Notes on the film Norma Rae through the lens of Type Six The Loyal Skeptic—
it doesn’t get any better than this, folks.
Opening Song: Jennifer Warnes: “Maybe what’s good gets a little bit better, and what’s bad gets gone...”
Opening scene: Norma Rae realizes her mother is going deaf from the factory noise, And the manager tells her to get another job (but NR says there are none). Sixes have a need to keep parents and authorities close: to stay under their protection but also to challenge them.
Sixes have attention that goes to Divided Loyalties. They are not always loyal, they're *concerned* with to what and to whom to be loyal. Duplicity/Divided Loyalties: she is sleeping with a married family man at a hotel.
Do it and I’ll shut up. She acts tough and they often believe her. (When she says “give me all your names” she’s in counter-phobic mode. Move against the fear and get big, don’t show them you’re afraid, scare them first.)
“Hey I got some ice for that”... Sixes are prepared. Union organizer (likely also portraying a 6) Reuben says he is a mild hypochondriac. He hands out flyers for the textile workers union: an advocate for the underdog. Sixes are fierce advocates for the underdog bc they see themselves as underdogs in a world of oppressors. The way to solve that anxiety is to create allies.
Phobic and Counterphobic stances show up with Norma Rae— I appear small and afraid so I am not a threat (then you won’t hurt me) vs I will appear fearless and you should fear me (then you won’t hurt me).
Blameless: “Whatever it is I didn’t do it” she says when her boss calls her in and we learn she advocates for employees as squeaky wheel all the time. He offers her more money to check and supervise her coworkers, including her own parents:
6 stress comes from Divided Loyalties— here the dilemma is: Be loyal to the boss, the parents, the self, the factory owners, what?
Reuben to NR: “I think you’re too smart for what’s happening to you.”
Her father follows her around and treats her like a 17-year-old girl, an arrangement she fights but has agreed to for ease and protection. At the factory and in the town: Norma dances with the powers that be, and fights them too at the same time.
Bc she took a management job she begins to loose acceptance with her workmates. Biggest fear: not having a community of like-minded defenders.
WINGS!! She admits she took the management job bc she was greedy (5 Wing) but she sees now it restricted her options and community (7 Wing).
Re: First Union Meeting NR says: “ I’m not asking anybody, I’m Goin” She gets a CONFIDENCE from her OWN GUT KNOWING.
Reuben knows the rules/laws (like Sixes often do) so he can inspect the plant’s break room and posters.
Reuben has a SP Five Wing or is one? He lives in mess. In hotel: “ I don’t want them to mess with my things, I know where everything is. “
Norma is an advocate alongside/with everyone in her town. She never sees herself as a leader; often a Six trait. The authority of the church rejects her. She asks the minister to support the union, blacks and whites together; and the minister says we are gonna miss your voice in the choir, Norma. And she says “ You’re going to hear it raised up somewhere else” BAM!!! This is the best of Type 6, a Reactive Type *4-6-8* who calls a spade a spade regardless of discomfort of others.
Norma begins yelling at a guy who comes late to the union office: she goes into a tirade about how hard working and loyal she is and others aren’t.
3-6-9. Film’s Peak Scene—-She takes right action (3) as a leader holding up a sign saying Union: union (9)! And each member stops their machine individually.
NR is crying after her arrest, but Reuben tells her how much worse abuse he has seen. Sweet scene w kids: If you go to the mill, I want it to be better for you than it has been for me. THE ADVOCATE.
Her husband says he’s loyal to her thru tired/sick/old even though she admits that Ruben is in her head.
——— Btw: I’m the son of a Union Carpenter 6, which is why I probably LOVE this movie so much. I think it’s one of the clearest portrayals of this type’s three instincts all in one character.
{The women who made the film (two producers and Sally Field) were also underdogs.} Director had been blacklisted in 50s, focused much of his work on labor and social justice. Movie based on a real story of a union woman who chose later to be anonymous. Movie produced at same time as Star Wars— an underdog project. Likely a 6 in real life… Sally Field admits to sharing a “fierceness”’w Norma Rae… when she accepted her Academy Award for this role she was timid and said “You like me, you really like me” as if it was a big surprise and she was a small surprise… very 6.
it doesn’t get any better than this, folks.
