentary folds these events into the narrative naturally establishing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9 to 5<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a key part of an unending national conversation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though Parton claimed at the time that she was not a political person \u2014 she even remarks she was nervous about how her fans would receive her acting opposite a \u201cradical\u201d like Fonda\u00a0 \u2014 she penned and sang the movie\u2019s title song which became a rallying cry for the feminist movement. The benefit of a look-back like <em>Still Working 9 to 5<\/em> is twofold: for fans of the original movie, it\u2019s a chance to see the main cast come together and unlock warm memories and behind the scenes stories like the infamous one about how Parton came up with the melody for \u201c9 to 5\u201d while playing with her nails. But, it also serves as a chaser to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9 to 5<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s shot. The original movie was a Trojan horse using comedy to highlight the issues working women needed addressed; the documentary about the movie is dedicated to highlighting how far we have left to go to address them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Fonda originally began organizing the idea for the film it was in response to a cultural tipping point for women\u2019s issues. Now, in the wake of the Supreme Court\u2019s overturning of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roe v. Wade,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> effectively ending federal abortion protection, a pandemic laying bare the gross gender burden of women being forced to exit the workforce at startlingly higher rates than men, and national interest in workplace organizing hitting <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_TUC\/status\/1539905606429155333?cxt=HHwWioC9rbD_694qAAAA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new highs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we\u2019ve reached another tipping point. As ERA activist Zoe Nicholson summarizes, \u201cwe advance and we go back and we advance and we go back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word \u201cstill\u201d in the documentary\u2019s title is pointed. It reminds us that the items on the feminist agenda that it helped bring to life visually and that are still largely unchecked off nearly fifty years later, are the reason why the original film was made, why it remains a classic, and why <em>Still Working 9 to 5<\/em> exists. An updated version of \u201c9 to 5\u201d featuring a Dolly Parton duet with Kelly Clarkson \u2014 who was born two years after the original movie\u2019s release \u2014\u00a0 hammers home the point further. Years change but the song remains the same.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        Related Topics: 9 to 5, Still Working 9 to 5<br \/>\n        <!-- AUTHOR BOX --><\/p>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/naomi.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Naomi Elias is a contributor at Film School Rejects. Her work has also <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>eared on IGN, Pajiba, Nylon, and Syfy Wire. 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