Film
Presentation Script
Visual:
Screen (Slide 1) - showing
first slide of the Posters of ‘Bend it like Beckham’, ‘gone girl and ‘wonder
woman’ and title
Presenter:
Hello and welcome to
my presentation. We are going to investigate how the roles of female characters have
developed in films today in three films of different genres.
Screen (Slide 2):
Presenter: How were women roles represented in films
in the early era?
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How was
women represented in films? In the early era, many feminists criticised that
the portrayal of women in films was ‘disturbing’. Women was portrayed as
inferior to men, was stereotyped into specific roles and seen as sexualised
figures.
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The first
woman actress was Margaret Hughes in England in the 18th century and
women of this time had very stereotyped ‘housewife’ roles. Furthermore, middle
class women followed a ‘fashionable’ trend of wearing makeup, perfume and
dressing a particular way. Could this be the reason why women had sexualised
roles as they were desired to look like this from the beginning of 18th
century?
Screen (Slide 3):
Presenter: What will you uncover from this
presentation with my selected films and items?
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Women have
evolved over time and started to have equal roles to men. There are many films
to showcase this and my ranges of focus films are able to depict this
·
My three
focus films are of different genres and type of films that men would usually
have the lead of. This gives a broad representation of women from a range of
genres and they have evolved from having stereotyped, inferior roles to
empowering, independent roles.
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In this
presentation I am going to focus on how women have evolved of female gender
roles over the centuries breaking the stereotypical roles.
Screen (slide 4):
Visual of ‘Bend it like Beckham’ Poster
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
(ITEM 1)
Presenter:
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Bend it
like Beckham is a British drama film portraying the life of the Asian female
protagonist Parminder Nagra.
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This film
represents the stereotype of women limitations of achieving their goals, which
conflict with the values of the Asian culture.
·
This film
also showcases the contextual studies ethnicity and how they are presented to
contrast with the British culture.
·
Football
is also seen as male stereotyped role, and this film shows a team of girls
playing
·
The ending
of the film showed that her family was willing to compromise with her interests
in football and allowed her to strive for her goals.
·
Another female
protagonist is Keira with a white background; despite the different ethnical backgrounds,
both Keira and Parminder’s mothers share exactly the same negative thought
about their daughters playing football as it wasn’t feminine to.
Screen (slide 5):
ITEM 12
Presenter:
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This film
wasn’t regarded as an Asian drama, in fact it was stated to be ‘it isn’t seen
as an ethnical issue, it is seen as a British issue’ which shows it was
considered as a British issue (Item 12)
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This shows
that the idea of the male dominated sport is seen as a British issue where not
only our protagonist Parminder is having trouble striving her goals, but also
the white protagonist Keira is undergoing issues with her passion for football.
Screen (slide 6):
Visual: poster of ‘wonder woman’
WONDER WOMAN (ITEM 3)
Presenter:
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This is a
DC superhero of a female hero.
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This
breaks the stereotype of a ‘male based’ superhero by using a powerful female
hero called Diana.
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She is
brought up in a world that has no male domination, presenting that she is
centred to know and be dominant.
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This film
presents a lot of integrity and independence of women in this film.
·
This again
supports the answer of women evolving and display empowerment in roles in the
film industry today.
·
Feminists
agree with this film showing how women are influential and do have independence
and specifically desire the role of Diana as she shows that nobody can control
her decisions.
Screen (slide 7) ITEM 8
Presenter:
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‘Women are
dominating the market’ (ITEM 8)
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Diana is
presented more powerful than the elite organisations of the military; that are
seen as a dominating force.
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This was
based in the World War 2, which contrasts Diana highly with the exposure of
women during this time period.
Screen (slide 8): Visual of ‘Gone girl’ poster
GONE GIRL (ITEM 2)
Presenter:
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This is an
American thriller, which represents the portrayal of a dominating husband yet
soon to realise that the husband was the vulnerable person in this
relationship.
·
This film
supports the argument that women have evolved from their traditional husband
and wife roles.
·
This
hugely breaks the stereotype of traditional husband and wife roles as she is
displayed as an abusive, emotionally blackmailing wife.
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Amy
(female antagonist) uses her ‘vulnerable gender’ at her advantage to get away
with abusing and manipulating her husband.
Screen (Slide 9) ITEM 6
Presenter:
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Women are
seen as sexually desirable (Item 6), which is shown through a scene where she
sexually controls a man to lead him to his death, which again shows how Amy
took advantage of her sexuality.
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Amy is
presented as such a powerful female antagonist.
·
Shows Amy
as ‘not knowing the possibility of knowing of other, even of most intimate
relationships, marriage’.
Screen (slide 10)
Visual: Video of ‘Gone girl- cool girl
monologue’ from Gone Girl
Presenter:
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Amy’s
dialogue presents her as an abnormal wife (ITEM 10)
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Amy begins
to cut her hair off and a voice over of Amy begins, which is indicative of her
insanity as she is talking to herself. The performance by Amy is powerful to
display a change in character from Amy showing she has form instability and a
rather cunning motive against her husband.
·
She
stresses that her husband (generalises all males) having interest in a ‘cool
girl’, which was a label given to the most desirable women that Amy pretended
to be for him. This shows how she turned
the insecurity her husband gave her into anger; a form of revenge that women
cannot fulfil.
·
Throughout
the clip her performance displays that everywhere she goes, she covers her
tracks.
·
This is
interesting to see how Amy voices every woman with the same issues and how she
chooses to act upon it.
Screen (slide 11)
Visual: video clip of ‘that’s marriage-
gone girl’
Presenter:
·
Here, the
husband presents his confusion to her and in other words asks her ‘why have you
done this?’ and she states ‘its marriage’ as if what happens in marriage
between two people is typical and normal.
·
The theme
of delusion is portrayed here as Amy thinks this behaviour is normal and gives
up; believing that the conflict that has occurred between Amy and Nick defines
marriage in general.
·
Nick’s
words contrast with his typical role of a husband. His character presents the
evolution of women in marriage as he is in a vulnerable position.
Screen (Slide 12) Visual: comparing two
pictures of first and last shot of Amy ‘Gone Girl’
Presenter:
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The before
and after picture is of Amy from the first and last scene of the film; the
scene imitates and repeats itself which indicates that the husband is trapped
and isolated in this dysfunctional marriage.
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He is
emotionally manipulated into being with Amy and Amy takes advantage of her
role.
·
You see a
change in her role, from looking innocent and vulnerable, however towards the
end of the film we discover how she takes advantage of her role to actually play
dominating and daunting role towards her husband.
Visual: end of slide show
Presenter:
In conclusion, all three films depict how
women roles have developed from their stereotyped roles in my focus films.
These films were chosen from diverse genres to show how their roles have
developed in different films. From a range of traditional roles of footballers,
superheroes and marital relationships
Thank you for listening and if there are any
questions please don’t hesitate to ask.
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