The female characters are all victims owned and used by men who see them as sex objects and little more.

The female characters are all victims owned and used by men who see them as sex objects and little more.

AN example of a female character that is victimised is Anna. In the first scene you see her she is surrounded by men and is being caressed on the leg. The men in the scene are flicking through porn, this objectifies women but also objectifies her because she has been in that position before. Anna’s body language is showing that she is very distressed and doesn’t want to be there. The camera victimises her by selectively panning upwards objectifying her as just an object for the audience who are looking through the Male Gaze (Visual Pleasure and the Narrative of Cinema Theory). In the scene the mise-en-scene has pictures of naked women around the room, this enforces how women are being objectified. In the whole of the scene she has no dialogue this shows that she is just she is just an object and has no importance to the men, the only importance she has is for sex.

In a later scene where you see Anna again Carter is manipulating her for his pleasure and the audiences. The use of Britt Ekland is not for her acing skills it is down to her being the sexiest woman in the world during that era. This adds nothing to film, she is solely cast for the pleasure of the heterosexual males in the audience as this use of women as sex objects was fostered during this time. In the scene Carter forces Anna to do sexual acts on herself even though she says no. This shows how Anna is owned by Carter and is used by him as a simple sex object. The camera is positioned quite intimately this enforces Anna as a sex object.