In this post I will focusing on one of my other films which will be supporting my research, in how women are represented in modern films, in this post will be talking about ‘Laputa: Castle in the Sky’.

I will be focusing on how the main female roles are presented in the film. This post will be based on the two main female characters, Sheeta (Princess Lusheeta) and Captain Dola, both of hold different positions in relation to the nature/cultural dichotomy that exist as one of the main themes in the film.

 

Sheeta is the main character in the film, She is the most important.

In this film Miyazaki (the director) wanted to show the character is growing up to a woman. This is shown more when she is on Dola’s air ship, as she becomes her cook and we see how loving caring she is, as takes up mother-son relationship with Dola's crew. However, the crew, see her as a pretty young girl whom they'd rather marry, Thus showing her growth in film.

Sheeta all is being repented as saving Pazu from his life of being alone and working in danger in a mine, this is also present in most of Miyazaki's films following the same conventions.  

 

Dola is a more interesting character as she is first shown to be the bad person, as she is seen to just be after gold and riches, but then tunes up to be good as she takes care of Sheeta and Pazu, when they need it most. She is also in charge of an air ship which has her family on, Miyazaki (the director) could have made a man be in charge of the ship, but he didn’t, as him wanted us to feel defamiliarises are notions of femininity and of Culture showing a more complex face of femininity. She also follows the same paten that all of the films follow as she repents the wise old woman in the film which is also present in the most of Miyazaki's films.