Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Movies

I was forced to watch the new Angelina Jolie movie "wanted" last night and it made me realize that if a women is the leading action person in the movie that they are always beautiful and sexy. I started to think about it and realized that there isn't a single movie that if the lead action hero is women and she isn't viewed as a sex symbol. I also realized the same for men. Most of the time if the lead action hero is a man then he is also viewed as a sex symbol. The question I present to the blog is can an action hero be an effective action hero without being sexy?

2 comments:

gendergirl7 said...

That's a good point when I think of any man super hero from batman, spiderman, superman they're all big strong guys-but i dont think it necessarily played up to make them a sex symbol as much as theyre trying to give off this macho masculine image of this strong muscle guy coming to save the day. Women super heros though always have some sexy little leather or deep plunging outfit whether its in wanted, wonderwoman, charlies angles, or catwoman-ALL off these characters are played up by sex and if you noticed they've all at one point needed a man to get them out of a situation. So i agree with you thats it's all about the sex, but it's interesting to see how the media chooses to work it.

pinkypoodle said...

I strongly agree with you. I love to watch action movies, and every time I watched many actors are handsome, and also many actresses are beautiful and sexy. “007” is really good examples because James Bond is really smart and also sexy. He always has relationship with a beautiful woman. I think the reason is that many people both men and women attracted their physical appearances. First impressions are face or their bodies. If their faces and body shapes are really beautiful, we will probably attracted to them. So, we do have to judge people how they look, but physical appearances are one of good factor to know people.

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