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Kevin Galasinao

Professor Curtis Maloley

CSOC202 - Popular Culture

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

“Gender Identities in Jack the Giant Slayer”

There is a difference between sex and gender. Sex is how men and women are different from each other physically. Gender on the other hand, is the attitudes of males and females; how they act, what they believe, what they must look like. In popular culture, gender is either portrayed negatively or positively or both. Bryan Singer’s film, Jack the Giant Slayer, is a film that portrays gender both positively and negatively. It is the male gender that is portrayed as positive because men are dominant and varied in this film. By varied, I mean that there are different kinds of men in this film. On the hand, the female gender is portrayed as negative; the female gender is portrayed as weak and not really dominant; there’s just one female who has a big role in this movie.

This film is based on the story, Jack the Beanstalk, which involved young boy named Jack, who went into the home of giant, took the giant’s house, and went down the beanstalk; the giant was killed when the beanstalk he was climbing was cut. Jack the Giant Slayer differs from Jack the Beanstalk for a number of reasons however.

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Instead of one giant, there is actually a whole race of them. In fact, in the past, there was a war between the giants and humanity. The war ended once the king created a magic crown that could control the giants. He sent the giants back to their world up on the clouds which is said to be between Heaven and Earth.

Then there’s the fact that Jack is not participating in his mission as boy but as a young. He was a boy in the beginning in the movie; his father was telling him the story about the war between the giants and the humans.

Also, there is a young woman; she and Jack are both young adults. This woman is Jack’s love interest. When Jack attends of a puppet show of how King Erik defeated the giants, he spots this beautiful woman. Unfortunately, he sees her being abused by a man and his friends. They are cruel and strong. These men want a possession that she has. Jack, who cannot stand to see this woman abused by these men, stands up to these men for the woman. Suddenly, Jack, the men, and everybody except the woman is forced to bow before a knight on his horse. It is revealed that the woman is Princess Isabelle.

In this film, when she is in danger by the men and Jack stands up for, her you realize that Princess Isabelle is a damsel in distress. A damsel in distress is a princess that is need of saving and the hero is usually a man. There’s the princess who was saved by St. George from the dragon, Rapunzel who too had a man save her from a dragon (The dragon was an evil woman), Snow White who was kissed by her Prince Charming in order to wake up. These stories tell people that when women are in trouble, it’s up to men to save them. And they don’t even have to manly men with muscles and abs, and big weapons; alpha males. No, they can be scrawny weak men; beta males. In this movie, the beta male is the protagonist Jack.

More to come, we learn that Princess Isabelle was out in the town because she wanted freedom. She tells this to her strict father, King Brahmwell. She felt trapped by her father. Her father tells her that she elt concerned for her safety and she didn’t want her to be gone like her mother/his wife. King Brahmwell is the typical strong father figure who is very caring towards his daughter, who always tries to protect her. Yet, makes his own daughter uncomfortable.

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We also learn of her forced relationship to King Brahmwell’s adviser, Roderick. This is a relationship based on power because if Roderick marries Princess Isabelle, he would be the king in time. Of course, Isabelle has no feelings for Roderick. But Roderick and her are of the same class; rich. So that’s another reason why their supposed to be married to each other.

Princess Isabelle cannot stand her lack of freedom in her kingdom so she decides to run away. She takes her horse and rides away from her home to a grassy field.

One can compare Princess Isabelle’s run away scene with what Friedman quotes.

Friedman quotes the 'Wise words. Wonderful words' of a client who says that:

Nobody is going to save you; that's your job. Save yourself. If you don't like where you are, get out of there. The object is not for them to like you, the object is for them to listen to you ... Your family thinks of you as a pet, you have to leave them. They are just where you came from, they are not what you are.50

Unfortunately, there is a storm; it’s raining heavily. She looks around and sees a house in the distance. She goes to it to seek shelter there. Little does she know that this house belongs to the protagonist, Jack, and his uncle. Jack’s father and mother died of the plague. So that’s why he lives with his uncle. She knocks on this door and Jack opens it. Jack immediately becomes surprised to know that the woman he is seeing before is very eyes is Princess Isabelle, the woman he saw at the puppet show. The two of them start talking with one another. Little do the both of them no, rainwater enters into the house and seeps between the floorboards and touches a magic bean seed.

