- Camera - Vagina and cleavage shot
- Rolling with the legs spread - provocative pose
- Side Saddle - Strange for her to be doing this with it being 'lady-like'
- She says "Accessorising" when gathering weapons - women's term, play on words
- Another bum shot
- Has the audience changed?
- Plot is richer
- Cleavage shot
- Sex scene mainly her shown and shows her dominating
Although i am not using Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life as one of my case studies in my essay i thought it would be good to watch and use as a comparison to either prove my analysis is the same within both of the films or not.
I found that the second film doesn't have as many issues relating to the male gaze, i felt like the film had a better plot so it was focused more on that than impressing the male audience and gamers. There was still quite a lot of camera shots that focused on Lara Croft's anatomy for male pleasure but it wasn't as frequent and obvious. I wondered whether the target audience had changed since the first film, as the first was made due to the game, which primarily had a male audience, but if a lot of women went to see the first film, then they would have had to change the target audience for the second, being more subtle with the sexual innuendos as women are not impressed by this.
There is a sex scene within the film, Lara Croft is on top so she is the main focal point within the scene, implying the male gaze. She also seems to be the most dominant, which is a fantasy mainly carried out by men.
Although this film isn't as strong with feminist theory, i can write about this to compare.
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