Our Superhero

  

How women Super-heroin's are portrayed : 

We then decided that the majority of these films have a male as their main protagonist, so we decided to challenge this and look at heroines as there is very few. 

Cat woman:

Pitof's 2004 action, fantasy superhero film  stars A shy woman [Halle Berry] endowed with the speed, reflexes, and senses of a cat, walks a thin line between criminal and hero, even as a detective doggedly pursues her, fascinated by both of her personas.

She challenges the male hero image and with a combination of femininity, women strength and power, it gave us an idea of making a main protagonist a female too, however, by using the typically 'girly girl' stereotype masking her secret weapons and heroin abilities. 

This was our initial idea, but then one we saw a few female superhero films, it proved that women were shown in a negative and objective way, with the lack of clothing or tight clothes, the use of actors and there slender figure, but also through there speech and what they generally stand for. We did not like the idea of putting women in a light that reflects them to be a procession, with the only power of their sex-appeal. 

Our idea then changed as we didn’t want fall into following the general conventions of a male or female superhero film, but still follow the codes so it is still seen as a superhero film. It seemed like a good idea to use this film to give women another power besides seduction. We wanted to present all the other qualities that a female superhero could have like a strong opinion and voice, intelligence and creative. 

Original idea for protagonist :

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