Gender representation

One film in which subverts a stereotypically male dominant film industry is a film that is called the assassin. The trailer shows from the start that the film is female dominant film. The denotation of  a close up of a women criminal connotes that she is the main character as she is the first person to be seen in the trailer. The close up used connotes that the women may have been in some sort of scrap or fight as she has deep looking scratches pouring down the side of her face. She is being guarded by  a large male character connoting that she may be very strong so a stereotypical man , who is tough and strong is needed to guard her.

A jump shot is then used to switch the scene. The non diagetic voice over is of a judge convicting this women character with charges of murder. A stereotypical women is expected to be weak and in the kitchen cooking the dinner. The murder charge and the prison guard connote that this is not the case and this women defiantly subverts the typical women stereotypes and is in fact a very, very dangerous women. This ideology is to connote that women can be dangerous too and not all are weak, emotional bimbos.

The next scene in the trailer goes back to conforming Laura mulveys theory in which males dominate as this scene sees the same women character being man handled and tied up by two men. The denotation of this strong women being tied up connotes that even though is very strong and subverts the typical stereotype of women, there will always be a man out there somewhere in which she cannot compete with. Even though she is not showing that she is like most other women , the film makers have included these male characters to show even strong women are not as powerful as men.

Now the scene has jumped again and this woman has been scientifically transformed into an assassin. The main focus on this part is the women receiving her assassin instructions. She is also seen to be holding and using a gun in a target shooting exercise. An exercise in which she succeeds with flying colours. The denotation of this once again connotes that this film subverts the typical female stereotype as she can use this weapon a lot better than her male counterparts. However the person giving her these instructions is indeed a male connoting that even though she is a strong, lethal assassin she still has to answer to a man connoting a patriarchal society

Women dominance is shown strongly in the next scene of the trailer. This part consists of two fighting scenes. The first of the two is a karate fight against a man. The man stereotypically is a lot stronger than her and should easily beat her, obviously in this instance this is not the case as we get a high angled shot of this women wrestling the man to the ground. This connote she is starting to earn resect and is slowly but surely becoming stronger than the men. This second scene includes her having a agent fight with another man who she eventually defeats after forcefully smashing him with a chair. Both these scenes connote that the ideology  behind this film is very metrical and defiantly subverts the steryotypes.