Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Your hypothesis/question
The female protagonist in action movies is "read" differently according to the gender of the audience. The protagonist - the "subject" - remains available for objectification and the male gaze. So do women identify and men objectify? Or is the act of viewing/spectatorship more complex?
Friday, 2 May 2008
Charlie’s angles trailer analysis.
Charlie’s angles trailer analysis.
Starts with Large African man saying ‘another movie from an old TV show’, making the whole film a meta-lingual parody of itself.
Two men are then seen jumping out form the plane and flying through the air clumsily.
Then a female is seen jumping from a helicopter, very gracefully. This female then removes the bomb from the man and this explodes. Establishing the genre.
The three sky diving people then land in a speed boat being driven by a beautiful blonde in a bikini. (Objectification) There is then a classic pastiche shot of Lucy Liu taking of her helmet and shaking her head around in a seductive fashion. For male gaze pleasure or parody of previous texts.
A man shout ‘Who are you people!’ drew Barrymore then proceeds to pull off the African man mask and say ‘dam I hate to fly’ there is then a shot of all the girls laughing and then they pull the classic ‘Charlie’s angles pose on the boat as it speeds away. This could be considered post-modern as there are plurality of truths. The audience is deceived and tricked into thinking something that is in fact not true.
There is then a action montage of the girls kicking people and explosions. Redundancy with the genre of the film. You see the girls dressed a geisha’s and in skimpy black leotards. A particularly interesting shot Is of Lucy dressed all in black with a whip in true dominatrix style.
Innocently Cameron tell as mail guy to ‘feel free to stick things in her slot.’ Sexual joke aimed at men.
Girls take the Mick of themselves in the trailer. Cameron bumps into a wall. Cameron dancing in front of the mirror in her pants.
When being given the orders of the new assignment, they are gathered together, Bosely is the one who presses the button to enable the girls to speak with him, and he also gives the files containing info. Control?
Objectifying shot of girls coming out of the water in wetsuits. Ursula Andres’s pastiche? Cameron in the middle, other two girls walk out of shot while she walks toward the camera, slowly undoing her wetsuit to reveal her breasts, her head is out of shot, purely based on her body.
Shot of two main male character having a ‘sumo’ fight where they don enormous fake sumo wrestler suits. They run at each other and clumsily have a fight and fall over. This is in direct contrast to the girls graceful fighting. Showing them in a more superior light.
Shot of Lucy saying ‘oh boy.’ In respect of the terrible fighting. Like Aeon saying ‘amateurs’.
There is a shot of the girls draped over Bosley in walking out of a lift, to make him look rich and powerful.
There is then a montage of voyeuristic camerawork. Lucy belly dancing in a blonde wig. Cameron dancing in a night club. Lucy bending over Drew in a car making her bottom the main focus of the shot.
Cameron in a speed boat in a gold bikini. Then there is a parody of the whole masculine fighting, with Cameron on the phone saying ‘hi Pete how are you?’ To regain the whole feminine side and to make her look available. There is a shot of her taking to Pete at a bar where she says ‘im like a virgin you know, its like my first time, here.’ This is also showing her to be sexually active.
Shot of Drew tied up with her hair a mess with lipstick all over her face. Looks like she has been having a rather passionate session. Then a bit with her rolling down a hill and having to ask two young boys for help as she is naked and covering herself with a pool inflatable.
Shot of Lucy in dominatrix style clothing pulling a man head into her breast. Dressed in Asian style rubbing her hands saying ‘at you service’ relate to sex trafficking of massage parlours.
Shot of Bosley trying to seduce a woman and setting fire to himself making men look less attractive and less suave.
Roles/ fantasies played throughout:
□ Dominatrix
□ American pin up (car scene, bimbos stretched over fast cars, FHM mag style)
□ Beach babe
□ Geishas
□ Acrobat
□ Innocent
□ Girl next door
□ Surfers
□ Belly dancers
□ Girl racers
□ Virgin
□ Masseuse
□ Dancer
‘They go where no one else dares, they do what no one else can, when there is only one chance to get it right, they are the ones to call, but they only
Starts with Large African man saying ‘another movie from an old TV show’, making the whole film a meta-lingual parody of itself.
