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The definition of a femme fatale is "a seductive woman who lures men into dangerous or compromising situations"  This type of woman is conforming to the stereotype that women are sexual beings. But these women don't take the stereotypical role of being maternal they are usually the people that get the main hero hurt or even killed. They use their gender and lust to make the man they want hurt.
Its shows that woman are smarter than they are normally seen as. It shows the skills that

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(Turn the Page, 2015)
"That’s how low the bar for the Bechdel Test is. But even then, there’s less than five seconds worth of film between two scenes."
The aim of the aim of the Bechdel test is to have two fictional female characters talk about something other than men. It should be a simple task but it seems that many filmmakers can't seem to pass this test. In the fifth element the boarding attendant asks Korben who Leeloo was, thats when Leeloo says her name and that she has a multi-pass. This interaction is barely seconds but it does technically pass the test but some say that isn't and should be enough to pass the test the interaction was so short and it didn't help the develop the storyline or the development of the characters.

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Before going into this, this isn't about how great this film is for women, but an example of how low the bar is for the Bechdel Test. What's the Bechdel Test? The Bechdel Test is attributed to Alison Bechdel, a cartoonist for the strip Dykes to Watch Out For. The test is brought up in one of the cartoons. Bechdel herself attributes the test to her friend, Liz Wallace. The test itself is easy. The Bechdel test asks if a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement that the two women must be named is sometimes added. That's how easy the test is.

And now, here's why The Fifth Element, a film which has only one major female character (it can be argued Korben Dallas' mother is the second though she is never seen only heard), can pass this test.

Early on, there is zero interaction between female actors. It isn't until Leeloo, a perfect being who is sent to Earth to save the universe (a plot which in its own right passes the Mako Mori Test), begins to take her role in the film. But even still, the conversations that Leeloo has with other women is 2 or 3 seconds tops.

The first scene is no more than 2 seconds, but it passes the test with flying colours. The boarding attendant asks who Leeloo is, Leeloo answers with her name and holds up her multi-pass card. There's another scene later which is similar where Leeloo meets another flight attendant who asks her if she can help and Leeloo again holds up her multi-pass card.

Neither of those scenes have anything to do with a man. That's how low the bar for the Bechdel Test is. But even then, there's less than five seconds worth of film between two scenes. There's a scene later where one of the warriors, shapeshifted to look human, meet the same boarding attendant.

Again, this scene took less than five seconds, but again it passes the test.

It isn't until later in the movie where Leeloo is aboard the luxury hotel with Korben, that a longer scene between two women happens. Longer, yes, but I will say it's maybe two seconds longer.

But that's it, those few scenes are it. Keep in mind, I'm not defending this movie as one that is leaps and bounds for women in science fiction, far from it. This is an example of how low the bar is to pass the Bechdel Test. As I said before, this film could also pass the Mako Mori Test, which has the following guidelines:

at least one female character;

who gets her own narrative arc;

that is not about supporting a man's story.

Ultimately, it can be argued that The Fifth Element does eventually fail in this regard. But Leeloo's story is clear; she is the one to save the universe from the impending evil. Everyone else is supporting her. But it fails in that her story is entwined with Korben Dallas' story, which is basically just find the perfect woman. Who happens to be Leeloo.

There's one more test that The Fifth Element passes. Still keeping in mind this isn't heralding this movie as the example for others, just how low the bar is set. It passes the Racial Bechdel Test. Two characters, who aren't white, who have a conversation that isn't about a white person.

The above scene was between Ruby Rhod and his entourage, four of whom are black. They're talking about how the recent broadcast went. The funny thing, this scene nearly lasts longer than all of the scenes where Leeloo is with another female character.

This movie is a prime example of just how easy it is, or how little effort has to be put in, to pass tests like the Bechdel test.

So why can't there be more movies that do even more than just a few seconds in film.

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The Fifth Element: Passing the Bechdel Test

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Before going into this, this isn't about how great this film is for women, but an example of how low the bar is for the Bechdel Test. What's the Bechdel Test? The Bechdel Test is attributed to Alison Bechdel, a cartoonist for the strip Dykes to Watch Out For.

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(Skyfall- Opening Sequence "take the shot" 007's "Death", 2017)
In the opening sequence of Skyfall we see Moneypenny trying to take a shot at Silva she is told to take the shot by M and when she she does take the shot she ends up shooting at Bond instead. Even though we know that M has years of experience and normally has a level headed she took the chance of letting Moneypenny taking a shot even though she isn't as well experienced. This conforms to the stereotype that women act on emotions. This is seen in Kill Bill because The Bride, is going on this big killing spree because of her child. As tough The Bride is she's doing all of the killing in the name of her child, that shows that

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Skyfall - Opening Scene: "Take the Shot" 007's "Death" (1080p)

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The scene in the James Bond movie "Skyfall" where Eve unfortunately shoots James Bond.

