Jack offers the pedigree and connections Tess needs to help her propose a lucrative merger, but Tess runs the show, impersonating her boss and crashing weddings and corporate cocktail hours to get what she wants. She finds her foothold in the form of Jack Trainer (Harrison Ford), a corporate insider who takes a risk on Tess’s ideas, and on Tess herself. McGill is a streetwise Staten Island secretary fresh out of night school, desperate to reach the first rung on the corporate ladder. But the differences between Ana and Griffith’s Tess McGill are telling. In Working Girl, Griffith delivers nearly the exact same speech to her new assistant after receiving a sudden promotion. And the rest we’ll just make up as we go along.” “And I don’t expect you to fetch me coffee unless you’re getting some for yourself. “I expect you to call me Ana,” she tells her former coworker and now-subordinate, a young black woman named Hannah.
The movie itself invites these comparisons, when it has Johnson’s character Anastasia Steele, the virginal heroine of the Fifty Shades franchise who is inducted into an education in sexual bondage at the hands of Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), pay homage to Working Girl after winning a sudden promotion. It’s bizarrely difficult to watch Fifty Shades Darker without spending a lot of time thinking about Dakota Johnson’s mother, Melanie Griffith.
