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In Resident Evil Retribution there are equal numbers of female and male characters starring. The female characters talk considerably and participate in more notable behaviours. They are represented as a hero or killer through masculine attributes or at times through the dress sense. Alice contributes as the main character in the film; she is captured by the Umbrella Corporation, constraining her to make her emission from an underwater facility in the Arctic Circle, used for testing the T-virus.
Resident Evil: Retribution is a 2012 science fiction, action and horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. It is based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil. This film shows the representation of women
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The narrative of the movie Halloween is well constructed creating the character Judith as inadequate. On a Halloween night in 1963, six year old Michael Myers ferociously murdered his 17 year old older sister, Judith. This was by stabbing her with a kitchenette knife. He served a prison sentence of 25 years. However, on October 30th, 1978 while being transferred for a court date, the 21 year old Michael Myers steals a car and returns to his hometown Haddonfield. He had moved there to look for his next victim. This was teenager Laurie Strode along with her friends. I have chosen this text as you can understand it is a typical narrative based on young vulnerable female characters. Moreover, there are displays of the women who stereotypically grasp throughout the film. Overall, I have chosen this film because it conveys the deleterious stereotype that has been …show more content…
For example, Judith dies in the film previously stated and a number of other female characters are male controlled. However, this was because the movie was made in the late 1970’s. Therefore, traditional stereotypes have been used. Moreover, the movie Resident Evil Retribution was made in 2012. The representation of female shows a dominant role. For example, Alice shows her characteristic as strong (although this was rare). It was highly recognised for subverting the stereotype. This is because it had appealed to a high number of audiences.
In the book Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in Modern Horror Film is written by Carol J Clover, who is highly recognised as the American professor of film studies. According to her, the movie Halloween is set of fixed tale types. However, John Carpenter says ‘That’s what people want to see. They want to see the same movie again.’ This suggests that Carol J Clover does not like the representation of women in horror films due to the traditional stereotype. However, the director John Carpenter suggests that this is what the society wants because everybody has always thought like this and will feel more involved.
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Men and women have played gender specific roles, from the earliest sign of civilization to modern society. In the cult classic “Night of the Living Dead”, stereotypical gender role were on display. George A. Romero’s film hinted at subtle references to the role of men and women and depicted the stereotypes America held during the 1960s. Men played the protectors and enforcers, while the women represented the submissive homemakers and caretakers. Romero’s film portrays the sexes, men and women, in their respective stereotypical behaviors. Stereotypes that sets the undertone for the duration of the film.
Led by Laura Mulvey, feminist film critics have discussed the difficulty presented to female spectators by the controlling male gaze and narrative generally found in mainstream film, creating for female spectators a position that forces them into limited choices: "bisexual" identification with active male characters; identification with the passive, often victimized, female characters; or on occasion, identification with a "masculinized" active female character, who is generally punished for her unhealthy behavior. Before discussing recent improvements, it is important to note that a group of Classic Hollywood films regularly offered female spectators positive, female characters who were active in controlling narrative, gazing and desiring: the screwball comedy.
Although the director of Night of the Living Dead discriminated many gender roles in the 60s, throughout the movie the characters try to work together to help one another, but certain genders sit back and watch while others protect
Halloween is rife with psychological scares that affect its audience greatly. “Symbolism, dreamlike imagery, emotional rather than rational logic” are present in Psychoanalytic criticism. Siskel and Ebert talked about how the movie makes you feel as if you are the protagonist, scared for your life and feeling every bit of suspense (Siskel and Ebert). The movie is purely fueled by emotional responses to what is happening to the characters and focuses itself purely on how the audience will respond. In the clip shown, the main protagonist talks about how she killed the killer but he is shown alive. The movie is not concerned with the logic; otherwise, the killer would have at least been slowed down by the injuries he sustained. Siskel and Ebert laud the movie on its set up of scenes, score, character development, and use of lighting to make the audience feel the terror the characters undergo.
The most important events of this film all revolve around the female characters. While there are some male charac...
portrayed as the “femme fatale” and also “mother,” the “seductress” and at the same time
While once considered “low-brow” with a serious lack of documentation, the slasher film is now an established subgenre of the horror film. Like most genres and subgenres, the slasher film uses a predefined socially accepted list of criteria in order to classify a film as such. Carol J. Clover discusses this list in her article Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film. The slasher film is marked by its killer,...
Even under completely new circumstances, in a world reshaped by a zombie apocalypse, sexism and gender roles prevail. In the novel, World War Z, by Max Brooks, specifically the chapter “Parnell Air National Guard Base, Tennessee” highlights the main character, Christina Eliopolis, as a strong, admirable survivor of the tragic zombie apocalypse, but during her interview she is depicted as weak and discreditable due to her gender. Society’s conventional ideas of gender roles install hyper-masculine expectations towards men and in turn permits men to treat women as inferior, ultimately pitting women against each other and insecure about their gender.
Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl, are two very famous stars who represent America’s acting industry as two of the most highly regarded feminine and masculine actors. Both are thought to represent femininity and masculinity and very. It comes as no surprise that these two characters were chosen to play the parts of Abby and Michael within The Ugly Truth. The Ugly Truth displays a lot of stereotypes of men and women or what is expected to be masculine and feminine. According to Gendered Live: Communication, Gender, and Culture by Julia Wood, “A stereotype is a generalization about an entire class of phenomena based on some knowledge of some members of the class” (Wood, 2011, 122). Stereotypes can cause a lot of problems in society if individuals don’t fit the particular mold or idea of what it means to be feminine or masculine. Within The Ugly Truth, the first stereotype which arises is that women in powerful roles cannot have a relationship (Luketic, 2009). As an example, this particular stereotype causes a large amount of trouble for Abby when she takes to...
Ian Fleming published his first novel, Casino Royale, in 1953. Later on, in 2006 a film was made based on the novel. Fleming published his novel pertaining a man, James Bond, who is a British secret agent and is licensed to kill. Bond is told to gamble with Le Chiffre, who is a member of the Russian secret service. James Bond is assigned a female partner, Vesper Lynd, who is actually a double agent for Russia and Great Britain. Throughout Casino Royale, James Bond is brought to the readers as very hard and insensitive. Whereas the film in 2006, Bond is brought to the film watchers as sensitive and caring. Men in the 1950’s society treat women than in today’s society. A lady should be treated with respect and given dignity. Men should
We come to scene which is most important when talking about dependency on male counterparts. Evey is caught in the act of prostitution by fingermens who then decide to do whatever they want with her and even kill her but that’s when V a character from V for Vendetta comes to rescue Evey as a damsel in distress (Moore and Lloyd 6). This shows how Evey’s character is defenseless and couldn’t take on a masculine role and is instead waiting for someone in a masculine role to come and save her. By showing that scene Moore and Lloyd have separated male from a female according to their bodies and their representation of masculine and feminine. In an article about gender stereotyping and under-representation of female character in children’s picture
Horror films are designed to frighten the audience and engage them in their worst fears, while captivating and entertaining at the same time. Horror films often center on the darker side of life, on what is forbidden and strange. These films play with society’s fears, its nightmare’s and vulnerability, the terror of the unknown, the fear of death, the loss of identity, and the fear of sexuality. Horror films are generally set in spooky old mansions, fog-ridden areas, or dark locales with unknown human, supernatural or grotesque creatures lurking about. These creatures can range from vampires, madmen, devils, unfriendly ghosts, monsters, mad scientists, demons, zombies, evil spirits, satanic villains, the possessed, werewolves and freaks to the unseen and even the mere presence of evil.
Modern day horror films are very different from the first horror films which date back to the late nineteenth century, but the goal of shocking the audience is still the same. Over the course of its existence, the horror industry has had to innovate new ways to keep its viewers on the edge of their seats. Horror films are frightening films created solely to ignite anxiety and panic within the viewers. Dread and alarm summon deep fears by captivating the audience with a shocking, terrifying, and unpredictable finale that leaves the viewer stunned. (Horror Films)
What are the main roles that female actresses typically portray in horror films? Maggie Freleng, an editor of VitaminW, a website that contributes toward the female empowerment movement, expresses her belief that women are cast in “poor and stereotypical representation of women in the horror genre.” Some roles that many women portray that are seen as stereotypical is the sexually promiscuous women and the saved virgin, evil demon seductress, the overly liberated woman, and the most common role the damsel in distress. The possible reason that women are cast with these roles is because of the belief that women are seen as too dimwitted, overemotional, uncoordinated, weak, and incompetent to survive in a situation much like those in horror films. Anne T. Donahue, an author of Women in Horror: The Revenge an article in The Guardian verifies the belief of the females portrayed as the damsel in distress stereotype with the statement, “We see them [women] waiting for a man to save them, we see them running, bloodied and terrified, we see them tied and cut up,
Women have made progress in the film industry in terms of the type of role they play in action films, although they are still portrayed as sex objects. The beginning of “a new type of female character” (Hirschman, 1993, pg. 41-47) in the world of action films began in 1976 with Sigourney Weaver, who played the leading role in the blockbuster film ‘Aliens’ as Lt. Ellen Ripley. She was the captain of her own spaceship, plus she was the one who gave out all the orders. Until then, men had always been the ones giving the orders; to see a woman in that type of role was outlandish. This was an astonishing change for the American industry of film. Sometime later, in 1984, Linda Hamilton starred in ‘The Terminator’, a film where she was not the leading character, but a strong female character as Sarah Connor. She had a combination of masculine and feminine qualities as “an androgynous superwoman, resourceful, competent and courageous, while at the same time caring, sensitive and intuitive” (Hirschman, 1993, pg. 41-47). These changes made in action films for female’s roles stirred up a lot of excitement in the “Western society” (Starlet, 2007). The demand for strong female characters in action films grew to a new high when Angelina Jolie starred in ‘Tomb Raider’ in 2001 and then in the sequel, ‘Tomb Raider II: The Cradle of Life’ in 2003 as Lara Croft. Her strong female character was not only masculine, but was also portrayed as a sex object. Most often, strong women in these types of films tend to fight without even gaining a mark. At the end of each fight, her hair and makeup would always be perfect. The female characters in these action films, whether their role was as the lead character or a supporting character, had similar aspects. I...