Meaning & Purpose: Representation means all the general action,language or props to refer to the character itself in the movie. In movie industry, it is very important to use the correct character / Mise - en scène / to do the different presentation in the movie. In every props and dressing that is been used in the movie, it had been designed well to give the greatest impression to the audience.
Stereotype is often been used in movie industry as it always gave a fixed impression which is reflect to the reality. It can help audience to understand what the character is doing in the movie. Most of the characters in The avengers are a very typical superheroes movie. In the movie, the cast who play characters of "The avengers" are all American. It gave an impression of Audience that superheroes are always the American which fight , against enemies and protect the Earth. Also in the grow of people, you can see all the heroes are mostly males, and only one is woman. It is another great example of stereotype as most people think women are weak and need protection. Men are strong , brave , tough and able to protect when necessary.
Captain America
Captain America is one the stereotypical characters. Firstly Marvel wants the characters to be most representative of America, Marvel had designed the character with lots of American flag colour on the dressing and equipments of the characters.On top of the shield, the colour are exactly follow the pattern and colour of the American flag. It gives a strong impression to audience that American are good a fighting.
War Machine
War machine is one of the very stereotypical character in the movie.The colour of the character is also full of American flag colour, combine with the name of "War Machine" which really give an impression to Audience of fighting and killing. War machine is a supporting character in the movie, partly because the character is African. It is a very typical situation and stereotype as African are mostly appear to be a supporting character in a American movie.
Hulk
Black Widow is also one of the main character from the storyline. However in this character, she doesn't has any special power or ability. Therefore to not confuse the audience while watch, her props were all in black in the movie when she suited up. Using less colourful colour on her props will give an audience knows she has less ability compare to other heroes.
Loki
Loki is one of the big enemy in the movie. He is the boss of the whole enemy team in the movie. Therefore his props has to be looks very special and like a leader of the team. In the movie, most of time he was wearing a big helmet which has two horns on top of it. Also he wears cape all the time which makes him looks like a leader which full of leadership t lead the whole enemy team. On his right hand , he was holding a spike weapon all the time which makes him dangerous , savage , horrible. All the props add up made him looks like a dangerous enemy.
Aliens
Aliens in the movie are all small fry in the enemy party. There ability in the movie were all physical attack and fight with the superheroes. Therefore all the dressing of the alines are all identical to each other. Having a uniform dressing will give an impression to the audience that they has no ability of special power. Audience will not confuse with other character then.
Hulk
Every superhero story will has a character which has a very muscular body figure & good facial appearance. At the end he will protect & save everyone at the end of the story. However Hulk is slightly different, it has a very muscular body with a very weird appearance. However he is very brave behave is a like an typical superhero. He saved everyone at the end because everyone needs his power to save the world.
Thor
Thor is a very old classic superhero. His props in the movie was wearing cape all the time which is a very traditional appearance of the superhero. One of his ability is able to fly up to the sky. Therefore he usually appear in very emergency situation at some part of the movie, fly up to the sky and save people. The movie had modern character and also crossover with some old style character to out-stand them.
Black Widow
Black Widow is also one of the main character from the storyline. However in this character, she doesn't has any special power or ability. Therefore to not confuse the audience while watch, her props were all in black in the movie when she suited up. Using less colourful colour on her props will give an audience knows she has less ability compare to other heroes.
Loki
Loki is one of the big enemy in the movie. He is the boss of the whole enemy team in the movie. Therefore his props has to be looks very special and like a leader of the team. In the movie, most of time he was wearing a big helmet which has two horns on top of it. Also he wears cape all the time which makes him looks like a leader which full of leadership t lead the whole enemy team. On his right hand , he was holding a spike weapon all the time which makes him dangerous , savage , horrible. All the props add up made him looks like a dangerous enemy.
Aliens
Aliens in the movie are all small fry in the enemy party. There ability in the movie were all physical attack and fight with the superheroes. Therefore all the dressing of the alines are all identical to each other. Having a uniform dressing will give an impression to the audience that they has no ability of special power. Audience will not confuse with other character then.
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