For my third film role , I am a writer and I decided to write a film that was inspired by the classic film noir films – unlike the typical film noir , the main lead in my film will be a beautiful young woman who seemingly conforms to the femme fatale stereotype , but the audience knows that she is a kind person who cares about others and the characters within the film think that she is deceitful due to the mere fact that she is beautiful and they suspect that she killed her grandfather for his money but the audience knows that there was no way that she could have done anything that she was accused of – I have done this in order to demonstrate how demeaning the femme fatale trope is.

I intend to completely subvert the stereotype of the femme fatal , because the characters that fit into this archetype often use their feminine wiles to achieve a hidden purpose but the ‘femme fatal’ in my story does not use her femininity to get what she wants and she does not initially have an agenda and she is actually a kind individual but it is the men who surround her who project their hateful ideas of women onto her and they don’t question them , despite the fact that she is innocent and this links to the idea that the femme fatale is a sexist archetype that turns women into bland, one dimensional characters whose only purpose is to satisfy male onlookers.