P5(b) Issues of Representation
Mean of Media representations are the ways in which the media shows people some kind of idea, experiences, thoughts or perspectives through a media product.
Meaning of Stereotypes are a form of representation in which groups of people are characterised by attributing to them qualities that some individuals possess, and which later become associated with the whole group.
Purpose: The purpose of this section is the present the idea of The Incredibles - The heroine idea, and how the appearance, storyboard, stereotypes, characters or even body size affect the audiences.
This stereotype of The Incredibles is the heroine idea. The Incredibles is the story of Bob Parr, Mr.Incredible, and his midlife-crisis. Bob used to be a superhero, but nowadays super-heroics are prohibited, and Bob salves away in a dead-end insurance job... until a woman called Mirage shows up and gives him a giant robot to fight. Unfortunately, it's all a plain of Syndrome, a bad fan of Mr.Incredible, to become a hero himself, kill all other superhero, and in the end remove the idea if superheroes itself. Thankfully, Bob's family comes to the rescue, and together with his wife Elasticgirl and their daughter Violet and son Dash, the heroes save the world yet again.
However, this is a family film, but Syndrome kills many heroes, his secretary was defeated, Syndrome himself is dragged into a jet turbine. There are many people getting killed in this film.
Also, if we count all of the Incredibles as main characters, half of them are women. They have small breasts, and Elastgirl has wide hips even when she's young. Of course, in the time between the prologue and the main part of the film, Mr.Incredible's physical changes much more than her. While Mr.Incredible used to be fit and muscular, to fat and huge at the end.
Frozone is the only black character we see in this movie. He has a fairly headstrong girlfriend/ wife who is assumed was intended by the filmmakers to be black, since they portray her using a stereotype often associated with black women: When the city is being attacked by a giant robot, she is arguing with Frozone about the dinner they had planned for the night- and not telling him where she put his suit, even when she calls her "Woman".
I think Brad Bird is trying to say with the comments about celebrating mediocrity snd there mantra that if everybody was special, nobody would be special anymore. Still, he chooses to say this with a superhero film, which means that the elite, the ones who are special, are not special because of what they do, they are not special because of hard work - but because they are born special. In the final moments of the film, Dash runs a race, and it's comical how superior he is to his competition. He is competing with kids who are incapable of competing with him. However, this superhero thing middles the issue.
Meaning of Stereotypes are a form of representation in which groups of people are characterised by attributing to them qualities that some individuals possess, and which later become associated with the whole group.
Purpose: The purpose of this section is the present the idea of The Incredibles - The heroine idea, and how the appearance, storyboard, stereotypes, characters or even body size affect the audiences.
This stereotype of The Incredibles is the heroine idea. The Incredibles is the story of Bob Parr, Mr.Incredible, and his midlife-crisis. Bob used to be a superhero, but nowadays super-heroics are prohibited, and Bob salves away in a dead-end insurance job... until a woman called Mirage shows up and gives him a giant robot to fight. Unfortunately, it's all a plain of Syndrome, a bad fan of Mr.Incredible, to become a hero himself, kill all other superhero, and in the end remove the idea if superheroes itself. Thankfully, Bob's family comes to the rescue, and together with his wife Elasticgirl and their daughter Violet and son Dash, the heroes save the world yet again.
However, this is a family film, but Syndrome kills many heroes, his secretary was defeated, Syndrome himself is dragged into a jet turbine. There are many people getting killed in this film.
Also, if we count all of the Incredibles as main characters, half of them are women. They have small breasts, and Elastgirl has wide hips even when she's young. Of course, in the time between the prologue and the main part of the film, Mr.Incredible's physical changes much more than her. While Mr.Incredible used to be fit and muscular, to fat and huge at the end.
Frozone is the only black character we see in this movie. He has a fairly headstrong girlfriend/ wife who is assumed was intended by the filmmakers to be black, since they portray her using a stereotype often associated with black women: When the city is being attacked by a giant robot, she is arguing with Frozone about the dinner they had planned for the night- and not telling him where she put his suit, even when she calls her "Woman".
I think Brad Bird is trying to say with the comments about celebrating mediocrity snd there mantra that if everybody was special, nobody would be special anymore. Still, he chooses to say this with a superhero film, which means that the elite, the ones who are special, are not special because of what they do, they are not special because of hard work - but because they are born special. In the final moments of the film, Dash runs a race, and it's comical how superior he is to his competition. He is competing with kids who are incapable of competing with him. However, this superhero thing middles the issue.
Here is a small scene from the movie where Mr.Incredibles was fighting with Syndrome. As Syndrome came back with high technology weapons to make him a "hero", and also taking revenge on Mr.Incredibles. He used the robot that he invented to defeat Mr.Incredible, here includes some content of violence. As Mr.Incredible is being threw up and down by the robot, and at 0:21 of the video, the robot nearly cut off Mr.Incredible's head with those sharp knives before Syndrome stopped the robot.
Also there are some inappropriate words in this scene, for example at 1:23, Syndrome called Mr.Incredibles "Sly dog", which is not very nice if younger children learn this word, as it is not a good influence and it gives them an impression that dog is bad and sly.
Also, in the conversation between Syndrome and Mr.Incredibles, Syndrome told him that he killed all other hero, created all these high-tech weapons is just to take a revenge on Mr.Incredibles, just because he rejected Syndrome's help a few years ago. It is actually quite dark for children to watch, because it makes them think once someone offended them, they could do this to others.
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