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Van Zoonen - Women's representations in film products




An example of a passive female character in the past decade is Lily James's character Deborah in the film baby driver. Deborah is a waitress in a diner that the main character Baby played by Ansel Elgort regularly visits when you watch the movie it becomes very apparent that Baby is controlling the relationship as he initiated the conversation with Deborah and chose where to go out for example when they went out for dinner baby chose were to eat also throughout the movie Deborah has no real impact on the plot until the end as she is shown to be clueless about anything that is going on embodying the dumb blonde stereotype


Another example of female characters occupying passive roles in film marketing is the

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