You see, Jack had obtained magic beans from a monk in exchange for his horse. The monk was being chased by knights so in an effort to get away from them quickly, she gave the beans to Jack for his horse. He told Jack to give him the beans later but they never met again because the monk was captured and killed. Also, when Jack told his father that he had given the horse for beans instead of money, his uncle got angry. He ended up throwing the beans and one went between floorboards.

Soon, Jack reveals to Princess Isabelle that he knows who she truly is. She becomes surprised. Unfortunately, a giant beanstalk grows out of the bean. Jack is fine but not Princess Isabelle. This giant plant carries her up into the sky. As she’s being carried, there was all this screaming. And it was Jack was trying to save her again. What this scene of Isabelle being carried up into the sky, and the scene of Isabelle in trouble in the puppet show that she really is a damsel in distress.

The next day, Jack awakes to see King Brahmwell and so many other people, King Brahmwell’s men and citizens in front of them. Then he suddenly realizes that there is a giant beanstalk. At first, King Brahmwell believes that Jack has harmed her but then that idea is dismissed once he realizes that it was the plant’s fault. So with daughter up in the sky and possible danger, King Brahmwell sends his knights. His knights of his are your typical knights; strong, skilled at fighting, brave, ready to face danger. The knights with big roles in this movie are Elmont and Crawe. Also, Princess Isabelle’s future husband, Roderick, and Roderick’s sidekick volunteer to join the rescue mission. His sidekick is skinny and small compared to him. Additionally, Jack volunteers to go on the rescue mission. King Brahmwell allows this because he saw what happened to Princess Isabelle. So now we learn that a lot of men are going to save the one girl, Princess Isabelle.

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In Jack the Giant Slayer, one can apply the Smurfette Principle to it. The Smurfette principle is the situation in entertainment where there many males and one female. It’s came out of an situation in the children’s cartoon, The Smurfs. Smurfs are little blue creatures. There are many male smurfs like papa smurf, brainy smurf but there was just one female smurf, Smurfette. She was created by the evil wizard/antagonist, Gargamel, as a way to bring disorder to the Smurfs. He wants to eat the Smurfs. But his plan failed. So Smurfette ended up being a non-threatening member to the male Smurfs. She didn’t bring violence like how the beauty of Helen of Troy led to the Trojan War. The Trojans and the Greeks fought over her. So it appears that Princess Isabelle is the only main female character in the movie. There other women but they don’t have much of a role to play. Isabelle’s mother, the queen, is dead and so is Jack’s mother. Then, there are the background characters who are women. There’s also Jack’s daughter. But she plays no big role in the movie. She’s just a child listening to Jack and his wife, Isabelle tell them a story; the plot of most of the movie. This occurs near the end of the movie. The women except for Princess Isabelle are one dimensional.

Since Princess Isabelle is the only female character, this movie fails the Betchel test. The Bechdel Test was invented by cartoon artist Alison Bechdel to ascertain a movie's feminist quotient. All a film needs to do in order to qualify is (1) feature at least two women, who (2) talk to each other about (3) something besides a man. There’s no other woman for whom Isabelle can talk to. This movie is mostly filled with men.

The giants are made up of men. In a way, this makes them similar to the Smurfs. Though, there is not one female giant among them. They don’t have their own Smurfette. So this can make one wonder. How can there are be many giants without females; how do they reproduce?

Like the Smurfs, the giants are similar to each other. The Smurfs are all blue; the giants are a peach colour. But while the Smurfs are nice and good, the giants are all evil. Not one giant is good. In the beginning, the movie we know that these giants have always been bad. They waged a war against humankind. There were so powerful that King Erik had to create a crown to control them and send them back to their land between Heaven and Earth. There is a warning that the giants will come again to Earth to create another war against humankind.

