The Importance Of Gender Representation In Film

In the past decade, there were a lot of people would like to explore about what is gender and how can gender connect with the film. Normally film is someway people could express their own idea of everything in life and use different methods to represent in film.( ) For example the film I would like to discuss here is The Darkest Hour(2017), which shows the culture and language in 1940 that filmmakers always be the masculinity and hardly talked about femininity.

Talking about the representation of gender, so what is exactly representation means? Stuart Hall argued that representation connects meaning and language to culture and it means using language to say something meaningful about, or to represent, the world meaningfully, to other people.(

At that age, hardly any women in Britain could play key roles in the film such as filmmakers and women who worked in film was still be spectacle.( ) Therefore, gender could be expressed as the patriarchy society.

As Mike Figgis said Lighting is whatever you want it to be.( ) In The Darkest hour, the filmmaker used yellow light to express Elizabeth Layton, who was the last surviving personal secretary to have worked for Churchill during World War II, supported Churchill all the time as a sensual woman. And when King George VI meets up with Churchill in Palace, they were standing separately under two strong and distinct white lights so that can reflect their strong opposition or even in the same light, they were both standing on the edge of the place. Churchill dropped out of the royal study, and a strong white light hit him again. Leaving the field, he was headed for another, bigger battleground, the house of Commons. In history, Churchill was famous for his powerful speeches. Throughout the film, Churchill had four speeches, three of which were in the house of Commons, two of them at the venue, at the beginning of his presidency and when he was determined to fight. Churchill’s power was not secure. Therefore, the director deliberately arranged a light to cast a strong and isolated white light in the prime minister's position to highlight his solitary struggle. What’s more, When Churchill knew about the state of the war, he sat in a small stall in the light, smoking a cigar and grilling his face. Leighton, on behalf of the general public, encouraged Churchill to think about war from an emotional