the action sequences of Charlie's Angels were tempered by the reputation of the film as an audience-pleasing spectacle of fashionable female flesh.
Annie's physical skills were limited to bus driving, while her clothing revealed more flesh as the film wore on.
Gravity's Ryan Stone also ends up removing her space suit to reveal plain boy shorts and a tank top, a scene meant to evoke thoughts of rebirth, rather than promiscuity or sex.
beautiful, sexy and tough heroines who command their narratives, invariably driving vehicles, shooting guns, wielding weapons or fighting in hand-to-hand combat better than their (frequently male) adversaries.
Action Babe Movies - Emphasis is on beautiful feminine bodies combined with active masculine strength
Action Babe designed to appeal to both men and women (have me/be me)
the physical beauty and alluring sexuality of the female stars and the character they play embody traditional, patriarchally defined qualities of femininity. however, in their function as central protagonists in the action narrative, these heroines are undoubtedly coded as masculine, active, and physically strong and can clearly be seen to constitute the position traditionally occupied by the male.
Charlie's Angels, despite being the main protagonists, still are second to a man AKA Charlie himself, following his orders.
the Angels are calefornian sunshine babes for whom the pop glam aesthetic of dressing up to complete each adventure is a fabulously taken for granted norm and the notion of performing femininities to charm and seduce their (mainly male) opponents is an unqualified given
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