SSC Film Studies

"giving girls and female viewers heroes that they can relate to (symbolically if not physically) and for showing girls that they don’t need a strong male hero to lean on, that it’s possible to stand strong on their own."

In the scene where Kick-ass kills 95% of the henchmen Hit-girl does not have someone to lean onto to help her kill them she has killed of the henchmen because of her skill. When she is fighting the henchmen she is usually shot above the bad guys and the framing of her is open for most of the scene. Also in this scene there is about 20 henchmen and there is one girl and this shows that the girl in the film does not to rely on anyone but herself because she can take down about 20 older and bigger men.

Yes in this scene Kick-Ass does save Hit-Girl from Stu but the thing is Kick-Ass has been trained by Hit-Girl so without Hit-Girl's mentoring if Kick-Ass in the film Kick-Ass would never of been able to even attempt to save Hit-Girl. Also to show Hit-Girl's independence in this scene  the camera is always focusing on her or her actions there is not one shot in this scene that Hit-Girl does not influence one way or another that shows her as strong. Also she has a determined loo 

"In a World ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female."

In the scene where Hit-Girl is taking down all of the henchmen she is usually shot at a medium close-up from her upwards this shows that not all women are have to rely on other things apart form their brains and their brawn. This is shown by all of the medium close-ups from her chest upwards if this was a Michael Bay film good-luck trying to find a woman represented this way. Also in this scene the males are passive and the girl is active because the men are trying to slow the narrative down they are trying to stop Hit-Girl from achieving her objective of defeating Frank D'Amico. But ultimately this fails meaning that Laura Mulvey's theory of Men being active and no sexualised and women being passive and Sexualised is dis-proven in this one scene alone.