Two men are then seen jumping out form the plane and flying through the air clumsily.
Then a female is seen jumping from a helicopter, very gracefully. This female then removes the bomb from the man and this explodes. Establishing the genre.
The three sky diving people then land in a speed boat being driven by a beautiful blonde in a bikini. (Objectification) There is then a classic pastiche shot of Lucy Liu taking of her helmet and shaking her head around in a seductive fashion. For male gaze pleasure or parody of previous texts.
A man shout ‘Who are you people!’ drew Barrymore then proceeds to pull off the African man mask and say ‘dam I hate to fly’ there is then a shot of all the girls laughing and then they pull the classic ‘Charlie’s angles pose on the boat as it speeds away. This could be considered post-modern as there are plurality of truths. The audience is deceived and tricked into thinking something that is in fact not true.
There is then a action montage of the girls kicking people and explosions. Redundancy with the genre of the film. You see the girls dressed a geisha’s and in skimpy black leotards. A particularly interesting shot Is of Lucy dressed all in black with a whip in true dominatrix style.
Innocently Cameron tell as mail guy to ‘feel free to stick things in her slot.’ Sexual joke aimed at men.
Girls take the Mick of themselves in the trailer. Cameron bumps into a wall. Cameron dancing in front of the mirror in her pants.
When being given the orders of the new assignment, they are gathered together, Bosely is the one who presses the button to enable the girls to speak with him, and he also gives the files containing info. Control?
Objectifying shot of girls coming out of the water in wetsuits. Ursula Andres’s pastiche? Cameron in the middle, other two girls walk out of shot while she walks toward the camera, slowly undoing her wetsuit to reveal her breasts, her head is out of shot, purely based on her body.
Shot of two main male character having a ‘sumo’ fight where they don enormous fake sumo wrestler suits. They run at each other and clumsily have a fight and fall over. This is in direct contrast to the girls graceful fighting. Showing them in a more superior light.
Shot of Lucy saying ‘oh boy.’ In respect of the terrible fighting. Like Aeon saying ‘amateurs’.
There is a shot of the girls draped over Bosley in walking out of a lift, to make him look rich and powerful.
There is then a montage of voyeuristic camerawork. Lucy belly dancing in a blonde wig. Cameron dancing in a night club. Lucy bending over Drew in a car making her bottom the main focus of the shot.
Cameron in a speed boat in a gold bikini. Then there is a parody of the whole masculine fighting, with Cameron on the phone saying ‘hi Pete how are you?’ To regain the whole feminine side and to make her look available. There is a shot of her taking to Pete at a bar where she says ‘im like a virgin you know, its like my first time, here.’ This is also showing her to be sexually active.
Shot of Drew tied up with her hair a mess with lipstick all over her face. Looks like she has been having a rather passionate session. Then a bit with her rolling down a hill and having to ask two young boys for help as she is naked and covering herself with a pool inflatable.
Shot of Lucy in dominatrix style clothing pulling a man head into her breast. Dressed in Asian style rubbing her hands saying ‘at you service’ relate to sex trafficking of massage parlours.
Shot of Bosley trying to seduce a woman and setting fire to himself making men look less attractive and less suave.
Roles/ fantasies played throughout:
□ Dominatrix
□ American pin up (car scene, bimbos stretched over fast cars, FHM mag style)
□ Beach babe
□ Geishas
□ Acrobat
□ Innocent
□ Girl next door
□ Surfers
□ Belly dancers
□ Girl racers
□ Virgin
□ Masseuse
□ Dancer
‘They go where no one else dares, they do what no one else can, when there is only one chance to get it right, they are the ones to call, but they only
Thursday, 1 May 2008
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