Representation theories

The film I will be analysing is friends with benefits. The story line of this movie is When the man takes the job and makes the move, they quickly become friends. Their friendship turns into a friendship with benefits, but with Jamie's emotionally damaged past and Dylan's history of being emotionally unavailable, they have to try to not fall for each other the way Hollywood romantic comedies dictate. This movie relates to perkins theory as it is all about bad relationships in some cases the stereotype of bad relationship is true as perkins theory tells us how some stereotypes are true therefore this stereotype contains some element of truth as not all relationships are good and go well as we do see some relationships that fall abput and this trailer ‘friends with benefits’ is all about how two friends go into a bad relationship. Also this theory shows also how streotypes can change over time as bad relationship sometimes may even tend to come back together and challenge the stereotype. The second theory my chosen film applies to is mulveys theory of ‘male gaze.’ This is because Laura Mulvey suggests that the dominant view in the media is masculine and created for the benefit of men. Women are presented for men to look at, hence the ‘male gaze’. This links to the idea of ‘sex sells’ and women being represented as sex objects. From this trailer I can see how the men uses multiple girls for his own plessure and cheats them all. He says how a night for him with a girl was ‘one off’ showing how his intentions are wrong. Also shows how he takes womens for objects as every girl he sees he likes. The third stereotype that applies to friends and benefits movie is medhurts theory. Andy Medhurst suggests stereotyping is shorthand for identification. This means we use stereotypes to tell audiences a lot in a short space of time. I believe that this theory relates to friends and benefits because stereotype is a shorthand identification therefore in this movie we can see how the girls are objects and shows how they are known for looking at.