Representations of Either Male or Female Characters Essay

In the exposures I studied, (A clockwork Orange, From Russia with love, Carry on camping and a Hard days night) women be represented in similar ways but in very different circumstances.Firstly in A Clockwork Orange, women are seen as an objectified sexual fixing to the male gang. In almost every seen of the moving-picture show women are presented in one way shape or form for practice in the end with the erotic, female shaped tables or the posters of women on the walls in Alexs room. On the topic Kubrick has previously said In the film, women are the ultimate harbingers of sexual desire, and it is lonesome(prenominal) them who can suppress it. This power leaves the male Droogs inwardly feeling threatened, which in part leads to cowardly rape. I feel this quote explains the representation of females in the film perfectly as Alex, a man who feels he has great power over the rest of society, is surrounded by women and is always met with his sexual desire for them Although the be lief of sex in A Clockwork Orange is non an expression of love or intimacy, but rather an exhibition of power and violence. In this case Alex feels that to abide powerful over everyone else he needs to use women as a object to converge his growing needs for power.In From Russia with Love, women are once more seen as a object and are infamously named the Bond Girls showing how in the larger scale there roles are minor compared to the amazing Mr Bond. The opening title to the film shows barely clothed belly dancers dancing and parading there bodies to the Bond theme tune, showing how there bodies are more important because the woman herself. throughout the film it is apparent that women are only good for a number of tasks giving massages to the male characters, belly dancing and for casual sex and even then its when the man wants and not the woman.Despite this, in the film the female lead Tatiana played by Daniela Bianchi, shows womans slowly growing power and independence, for ex ample Tatiana smoking representing the freedom that she perhaps now felt, although she is sitting down and Bond is standing over her, clearly in a position of more power. It is felt that the woman in the film are constantly being overlooked by men for example Tatiana killing the villain, which in normal circumstances would list her the hero in the film, but this is undermined by the way Bond immediately takes the gun off her, as though it does not belong with her or she is not safe with it.In the film A Hard Days Night whenever the The Beatles perform, the members of the band are all distinguished as four individual, male characters. This massively contrasts with the role of women in the film, as there have been no main female characters women are either portrayed as screaming, uncontrollable girls or again as sex objects. The idea behind this shows that women have no individuality in the film and are really only there to worship, flirt or to sexually satisfy the boys in the band. Finally the idea of women being perceived as objects is again mirrored in the final film Carry On camping, where the women are seen as objects for the men to flirt with and pursue in a sexual appearance. Although Carry on camping differs from the previous films as there are several female characters which are seen to have hierarchy over certain male characters. For example the character Harriet Potter had the power in the relationship and lots bossed her husband around in a comical manner. Overall in all the films it is obvious that women are often being represented as objects to satisfy mens needs and dont serve a real purpose in any of the films and if they do it is only in a comical manner to retrieve laughter from the audience.