Stardust Stereotypes

In Stardust, the storyline follows the traditional roles of women with all of these female characters fulfilling some stereotypical place in film for women but the characters of Victoria and Lamia are the most clearly stereotypical. When a star falls from the sky, Tristan Thorn must catch the star to win the love of Victoria, who will marry him if he brings her the star. A beauty hungry witch named Lamia is also seeking this star that turns out to be a young woman named Yvaine. The witch aims to cut out and eat her heart to remain beautiful. Meanwhile, Tristan’s mother, Una, plays the helpless woman who must be rescued from her enslavement to another evil witch. All of these female characters fulfill some stereotypical place in film for women …show more content…
The film shows her repeatedly waiting for Tristan to come to her rescue her from the hand of another man. This woman is a shallow character and the only thing the audience really knows about her is that she wants to be married to Tristan. By creating a character that revolves around a male character, this character cannot exist outside of Tristan’s existence, thus making her incredibly unreal and stereotypical. Aside from Victoria, Lamia is a witch that fulfills the shallow role of women only craving beauty and looking nice. The entirety of this character revolves around her search for a woman turned into a star that she must kill so she can remain young forever. While she is a character as violent as the male leads, her motivation for violence is what places her in a stereotypical role. Women, in this stereotype, cannot kill or do evil for power or knowledge like men can. They only do such for the superficial reasons of looking nice. While the male characters in this film kill and act violent for the desire to lead a nation and for power, Lamia attempts to kill a star in human form so she may have eternal youth and