The female agent seems to always be associated with Xiangyan, even if she is a soldier.
For example, Luc Besson’s new film [Anna] , Anna is a female spy who is loyal to the Soviet intelligence agency KGB. She was trained by the KGB in the dark, and she has since embarked on the road of assassination.
Some people say that [Anna] is a cool film for women.
At first glance, it seemed like this. Anna had blond hair and blue eyes, bright eyes, and two meters long legs. She started fighting fiercely. It was as simple as cutting melons and vegetables, and seducing men to seize her hands. When she smiled, the men on both sides of the United States and Soviet Union did it for her. Lost soul.
With her own efforts, the intelligence bureaus of the United States and the Soviet Union were turned upside down, and she was still restless. She was able to retreat all over her body and finally enjoy freedom and freedom. Yes, which woman looks upset?
However, in fact, the real target audience for this type of female thugs theme is actually a male audience. From the previous [Cold City], [Cardinal], to [Anna], nothing else.
If it is said that women can substitute themselves when watching female killers cutting melons and vegetables and living in the world, then what are men looking at when they see women fighting?
The answer may be, undressing, a dangerous charm.
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In fact, men like to watch women fight on the screen, which is already a better aesthetic.
It's not ironic, it's better than watching women being abused.
It also carries male sexual fantasies. Before the image of "female warriors", all the people on the screen were "victims."
Beginning with Hitchcock's [Scary] , just a few minutes of murder in the bathroom has permanently fixed the girl's horrified face in film history.
Then came the lead-yellow movies about female exploitation, black leather gloves, sharp razors, women's horrified faces before death, and the bloody and broken bodies of beautiful girls, which are often exposed, exhibited, and consumed on the screen. , The spectacle of being exploited .
In science fiction films, a type of "artificial human" characters created by men and controlling their destiny have also developed. They have no ability to think and are completely passive.
This classic routine of "female victims" is also called damsel in distress.
In the image, they are the innocent girls who need to be protected and saved. They are beautiful and weak. They depend on men to survive and are often killed.
There was an era, and even now, our pop culture as a whole is more obsessed with those beautiful, dead girls.
Not a beautiful, deadly girl.
The female agents and female killers in spy films belong to the latter. They are fatal above all.
In [Anna] , Anna uses beauty to seduce the target wealthy businessman, and then she took the opportunity to go to the toilet. You thought that the next step should be the cloud and rain link, but Anna took the gun, went out, and aimed at the opponent's forehead. There is no nonsense. The gun is deadly.
Remembering another female fighter film by Luc Besson, in his famous work [Nikita] , a girl Nikita was found shivering in the corner of the robbery scene in the opening scene.
The male policeman looked at her in his eyes, which was obviously unguarded and pity, a kind of high-pitched compassion with his own stance.
The reversal is coming.
The girl Nikita took out a pistol, pressed her brow, and pulled the trigger in the slightly embarrassed expression of the other man.
The director Luc Besson did say in an interview:
I am very interested in going backwards. We always describe men as tall and strong, like [Terminator] Rischwarzenegger said "Hasta la Vista, Baby" (Spanish, "Goodbye, baby"), and women Always in the background, looking distressed and unfortunate. I am interested in turning this the other way around. ——Luc Besson
Although this is true, Luc Besson naturally has selfish intentions, that is, as a European and American male director, he has an imagination and preference for perfect women .
So in his film, from the time of [Nikita], in addition to being tough and able to fight, those female thugs must also be sexy and beautiful enough , with long chests and beautiful legs . Just like the other translations of "Nikita", Fallen Flower, Thunderbolt, Bloodthirsty Girl...
Exciting fights and fragrant scenes always go hand in hand, and neither is indispensable.
They are fatal first, and then they must be fragrant enough.
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Blond hair, swimsuits, close-fitting long skirts, or three-point underwear, long legs, naked back, and recently added a les plot, almost all popular heroine spy scenes, these keywords can be extracted.
They play the role of "soft eroticism" in action spy scenes.
So, instead of saying that men like to watch women fucking on the screen, they like to see the special sexiness exposed when women are fighting.
[Nikita] The cover of this poster, the most widely circulated, says everything.
The female model has the same slim body, long legs, just the right hip skirt, and pointed high heels.
Nikita, played by Anna Parrio, is facing the deadly danger of being besieged by dozens of men on the screen. She is holding a gun and leaning against the wall. Her hair is slightly messy and her look is stern. The moment she was photographed by the camera. It is beautiful and dangerous .
It is a kind of "demon girl" image that men like, responsible for temptation and harm.
This is a 1990 film, almost the pioneer of the genre of female agents. Later American dramas "Nikita Girl" and "Nikita" all originated here.
