Analysing strip scene

This is one of the scenes where Keira Knightly finally meets the stereotypes of women in films. She is scene as as sexually active 'bitch', as the spanish gangster refers to her, and she entertains the male gaze by taking of her clothes and given a lapdance.

The first thing that catches me in this scene is the non digetic sound of the heart beat while Keira Knightly is facing all the men with the guns. The heartbeats emphasise the amount of pressure Keira is in and the atmosphere in the room. The non digetic sound of the hearbeat is then backed by loud, nervous shouting by the men whilst Keira, the only women in the scene was calm and quite. This shows that even though she meets the stereotypes of woman in this scene by appearing as sexually active, she also challenges stereotypes at the same time as she is, unlike the men, very calm in a very dangerous sitauation. Women are known to scream and shout when scared however in this scene Tony Scott swaps the role of the men and the women as they are the ones who are shouting anxiously.
When Keira Knightly is confronting the men, she sounds very masculine and strong with sharp sentences, however this is not parralel to her tone of voice as the narrator as she sounds very girly with a slightly squeky, feminine voice. This could imply the fact that she has to change to impress the men. This is a change in gender roles as the man is known to be trying to impress a girl however in this scene Keira Knightly is talking with a manly voice, carrying guns and smoking to impress the oppositte sex. The mese en scne also backs up my point as she is holding a shot gun a shot gun compared to what the men are holding(hand guns) just so she can feel powerful. In this scene and most of the film, Keria Knightly is always scene with a gun and that connotes her eagerness to be powerful and the fact that she has to have a phalic sympol by her side just so she can feel strong and powerful. Throughout this film, Tony Scott makes sure that Keira challenges the stereotypes given to women however he always reminds the audience that Keira Knightley is still feminine and passivly weak. In the non digetic sound of the narrator, Keira refers to herself as a 'naughty girl' instead of a mature woman as it reminds the audience that she is still no match to the men in the scene and leads them to sympethise with her whilst the whole point of the film is to make the audience see her as an indepedent strong woman.
In this film keira Knightley has a very short haircut which suggests her masculinity however the fact that she has hair covering her eyes, she is represented as a very dark individual who is not that confident.This goes well with the darkness of the setting as it potrays her dark and evil personality. She is less and less represented as a woman in this scene as the cigerrette she is smoking connotes the ideology of rebeliousness which is mostly linked with ludacris men. She is also represented as a slut as she offers to give a stranger a lapdance and the dialogue of the man is very insulting to her quoting 'take off your clothes bitch'she still strip and gives him a lapdance which could mean to things, eather she is a whore or she is just a workaholic desperate for information to persue her missions as a bounty hunter.