Of course, in Jack’s world, it is unknown at first if the giants actually exist. But to the audience, when a young Jack in bed asks his father if the giants do exist, the father looks at his son in fear; he doesn’t give an answer of yes, no, or I don’t know. But you can tell by his fear that they actually exist. You can also tell by posters, the synopsis of this movie, and the title Jack the Giant Slayer. So basically, we the audience know that the giants actually exist. In Jack’s world, at first, only a few people know while the majority of people don’t know.

Know these giants have Princess Isabelle captured. They have put her in a cage. Princess Isabelle is afraid of them. Who wouldn’t be? They’re evil, big, disgusting, man eaters. Princess Isabelle is small and very weak compared to how many giants there are; even one giant would be a threat. These giants are like the dragon from the story King George who has captured the princess or Goliath from the story of David; ugly, ferocious, big. They also end up killing the King’s knights including Crawe and Roderick’s assistant, Wicke.

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We also learn that these giants are led by a giant named General Fallon. Also, he has a second head to make this character more interesting. Unlike the head of General Fallon, this head appears to be dumb, it speaks like Gollum, and it’s creepy as well. General Fallon is the main giant antagonist.

The main human antagonist is Roderick. At first, Roderick doesn’t really seem evil. He’s just that guy who has to marry Princess Isabelle. A person who as not watched this movie may believe that the giants are the only enemies in this movie; the movie would be black and white. Humans are good, giants are bad. Good humans must take on bad giants. But with Roderick, this isn’t the case. We see how bad Roderick can be when he kills the monk; the monk had stolen the beans from him. We also see how bad he can be while the rescuers are climbing the beanstalk during a storm. There is lighting, rain, and wind blowing hard. This storm makes it hard for the rescuers to keep climbing up. Unfortunately, wind blows on rescuers. They hold on to a rope which prevents them from falling. Still, these rescuers are still in danger from falling. Now, Jack and these other rescuers are farther away from Roderick and his sidekick. So they won’t know what Roderick will do. Instead of rescuing the rescuers, Roderick decides to let them go because he fears that the safe rescuers will fall down with them if they try to rescue the others. So he orders Wicke to cut the rope. The rescuers hanging on plead Roderick to stop but Roderick stands by his decision. Wicke cuts the rope with a knife until the rope breaks. The rescuers fall down the giant beanstalk screaming to their deaths. The rescue party is cut short of rescuers. Now, the audience feels angry at Roderick’s decision; they disliked him for killing the monk, and dislike him even more for not saving the rescuers.

But eventually, we see Roderick is not merely bad. Jack and the rescue party have captured with the giants. They are with Princess Isabelle. Things seem bleak for the human beings. But then Roderick shows up; he is wearing a crown. This is crown is the one that King Erik used to control the giants. Roderick does what King Erik does; he controls the giants. He makes these giants bow down to him, including their leader, General Fallon, who does not want to. It seems that Roderick, not Jack, is the hero of this movie. He has saved the day and so this movie can end. The audience may be wondering, hey I thought this was Jack the Giant Slayer. Not, Roderick the Giant Controller. I thought Jack was going to be the hero, not Roderick.

Everything seems to be peachy for the human beings but then we learn of how evil Roderick is. He declares that he does not want to marry Princess Isabelle anymore; he doesn’t even love her. Instead, now that he wears the magic crown, he will use it to control the giants for his evil purpose. He will use the

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giants to invade and conquer Cloister and other kingdoms on Earth. He will be the leader of the giants and maybe the leader of humankind. Powers corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

