Why Jane Fonda believes that ‘9 to 5’ has become less relevant

In 9 to 5Fonda plays Judy, a shy housewife who is forced to take a job as a secretary after her husband left her for a younger woman. She quickly friends (Tomlin), an experienced employee in her new company who has trained the man who is now everyone’s chief Franklin (Dabney Coleman). Judy and Violet also become Dorale (Parton), Franklin’s personal secretary, in which he constantly sexually harassed and says to everyone with whom he has an affair. When the women finally had enough of their unchecked misogyny and exploitation, they take the matter into their own hands.

In 1980, films with women were not particularly bank bar. star WarsPresent Smokey and the banditsand the Rocky Franchise had dominated in recent years and even a musical like Fat Male stars. The idea that an open feminist job comedy with three women could dominate cinemas was ridiculous, which is why it was probably the reason 9 to 5 was produced despite the stature of his three stars with a sparse budget of 10 US dollars. Against all chances of winning, however, it was a great success that over 103 million US The empire strikes back.

It was one of these rare films that touched a nerve. It was ahead of both perfect time and his time. You can see it today and see the same parallels between women in the film and women in the workplace. However, Fonda himself said that she believes that it is not very well aged. It is not the case that things have gotten better for women. On the contrary, things have gotten worse.

“The situation for people who work in offices in a way today Conan O’Brien needs a friend Podcast in 2023. “You will be hired by a contract company that has completed you to another company, and who do you complain?”

It is even worse that companies are now using computers to spy on their employees and to further avert the balance of power from the workers and their anonymous upper men. “It’s really difficult,” said Fonda and pointed to the most obvious change since the film. “We three would probably have had two or three jobs to be able to afford the lifestyle they lived at that time.”

All of this adds up to a rather bleak picture of the present, but maybe it is another film about the dangers of office life produced by Fonda. There is no indication that a sequel is in the works, but if a film deserves you, it is a 9 to 5.