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Action Adventure film characters are usually stereotypes (they mostly fit in to a certain type of character). However we often just take for granted that certain characters will look and behave a certain way, some modern audiences see this as a real problem as some characters misrepresent genders and ethnicity.
Representation of women
How has the role of the princess changed in action adventure films? Account for the reasons why the representations of women have changed?
Function in the film: Problem (misrepresentation): The villain usually wants to do something evil, taking over the world, stealing large amounts of money, hurting and even killing innocent people and appears almost impossible to defeat.
With the hero being handsome and villain ugly, this reinforces the idea that good people are good looking and bad people are ugly. And, the rich powerful villain can seem to suggest that if you are rich or powerful you must be evil! And, with the villain often foreign, this can create racism/ prejudice towards the country that the villain comes from!
Function in the film: Problem (misrepresentation): The sidekick is often in the film to make the audience laugh.
Again this shows that heroes have to be male, white, athletic and good looking.
They usually bumble their way through the film, only helping the hero by accident.
Applying knowledge
A criticism of Action Adventure films is that they reinforce stereotypes in terms of both gender and ethnicity. Do you agree? Give examples
Design a Heroine
Lo: To analyse the representation of women in action adventure films
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Name: Age: Gender: FEMALE
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Character qualities: Catchphrase:
create drama and conflict- eg. Good VS Evil, Man Vs Woman, Rich Vs Poor, Man Vs nature, Water Vs Land
HERO
VILLIAN
Add more to this list Are the women represented as masculine or feminine? Does one gender dominate? Why?
Action Adventure
Textual analysis skills are important when discussing character types. Watch this clip and write 200 words to analyse the two character types
Watch the clip Who is the hero? Give evidence Who is the villain? Give evidence How are binary opposites used? Link to mise en scene, sound, cinematography Ext: Do either challenge conventions?
The latest Schwarzenegger film or Arnold Schwarzenegger in ..... Arnold Schwarzenegger often played a similar character in Action Adventure films, a tough, strong, muscular, cigar chomping, gun totting hero who spoke very little (due to his strong Austrian accent) using catch phrases and physical action to portray his character.
Despite his acting receiving very negative reviews from film critics, audiences did not care and loved his simple, no nonsense, muscle bound characters.