In France, it’s about three per cent in Germany, just under six. Less than five per cent of this country’s prison population is female, and the pattern is similar elsewhere in the western world. “There are 84,731 people in prison in Britain and according to the latest figures, 80,915 of them are men. “Men and Women and the Criminal Justice System” ( Read about the appraisal of published statistics: CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY AND STATISTICS - Are the more severe outcomes for male defendants due to more serious male criminality generally than female, or does the System tend to be more lenient with females offenders generally, or is it due to a mix of these? This could be one of the reasons why women portray an easier target for a crime, thus females, most of the time are seen as the victim. Women are stereotyped as weaker, kinder, submissive and naive, while men – aggressive and cruel.
To find the reason behind featuring females on both posters we should to look deeper into gender stereotypes and criminal psychology.
#Perfume murder movie movie
For the other movie the presence of a victim in the poster is questionable. The gender used in the Perfume movie poster is established by the victims. The Silence of the Lambs is represented by a face facing front, in contrast with Perfume‘s poster, where we can see a posterior silhouette of a naked body, with her head slightly turned to the right as to define the facial lines.īoth movies have plots that are carried by female characters: a young woman (FBI agent from The Silence of the Lambs) and several young women (Perfumer’s victims). convince you to rally, revol t, take part, take pre cautions, be on the lookout or buy a ticket.īoth posters focus their resemblance on female beauty, seen as something innocent and mysterious.present the information clearly and fully, so that you understand what the poster wants to say.entice you to read the information they display.The imagery is introduced to us based on movie and advertising conventions.Īccording to Artsalive (2016) all effective posters must: Its main target audience is the person walking by.Īs these are mass produced posters they are created to be widely distributed and used to attract film audiences.
#Perfume murder movie serial
Grenouille for the art of scent.Īs a subject for semiotic analysis, I chose these two masterpieces because I found interesting how great minds get twisted and that most of serial killers create art through their murders.Ī poster is a “public” piece of paper conveying information through text and/or graphic images. Lecter kills to satisfy his curiosity and cravings for food and J.B. In the Perfume: The Story of a Murderer the main role is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (played by Ben Whishaw), a man with great talent for discerning scents and also a female serial killer, wishing to capture their elusive aroma to create a scent to identify himself and be noticed.īoth movies depict acts of killing in the name of art combined with basic human senses: taste and smell. Hannibal Lecter (played by Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath (a murderer and cannibal). The main character in The Silence of the Lambs is Dr. Both of them examine the psychology of a serial killer.