Genre Research : Whitechicks

In this comedy genre movie, it about two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland ,accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to escort a pair of socialites to the Hamptons, where they're going to be used as bait for a kidnapper but when the girls realize the FBI's plan, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from African-American men into a pair of blonde, white women. It a very funny comedy movie with right timing set with the right dialogue from the actors.

           Throughout the whole movie, it occurs in many different settings. Since we are doing a opening of a movie for this project, we decided to look at the opening of White Chicks , the movie starts out in a drug bust. However, this drug bust was put into a humorous tone as this is a comedy movie after all. The two FBI agents were in a convenience store where they are trying to bust the ice-cream man who is potentially trying to sell drugs rather than ice-cream but little do the FBI agents know, it was the wrong suspect after they beat them up. What makes the scene more funny was the fact that the actual drug dealers came right in the store and they went into a whole gunfight after realizing they are going to get busted. Nobody got hurt but the criminals escaped. As a punishment, the director of the police department decided to task them with another job which was to be a pair of socialites’s bodyguard so they could snatch a potential kidnapper. The pair of socialites found out about the plan and was too scared to go so at the end, it was up to the two FBI agents to dress up like the female socialites which was very funny and basically throughout the whole movie, they must look and act like them till they catch the kidnapper. This is where the whole comedy of the movie is centralized.

            My group was amused by how funny this movie was so we decided to use some scenes of the movie as inspiration for our movie opening. We thought of a great scene in the movie where the two male FBI agents was putting on makeup to look like the females they was replicating. We thought we can start our opening with the similar setting where one of our actor would put makeup on and there will be a knock on the door pretending to be one of the person’s friend, and this spooked the person putting on makeup, so the actor would start rushing and knocking over props purposely. This will leave the audience very confused as to what is going on in the rest of the movie and also serves a good laugh.