In the satirical cartoon, South Park, there are three part episodes dealing with the Coon and Friends and BP (The oil company that created the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; Coon 2: The Rise of Captain Hindsight, Mysterion Rises, and Coon vs Coon and Friends. The Coon and Friends are a group made up of kids including the main characters, Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman. These kids are pretending to be superheroes. Cartman is the superhero, Coon. He is the leader of Coon and Friends; the group even has his name and states that he is the leader. His alter ego is based on a raccoon. Though, Cartman is a racist and an anti-semite so writers made the name ‘Coon’ based on a racoon but on the degroagatory name used at Africans, coon. Though, Cartman is eventually kicked out of the group because his behaviour conflict with what the others want to accomplish. Though, the others still keep the name ‘Coon and Friends’ because it annoys Cartman. At that time, HP Lovecraft’s character, Cthulu, is released mistakenly by BP. Cthulu is this giant evil deity with wings and whose head resembles an octopus. It is said with his release, he will bring 3000 years of darkness. But despite being a giant and evil, Cartman manages to control Cthulu. With Cthulu under Cartman’s control, Cartman causes chaos, destruction, and death; he has Cthulu step on a Jewish synagogue, and has Cthulu crush Justin Bieber’s head with his two fingers. What Cartman does proves that he’s more evil than Cthulu. In a way, Cthulu is like the giants and Cartman is like Roderick. Both Cartman and Roderick, control for their evil purposes. Though, Cartman is way more evil Roderick.

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Now, where there is a villain who plans something evil, where there is a damsel on distress that needs saving, there is a hero. Where there is a dragon, there is St. George. Where there is Goliath, there is David. Where there is a Cthulu and the Coon, there is Mintberry Crunch. And where there are giants, there is Jack the giant slayer.

We see Jack as this weak skinny beta male in the movie. But it is when he is in the world between Heaven and Earth, the land of giants; we get to see him evolve into the hero of this movie. He manages to help Princess Isabelle and this knight escape from a giant who intends to cook them. Surpisingly, Jack manages to kill this giant; he’s very small compared to this being. He stabbed the giant’s back with a knife, the giant in pain reeled backwards, hit a wall, and the knife pierced through the giant thus killing him.

At this point of the movie, Princess Isabelle is seen as useless and weak in the movie. She gets captured and it’s up to others to save her. She even acknowledges that she’s weak. But Jack reassures that she isn’t weak because one day she’ll be the queen of her kingdom so she’ll be giving orders. She can’t save herself, she’s weak, but at least she’ll give orders one day.

He manages to kill two other giants in this movie. When, Jack, Princess Isabelle, and this knight have to go down the beanstalk to Earth, there’s this giant guarding it. Fortunately, it’s a sleep. So Jack comes up with the idea of a putting a giant beehive inside the giant’s helmet. There’s a funny scene of this giant. Without his helmet, he is having an afro. He acts on this idea. Then, the giant in pain, gets up and moves widely, and fall down from his land; the fall is quite is long.

Eventually, the giant with the afro hits the ground. The giant is dead from the fall. The giant’s presence proves to the people that giants are real. King Brahmwell, the good leader, doesn’t want any humans to be harmed and killed by giants. So he orders to the beanstalk to be cut down. He loves his daughter but he has to make the sacrifice of letting her go in order to save a lot of people.

While Jack and Princess Isabelle are still climbing down the beanstalk, there comes the predictable scene of the two of them kissing. It was obviously going to occur. The both of them are young, and there were previous scenes of them together which showed that they were potential lovers.

Fortunately, Jack and Princess Isabelle manage to survive the fall of the magic beanstalk. Now they are safe in the ground. Roderick’s plan of domination has been stopped because he has died. And the giants can no longer go down to Earth because the beanstalk has been cut down; they needed it to come down. Princess Isabelle tells her father of what Roderick had planned; controlling the giants to conquer his kingdom and other kingdoms on Earth. King Brahmwell regrets having his daughter marry him. One might believe that Jack and Princess Isabelle will end up as lovers now. But this didn’t occur. You see, Jack is a poor, a farm boy. Princess Isabelle, on the other hand, is rich and famous. Despite being young, attractive, and white, it’s their social classes which prevent them from being lovers. Jack, who believes he’s not worthy to be with Princess Isabelle, leaves her without saying goodbye. Princess Isabelle is surprised and sad that he’s gone.

