Entourage : Content Analysis

Content Analysis

Name of Program: Entourage

Medium: Television

Genre of Program: Comedy-drama

Name of Character Viewed	Vincent Chase	Eric Murphy	Johnny Drama Chase	Turtle (Jerry Ferrara)	Ari Gold
Male or Female	Male	Male	Male	Male	Male
Main Character?	Yes	No	No	No	No
Occupation	Famous Actor	Actor Manager	Struggling Soap Actor	Chauffer, party manager	Vinny’s agent, Big acting label company owner
Level of Education	College	MBA	College	High School	MBA
Race	White	White	White	White	White
Marital Status	Single (one night stands, got out of relationship with Missy Stone)	Married to Sloan(working in Sloan’s godfather’s company)	Single (one night stands)	Single (one night stands)	Married to Mrs. Ari Gold, with 2 kids
Age	32 years old	32 years old	34 years old	32 years old	35 years old
Number of Children	0	0 (planning on getting 1)	0	0	2 children
Appearance	Handsome, good looking	Average	Average	Average by traditional Standards	Average, strong built
Body Type	Healthy	Healthy	Healthy	A bit heavy, big	Strong built, fit
Personal Characteristics	Arrogant, kind hearted starting to get emotional, humorous, Big sexual drive	Emotional, Intelligent, Committed, Rational , Straight forwards,	Emotional, Desperate, Kind hearted, short tempered.	Confused, Indecisive, Desperate, Nondependent	Womanizer, Humorous, Straight forward, Stubborn, Gets what he wants/says, Persuasive, Promising, powerful
Role of Character in Narrative	Flirtatious, Main character, Helpful	Reality check figure	Supporting character	Wingman character	Comedy character
Impact of character in Narrative	Major voice	Contradicting with Major voice	Side conflicts	Negative outcomes	Mixed conflicts, conflict manager

The show is straight up amazing. It is about the chronicles of an A-list movie star, Vincent Chase, popularly known as Vinny, and the fluctuations of this acting career in Hollywood. Even though the whole show is centered about the acting career of Vinny Chase, his entourage or his childhood mates, makes his life experience even more lively because the intertwining relations and conflicting ideas of the characters lead to large fights and blows but in the end, they come through as caring and true friends. Vinny Chase, is a star struck celeb who debuted on Aquoman, and he immediately came on the rooster of A-list movies. His older brother Johnny Drama is a struggling actor, and he hides under the limelight of his brother’s fame, and living under his younger brothers roof, but Vinny Chase being the kind hearted person he is, lavishly spends on luxurious Hummers, Rolls Royce and 10 grand personal custom-made sneaks, 3 million Beverly Hill apartments NOT for himself, but for his friends. In the show, the characters are more like “bros” then just childhood friends. Their foundation of friendship was established during their childhood, and Vinny trusts his entourage so much, that he made Eric, E his agent even without any actual managing training, but because he trusts E like his family. And then we have, Turtle, who is not defined, because he does not have a job of his own, so he drives Vinny around, and lives of favors and Vinny’s wealth. But as usual, this is a story of people in Hollywood, so there are stereotypes everywhere. The characters Vinny and his brother and Turtle all enjoy getting laid and one night stands except for the two other characters that are married. So the portrayal of women as an object of desire and fulfilling their sexual drive is the message projected in the show, and that is negative media. Also in the show, there is extensive abuse of alcohol and drugs and it is the everyday life style of a superstar and that is what they are trying to portray. There stereotypes are embedded within other stereotypes which makes it hierarchical and more complex. For example, the lifestyle of a famous actor is portrayed with girls who are models and have a thin skinny bodies and are desperate, which is another stereotype for modeling girls and also project women as dependant and docile. Also in the show, Ari Gold, is the man, so he wants to get what he wants. He is very racist, especially towards his assistant who is Chinese and homosexual. So he makes fun of his Chinese origin and generalizes all Chinese people to be gay. And he treats women as inferior and objects of pleasure to the eye. He treats women like dirt and calls them all prostitutes at heart. This sends a very negative issue about women. Even though in the show, there is a supporting actress who is the co-manager with Ari gold, but Ari Gold still manages to dominate her and over rule her voice and throws sexist slurs on her, and she takes it without much argument, which shows another stereotype of women being pushed down in society even in work areas. There are many more stereotypes, but the major ones are the alcoholism and drugs that comes with naturally living like a superstar, the perception of women as objects to fulfill sexual drive and discrimination against Chinese people.