Casablanca Movie Essay

For women, fashion is a display of national character and patriotism and was used as a tool for resistance. At the beginning of the war, women were not seen as foot soldiers of the resistance. These German soldier they weren’t used to seeing women as peers on the battlefield. These women could inconspicuously transport information, leaflets, and anything the resistance needed, much easier than her male counterpart could. Normally women in movies are represented as heroines and motivators for the hero, like in Casablanca, Ilsa is often a motivator for many of Rick’s actions. Such as in Mulvey’s visual pleasure paper she says,
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In film the garments convey truth. They provide realism and shows who they really are whether the truth is a display of class or gender. However the truth is often how the character wishes to show who they really and shows the representation of how the way and how they wish to be seen. Creating a sense of confidence in one's identity through control the representation of oneself. Clothing in itself becomes an aesthetic object, like an object in a museum and its meaning is derived from the person who creates or in this case who wears the piece. However the audience can derive meaning by looking at the piece. As an interesting, part of the creation the creator can decide if they want they want the audience’s meaning and the creators meaning to align or be contradictory to the actual identity of the author, kind of like baiting the audience to interpret them in a way they want to be interpreted. This is how characters in film can take on many different