This movie is “based almost entirely on the idea that men and women are vastly different; DeAngelis says that men and women are so foreign to each other, that men 'can't understand a word you're saying'.75 Similarly, Gray insists that men and women are alien to each other, advising his readers to 'remember that

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your partner is as different from you as someone from another planet'.76 McGraw agrees that men and women are fundamentally incompatible:

You and your partner are programmed for conflict. The fact that you are involved with a member of the opposite sex-and I emphasize the word opposite-means that you are trying to mesh your life with someone who is physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially different than you.77

King Brahmwell, who wants to see Jack, goes up to him. Though, he is unaware of the love between Jack and Princess Isabelle so he doesn’t try to convince Jack to be the lover. Instead, he thanks Jack for having saved his daughter. We audience know that despite Jack’s poor status, he is a hero. He deserves to be with Princess Isabelle.

More to come, he kills the leader of the giants, General Fallon. There was a magic bean left on the land of giants. They threw it upon the ground to create a bean stalk; this beanstalk was able to connect to Earth; they went down it. Roderick had been killed. Also, General Fallon obtained King Erik’s magic crown so he wore it like a ring on two of his finger and used it to rule the other giants.

So once the giants were down on Earth, Jack spotted them. Like how Paul Revere warned that the British were coming, Jack warns King Brahmwell, Princess Isabelle, and the knights that the giants are coming. Suddenly, the giants appear and start killing knights.

The three of them end up inside the kingdom. The humans, aware of the giants, try to defend themselves against the giants. Arrows are shot forward, the moat is filled with a hot liquid; General Fallon falls into this liquid and it is assume that he dies. While he was in this hot liquid, no giant tried to save him; they just watched him die. There was this giant, who’s assumed to be General Fallon’s rival. He did not let help leader. He became the new leader of the giants once the giants assumed that General Fallon died. The humans are trying to prevent the giants from entering into the kingdom.

Despite how hot the liquid is, General Fallon doesn’t die. He swims under King Brahmwell’s castle and bursts out of the floor. He encounters Jack and Princess Isabelle; he runs after them. Then, Jack manages to kill General Fallon when he puts a magic bean inside him. The bean enters into the stomach of General Fallon; there is liquid. The stomach liquid makes the magic bean grow and bursts out of General Fallon and his other head thus killing the both of them. The dragon has been slain by King George, Goliath has been stoned by David, Cthulu has been sent back to his dimension by Mintberry Crunch. Jack has killed General Fallon.

But all is not well. General Fallon might be dead but there are still giants near the Kingdom. The giants are now able to enter into Cloister and do their evil towards the humans. But all is not lost. The giants suddenly bow down on their knees. It is revealed that Jack has made them do this; he is wearing the magic crown of King Erik in order to control the giants. We learn that he has sent them back to their world that’s between Heaven and Earth. Jack truly is the hero of this movie. He defeated all the giants. He rescued Princess Isabelle. He saved Cloister. Since he is the hero, he gets his reward, his treasure, for all the heroic things he’s done. That treasure of his is Princess Isabelle. Despite their social classes, despite him being poor and Princess Isabelle being rich, they end up together. True love conquers all.

In this movie, the characters relate to actual people in real life. Jack is related to underdogs; people who have the world against, who try their very best to succeed. And in the end, do succeed because of all

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their hard work; this is peddled by the ideology of unfettered capitalism. He also represents twenty first century men.

Stephen Marche describes twenty-first century men:

TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY MEN with money might just be the luckiest group in the history of the world, but a casual glance across pop culture would give the impression that they're an oppressed underclass, barely able to find enough to eat. Everywhere you look, sheep are begging and baaing for your empathy and, if you can spare it, your sympathy, but a closer look reveals rough fur and claws under all that sheep's clothing. These self-styled wimps, the ostentatiously meek, are inheriting the earth, with vulnerability becoming the definitive, and most profitable, affectation of our time.

