Feminist theory

An example from a clip from resident evil

– Resident evil retribution trailer.

This clip is a very strong representative of a female character breaking the stereotype. Usually females in films play either dumb, ditzy characters or popular pretty characters. In this clip milla Yovovich (character name - Alice) plays a woman who has her life changed by a company named umbrella corp. In this clip there are explosions guns and numerous fights thrown at our main character

 
 The story behind Alice. Alice was always being tricked by the umbrella corporation they created her memories thereby tricking her by taking away everything that wasn’t real making it seem as it was real.

 

 The genre of this film is Action horror. It has lots of gunfire, explosions, blood and other action conventions but also has zombies and death. Usually in a film like this there would be the stereotypical good male character, the hero, But in this film the woman is the main character (Hero)doing the shooting and other badass stuff instead which completely breaks stereotype

 

 A lot of time she is viewed as most women are in films for the purpose of male gaze. In this film she is portrayed in the same way but differently at the same time as most females put into films for male gaze are either dumb or not main characters like hero etc. They usually play the role of the helpless princess or helpless girl. In this film she is shown the same way just as the hero and in a badass type of way.