The picture on the left is of Cleo from our Opening Sequence, and the image on the right is of Angelina Jolie from Mr & Mrs Smith. Theses two both play similar characters as they conform to the typical thriller convention that the female characters are seen as lustful and seductive. This is shown through their provocative clothing. As both the characters as shown above are wearing tight and revealing clothing. For our media production we decided to conform to these typical ideas as we wanted to reinforce them upon the audience.
In thriller movies the typical "femme fatale" (which is french for "Deadly Woman")character is used to show women's power to hypnotise men with their beauty and sexual charms, and then either murder them or use them to their own advantage in some way, or use blackmail. Classic examples of femme fatales are found in many film noir movies. Cleo's character isn't meant to be an exact representation of the femme fatale icon, however she does take on many of their characteristics such as the seductive dress she wears and her seductive behaviour.
In my opinion i would have preferred if we hadn't conformed to these kind of female stereotypes as i believe it degrades women and turns them into objects of desire rather than strong minded people. If we had more time i think we could have been able to achieve this, which would have been a positive representation of women within film.
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