Nichelle Santagata Professor Peter Lehman FMS 100 7 December 2014 Honestly the word count: 656 Sucker Punch: The Representation of Women and the Female Body In the 2011 fantasy film Sucker Punch, directed by Zack Snyder, is one that illustrates the objectification of women as prostitutes with absurdly fetishizing them in sexualized outfits, heroic fight scenes, and the delusions of escape. Sucker Punch incorporates the ideals of the mother/whore dichotomy, saving and punishing women, and showcases their beautiful bodies. The main character Babydoll is seen as an innocent young female who is thrown into a psychiatric asylum for troubled girls (run entirely by men) and seen as mentally unstable. In the first five minutes of the film she is already …show more content…
punished for betraying her step-father’s rules of allowing him to sexually abusing her and her younger sister. First Babydoll begins innocent but is automatically considered the whore due to the fact she is impure when her father sexually abuses her. When women fall away from the order to listening to men they are punished because she was seen as a danger to herself and to others. Babydoll is raped by the staff of the asylum and conjures up a plan to escape. This rape leads her to a fugue state of mind where she envisions the asylum as a Bordello/Brothel (which back in the 60’s was a time where women were property of men), the workers are paying customers, and some other inmates there are prostitutes/whores as well as Babydoll. Her rapes are seen as dance routines where she is then taken into a fantasy, dressed in skimpy skirts and revealing tops with the camera taking close-up shots of her breasts and revealed legs as she fights in heroic scenes as a soldier in battlefields. This helps show fragmentation of the beautiful body. The men control the women’s sexuality in this film because they have no way of escaping their rapists and every time the females try to push back something terrible occurs. Another scene where Sweat Pea and her sister are on the train trying to fight robots, Sweat Pea’s sister dies (like in the beginning of the film) because she does not follow the rules of men in control and therefore is punished. Another is when Babyoll’s first battle (rape scene) is against the Japanese Samurais and she takes first initiative to attack them and is completely hit across the stoned courtyard, therefore being punished again and continues to be punished through out the film every four times she tries to collect the four items to escape.
The women’s bodies in the film are for erotic display even without full nudity and no ale eroticism is implied in the film. The prostitutes (inmates) are the whores who cannot be trusted all together because none of them are innocent anymore and are only simply utilized by them ad must follow their rules. The film wants to celebrate independence of females from the male’s dominance with their own female will-power but that can be somewhat contradicted since the role of The Wise Man played by Scott Glenn leads the way for the females and gives them advice. But in this film, every scene he is in, he only does just that and gives them clues so that the females CAN lead themselves to their escape. The lighting in the film also contributes to the beauty of the female body when there are revealing outfits and there are colorful lights that help excentuate their bodies. Babydoll and the rest of the females are killed off except for Sweat Pea in the end who escapes on a bus because she is rewarded in the end for distracting the visitors and is saved for not fighting back, but sacrificing herself. In the end Babydoll escapes as well but receives a lobotomy therefore finds paradise in another manner. But the plot twist is that Babydoll is
conjured up and represents Sweat Pea and acts this trauma out and this entire story is a repurpose of the lobotomy representing Sweat Peas life of wanting to escape.
Sitting Bull was a war chief in the Lakota tribe during the 1800s. He was born in 1831 at the Grand River in South Dakota. When he was a child, he was not called Sitting Bull. His name was Jumping Badger but everybody had called him ‘Slow’ at first because they believed that he lacked many skills. It wasn't until he was 14 when he fought in his first battle that they renamed him and started calling him Sitting Bull, like his father.
Donna’s father is angry when he finds out and automatically assumes it means she’s going to have sex with many men. This example is representative of the double standard held between men and women. It wouldn’t be an issue if one of the boys had multiple partners or used birth control, but as soon as one of the females does, it is frowned upon. When Jackie hears that Donna is on the pill, she exclaims “you’re going to be so popular,” which implies women can only be well-liked if they please men. Then, Eric’s parents give him “the talk” and while Kitty mentions that foreplay is important, Red disagrees. This implies a woman’s pleasure is not important, as long as men are taken care of. While Laurie is home, Eric finds out that she is failing classes, perpetuating the “dumb blonde”
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In Erzulie’s Skirt, the reader sees two disoriented women awaking to the harsh reality that they have been tricked and imprisoned after their voyage. They are then locked in a concrete room with nothing but their clothing and two beds, forced to work as prostitutes for the personal gain of a racist woman named Delia. In the brothel, Micaela and Miriam are made to allow men to enact their sexual desire and unnatural fetishes, and if they dare to resist or refuse, they are beaten nearly to death. In the most obvious way, this position mirrors the treatment ...
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... perfect exemplars of how an ideal innocent women, can face undoubtedly tragic fates. Despite much strength in their characters, both Daisy and Desdemona exhibit the vulnerability of their innocence, the ability for others to take advantage of them, and glaring weaknesses. They are unaware of their surroundings, which lead to questionable actions. Their inevitable tragedies occur because of how each character dealt with these situations placed in front of them. All in all, Daisy and Desdemona are responsible for their tragedies because they are women placed in unfamiliar positions and are unable to deal with situations placed in front of them.
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Sex and sexuality plays an integral part of the stories of the novel as a taboo that many of the characters refuse to address. For Dream
There are movies that make you laugh, that make you cry, that blow you away with jaw-dropping, ever-so-satisfying action sequences. And there is Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece, an homage to the old Pulp Magazines and crime novels popular in the 1950s. Known for their incredibly dense and complex dialogue and excessive violence, Tarantino adds his trademark nonlinear chronology and thorough character development to create a movie that celebrates the fact that chance governs all of our lives. The film consists of multiple stories that tell of the criminals, gangsters and outliers of Los Angeles, the underbelly of society. It follows Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield as they embark on their mission to recovering a briefcase that
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Have you ever heard of a bull standing up for its land? Well, Sitting Bull, not a real bull, stood up for his land. Sitting Bull was born in 1831 in the north central part of the Dakota Territories, in what would become South Dakota nowadays (reference). Although he was called Sitting Bull at the end of his life, he was called Slow for the earliest years of his life. This was his name because of his “deliberate manner and the awkward movement of his sturdy body” (reference).
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