The male gaze takes place when the camera puts the audience into the perspective of a heterosexual man. Under which women are portrayed as object of the gaze, while men are portrayed as the bearer of the gaze. The spectator is constructed as male since the camera puts the viewers into the perspective of a heterosexual male viewer: The camera follows the male eyes. Mulvery in her “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” points out that male gaze projects their illusions upon female images (Mulvery, 1975), which makes woman is surveyed and man is the …show more content…
The Danish Girl takes the “touchy” subject of transgender artist Lili Elbe’s life, which is about a portrait artist couple, Einar Wegner and Gerder Wegener, who have been living happily after married. But after posing as a female figure requested by his wife, Gerder Wegener, Einar Wegner lifelong identification of being a woman was unmasked, whom she has named Lili Elbe. Due to Einar’s struggles with her identity, they started to seek help from doctor around the country. And the visual image of the trailer portrayed Einar Wegner’s journey in transform into “entire Lili” by sex reassignment