Luther: Representation Of Gender
The extract constructs the representation of gender using: Camera shots, angles, movement and composition, editing, sound and mise en scene. For example, with sound, when Alice discusses the black hole, the use of dark music emphasizes the darkness of either the situation or the character itself.
With very dim lighting and surveying pans, this reflects the seriousness of the situation and by using the final surveying pan, this ties with the gradual increase in sound volume, creating a large amount of tension and the sound bridge throughout gradually increases the tension and seriousness of the extract or in some ways, is the audience being pulled in by the "Black Hole" resorting in a rather anti climatic long shot.
Firstly, Luther is not a stereotypical man, however there are some aspects to argue with this. This is shown by the fact that he asks lots of questions, this resorting in a lack of power until the later aspects of the scene where there are noticeably a number of close ups showing just Luther's face, this indicates that his face dominates the screen which inevitably reflects him dominating the situation at hand.
It is well known that stereo-typically, women are very manipulative towards men (emphasized by Alice using sex as a weapon showing she is a femme fatau) but the character of Luther is shown to not be a stereotypical man as he is very strong willed by not being manipulated by Alice's sexual advance.
While Alice's name may symbolize her as an innocent character, she is far from it. She intact may be a representation of a black hole, reflected by the character of Luther consistently coming closer to her and then backing off which not only reinforces his strong will but also that he himself is a star (Alice calling him shining) that isn't stereotypical as it isn't being pulled into the black hole. This all perhaps represents the stereotypical view of women in general.
Both Luther and Alice have formal attire which may represent some form of counter against the stereotypical loosely dressed woman (relating back to the male gaze) but also shows how both are equal in power and stature. This is also indicated by the numerous high close ups, two shots and zooms. Exhibiting the characters in this way shows a change in power as if in some form of sub conscious battle power. Reinforcing this, they are both binary opposites and search for something to dominate the other.
With very dim lighting and surveying pans, this reflects the seriousness of the situation and by using the final surveying pan, this ties with the gradual increase in sound volume, creating a large amount of tension and the sound bridge throughout gradually increases the tension and seriousness of the extract or in some ways, is the audience being pulled in by the "Black Hole" resorting in a rather anti climatic long shot.
Firstly, Luther is not a stereotypical man, however there are some aspects to argue with this. This is shown by the fact that he asks lots of questions, this resorting in a lack of power until the later aspects of the scene where there are noticeably a number of close ups showing just Luther's face, this indicates that his face dominates the screen which inevitably reflects him dominating the situation at hand.
It is well known that stereo-typically, women are very manipulative towards men (emphasized by Alice using sex as a weapon showing she is a femme fatau) but the character of Luther is shown to not be a stereotypical man as he is very strong willed by not being manipulated by Alice's sexual advance.
While Alice's name may symbolize her as an innocent character, she is far from it. She intact may be a representation of a black hole, reflected by the character of Luther consistently coming closer to her and then backing off which not only reinforces his strong will but also that he himself is a star (Alice calling him shining) that isn't stereotypical as it isn't being pulled into the black hole. This all perhaps represents the stereotypical view of women in general.
Both Luther and Alice have formal attire which may represent some form of counter against the stereotypical loosely dressed woman (relating back to the male gaze) but also shows how both are equal in power and stature. This is also indicated by the numerous high close ups, two shots and zooms. Exhibiting the characters in this way shows a change in power as if in some form of sub conscious battle power. Reinforcing this, they are both binary opposites and search for something to dominate the other.
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