Xx..Mr and Mrs Smith..xX: . . .Essential key words . . .

Monday 8 October 2007

. . .Essential key words . . .

Male Gaze
Male Gaze is a term in which is used by Laura Mulvy to emphasise on the Woman being a ‘sex object’ towards men. This would encounter the women being the centre of attention and the men watching the woman in order to purse fulfil their pleasures. This relates to my personal study of Mr and Mrs Smith, as ‘Angelina Jolie’ is the Male Gaze on screen as she an attractive woman that would be the eye candy for men.

Laura Mulvy
Laura Muvly ties in very well towards my Independent study as she encourages the fact of Men viewing women as ‘Sex objects’ and they only watch women for there bodies and make them look out to be ‘eye candy’. Even though Mr and Mrs Smith has rejected the patriarchal society the audience may still go and watch the movie not for the action but the fact that ‘Angelina Jolie’ is starring in it.

Norms
The norms and values in the movie have been slightly challenged as the Women and Male roles have been rejected. The women is being more dominant over the man and she is seen to be doing domestic stuff but in a more ruff way. The woman in Mr and Mrs Smith is seen to be more ruff and a bit of a rule breaker. The man (Brad Pitt) seen to be taking more of the Woman role, which may seem quite strange but realistically it happens.

Representation
Representation is where the media has identification for an individual. E.g. Representations provides us with a description of a gender, social groups, and individuals. Representation in my study seems to be played around; as we would not stereotype a woman as being ‘dominant’ clearly the representation has been played around with.

Stereotype
Stereotyping is seen to be an existing description for identifying different common characteristics. In Mr and Mrs Smith it does not exist as the typical stereotype has been rejected and the fact that Women dominance has taken over has a real big impact. E.g. the woman has more power than before and has the status of a ‘Man’.

Feminism
A Movement in which encounters the challenging of female roles, social constructions. This includes the fact of women being able to do more in the society and to be able and excepted in doing them. I believe this film gives a great impact and shows how women are changing and men finding it hard to except but have to adapt to this change in society.

A list
Top-notch actors and actresses. Mr and Mrs Smith have the best of the best ‘Angelina Jolie’ and ‘Brad Pitt’. Which will gain a mass audience.

Cosmopolitan magazine
Cosmopolitan is a magazine, which encounters a ‘typical’ lifestyle of the woman nowadays. This magazine shows of the ‘new woman’ with career opportunities and making it focus on her and not the fact of having you life revolve around a man. Mr and Mrs Smith re-enforces this completely as she gets on with her individual life but still puts herself first.

Consumerism
Consumerism is when you are fed a certain idea and with reading it over and over you get used to it so this means your consuming the information given. With Mr and Mrs Smith you are being fed the fact of women being quite dominant and superior over Men, and so this will influence the idea of women being powerful and so this stereotype will stick in your mind.

Deviance
Deviance plays a big part in Mr and Mrs Smith this is because the woman seems to be very domestic and a typical wife of a man. But the film cleverly re forms that image of her being perfect it completely steers the other way to show the audience that looks can be deceiving and she is the one that holds the most powerful role in the movie if not, equally powerful than usual.

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..Reveiw from about.com..

Jane and John meet while down in Columbia where they’re both on assignment. Neither has a clue what the other one’s up to and after much alcohol and a night of what we can assume is passionate love-making, they become a couple. Fast forward a few months and now they’re Mr. and Mrs. Smith. He believes she handles computer problems for major companies; she believes he’s a big shot in construction. Fast forward even further and now they’ve been married five or six years and they’ve got problems, major relationship problems that necessitate visiting a marriage counselor.
After being together for all those years, you’d think they would have figured out that something doesn’t add up. But no, neither figures out the other’s an assassin until they’re both sent out by their competing companies to take out the same target. The cat’s out of the bag and all bets are off – toss in your own cliché here – as those marital problems they were suffering from before suddenly look like small potatoes. Never forgetting it’s a romantic comedy at heart, the action sequences take over once Mr. and Mrs. discover what their partner really does for a living.
Simon Kinberg’s script is saucy and engaging and director Doug Liman (“The Bourne Identity”) adeptly handles the action and comedy. We don’t often get to see a man and woman engaged in an all-out brawl, but Liman lets the fight scene between Jolie and Pitt get as physical as possible without cutting away too much or cute camera tricks. And while it's a little unnerving to watch their hand-to-hand combat, it makes sense. She’s an assassin, why would her opponent need to hold back?
Fighting, making love, clinched in each other’s embrace on the dance floor, verbally fencing, whatever the circumstance or scene, the pairing of Pitt and Jolie works. They physically match up. Jolie plays Mrs. Smith just as physically capable – and lethal – as Pitt does Mr. Smith. In fact, the female is actually the better of the two assassins. Her moves are planned out meticulously; her actions follow a logical path. He relies more on his instincts and isn’t as fast on his feet as his female counterpart. It’s refreshing to see a female character be allowed to get the upper hand mentally and physically on her male costar, especially in a movie where the leads are portraying professional killers.

From reading this review i totally agree with it as they are chalenging the sterotypes and they are reveiwing that it's the 21st century romance relationship and they are making the whole relationship seem as if it's going to be the one that is going to be nowerdays. so they are chalengeing the sterotype for the perfect couple where the man is in control.