Anna - Bed Scene

Anna bed scene

Britt Ekland was used not for her acting prowess but for being the sexiest woman in the world during the time of filming. The scene begins with Jack forcing her to do sexual acts on herself. This is an example of the visual pleasure and the narrative of cinema, or male gaze theory. This is an example because it is being viewed through a males perspective and it is for the pleasure of the males in the audience. The scene is framed in a certain way, which suggests that she is being watched. Anna herself is an erotic object for Jack but Jack can’t see her and can only imagine. So the scene is shot in this way for the audience especially heterosexual males, during this time this was how men saw women, as sexual objects. This links back to Laura Mulvey’s theory, which states that women in film are dominated by a male perspective. Anna fills the screen this enforces the intimacy between Anna and the audience because we are very close to her. Even though she is doing the actions to herself she is still controlled by a male this is especially shown in the scene where she will finish off tomorrow but Carter tells her to wait until Sunday. This shows that female liberation has not succeeded yet. Fletcher walks in and thinks she is having stomach problems this shows that Fletcher does not view her as a sexual being this is down to Fletcher not thinking she can do it by herself. Carter is active because he is telling her what to do and Anna is just participating, Anna is just an object to be used. This supports Laura Mulvey’s theory that male roles are active and women have a passive role. This scene will draw in more male audiences because men in the 70s expected women to be depicted in that way. This links back to the theory because the men in the audience fetishize women.