Drive

To what extent are the representations in your three main texts stereotypical?

Drive is a post modern hybrid, that combines conventions of both the film noir and comic book genres. Drive was directed by Nicholas Winding Refn and released in 2011. As Drive is a post modern film, we would except it to see modern representations of gender but it still conforms to the stereotypical representations of a classic texts of the comic book and film noir genres, although there are traces of more modern representations throughout the film.

Throughout the film, we see the protagonist, Driver, conform to stereotypical representations of the male gender. Driver is often represented to be very masculine, this is portrayed within the scene where the Driver is sat in the coffee shop and an older man begins a conversation with the driver, brining p a criminal job that they had previously worked on together. The Driver replies to the man in a very aggressive manor, saying "How about you shut your mouth or....." The words used and the deep, violent tone demonstrates aggressive behaviour, which is associated with being masculine