Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Gender Representation

A lot of female protagonists in action films are quite sexualised, like in Sucker Punch (2011), Resident Evil (2002) and Salt (2010).

For example, the costumes in Sucker Punch are quite revealing and seem impractical for their mission:
In Resident Evil, the posters show the main character Alice wearing a small red dress (which again, seems impractical for combat) and posing seductively with a gun:

We wanted to go against these conventions and not have stereotypical female protagonists, so we decided to have our characters:

  • With a variety of personalities and strengths 
  • Each one excels in their own field of expertise
  • Not Damsels-in-Distress
  • Can take care of themselves
  • Feminine but doesn't deduct from their strength and dominance
  • They do what needs to be done - not cowardly 

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