In our thriller we wanted to be able to show the males in a bad light and the woman in a good light to conform to the stereotypical view that men are more powerful than women and to highlight the ideological belief that women are more vunerable than men, and that women need a man in order to be safe. We wanted to relate our thriller to something that has actually happened in real life so we were influenced by the story of Jo Yeats who was attacked in her home by a neighbour, the man who attacked her did the same as the character in our thriller, he made her trust him by making her feel like she could be safe and took advantage of the fact she knew him and trusted him. This highlights the message of our thriller which is that people in society trust too easily and this is also a representation of how easily women trust men. In our thriller we wanted the villain to have a position of authourity to emphasise how easily we trust people just because they have a position of authourity and in this instance she is taken in by his badge without taking into account he doesn't actually have the authourity to enter her house, and this shows how society go along with the idea that a simple symbol of authourity such as a badge is representive of their job which is negative as badges and uniform can be borrowed stolen or forged. We wern't looking to show the police in a negative light but emphasise how these symbols of authourity can be used for manipulation. Our thriller shows the binary oppisition between male and females, and subverts the dominant ideology that people with authourity can be trusted.
Examples of this in other thrillers, could be the film "Taken" here the females arrive in a different country and immedietly trust a complete stranger and then get kidnapped, this buys into the stereotypical view that females are more vunerable and naive than men are because in this thriller the father saves the girl, meaning it conforms to the stereotypical view that females need men.
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