He we see a video of rapper 50 cent and this video is solely focusing on the sex, of these women are placed in the video to pleasure Male viewers and possibly for the envy of female viewers. There are parts when 50 is surrounded by several women, this emphasizes the level of power he has over these females hence why they seem very obedient and allow him to touch their bodies. Close ups of the women's bums and other sexual parts of the body is an idea shared by a well known theorist by the name Laura Mulvey as she stated that the majority of media is made so everyone is seeing it from a male's point of view.
Mr & Mrs smith (Film)
However we see an unpopular representation of a female in the film Mr & Mrs Smith. Mrs Smith throughout the film is portrayed as a strong woman who holds a few male characteristics hence why we are shown in this scene she is physically in a fight with her husband and a fight in which she is equally as dominant. This is maybe a representation or a metaphor of what all women secretly aspire to become or a representation that all women are capable of this? The last shot maybe reinforces the dominance of the male species as the mise en scene shows them both holding fire arms however Mr Smiths firearm is a lot longer which is also known as Phallic fallacy which is the idea that states the power of a male over a female.
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