Just found this trailer for a terminator film that is all about the character Sarah Connors, I could possibly look at this film rather than Terminator Two. What do you think Sean?
Thursday 1 May 2008
Little bit about Sarah Connors
Sarah Connors - Terminator Two
The images above show how in the film she takes on tasks that in our society were originally masculine, in the film she is an assertive independant woman. However in the film she does ahve to rely on the terminator to save and rescue her when she needs help. This I think is a portrayal of how woman are moving forward into becoming characters that don't need to rely on men to rescue them as her character does has alot of power and strength to be able to fight but not enough to do it successful, which is the reason for her needing to be saved.
The images above show how in the film she takes on tasks that in our society were originally masculine, in the film she is an assertive independant woman. However in the film she does ahve to rely on the terminator to save and rescue her when she needs help. This I think is a portrayal of how woman are moving forward into becoming characters that don't need to rely on men to rescue them as her character does has alot of power and strength to be able to fight but not enough to do it successful, which is the reason for her needing to be saved.
Possible questions to ask.
When watching the films for my critical research study these questions have come to mind and I think they would be useful questions to ask or answer in my study...possibly ask in the interview or questionnaire.
1. The early examples (Terminatore two and Alien) show tough and unobjectified women, is this a positive representation?
2. Does making women stronger, more masculine and less 'womanly' mean they become better representations?
3. Why is it better for women in action films to be less traditionally womanly (coming second to men) and more authoritive and independant?
4. Would woman becoming more womanly (i.e. sexier and feminin) lead to being objectified? If so, is this then a bad or negative representation?
1. The early examples (Terminatore two and Alien) show tough and unobjectified women, is this a positive representation?
2. Does making women stronger, more masculine and less 'womanly' mean they become better representations?
3. Why is it better for women in action films to be less traditionally womanly (coming second to men) and more authoritive and independant?
4. Would woman becoming more womanly (i.e. sexier and feminin) lead to being objectified? If so, is this then a bad or negative representation?
Promary research ideas
Primary Research Ideas
* Not a survey because this is a quantitative way of carrying out research and wouldn’t be much use as I am looking for research that is more qualitative.
* Interviews:
- Could be informal and conversational... ask in generalised questions before going into detail about topics which could develop productive discussion.
- Could have a group of people of varied ages and an equal number of men and women. Show them roughly 5 minute clips from Aliens and Terminator Two and ask them their opinion on how the women have been represented. Then Show them clips from Lara Croft and Resident Evil and ask them their opinion on the representation. After that we would discuss whether they think the change in representation of the years has been a positive one or a negative one or is simply something that doesn’t matter as it doesn’t signify anything, or when watching films where women protagonist feature that it doesn’t matter whether or not the representation is realistic and correct.
* Another way of undertaking research that I think would be affective would be to produce a questionnaire about women protagonist and ask a wider selection of people their opinion on woman protagonist. Could possibly ask them which films have the best representations of women rather than just simply looking at the all ready stated films.
* Not a survey because this is a quantitative way of carrying out research and wouldn’t be much use as I am looking for research that is more qualitative.
* Interviews:
- Could be informal and conversational... ask in generalised questions before going into detail about topics which could develop productive discussion.
- Could have a group of people of varied ages and an equal number of men and women. Show them roughly 5 minute clips from Aliens and Terminator Two and ask them their opinion on how the women have been represented. Then Show them clips from Lara Croft and Resident Evil and ask them their opinion on the representation. After that we would discuss whether they think the change in representation of the years has been a positive one or a negative one or is simply something that doesn’t matter as it doesn’t signify anything, or when watching films where women protagonist feature that it doesn’t matter whether or not the representation is realistic and correct.
* Another way of undertaking research that I think would be affective would be to produce a questionnaire about women protagonist and ask a wider selection of people their opinion on woman protagonist. Could possibly ask them which films have the best representations of women rather than just simply looking at the all ready stated films.
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