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Tomb Raider is originally a computer game played by many children and teenagers so the movie straight away has a target audience for youths but the charcter that they chose to play Lara Croft id Angelina Jolie a famouse actress which guys find very attractive so therefore gaining a secondary audience of older men as they would watch this movie to gaze at Lara Croft. The main focus is not her as her name isnt on the poster, the main focus is the movie , her name might not also be on the poster becuae she is that well known there is no need to tell people who she is.

There is a medium/long shot of Lara where we can see most of her body on the poster.She is is in a tight suit which shows of her curves which you can tell are digitally enhanced relateing to the times changing and technology changing and the fact that you can make someone look skinnier and more prettier using the computer, this puts pressure on young women to constantly look good and promoted an unrealistic veiw of how a women shpuld look.It also shows a bit of her legs which according to Mulvey subjects her to the male gaze. She is holding a gun in her hand which could represent a phallic object but also bring violence into the film giving and hint of genre even thoguh people who know Lara Croft would know it is an aaction movie just by having played the game previously.The gun copuld link tot he issue of the growing rate of gun crime in the UK and the USA.Even though this is a Hollywood production, it is distributed to the UK therefore promoting ideologies of gun crime and the fact that guns are cool and they fight of evil.

Sh eis behing a white light that is breaking through into the background. This could suggest that she is the hero and the ray of light that will save the day. she is covered by a shadow infront of her suggesting the evil in infront of her eyes but she is looking away making it seem like she is unaware where the danger is.

She isnt wearing much make up and her hair isnt in a fancy way, this tells us about Lara Croft herself and that she doesnt care about the way she looks she is just into fighting evil and being active. This related to her beoing a female protagonist heroine as apposed to there beong a male protagonist hero.There is a rise of females in the media playing more active roles whcih could be the result of feminism back in the 80's when wopmen were fighting for their rights and were made equal towards men

The main colour them is blue which couls suggestpurity and calmness which could be representing her as a person and also may connote deep blue see's which are mysterious and unknowing. This could also be reflecting upon her personality and maybe the storyline of the film