The movie Hangover and the article “The Girl hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as a Collective Activity” by Gazian, show men’s masculinity in relationships they have with other men. In the movie the hangover, there are four friends (Phil, Stu, Alan, and Doug) who go to Las Vegas for their friend Doug’s bachelor party. They experience many things and the bond they have is really strong. Phil, who is married, a husband and a father is kind of the leader of the group. Stu is a dentist who marries a stripper. Doug is the groom that gets lost and their friends are going insane just to find him. Alan is Doug’s brother-in-law and is kind of weird. The relationship they with each other is really strong and makes it even more stronger towards the end of the movie. These men help each other out and show bromance. Like Grazian says on page 328 that the guys help each other out with girls. They get girls at a nightclub and they introduce them to their friends, so no one feels left out. In the movie, the guys seem to do this. At the end of the movie they find a camera that show pictures of them at a strip club, where each one of them did have a girl. In the article Grazian he talks about Gregory and he says “While getting dressed among friends in preparation for a trip to a local strip club, Gregory, a twenty-year-old white sophomore, reports on the banter: “We should all dress rich and stuff so we can get us some hookers!” (326). In the movie the Hangover, in the beginning the guys are ready to go out and party and Phil tells all of them to get dressed. All of them are dressed in professional suits except for Alan who is dressed in jeans and a t-shirt. Phil think that dressing is important and is a way to show their masculinity. This movie and the article talk about bromance and the relationships men have with their friends and other men.
Grazian, David. "The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as a Collective Activity". Men's Lives. 5th ed. Michael S. Kimmel, Michael A. Messner Eds. New York: Allyn & Bacon,2001. 320-337. Print.
The Hangover. Dir. Tod Phillips. Perf. Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis. Legendary, 2009. DVD.
This blog post opens with an effective topic sentence and includes strong examples from Grazian's article. Make sure that when you mention the title of the movie, The Hangover, you designate it, just as you did in your Works Cited entry for the movie, in accordance with the MLA style. Also, you don't need to describe every character and you should instead provide examples from the movie that are comparable/similar to those you mention from Grazian's reading. Please follow MLA format when referring to ideas from readings. Do not use the non-MLA format of "Like Grazian says on page 328..."
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