Monday, 16 March 2009

Louise =]

Thelma & Louise 1991 Dir. Ridley Scott

At the begining of the movie Louise is working at the Diner, a job usually occupied by women. Employed and controlled by a man. She wears a standard american diner uniform which kind of resembles a maids uniform. She is not happy here, we know this as she plans to escape and abandon her job and go on a road trip with her firned Thelma (Geena Davis).When we first see Thelma and Louise togther Louise comes across as the dominant one in their friendship and mothers her in a way, she is less naive more aware and the more mature character. Louise is in control of the journey, she drives the car and is the navigator of the journey. Louise drives a 66 Thunderbird, a very desirable car for men. Thelma begged Louise to stop at the bar like a child would beg there parents to stop somewhere, this shows that Louise is in complete control of where they stop and holds parental status. When in the bar Thelma is dancing about and very immature, Louise has to watch out for her like a babysitter. This ultimately leads to Thelma getting in trouble and Louise saving her. Defeating the man and taking on the hero/protagonist role.

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Monday, 2 March 2009

Tomb Raider

Lara Croft played by Angelina Jolie, portrays a female icon. She is not only an object for the male gaze, but however an iconic figure for females. She portrays everything a women wants to be , intellectual, beautiful, and has amazing boobs. Her tight clothes accentuate her curvy female figure. Some scenes are completely irrelavant to the stories narrative however these appeal and satisfy the males gaze (laura mulvey). Inparticular the shower scene, we see through fragmentation parts of Jolies lushious body , focusing largely on the top half of her body. We see her throwing her long hair behind her, then she drop her towel before the audience This is irrelevent to the story however is rather appealing. I feel that Tomb raider appeals to both the male n female gaze, men love her females want to be her.

Wednesday, 25 February 2009