In The Heat Of The Night Film Analysis

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In The five time Academy Award winning film In the Heat of the Night, depicts the civil rights movement, and the director Norman Jewison characterizes the female characters in the film as unequal to men, as well as sectioning women who have higher status in Sparta, as Mrs. Colbert (Lee Grant) is the exception as she has higher status. For example, the mayor treats Mrs. Colbert differently because of her powerful husband with who the town depends on for creating one thousand jobs. She maintains the enough influence to pull her husband’s engineers if the police do not work with her wish for Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) to find her husband’s killer. She did not appear to be apprehensive by Gillespie or the mayor’s responses due of her stature in the community which is reputable by who she is married to. However, Mama Calebra (Beah Richards), is visited by Tibbs, and pleads with him before giving him information since she wants to maintain her lifestyle which is slightly above others to …show more content…
For example is a young Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), has an affair with Ruth (Cloris Leachman), who is a 40-year-old woman, and is married to the school football coach who displays an alternative lifestyle preference. Additionally, Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd), exhibits behaviors with the encouragement of her mother, Lois (Ellen Burstyn) who tells Jacy to marry a rich man for money and not love. Bogdanovich depicts the women in the town as desperate to find a mate as there is no available men in town. Lois seems to want to guide Jacy into a life she has created for herself, which she does not seem to be content with. Consequently, the women in the film seem to have an obsession with sex instead of their own future educational needs to become independent and