Friday, December 15, 2006

Are women shown as sex objects in film to entertain and pleasure men?!!!!!!

What i learnt from the debate!!!

well, in films such as Charlies Angels, Catwomen, Kill Bill etc... (all action films) show women with phallic or fetish objects. This is the result of lack of femal directors, which the audience are then shown a film from a male point of view. Phallic or fetish objects range from whips to guns. They wear tight clothing while in these scenes giving the spectator erotic pleasure. They use their lookes to distract men to gain something in their favour. An example is the treasure chect scene in Charlie's Angels-Full throttle where they are pole dancing and distract the ''enemy' to gain a pair of keys for thier mission.

However, not only men are getting pleaure nowadays because there had been a role reversal resulting in the female gaze. An example is the casino royale film where bond is seen coming out of the water soaking wet, a role previously played by halle berry in reture the females gaining erotic pleasure. Women are in more active roles that before and they are becoming as successful as men. Halle berry is a successful actress who was the first black person to win an oscar for her role in a film. She didnt win this award due to her looks but her success as a career and this is evidence that objectification dont make celebrities successul. Curvy women are now being shown in adverts rather than skick thin people as a result this shows thats looks dont matter and dont make them look preety. As a result women are not objectified due to this and equality is present and women and becoming less subordinent to males in society.

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