Hi everyone! I'm currently going over my paper (again and again) on World War Z, and the lack of female presence in the movie. At first when I was going over different issues in the movie to focus my essay on, I was having a difficult time picking a topic I could get behind. Eventually, I decided that I would do a lack of female presence vs. male presence in action films, specifically World War Z. At first when I began to watch the movie, I didn't even start to think about gender roles in the film; I was simply watching the movie for what it was... then my opinion slowly started to form. Once I looked at the bigger picture of most all action films featuring a male hero, then I became aware of how many films don't actually feature strong female characters, simply because we as a society have become accustomed to certain gender roles in different movie genres. My question for you guys is this: Did watching your film and analyzing the content bring up anything about the specific movie or genre that you didn't realize before?
On a side note: Anyone who has watched World War Z, is it not INSANE when you see the first zombie woman smash her face into the car windshield to try to eat someone? Talk about female empowerment!
I watched my movie long before this class assignment, mainly because I love British humor. I think that my movie has a weird balance of male to female characters because it has many different relationships that show varying levels of female dominance. There is even a scene, which is also pretty funny, where Shaun's gang runs into another gang which is lead by his ex girlfriend. The characters are meant to be a direct parallel of the other gang. I don't feel like my movie was intended to make Shaun into the manly hero because most of the movie he was not considered man enough.
ReplyDeleteBut when I watched World War Z last night, I thought of you during the scene when she bashes her head in. It was pretty insane.
You ask *the* key question, Laura: "Did watching your film and analyzing the content bring up anything about the specific movie or genre that you didn't realize before?" I hope that each and every one of you is writing about something that wasn't apparent at first. (Otherwise, why write a paper about something obvious?)
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