Romantic comedy, 'She's out of my league' stars Jay Baruchel as Kirk, an average guy stuck in a dead-end job, who can't believe his luck when a gorgeous and successful woman named Molly (played by Alice Eve) falls in love with him. The resolution occurs as Kirk must figure out how to make this unlikely relationship work, with the obstacles of admitting Molly is way beyond him. This Movie represents women as powerful with a strong hold over men due to their feminine features and abilities.
Mise-en-scene:
In the trailer, 'She's out of my league' women are represented as powerful through women's sexual capability and attractiveness over men. This has relations to John Berger's ideology of male's gaze that, 'men act and women appear. Men look at women watch themselves being looked at'. This connotes that men believe that they have power over women from their masculinity and status, however women have the power because they give men voyeuristic pleasure. Within the trailer whichever male comes across the lead female character, is amazed and is voyeuristic from her beauty and body. The lead female character knows she holds this power and uses it to her own advantage, in order to make her way in life. In a Oppositional view the ideology that the women in the film are only for viewing pleasure, subverts the fact that women have power and in fact demeans them as an passive, erotic object. Another factor that subverts the ideology that women are presented with power, is that even though the female character has a lead role, in the narrative, the protagonist is an male connoting that she is more of a price or the damsel in distress.
Editing:
The slow editing of the trailer, brings out the idea of an romantic and calm setting to the movie, this creates the sense of a very feminine vibe, and the belief that the target audience is for women only has, it's too calm and soft to fit a male, stereotypically. The colours used for the graphics between shots is light green and white. White is signified as a colour of pureness and virginity, symbolising the women and how their attitude and soul should be. Against the green which is connoted as nature, growth and has a strongly equivalent to safety, which can be signified as the strong, masculinity of the men. As the white is surrounding the green (the colours symbolising the genders and their roles) it can also signify that men are the core strong centre of which women add to or form around as an decoration and not a requirement. This goes agains't the idea of women having power, however can also be connoted to subvert this ideology as women are not signified to be in need of male's as decorations, however men are therefore women are stronger and more independent as they don't need a male present to make them feel better or gain skills in life.
Soundtrack:
The soundtrack in the trailer, has similar traits to the editing, where the non-diegetic soundtrack is very calm and creates the belief that the target audience is for women only, therefore it is stereotypically dividing genders. The soundtrack is parallel and synchronous to the image, signifying the realism in the narrative or even power contrast of the genders, more or less laying out the facts of what society believes is how a, 'love story' should go.
Camerawork:
The camera angles used, in the trailer, represent a shift of power between the to genders. For example; within the some scenes, the women is carefully and cleverly placed, behind the male, connoting that men are in power as women are to follow behind. However in other scenes, the female is shot in low angles, signifies her power over the male in her presence. Women are also represented to only be powerful through their appearance, as close up shots are made focusing towards the lead females facial or body features- this signifies that, she is only important for her outer looks rather than her inner feelings, thoughts or brain power.
Below is the trailer: She's out of my league.
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