# Classic portrayals of women picking alpha males **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [October 20, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/classic-portrayals-of-women-picking-alpha-males/21732 "2008-10-20T19:18:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![renny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/renny/32/2104_2.png) [@renny](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/renny)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/classic-portrayals-of-women-picking-alpha-males/21732/1 "2008-10-20T19:18:34Z")
OK guys, I’ve recently had great fun watching 2 different classic movies that really struck a chord with the whole alpha male thing. The Philadelphia Story (1940) is really well known and if you like classics at all you’ve probably seen it. The very high status Katherine Hepburn has her choice of three alpha characters to choose from. The secondary male characters are really interesting too. Female (1936) is a movie that may be harder to come by but it is well worth hunting down. It’s a role reversal movie that really takes a hard look at who women are attracted to and why. Watching either of these movies with an eye to what makes a high status woman tick is well worth doing. They are both also quite funny! ---
**Author:** ![Mtnjim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/mtnjim/32/2010_2.png) [@Mtnjim](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Mtnjim)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/classic-portrayals-of-women-picking-alpha-males/21732/2 "2008-10-20T21:32:54Z")
Sadly to the 20somethings, the values that made an “alpha” male in the 1930’s and 1940’s would appear “old fashioned” and/or “odd”. Sort of like the values from the **18** 40’s would seem “odd” to us. ---
**Author:** ![Hazard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/hazard/32/1153_2.png) [@Hazard](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Hazard)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/classic-portrayals-of-women-picking-alpha-males/21732/3 "2008-10-23T23:17:56Z")
> [@Mtnjim](#): > > Sadly to the 20somethings, the values that made an “alpha” male in the 1930’s and 1940’s would appear “old fashioned” and/or “odd”. Sort of like the values from the **18** 40’s would seem “odd” to us. precisely right LOL - even if a 20 something male acted the same way as the guys in those movies… the fem’s wouldn’t go for it. It’s different today… ~Haz~ ---
**Author:** ![renny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/renny/32/2104_2.png) [@renny](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/renny)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/classic-portrayals-of-women-picking-alpha-males/21732/4 "2008-10-24T19:35:22Z")
I respectfully disagree Hazard…the mannerisms and idioms might be old fashioned but I think the attitudes are precisely what the pick up gurus are making their money teaching. ---
**Author:** ![Hazard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/hazard/32/1153_2.png) [@Hazard](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Hazard)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/classic-portrayals-of-women-picking-alpha-males/21732/5 "2008-10-25T19:38:12Z")
> [@renny](#): > > I respectfully disagree Hazard…the mannerisms and idioms might be old fashioned but I think the attitudes are precisely what the pick up gurus are making their money teaching. hmmm…touche… ~Haz~ ---
**Author:** ![bosshank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@bosshank](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/bosshank)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 8:01am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/classic-portrayals-of-women-picking-alpha-males/21732/6 "2008-10-30T08:01:06Z")
> [@renny](#): > > I respectfully disagree Hazard…the mannerisms and idioms might be old fashioned but I think the attitudes are precisely what the pick up gurus are making their money teaching. Exactly. Nice analysis and commentary. ---
**Author:** ![Whitehall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/whitehall/32/1087_2.png) [@Whitehall](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Whitehall)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/classic-portrayals-of-women-picking-alpha-males/21732/7 "2009-02-13T17:31:00Z")
How about “_Conan the Barbarian_”? There’s a classic alpha male for yea! Women sometimes tell me I look a bit like Schwartenegger - if they’ve had a Cosmo or two. One Cole Porter song (_Anything Goes)_ had a line about women liking men “nowadays” who where just “silly gigelos” so maybe the styles change but the evolutionary imperatives remain the same. ---
**Author:** ![PheroQuirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@PheroQuirk](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/PheroQuirk)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/classic-portrayals-of-women-picking-alpha-males/21732/8 "2009-02-14T05:53:48Z")
No role reversal, but here is Roissy breaking down Rhett gaming Scarlett. [Great Scenes Of Game In The Movies Roissy in DC](http://roissy.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/great-scenes-of-game-in-the-movies-2/) ---
**Author:** ![Whitehall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/whitehall/32/1087_2.png) [@Whitehall](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Whitehall)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 7:52am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/classic-portrayals-of-women-picking-alpha-males/21732/9 "2009-02-14T07:52:54Z")
That is a great site! ---
**Author:** ![renny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/renny/32/2104_2.png) [@renny](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/renny)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/classic-portrayals-of-women-picking-alpha-males/21732/10 "2009-02-14T15:30:48Z")
That’s what I’m talkin’ about PQ, Thanks for that.