The Hong Kong movie [Naked Agents] has a straightforward hint from the title. The three stunning beauties with different styles perfectly satisfy the preferences of different men in the film.
Either the background is half exposed, or the clothes are not covering the body, or the dancing is attractive, the task of killing is secondary, how to show the beauty and how to lure men into the bait is the main course.
[Cardinals] starring Jennifer Lawrence , even more extensively describes how Soviet intelligence agencies trained women to be pornographic spies.
How to teach the bed tricks that make the opposite sex bow their heads, how to train women to shame the nude and erotic.
Jennifer Lawrence was stripped and stripped, tied up in the dark room, and tortured.
In [Mission Impossible 5: Mysterious Nation] , Rebecca Ferguson wears a tuxedo with pointed high heels, one side is responsible for beauty, the other side has to chase the car into the house.
In [Cold City] , the female agent played by Charlize Theron is resolute, good at gathering intelligence, proficient in hand-to-hand combat, and is an escape expert.
But people obviously remember the beautiful scenery of her taking up the red high heels and fighting men as weapons in the car, and even more of her sex scene with another woman.
Absolutely, watching the beautiful woman with long chest and long legs flew up and down, flickering and flickering, while bewitching men, while killing people without blinking, it was no longer enough to satisfy men.
They still like to watch the lily play of the sister sleeping sister .
It's in [Cold City], it's hot and hot, and it's also in [Anna]. Even if everyone doesn't understand what it is in the plot after watching it, the les play must be arranged. How to say it is the most intuitive to put the data.
As the world's largest adult action movie website, male users account for 79% of Pornhub . In the annual reports released for several years, "lesbian" is the keyword with the highest search volume by absolute advantage .
Probably in short: Especially in the European and American worlds, men's careful thinking is obvious, and there is even a sense of collective enthusiasm.
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The images of female agents in spy films are naturally the products of male screenwriters and directors. And male audiences are paying abnormally, and this category has been produced.
Godard said: "Movies provide a body for human desires." Watching itself is the source of pleasure.
The screen, like a window in a confined space, is a hole and an eye. The female agent on the screen becomes the object of being stared at to satisfy the man's desire for voyeurism. In the words of Laura Mulvey, this is:
In a world arranged by sexual imbalance, the pleasure of seeing is split into active males and passive females. The eyes of the decisive man projected his fantasies on the figure of the woman stylized in this way. In their traditional exhibitionist roles, women are seen and displayed at the same time. Their appearance is coded into strong visual and erotic connotations. They are displayed as sexual objects, bear the sight, cater to male desires, and become erotic spectacles. —— Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Movies"
This kind of relationship between watching and being watched is not only in movies, perhaps such games are more intuitive.
When a man sees a perfect figure who can fight an enchanting female agent, is the pleasure he gets the same as when he is playing a game?
For example, in the "Tomb Raider" series, from the first generation in 1996 to the present, Laura has swept the world with two guns, both games and movies have achieved great success.
And we all know, one of the secrets of its success, is Laura, set by sexualized . The model's breasts and hips, smart mind, vigorous skill, and imperial aristocratic blood and wealth, is the perfect target for sexual fantasy projection.
The images of women in the game world are almost exactly the same. The figure is exaggerated, the sexual characteristics are obvious, and the dress is revealing. Even if there is a character prototype, it will be changed to a product that is more in line with fantasy.
The true story of a female spy.
French woman Violet, after her husband died in the Battle of Alamein in 1942, was determined to fight the Nazis to the end and joined the British spy agency.
During the Normandy landing in 1944, she and the local resistance organization acted together, but accidentally caught the Germans in ambush. In order to organize the retreat of others, Violet fought until the last minute was arrested, and was only 23 years old when she was executed.
Her story was written into a book and became the inspiration and prototype of the game "Tender Assassin".
But in the game, the original character and story of the heroine are no longer important. Instead, the character wears a layer of sexy clothing like a gauze, playing erotic sideballs in the dazzling half-hidden and half- dew .
Game players face the female protagonist’s sexy fat buttocks throughout the entire process, playing substituting games. Perfect body, coupled with strong combat power, two things that can make men more powerful, a perfect combination.
At this level, female agents in spy films seem to be playing the same role as games.
If, considering the "supernormal stimulus" effect at the psychological level, "people are more likely to be stimulated by exaggerated visual images that are more in line with ideal humans."
It is not difficult to understand why men have always longed for female agents who can fight with beauty.
And to rescue the female agents and fighters from the shackles of being "watched" on the screen, another long and transformative process may be required:
Perhaps the future should be pinned on more female screenwriters and directors entering the industry and having the right to speak.
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