2. Our femme fatale
As Amy is represented in the beginning of Gone Girl as being funny, smart, beautiful, having a great personality, is the same
in our film, however the audience don’t get to see this side of Kristen in the trailer. Kristen when she was having an affair
with mark, was everything any man would want, caring, helpful, trustworthy and was hard for mark to resist. Clearly all their
affairs start before where the film starts so to the audience, Kristen is a mysterious girl. The audience slowly discover that
the most dangerous thing about Kristen is that she will do absolutely anything, including lying, blackmailing, and even
committing murder, to get people to submit to her. Very like Amy in gone girl, how went to extreme measures to make her
husband realise the attention she demands. Our femme fatale conforms to a lot of the stereotypes around her role,
however subverts the general representation of females in society. The general representation is that woman are weak, rely
on men, live at home looking after children and are always presentable and behave how men expect them too. However,
Kristen subverted a lot of these stereotypes because behind the surface she is manipulative and uses her sexuality to get
what she wants.
3. Our fall guy
Mark, James dad is an unusual character. He cheats on his dying wife with no guilt, doesn’t allow his son to see his mother when
she’s ill and lies about seeing her so he can see the person he’s having an affair with. He’s seen as being a bit twisted not a very
good father when the truth comes out. He has always had a close relationship with his sister until he did something which he felt
he couldn't’t even talk to her about. This character is inspired by the main character in night crawler as he is twisted does an
incredibly dangerous job. The main character in night crawler is also view as being abit nasty and brutal. Our fall guy conforms to
the stereotypes of a fall guy that they are the ones who always get the blame, everything bad goes there way and are easily
manipulated by the femme fatale. He conforms too this within noir as he is manipulated by Kristen to sleep with her and lie to
Jess, his sister. In society, males can sometimes be represented as aggressive or angry and Mark conforms too this when he
shouts at Jess and pushes her against the wall, and again when he pushes away mardi when she tries to be affectionate.
4. Our detective
Jess, is the sister of Mark who is acts slightly as the detective in the film. She realise that the stories do not add up between her
best friend, Kristen and her brother. We want to represent that she is clearly innocent in the trailer and make it clear that she is
trying to solve the issue. This character wasn’t partially inspired by anyone however her characteristics to have her own moral
compass and too have faith with her brother despite everything leading towards her brother being the murderer. Stereotypically
in noirs, the detective is a man. We choose to have a female detective figure as female empowerment within being strong and
intelligent, rather than just being manipulative. This subverted the stereotype of detective and the stereotype that society have
of detective are men. However, jess does conform too other characteristics such as never backing out even when told too and
working along side the law with there own moral compass in tact.
