Representation In Film: Django Unchained (Trailer)

• 'Django unchained' is a film directed by Quentin Tarantino and was released on the 25th of December, 2012. With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

• Representation of Men: The representation of men in Django Unchained is controversial. The film is obviously recalling history, and depicting black men as slaves and as lesser beings than white folk is not accurate in this day and age. However the representation of men in general in the trailer is very masculine and macho, they dominate the majority of the scenes, and we can vaguely tell that all but one of the main characters are male. What we see of the story in the trailer also accomodates Propps Theory, Django being the Hero, rescuing the Princess, his wife. The depiction of men in the trailer show them wielding guns, in high action scenes, and showing aggression, all of which represent the stereotypes associated with males in Films.
• Representation of Women: The trailer represents women as defenceless and destitute, the scenes we see women in are ones in which she is in distress, and relatively helpless. We can tell from the trailer, by the amount of scenes that feature men as oppose the women, that the film revolves around the male stereotypes. Women also are represented to conform to their stereotypes, the scene of a black woman being dragged away and sexualised in a lake reinforce this theory.