Post-Feminist Representation of Women - 'G. I. Jane'

G.I. Jane is a 1997 action film that tells the fictional story of the first woman to undergo training in U.S Navy Special Welfare Group.
The film is based around Jordan O'Neil who is placed by Demi Moore. In the film she is doing training in the U.S Navy, she is played around in the wrong ways and in the film it is said that she is physically more feminine than the other, more "butch" candidates. In the film the cast have to undergo different task. One task in which they have been placed with is called 'Hell Week', they have to set out physical task which has been designed to wear down recruits, they have to use physical and mental strength, running, marching, and crawling through obstacle courses under the worst weather conditions while carrying landing rafts - not to mention eating out of a garbage can during breaks. O'Neil who plays Demi Moore must repeatedly ask to stay up to the same standards of the male trainees. Marster Cheif who is played by Viggo Mortensen tries to convince the other trainees that the presence of a woman will make them more vulnerable during actual combat. However O'Neil fights back against him and wins the respect of her team. This film can be linked to Flight Plan as Jodie Foster who plays Kyle Pratt is seen as a physically and mentally strong independant women. The same can be said for Demi Moore. The characters both seem to have structures of men, by this i mean that they tend to do things in which men are more likely to undertake. Therefore both films can combined together. The way in which Jodie Foster had been presented in her film as a masculine individual, this was also seen through her dull clothing and her hair sliked back, the same can be said for G.I. Jane, as Demi Moore has shaved her hair to fit the role. Therfore they both have similarities within this part of the representation.

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