Representation

Representation in film is mostly done in a very stereotypically way with women in films being seen as helpless and weak and men being seen as very strong individuals that have to save the women from certain situations.

This can be seen in the Indiana Jones and the temple of doom, where Jones (Harrison Ford) saves Willie Scott (Kate capshaw) at the beginning of the film from a bar in Shanghai by dodging bulletts and trying to get the cure for the poisonthat was slipped into his drink. He then proceeds to save Willie again in the temple of doom just before she is incinerated.

Indiana Jones is seen as a powerful character capable of doing almost anything like dodging bulletts, finding valuable treasures and to top it all off, he always gets the girl in the end.

However in some films representation of males and females can be flipped on its head. For example in the film Kill Bill, Beatrix Kiddo AKA the Bride (Uma Thurman) is seen as a very powerful, self driven character as opposed to the men in the film which she manages to defeat in duels. This shows that women in films are not always necessarily portrayed as weak, helpless characters but rather powerful, unbeatable characters that accomplish their goals.

In our opening sequence we dont necessarily portray men or women in a certain way, we portray both halves of a community from the bad at night to the good during the day and the crossovers between them with the police.