The Film The Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum

Director Stephen Frears chose, when filming this movie, to use traditional 35mm film for the scenes featuring the Royal Family. He chose to use traditional 35mm film to reflect the traditional views of the Royal Family. The syntax analyzed the language provided by the syntax helped understand the Royal Family traditional culture. The Royal Family at the beginning of the film had deep traditional roots and don’t agree with the progressive members of the society at large. After Princess Diana’s death the Royal Family believed that the arraignments should be kept as a private matter of her family. The Royal Family strongly believed that the Princess Diana was no longer part of the Royal Family since her divorce to the son of Queen

Gender issues were also prevalent in this movie. In the beginning of the movie Bruno is playing with his friends before moving to the country. They are playing soldier and pretending to shoot and kill each other, while his sister Gretel was playing with her dolls. Mom is seen coming home from a shopping trip with some packages. Gender roles are “patterns of attitude and behavior that a society expects of its members because they are female or male” (Thio, 224). Throughout the movie gender roles are seen as the mom stays home and takes care of the children while the dad is working. As well Gretel the sister is always portrayed as sweet while Bruno is portrayed as an adventurous boy who likes soldiers. Men are also portrayed as strong, while the women in the movie are portrayed as weak.

The movie ‘Her’ is the story about Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), an intelligent computer operating system personified through a female voice. At the beginning of the film, Theodore is completely inept when it comes to how to make relationship with person, specifically women. However, after he gets to know Samantha, an OS program, a feeling of true love develops inside of Theodore’s mind. Then he realizes how he was fatuous in his past. Throughout the film, the director (Spike Jonze) uses five distinct color schemes to correspond Theodore’s feeling and situation.

Firstly, throughout ‘Othello’ Shakespeare presents men as the dominant characters of the play, whereas the women are portrayed as characters to always

Again, the representation of a man being helpless and powerless are traits commonly assigned to female characters. Whereas the representation of women being smart and helpful are commonly assigned to male characters. Hitchcock purposely gives the “male” characteristics to women characters and “female” characteristics to male characters in order to challenge the stereotypical gender roles.

The president and Mandrake are both feminine in their demeanor and personality. They don 't want to go to war, but they also cannot take control and stop the war. This can be seen as the female of the relationship not wanting sex. This leads those “masculine” men frustrated. The masculine characters in the film, Buck and Jack D. Ripper, are quite enthusiastic for nuclear war and sex. Their desire for sex and war allows them to go forward in the war effort in an energetic manner.

The roles that men and women play tend to differ in different works of literature. The roles depend on the culture and the context of a particular work of literature, and even the time the work of literature was written. For instance the roles of gender will differ from African culture to American culture, as well as from ancient America and Modern America. Old stories such as the Book of Genesis and Theogony portray different roles men and men play. Most of these roles are similar in both books, and a few are different.

To get us started, how do the roles and identities of women in this play compare to that of the male figures?

Knowing about the writer of a literary text can shape significantly the way that it is read. Consider the effect of the writer's context on your understanding of The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum.

The film sets a certain viewpoint on gender. It labels men and woman a certain way. Women in the film are set to be delicate and sex-driven. Men are set to be tough, brutal, workers. Marla was played by a thin, attractive, petite actress. Her clothes were always feminine. Tyler was played by a fit, muscled man that fit society's definition of attractive. The movie made it clear that men are masculine, and women are feminine. Basow said, “Gender is constructed by every socializing agent and force in society: parents, teachers, the media,

In the movie they was definitely has a pull and push with femininity and masculinity in the reading the Representing women they state that “gender ideology constructs femininity as inferior to masculinity.”(p.96) in the film you see the male characters acting like they were much smarter than the black characters. There was scene where Jim Parsons character was visibly upset that Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson) was hire to double check his work. He believe that she was inferior to him because she was black and a

The male gaze puts his fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled, in a unique sort of way. In this traditional exhibitionist, role women are continuously being looked at and their appearance is delivered to the male gaze in such a way as a strong visual and erotic impact and provides male desire. The presence of a woman in a normal narrative film is the key of the movie. However, the key of the narrative film works against the development of the story-line and stops the action due to the erotic gaze. Butt Boetticher said: “What counts is what the heroine provokes, or rather what she represents. She is the one, or rather the love or fear she inspires in the hero, or else the concern he feels for her, who makes him act the way he does. In herself the woman has not the slightest importance”.

Male characters easily speak their minds, they outnumber the women characters, and they have a lot more action going on for the audience to see. Therefore, they have a more dramatic impact than women.

The film appeals to its target audience by many different features. For men there

Love, money and justice, The Widow is about all these things and yet so much more. Thomas Middleton’s play blurs the lines of gender until “there may be no essential difference beyond performance” (Taylor, 1076). And walking away from this performance I can definitely identify that. There was a wide range of gender crossing in the play, Brandino, Francisco and Attilio, and as well as some gender ambiguous character, like the Thieves and the Martini, that the audience instantly becomes aware that they must read the actors actions and costuming to determine gender, or in the case of the ambiguous just accept that we won’t know. The Martini act as a single entity of sorts, all ways working together and in their opening scene they are somewhat vulgar in their demeanor working together to deliver their lines. This is what convinced me that although they are two characters their genders are fluid and unimportant to the plot. Along with this at the end there is the closure of the marriages and alternate ending that helps to reinforce what Middleton’s view on gender. Although in Middleton’s time “marriage between two men was unthinkable” and would promote “ridicule” the cast have made this change, and still used marriage as a plot devise, to make a modern audience think about gender as Middleton’s audience would in his time(Unknown). These small changes in casting and script, adhere to Middleton’s view of “gender being merely a performance” and I think he would be happy