Charlie's angels

Since the ancient time, women had suffered from the unfairness and inequality. Much sadder fact is that they didn’t even know that it is unjust. They thought it is a matter of course. From mid 1900s, women rose against the society. They claimed for the rights of votes and other freedoms. It can be considered the beginning of the feminism. Feminism refers to the movement to support women’s right and equality politically, socially and economically. And the concept of Feminism is highly related to the pop culture of the world. Since there is feminism and such movements, pop culture could be broadened and stretched out to various field of society; for an example, if there has been a man hero such as James Bond and Superman, now there is also “Wonder Woman.” However, a traditional gender role is unchangeable and deeply embedded within community Man works outside and woman works inside. Man is independent and woman is dependent. This simpl

e concept of the traditional gender role has been set in society and seemed unalterable. This idea is also reflected in the media such as movies, TV shows, magazines, and etc. For many centuries, a man has been portrayed as a main character that carries out the plot, but female was either one who is saved or one who helps male character to be a hero who saves the world.

Charlie’s angels, one of the most famous TV series in 20^th century, had been broadcasted from 1976 to 1981. In the movie, three female detectives who work for the private agency receive a mission. While woman were portrayed as the most vulnerable character in other movies, they were heroine with intelligence, physical strength, and beautiful appearance. Their mysterious boss sent them a message or mission via voice and sent them his assistant, Bosley. It struck the whole soci

Most people might easily conclude that it distorted early-existing image of woman and was critical watershed in the movement of feminism, reversing man and woman’s roles; however, I partially disagree with this idea. Superficially it seems to be successful work flipping the pre-existing view, but it couldn’t perfectly overwhelm the tendency to fall back. In South Korea, the title of the movie is translated to “Beauty Trio.” There is no word that helps us infer that it is a detective movie, but movie with three beautiful ladies. While it criticizes the society’s tendency to emphasize an appearance and sexual appeals, it shows that sexual appeals are the most important factor for female. As most of the viewers of the film can easily realize, beautiful and sexually attractive women were casted as the main characters. They are beautiful and have a perfect body shape. What if they casted normal “geeks” or woman as a main character? What if they were intelligent and strong, but not sexually appealing?ety with panic. It was brought a profound change in people’s minds and thoughts that women are powerless. With its popularity, it was also made into film in 2000.

Throughout the movie, we can effortlessly find scenes that those three main characters use their sexual appeals as a tool to accomplish their goals and lure males; they sometimes lead bad guys on to acquire a confidential document. Males in the movie are easily fascinated by them and it coincides with the traditional gender roles that we discussed in the class. In this film, the director tried to create a revolutionary work to represent woman’s ability and rights, but he ultimately fails to eliminate deep-rooted prejudice on gender roles.

Furthermore, there are unnecessarily many scenes when female characters are wearing bikini on the beach and observing suspects. Of course, the bikini is nothing to deal with suspects. It is certain that a director wanted to put some entertaining scene to satisfy male viewers.

This situation can be observed in not only media, but also everywhere. Those people who surfer this kind of problems might be your sister, mom or YOU. In my opinion, it is impossible to find any place where everyone is treated equally and has equal rights. If there is one, it might be haven. This is called tradition, which has been descended from ancient. It is hard to reform, and it needs a huge sacrifice in order to achieve it. We unconsciously segregate ourselves from different gender, since we know we are slightly different. We should always be conscious that all humans are equally created. We have rights to be treated equally and we should be.

Charlie's Angels. Dir. Joseph McGinty. Perf. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu. Colombia Pictures, 2000. Film.

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