Historical Text

Wonder Women 1973

The reason i had chosen this text is because that the text include a female that plays a role of a heroine. In X-men 3 the females within the film are represented as inferior to males and the types of tight cloths and leather they wear connotes them as sex objects relating to the male gaze.

Watching the Wonder women trailer which was set in 1973 and made in the 1970's, the society and characters may differ but there are some similarities for example the male gaze stille exists.

Looking at the text, the first thing that came to my eye was the fact that wonder women was represented as a sexy female. She is still a sex object, the sex object of the 1970's. There is one scene where she has a miniture weapon hidin withinher nickers and she pulls up her dress to get the weapon and throws it 2 kill the enemy. The male eye will be focusing on something else whilst females may think something differnt, they may think negative of where she places her weapons, or the female audience may think that she is a great action fighter.

The good thing about the trailer is that is hows how females can be powerful for example, some enemies are males and wonder women is kicking their butts, but also the enemy is also a females which may not contridict my saying, as the enemy once was powerful, then the heroine in this case wonder women takes that power, and she is a female. so a female is atking anothers power. the point is the female has the power and not the male, making them more superior, also the fact they are kicking male butts increases that point.

Although the females ahve the power, some scene when the females are fighting, they are fighting in their bikinies, this connotes once again the male gaze.