Annalena Lorenz in her article titled The Danish Girl and the De/Construction of Gender Identity theorised that Einar Wegener, or Lila Elbe (Eddie Redmayne) had to perform a ‘theatrical performance’ while living in the normal everyday life in the assigned gender of male but during the period of minute 37:25 through until minute 40 while backstage at the theatre with the costumes, the audience should be expecting a ‘theatrical performance’ but instead Einer can ‘openly and freely be whom he feels on the inside’ without the need for all the drama. To refer to what Einar Wegener says earlier in the film; ‘I feel like I am preforming as myself.’
Lorenz also raises a point that Einar Wegener doesn’t feel comfortable with any aspect of a man, and during the scene backstage in the theatre (37:25 – 40:00), he enters dressed in a full suit – a typically male attire – …show more content…
According to Gerald Millerson and Jim Owens, a subject shouldn’t be in the centre of the frame anyway, but instead should be focused ‘before or after the centre of the image’. Lili being off-centre isn’t obvious, and it doesn’t always grab the attention of the audience, on the other hand, it looks irregular, often not feeling right, and it adds to the previous knowledge which the audience knows about, is that Lili didn’t feel right, or comfortable as a man and this disobedience to the rule of thirds is a way of expressing that.
In the film The Danish Girl (2015), the sense of touch and hands has an overly very important role in the creation and maintenance of a female persona for Lili and often act as the main source of femininity which needs to be constantly reassured by the feeling of typically female clothing. This was achieved mostly through close ups on Lili’s hands, her hands touching the clothes, there were also tracking shots of Lili running through the backstage’s
Lorenz also raises a point that Einar Wegener doesn’t feel comfortable with any aspect of a man, and during the scene backstage in the theatre (37:25 – 40:00), he enters dressed in a full suit – a typically male attire – …show more content…
According to Gerald Millerson and Jim Owens, a subject shouldn’t be in the centre of the frame anyway, but instead should be focused ‘before or after the centre of the image’. Lili being off-centre isn’t obvious, and it doesn’t always grab the attention of the audience, on the other hand, it looks irregular, often not feeling right, and it adds to the previous knowledge which the audience knows about, is that Lili didn’t feel right, or comfortable as a man and this disobedience to the rule of thirds is a way of expressing that.
In the film The Danish Girl (2015), the sense of touch and hands has an overly very important role in the creation and maintenance of a female persona for Lili and often act as the main source of femininity which needs to be constantly reassured by the feeling of typically female clothing. This was achieved mostly through close ups on Lili’s hands, her hands touching the clothes, there were also tracking shots of Lili running through the backstage’s