Analysis of clip
-One major symbol in the clip is Fox’s gun which symbolises the phallic symbol. In other words it makes up for what she hasn’t therefore giving her power. This connotes in order to be powerful you need to have a penis or something that can replace it, in her case it’s a gun.
-In the first couple of seconds there is a long shot of Wesley crouching with his hand on top of his head whilst a truck id driving straight for him, this connotes he is scared and to terrified to move, then the fact Fox comes out of nowhere with her fast car and saves him shows how much more braver she is than him. This it self connotes women are becoming more powerful and independent, which reflects the way women are in this day and age.
-Also the fact she is driving shows she is in control, which is further emphasised when he begs her to “please drive faster”, this shows she is more dominant in the situation which connotes women are more powerful in situations between themselves and men, it also connotes men are beginning to loose control ie “crisis of masculinity”.
-However at one point Fox is exposed to “male-gaze” as she went over the sun screen to shoot, her legs were in Wesley’s face as he makes the remark “woohoo” the music becomes more light hearted which connotes only one real purpose for a woman
-It’s a Hollywood movie, distributed by Universal Pictures mainly in multiplex cinema.
-It is an Action-Fantasy. It follows conventions of both as the fast cars, explosions, and guns clearly connote Action, where as an ordinary guy turning into the number one assassin clearly convoys fantasy.
-Women are represented as powerful in this clip, but also as sex objects due to her revealing clothes and camera angles directly looking at her legs.
-Men are represented as the sex which is loosing control and also the more dumber sex, also the fact the people after them are men and in the end of the clip she wins also shows women are becoming much more powerful in society today.
-This appeals to both a male and female audience aged 17-30.
-The narrative roles are interesting as Propps theory of the male being the hero and women being rescued is reversed as Fox is rescuing him.
-Todrovs theory can also be applied as they are a disequilibrium phase and need to get out of it.