Similarities and Differences between TMWTGG poster and Spy poster. by

14kingmo01 — 2025-03-21 10:49:10 UTC

The Man With The Golden Gun- Male protagonist.

Spy- Female protagonist.

2025-03-21 10:49:38 UTC

intertextual references, main characters doing the same pose

14pratth01 — 2025-03-21 10:50:49 UTC

They are different as in the james bond film poster there is a male protagonist compared to the spy film poster where there is a female protagonist

14mattli01 — 2025-03-21 10:50:50 UTC

In the TMWTGG poster a man is shown holding a gun, which follows masculine stereotypes of aggressiveness. Whereas, in the Spy poster a woman is shown as holding a gun which breaks stereotypes and shows a woman as independent and powerful.

2025-03-21 10:51:37 UTC

in the spy movie cover the protaginist is a women holding a gun which is not a normal conevntions of a spy movie, in the tmwtgg movie poster there's a normal convention of a man being the protagnist

14kingmo01 — 2025-03-21 10:51:39 UTC

They are both posed the same in a similar outfit represented as a 'Spy' with the stereotypical black suit .

14browel01 — 2025-03-21 10:51:55 UTC

james bond - shows women as weak - the women don't have guns and the protagonist is a man

spy - shows the women as powerful - they have guns and a woman is the protagonist

2025-03-21 10:52:07 UTC

lots of vehicles on the "spy" poster which is a convention of an action film, but tmwtgg poster has no vehicles

14browel01 — 2025-03-21 10:52:33 UTC

both have men holding guns and both have men in suits - conventions of a action/spy film

14fitzcr01 — 2025-03-21 10:53:36 UTC

both still display a damsel in distress character/ a woman who looks in need of help who appears stereotypically

14reidro01 — 2025-03-21 10:54:20 UTC

In the spy poster a woman is shown driving a car through explosions showing she is a part of the main action whereas in the man with the golden gun this isn't seen with the female characters

14mattli01 — 2025-03-21 10:54:29 UTC

They both show women as sexualised through the costumes and vulnerable through their stance because they look quite exposed through revealing costumes and their facial expressions are quite soft. This is a stereotype of women and their emotions/ dependency.

2025-03-21 10:55:30 UTC

in both covers the protagnisist is the centre of the poster and is way bigger then the rest of the characters there both holding guns repsresnting there the main character

2025-03-21 10:55:51 UTC

both titles of the films have speech marks which indicates that spy is a parody of tmwtgg since they're presented in the same way

14suttli01 — 2025-03-21 10:55:57 UTC

Men depicted pointing and shooting guns; suggests that men are violent; conventional and stereotypical of men in action and spy films

14kingmo01 — 2025-03-21 10:56:44 UTC

Both of the posters show the women being objectified through costumes,facial expressions and poses.An example of this is in the Bond poster you can see women being objectified through their costumes of their 'Bikinis' and how they're barely wearing anything to show a sense of vulnerability and weakness. The Spy poster also shows the women being objectified through the women wearing a revealing green dress and a red revealing blazer to be stereotypically shown as submissive.

14pratth01 — 2025-03-21 10:57:20 UTC

The spy film poster challenges stereotypes of women as the female protagonist is shown as the dominant character

2025-03-21 10:57:44 UTC

spy looks very chaotic wheras in the james bond poster he looks more in control of the events happeneing, this could be a representation of gender and the difference between having a male or female lead

14suttli01 — 2025-03-21 10:58:02 UTC

Main character in spy is a female; challenges gender stereotypes in action films and applies the same stereotypes to women