Film today has contributed to a world that is more visible and visualized than ever. It functions as an important media, that co-creates the individual's ideas about societal, political and economic questions, which can influence cultural ideas of gender, sexuality and the role of women, both in a public and private sphere. Stereotypical representations of the films’ characters anchor themselves fully into the narration of the film and become normalized. We explore this field through an analysis of representations in film, where we combine both the mental perspective of representations and elements of the language of film. Both spectra can help us understand the images on the screen and consequently enable us to interpret the film's narrative. In this context, we see the female characters from the perspective of a man either the spectator or character, but as feminists studies suggest, there are in both cases mostly presented as sexual objects. Through the history of film, we can identify some female archetypes that remain relevant to this day. With understanding the whole process behind the analysis of representation in film, we realize, that the female characters in the chosen films by Wes Anderson are generally defined by the male, to whom they seem fatal. This means that they become the reason for conflict and the film's plot. Some characters are shown extraordinarily stereotypical, whilst others seem to diverge from stereotypical representations. Nevertheless, female characters are a minority in his films compared to their male counterparts.
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