Jack is portrayed as weak, we the audience are supposed to have sympathy for him. Like, when his uncle scolded him for not getting money. Or when Princess Isabelle and him couldn’t be together. Yet, he’s the hero of this movie. He manages to kill three giants, save Princess Isabelle and make her his lover, and he probably became king of Cloister.

King Brahmwell represents strong kind leaders and strict daughter loving fathers. Roderick represents cruel alpha males; loud obnoxious men who don’t deserve wealth or power or women but have it anyways. Also one can even compare him to a conservative.

According to Rebecca Hazleden, “for conservatives, the world is a dangerous place in which the moral order is always under threat from social change. It is only God's will, expressed through the husband's central authority over, and protection of, his wife and children, that can keep the family safe from harmful external influences.” 104

The Giants represent other non-white races; it’s kind of racist. You see the humans in this movie are all white. The Giants are brown; they are brown. While the white humans are seen as civilised, the brown giants are the primitive, savages, beasts, and monsters, gross, dirty. One can even compare the giants to aliens. They’re different; alien to the humans. They are from a world that is above Earth. They are both a threat; they want to destroy humans. These brown giants are seen as a threat, portrayed as a threat as well to the white power structure that is King Brahmwell’s kingdom of white people, Cloister. And as a threat, they must be removed. It’s good in this movie if the giants are killed or defeated. The giants were removed from Cloister; they were stopped from destroying the white power structure. Once the threat of the other is removed, there is peace; genocide. Once Jack sent all the giants back to their world, there was

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peace. In fact, the crown of King Erik is crafted into St. Edward’s Crown and secured in the Tower of London, where it remains today, so that no human can ever use it again to control the giants. If they’re giant and brown, they can’t come down.

On the other hand, it is Princess Isabelle that represents all women. Her representation isn’t really good. Princess Isabelle is portrayed as weak, always in danger, in need of saving by men, unable to save herself; a damsel in distress. This means women, especially young girls will see themselves like Princess Isabelle; that there like her. Men, especially young boys will see girls to be like Princess Isabelle; they’ll think that girls have to be saved by men. This movie doesn’t give people the idea that girls can’t fight back. They just have to be saved. This movie will give women the idea that they can’t defend themselves if there in danger, no other people will have to help them; those people have to be men; even if it’s someone as weak as Jack.

Then there’s the fact that she represents mothers as well. Jack and she had two children; one boy and one girl. We see Jack and her telling them of what they went through in the past; the plot of this movie.

There’s the fact that Princess Isabelle is beautiful. But so what? Her beauty is Eurocentric; long hair, thin body, medium sized breasts, and white. This will just teach girls to pursue a Eurocentric look. It was also teach girls to wear feminine clothing like dresses. Girls will feel as if they have to look feminine. There are no other important women who are varied and have big roles; fat women, black women, old women, small women, tall women.

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Feminists have pointed out that some of the earliest modern experts saw women as being by nature weak, dependent and unhealthy. This movie was released in modern times; in the 21st century. And yet, Princess Isabelle is portrayed by nature as weak and dependent.

There’s only Princess Isabelle who every girl aspires to be, who’s the only one portrayed by audiences. She’s white, beautiful, rich, famous, she has a lover; women want to be like her. No, women in this film weren’t portrayed as independent and intelligent. There had to be a damsel in distress so Jack could shine. Princess Isabelle had to be a reward for Jack. Jack the Giant Slayer makes someone as weak as Jack into a hero; that’s good. It proves that men don’t have to strong and be good fighters to be heroes. Unfortunately, it doesn’t challenge attitudes towards females; females as weak, in need of saving of men. Instead, it keeps those ways thanks to the character of Princess Isabelle; this movie doesn’t challenge the status quo.

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