A Surface and a Depth: Molly’s Game as Medical Melodrama

Why is Hollywood so uncomfortable with ambitious women?

In this video, I look at Aaron Sorkin's 2017 film Molly's Game and explore how female ambition in American cinema is often framed as an illness.

For educational purposes only.

Filmography:

• Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding, 1939)

• Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945)

• A Woman's Face (George Cukor, 1941)

• Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942)

• Lady in the Dark (Mitchell Leisen, 1944)

• The Dark Mirror (Robert Siodmak, 1946)

• Shock (Alfred L. Werker, 1946)

• Possessed (Curtis Bernhardt, 1947)

• Whirlpool (Otto Preminger, 1950)

• All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

• The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder, 1955)

• Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976)

• Baby Boom (Charles Shyer, 1987)

• To Die For (Gus Van Sant, 1995)

• Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe, 1996)

• Working Girl (Mike Nichols, 1988)

• Boiler Room (Ben Younger, 2000)

• Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston, 2004)

• Morning Glory (Roger Michell, 2010)

• The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)

• I Don't Know How She Does It (Douglas McGrath, 2011)

• Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012)

• The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)

• Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)

• The Intern (Nancy Meyers, 2015)

• The Big Short ( Adam McKay, 2015)

• Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin, 2017)

• Float Like a Butterfly (Carmel Winters, 2018)

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Production Music "Common Sense (Instrumental)" by Elias Näslin courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com