Opening Song: Jennifer Warnes: “Maybe what’s good gets a little bit better, and what’s bad gets gone...”
Opening scene: Norma Rae realizes her mother is going deaf from the factory noise, And the manager tells her to get another job (but NR says there are none). Sixes have a need to keep parents and authorities close: to stay under their protection but also to challenge them.
Sixes have attention that goes to Divided Loyalties. They are not always loyal, they're *concerned* with to what and to whom to be loyal. Duplicity/Divided Loyalties: she is sleeping with a married family man at a hotel.
Do it and I’ll shut up. She acts tough and they often believe her. (When she says “give me all your names” she’s in counter-phobic mode. Move against the fear and get big, don’t show them you’re afraid, scare them first.)
“Hey I got some ice for that”... Sixes are prepared. Union organizer (likely also portraying a 6) Reuben says he is a mild hypochondriac. He hands out flyers for the textile workers union: an advocate for the underdog. Sixes are fierce advocates for the underdog bc they see themselves as underdogs in a world of oppressors. The way to solve that anxiety is to create allies.
Phobic and Counterphobic stances show up with Norma Rae— I appear small and afraid so I am not a threat (then you won’t hurt me) vs I will appear fearless and you should fear me (then you won’t hurt me).
Blameless: “Whatever it is I didn’t do it” she says when her boss calls her in and we learn she advocates for employees as squeaky wheel all the time. He offers her more money to check and supervise her coworkers, including her own parents:
6 stress comes from Divided Loyalties— here the dilemma is: Be loyal to the boss, the parents, the self, the factory owners, what?
Reuben to NR: “I think you’re too smart for what’s happening to you.”
Her father follows her around and treats her like a 17-year-old girl, an arrangement she fights but has agreed to for ease and protection. At the factory and in the town: Norma dances with the powers that be, and fights them too at the same time.
Bc she took a management job she begins to loose acceptance with her workmates. Biggest fear: not having a community of like-minded defenders.
WINGS!! She admits she took the management job bc she was greedy (5 Wing) but she sees now it restricted her options and community (7 Wing).
Re: First Union Meeting NR says: “ I’m not asking anybody, I’m Goin” She gets a CONFIDENCE from her OWN GUT KNOWING.
Reuben knows the rules/laws (like Sixes often do) so he can inspect the plant’s break room and posters.
Reuben has a SP Five Wing or is one? He lives in mess. In hotel: “ I don’t want them to mess with my things, I know where everything is. “
Norma is an advocate alongside/with everyone in her town. She never sees herself as a leader; often a Six trait. The authority of the church rejects her. She asks the minister to support the union, blacks and whites together; and the minister says we are gonna miss your voice in the choir, Norma. And she says “ You’re going to hear it raised up somewhere else” BAM!!! This is the best of Type 6, a Reactive Type *4-6-8* who calls a spade a spade regardless of discomfort of others.
Norma begins yelling at a guy who comes late to the union office: she goes into a tirade about how hard working and loyal she is and others aren’t.
3-6-9. Film’s Peak Scene—-She takes right action (3) as a leader holding up a sign saying Union: union (9)! And each member stops their machine individually.
NR is crying after her arrest, but Reuben tells her how much worse abuse he has seen. Sweet scene w kids: If you go to the mill, I want it to be better for you than it has been for me. THE ADVOCATE.
Her husband says he’s loyal to her thru tired/sick/old even though she admits that Ruben is in her head.
——— Btw: I’m the son of a Union Carpenter 6, which is why I probably LOVE this movie so much. I think it’s one of the clearest portrayals of this type’s three instincts all in one character.
{The women who made the film (two producers and Sally Field) were also underdogs.} Director had been blacklisted in 50s, focused much of his work on labor and social justice. Movie based on a real story of a union woman who chose later to be anonymous. Movie produced at same time as Star Wars— an underdog project. Likely a 6 in real life… Sally Field admits to sharing a “fierceness”’w Norma Rae… when she accepted her Academy Award for this role she was timid and said “You like me, you really like me” as if it was a big surprise and she was a small surprise… very 6.