Lil Ze

• City of God - Explore how representations of gender are constructed visually to create meaning in one or more scenes

  Lil Zé

  Bunny's farewell scene. Conforms to stereotypes. Performance = Aggressive when flirting, forceful in approach. Dialogue = degrading language towards women "chick" "bitch"

  Knockout Ned strip - taking back power and control after 2 rejections. Prop of gun = power, feared
• City of God - Explore how representations of gender are constructed visually to create meaning in one or more scenes

  The story of Lil Zè - flashback in a non-linear narrative. At the motel - loves killing, no empathy for life. Dialogue - "no way am I letting them have all the fun"

  Then when he returns to the City of God for 18th birthday - Prop of jewlery - wealth, power and respected. Performance - pushing of Knockout Ned - Agressive
• City of God - Explore how representations of gender are constructed visually to create meaning in one or more scenes

  Death scene/end scene

  Subverts gender stereotypes - someone so powerful is nothing without money, he can't pay off the cops. Helpless to arrest, and ends up being killed by literal kids/the runts. Alone, isolated, vulnerable and then has a very Gory, graphic death. Downfall of Lil Zè since he broke the shamans rules