Women images function
Media gallery to show those male gaze images and other people’s comments towards their appearance
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——“It seems like she is not wearing anything but a blue paint. And it’s hard to neglect her in the film ad the way she appears.” Trivesh Sharma, 5 Sexiest Female Characters From Marvel Movies Who Are Too Hot To Handle 
——“Man saves Mary Jane Watson and she appears all wet in the rain is so satisfying. You can’t take your eyes off from her. She looks so hot.” Trivesh Sharma, 5 Sexiest Female Characters From Marvel Movies Who Are Too Hot To Handle 
——“She’s got action, seductive personality and the way she looks at somebody, makes us unstoppable.” Trivesh Sharma, 5 Sexiest Female Characters From Marvel Movies Who Are Too Hot To Handle 
——“I walked into this huge hangar filled with images of me as Wonder Woman, which was surreal… Then they got me into the fitting room and tried on the costume. And I was so happy and so grateful for being there and doing this role that I didn’t say anything about the fact it was so tight, I literally could not breathe.” Gal Gadot, Gal Gadot says she couldn’t even breathe in her original Wonder Woman costume. 
Women’s dressing style shows the being seen function in films
In superhero series films, some female images are a kind of the reappearance of traditional cinema female images. Female images are sexy and charming. For example, the most famous female superhero black widow is acted by Scarlett Johansson, she has been described as a Hollywood sex symbol by various media outlets; the wonder woman is acted by Gal Gadot, she is also a very attractive Israeli actress and model; the Mystique in the X-Men is played by Jennifer Lawerence (the winner of Oscar Best Actress in 2011). All of these actresses can be regarded as the synonym of sex and beauty. And the dressing of wonder women is directly criticised that such wearing style is not for a feminist. (Continue to read for more information please go to https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/06/i-wish-wonder-woman-were-as-feminist-as-it-thinks-it-is.html)
In marvel series films, female images are not only used for presenting the idea that women can protect the world but also they are used to attract the audience attention to improve the commercial value for films. As Mulvey (1989, p.17) pointed out that women shift the tension between looks on either side of the screen, their displaying function can be seen in two levels, the one is their characters are the erotic object within the screen story, the other is as the erotic object in the audience’s eyes. In marvel films, female superheroes wear tights, which makes them be treated as the object for both aesthetic and orectic viewing. During the process of being looked, female superheroes bear the sight from the male superheroes or other male characters in the films and they also bear the sight from the audience in front of the screen. The audience achieves to see female characters erotically by standing at male characters perspectives due to the commercial narrative film.
From the videos, it is not difficult to find that these female superheroes wear tights to show their perfect figure and expose their bodies too much.
“The presence of a female is an indispensable element of spectacle in a normal narrative film (Mulvey, 1989, p.20).” Black widow, wonder woman, scarlet witch, mystique are all important roles in marvel films. Meanwhile, those women characters’ sexy wearing style is very typical. In the videos, black widow getting dressed in the car, we can see she just wears the bra and mystique wears a sexy skirt to get along with a man to achieve her goal. We have to admit that such kind of wearing style satisfies the audience sight experiencer and improve those female superheroes’ value of being looked in films.
In marvel films, female superheroes explain their function: being exhibited and being looked, Snow (1989,p.30) suggested that in the male gaze, women are treated as the object of male pleasure, having the function for serving the male. Through the viewer comments about mystique, we can see that people are all interested in her body rather than her acting skills or plot development. Actresses sexy body satisfy the public, especially men’s fantasy towards female. The sexy female superheroes images can be the signifier of the male desire.
People’s comments about women wearing style after seeing the before videos
Setting normal women images in films can eliminate the male characters’ anxiety
Charming women images make male fantasy female, while male also fears female. In marvel films, those high intelligence female superheroes make those male characters in the films and that audience in front of the screen to have anxiety because of their unique power and capability. Despite female superheroes, those normal female characters in marvel films are also loved by the audience. They eliminate the anxiety that female superheroes bring to the audience and male characters. Normal female in marvel films such as Pepper and Peggy are loved by both of the audience and male superheroes in the films. Male characters can protect normal female in the films. For example, the ironman saved pepper when she encounters the problem of being kidnapped. Male can regard these women as the object to eliminate their fear. By this way, the audience’s seeing pleasure can be also achieved.
Setting an unfortunate life for those powerful women can also remove the male’s anxiety
Most of the female superheroes in marvel films get a common feature: an unfortunate life experience. This setting can be also regarded as a way to remove the male’s anxiety. Black widow lost her parents when she was a little baby and she was adopted by other people. However, she has experienced a very merciless spy training and was not able to have a child any more. Because the spy organisation cut her womb down.
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The scarlet witch was a normal person at first, but HYDRA brainwashed and transformed her and her brother. She used to be the HYDRA’s killer to attack Avenger’s members. To gain the superpower, she also experienced cure training, such as having been locked in prison for a long time to train how to adapt the superpower.
Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy witnessed her parents being killed by the villain. She was the only survivor of her race. Although she was adopted by Thanos, she still was disfigured by Thanos’s cure training. She poorly became the killing machine for Thanos and paid the price for being a superhero.
The difference between female and male characters to gain the superpower
These female characters are not similar to male superheroes, for example, Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy and Professor Charles Francis Xavier in X-Men (namely Professor X) who can gain the superpower naturally. Most of the female superheroes have to pay for the price heavily for being a superhero. Those organisation (the Soviet Union spy organisation, HYDRA and Thanos) who give the superpower for women aim at making them become as a killer to serve for their own benefits. Women have to do those things which violate justice and morality. Only they give up evil by returning to the right organisation can gain the justice party and the audience forgiveness.
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