My chosen film, Back To The Future, features one main female character as well as one side character. The main character is Marty McFly's mother, Lorraine and the side character is Jennifer, Marty's girlfriend.
These characters never actually come into contact so do not speak to each other. Lorraine is always chasing Marty in 1955. Also, she drinks and smokes, like a "typical teenager". The entire film, she is always chasing some kind of boy or linked with a relationship. At the beginning, we see that Lorraine is married to George, Marty's dad (happily married to a certain extent). When Marty arrives in 1955, Lorraine is being chased by Biff, who is portrayed as a dominant male. He wants to have a relationship with Lorraine but she doesn't agree. After Marty finds his father watching Lorraine getting changed from a tree outside of her house, he falls down and nearly gets hit by a car until Marty pushes him out of the way. This means that ultimately, Lorraine falls in love with Marty instead of George. The entire film consist of Marty trying to get George and Lorraine together again otherwise he will not exist. The fact that Lorraine falls in love with Marty after he gets hit by a car shows how desperate Lorraine is for a boyfriend, stereotypical to teenage girls. It also shows how women were not treated respectfully, as George McFly, who is mostly seen as innocent is watching her from a tree. Jennifer is not particularly featured in the first film. She appears in the opening, before Marty travels to the past but doesn't appear again apart from at the end. The fact that Jennifer doesn't travel in time with Doc and Marty shows us how women aren't particularly seen as important. Comments are closed.
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Will TownsendA keen videographer and photographer. Currently studying Level 3 Creative Media Production at SGS WISE Campus, Bristol. Archives
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