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Erin Brokovich-2000

'Erin Brokovich' is a film about an unemployed single mother who is having trouble finding a job. She has also recently been a victim of a failed lwasuit against a doctor in a car accident. Her lawyer provied a job for her as compensation for the loss. Because of her trashy and promesicious clothing, no one takes her seriously nevertheless all this changes when she illegaly investigates a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company.

In this dramatic film, Julia Roberts almost single-handedly save the day which is already challenging female stereotypes as it is very rare that we see a woman taking a lead role as 'the saviour', their normally the ones being saved. This is significant as it shows the postmordern society we are living in where new ideas of film making have been introduced and different types of films are appreciated by society because before films such as domino and erin brokovich would have been frowned upon as patriarchy and male dominance was very important however, today with the intorduction of the new man and woman being more powerful than ever before films such as these who give woman power and independeance are the new generation of films. We can see this as new films such as Wanted and Mr. and Mrs. Smith as today there are more and more films with female power and equality.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith-2005

This film potrays Angelina Jolie as a very secretive yet violent woman who kills people for a living. This describtion automatically connotes a male however, Angelina Jolie is challlenging nearly all the stereotypes a woman is given as she is not passive yet active, she is not the talkative gossipy type but she is very secretive about er identity. Just like Keira Knightly in Domino, in this film Jokie is always armes with dangerous weapons which could also raise social and politocal issues such as the rse of gun crime in America. Politicians can argue that films such as Mr. And Mrs. Smith and Domino are the reason for the increase of gun crime in America as guns are glorified in these films and being equiped with a gun is portayed as power in these films.

Wanted-2008

Wanted is another movie that stars Angelina Jolie as an assasin. There are more and more films today that represent women as manly, aggressive and deady. The days of a women being a housewife are over, today women take on jobs that men usually do. It can also be argues that the roles of men and women has slightly become more symmetrical and we can see this from the introduction of the new man as it is alright for man to be seen taken care of children and cooking them dinner at home today and women are starting to care more about their careers. We can see the change of gender roles in Wanted as the man is seen as the passive one who doesn't want any trouble whereas the woman ( Jolie) is the one who trains him to become a top assasin.