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How do men portray themselves?
How are women portrayed?
What is the gender message that is presented?
Constanza Domic 3ºB
Regarding my selection
My selection was Shrek because it is one of my favorite movies and I love how each character is represented.
The movie I'm going to talk about today is Shrek 1, but this character has four movies:
An ogre named Shrek lived alone in a swamp. One day his loneliness is interrupted by the invasion of a group of characters from fairy tales, all of them banished from their own tales by Lord Farquaad, King of Duloc.
Shrek decides to save his home by reaching an agreement with Farquaad, which consists of rescuing Princess Fiona from the castle guarded by a fire-breathing dragon.
The film is released in 2001 in a context where until then princesses used to have certain characteristics and ways of acting, while princes had to fulfill certain specific roles.
Shrek comes to break all those schemes, making a switch, showing us a princess outside the stereotype and a very unexpected "prince savior".
how are the males portrayed?
In the kingdom, where the story takes place, the man is portrayed as the typical heroic and handsome knight who must go in search of a princess.
Charming prince
But Shrek, the main character, breaks this stereotype by being the complete opposite of what a prince is. He's a green, bald ogre who stinks, burps, and doesn't look very good.
Shrek
Initially, it highlights the stereotype that the knight must save the princess, but with Shrek they show that the man must not always be strong, perfect, brave and romantic.
See first seconds, I could not find the video in English :(
FEMALE PERSPECTIVE
how are the females portrayed?
The woman is portrayed, at first, as the princess who needs to be rescued, a woman who without her prince is practically not self-sufficient.
Also in the other princesses of the film you can see the stereotype that they must have very delicate behaviors. Fiona breaks that stereotype, sometimes saving Shrek with her knowledge of martial arts, belching and especially with her physical appearance, which was different from what princesses should have. Her features were thicker and she was a curvy girl, which had never been seen in a princess before.
In addition, a trans princess is incorporated, which also breaks the stereotype of the "typical princess"
It mainly breaks the stereotype of "weakness", behavior and physical appearance of women.