Status and Control Women’s and Men’s Speech Features Used by Angelina Jolie

62 exhibited her skill and ability by mentioning the total number of her targets that were bigger than John‟s targets.

4. Less Emotionally Responsive

Men rarely show their emotion to hide their feelings. They will respond as little as possible to hide their feelings, because they think that showing their emotion means that they are weak and pathetic. Dialogue 41 Seller : Hey, step right up, ladies and gentlemen. Try your luck. How about you, little lady? Wanna try your luck? Win a prize? Jane : Yeah. All right. This conversation happened when Jane and John first met. They were walking in a festival when someone offered them to try to hit some targets on one of the shows. Jane just answered the seller invitation by answering it with minimal cue. Dialogue 42 John : Tried something new? Jane : Uh-huh. How was Atlanta? The conversation happened in Smith‟s house when Jane and John having their dinner together. John asked her about the cooking and she just gave a minimal response to his question she did not want to bring the conversation about her cooking further and changed the conversation to the new direction. Dialogue 43 John : I‟m slightly color blind. Jane : Uh-huh 63 This conversation happened after Jane and John settled their problem and had their breakfast together. Both of them were telling each other their story and realized that there were many strange things happened and they did not realize it. John told her about her experiences and being slightly color blind. She responded with minimal cues to show John that she is listening.

5. Conversational Dominance

Men may reroute the conversation if they do not like the topic or they may interrupt. There were two expressions that were considered as Conversational dominance. Dialogue 44 John : Honey, would you just... Jane : Five more minutes. The conversation happened in the Smith‟s bedroom. Jane was still reading when John was already lying on the bed ready to sleep. John, who could not sleep asked Jane politely to stop reading and turn the light off, but she interrupted before his husband finished his line. This interruption was considered as conversational dominance because Jane‟s aim when she interrupted her husband was to control the conversation by making her husband silent. Dialogue 45 John : Connected... – Jane : This is not my first time. This conversation happened while they were in the spying van and they were going to kidnap Benjamin Danz which was their last target. John was 64 worried about Jane, therefore he asked Jane about her preparation that made Jane angry. While he was talking Jane interrupted her husband and said that this was not her first time. Jane‟s interruption here was categorized as conversational dominance with one of the feature namely interrupts. She interrupted her husband to control the conversation and made that her decision was absolute and leave no room for her husband to respond. She challenged her husband that she already knew about it and implicitly told her husband to stop worrying about her. 6. Abstract Men frequently speak in general terms that remove from concrete experience and distance from personal feeling. From Angelina‟s utterances, there is only one abstract feature found. Dialogue 46 John : You think this‟ll have a happy ending? Jane : Happy endings are just stories that haven’t finished yet. This conversation happened in a ballroom hotel while Jane and John were dancing. John was asking Jane about their marriage, but she responded John‟s question coldly . Jane‟s utterance “Happy endings are just stories that haven‟t finished yet” was considered as abstract because she was talking in general terms with no concrete experience. Jane‟s utterance also created more barriers that notified John that she did not think that their marriage will be a happy ending. The table below was the summaries of men‟s speech features found in Angelina Jolie‟s utterances from the dialogues. 65 Table 4. Features of M en’s Speech No Men’s Speech Angelina Jolie’s Utterances Time To tal 1. Direct and assertive We talked about this. You remember? 00:13:12,752 23 You‟ll get used to „em. 00:13:30,353 We‟ll get him out tomorrow. 00:29:38,280 Order more. All right. Go, Jas. 00:29:43,243 I want GPS and SAC of the canyon, and the weather report for the last three days 00:29:57,799 I want to know who that bitch is. Get me that tape. 00:35:53,196 Get me that tape. What? 00:35:56,074 Why don‟t you both go make some coffee? 00:38:43,283 Tell him... Dinner‟s at seven. 00:39:16,024 This room is wrapped. Thank you. 00:51:07,068 Target profile is our main priority. Utilize all means necessary. Phone taps. Credit cards. Audio scan civilian frequencies 00:52:55,885 And search the database. 00:53:17,032 Find him. 00:53:24,164 First and last warning, John. Get out of town. 00:57:59,648 Well, so you say. But right now, you‟re trapped in a steel box hanging 70 floors over nothing but air. 00:58:05,987 Six. And I‟m not leaving. 00:54:12,921 Don‟t Come on. Come on 01:15:28,238 Why do I get the girl gun? 01:21:13,416 No. 01:21:18,964 Paid actor. 01:27:39,177 Yeah, all right Stay. Stay there, wait for my mark. I‟ll find It. Wait for my mark. Almost there. I don‟t know what happened. Just hold on. 01:34:05,730 Shut up 01:35:03,246 Shut up 01:35:08,335 2. Instrumentalit y It‟s in the middle of the table. 00:15:43,737 14 Yeah, it‟s between you and me. 00:15:47,365 Well, so are a lot of girls. 00:53:54,069 Yes, thank you. Did you also get the base charge on the principle cable? Promise to leave town, or I‟ll blow it. 00:58:43,650 I thought... I thought that you were the most beautiful mark Id ever seen. 01:07:25,839 All business. 01:07:36,600 That vacation in Aspen? You left early. Why? 01:19:07,249 66 No Men’s Speech Angelina Jolie’s Utterances Time To tal I like it. You proposed to me here, so it has agreeable symmetry. 01:01:47,626 I‟m breathless to hear it. 01:04:18,360 Provocative. 01:04:21,363 I know. 00:16:49,886 I‟ll be there. In and out. Just a quickie. 00:16:51,429 I never do anything without thinking it through. 00:08:21,127 He‟s in construction. He is a big-time contractor. He‟s gone as much as I am, so it‟s perfect. 00:08:29,719 3. Status and control Beginner‟s luck. 00:07:22,861 10 There was a struggle over the material. This tea sandwich of a man, he got his hands on them first. But I won. 00:13:00,532 They‟re a bit green, so we have to reupholster the sofas and definitely get a new rug. 00:13:02,617 All right. Turn left. Left, John. Left. 01:33:31,238 Hold still. 01:25:02,020 Move over. Move. Im the suburban housewife, sweetheart. You move. 01:25:27,504 Go. 01:25:34,511 30 second window. I cut the power, you grab the kid. Simple and clean. Got it? 01:32:18,582 312. 01:32:49,070 Some were two at a time. 01:32:57,289 4. Less emotionally responsive Yeah. All right 00:06:46,616 3 Uh-huh. How was Atlanta? 00:43:59,224 Uh-huh 01:19:42,659 5. Conversation al dominance Five more minutes 00:14:57,732 2 This is not my first time. 01:33:23,855 6. Abstract Happy endings are just stories that havent finished yet. 01:03:12,043 1 Total utterances of men’s speech 53 From the table, it can be seen that Angelina uttered fifty three utterances that were considered as men‟s speech out of sixty seven chosen utterances. From the table, it also can be seen that she used all of the six features of men ‟s speech in the movie. The table also showed that Angelina mostly used direct and assertive feature in the movie that meant that Angelina was kind of people that used to be