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(Bell and Connell, 2012)
"The representation of M in Skyfall is both complex and ambiguous... she is not defined by her beauty or body image, as women in Bond films have been in the past, but instead by her brain and her ability to act and control situations."
Unlike the stereotypical ideas of a woman in movies M is not adding a sexual element to the movies unlike the other women in the film. M is breaking stereotypes not only being a women in high commented and is controlling the men she managed to be a women in that field but she is arguably the best in her amongst both women and men.  Even though M isn't playing a sexualised character she does arguably play are more maternal role. She doesn't have the stereotypical behaviours of a mother like the sweetness and relying on a man she does tell everybody what they should do and nothing happens without her say so. Unlike the films I'm looking they don't show women of an older age playing roles in action roles, The fifth element, Mad Max: Fury Road and Kill Bill, they do break stereotypes of strong women playing lead roles, but these women aren't older and even though the films don't point out or sexualise their beauty they do have the stereotypically beauty ideas.

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(Bateman, 2011)
"It would seem that where women have been represented as action characters... they are not likely to retain this status into older age.''
This shows that women don't typically play action characters passed age 40, after that age they start playing more maternal roles. As I've said before that women are meant to and a 'sexy' element to a movies and if a woman isn't considered the stereotypically definition of beauty, wether that be because they get old or they don't fit the 'blonde hair, blue eyed' category anymore they aren't seen playing action characters. Unlike men they can still go on to play characters in action films long past the age of 40.

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(En.wikipedia.org, 2017)
'The bechdel test  asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man'
The fact that this test even exists further implements the idea that women are nothing without men. Even when a man isn't present in a scene women can't talk about anything besides men, that conforms to the stereotype that women aren't significant without men.

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(YouTube, 2015)
I found this video very interesting because she explained the ways that this film touched on the subject for feminism. At one point she says that 'they is not enough female representation... if you only have one female they have to relate to everyone.' This means that the representation of woman is far from enough when it comes to having women in films. But in Mad Max there's a lot of woman that each audience member cam relate too. Theres not only the stereotypically ideas of a woman. Theres woman that are submissive like the wives, or you have someone like Imperator Furiosa that is more masculine and she breaks the stereotypes that women are weak, because she independent and has more masculine type behaviour.

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SUBSCRIBE for more videos Mad Max: Fury Road and Feminism So you've probably heard a bit about this film, even if you haven't seen it, as it has been given a bit of a reputation by some outspoken MRAs as a deceptively feminist film, Mad Max: Feminist Road, as it well.

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The opening sequence we 'the Bride' & 'Vernita Green' fighting to what seemed to be a fight to the death, they get interrupted by a school bus pulling up to the house. We see Green beg with her eyes for the fight to stop because her daughter is home, the fact that they ended the fight shows both the females conforming to the stereotype that women are more maternal. If it was men they wouldn't stop for a child.

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(mccollum, 2008)
"I will argue that the character of Beatrix Kiddo embodies a feminist interpretation of femininity in her complexity and fluidity. She displays an ability to perform both feminine and masculine roles in her behaviors, dress, and interactions with other characters, resulting in an evolving, complicated identity and a characterization that is ultimately feminist."
I found this interesting because its shows that 'the bride' in Kill Bill is both conforming to the stereotype the that women are maternal because she doing all these violence acts in the name of her child.But in the same sense she subverting the stereotype because she's not waiting for a man to help her she's going out of her way to kill people.
The audience never knows her name, even though she is the main protagonist we just know her as 'The Bride'. This could mean that she's so mysterious and strong but at the same time some say it makes her seem lesser than the people she's trying to find

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(christimothy12, 2017)
This slide share talks about the male gaze theroy and how its used in movies to show women. It talks about the two ways women can be represented in movies; as sexual objects or house wives.
"Often the female has no real importances herself, it how she makes the feel or act that he is the importance"
"Passive audience will be influenced by this version of reality and copy it"

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"In the domain of the family, fathers or father-figures hold authority over women and children."(En.wikipedia.org, 2017) This suggests that men are more masculine and should be the ones to be the breadwinners.

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Patriarchy is a social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.[1][2][3] Some patriarchal societies are also patrilineal, meaning that property and title are inherited by the male lineage.

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Women are typically seen as two things; the housewife, mother or a sexual object.
When a woman is being shown as a mother it shows off her maternal skills. Woman are normally shown as being the caretaker for the kids and someone that cooks and cleans in the house, there are seen to rely on men for things like finically aid as if women were only created to have kids and take care of those kids.
The other way that woman are treated is as sex objects. In most movies women if they not being mothers they will be seen as sex objects. Women are seen wearing tight clothes that show of their figure. Even if those woman have some importance in they film they are often sexualised.

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(Bell and Connell, 2012)
In the AS Media Studies Study & Revision Guide by Christine Bell  Fearne Cotton's Cosmopolitan cover were she is seen wearing clothes that shows the shape of her body, thus sexualising  her. At one point she says that "The cover appeals to both men and women; in simple terms women want to be her, men want to be with her.'"