mortal compact and gender

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Mortal Kombat and Gender
Introduction
Mortal Kombat (1995) much like other Hollywood fiction bears an uncanny representation of gender, and in this movie, a magical martial arts movie, the representation of male and masculinity becomes even more prevalent. Liu Kang, played by Robin Shou is the main protagonist in the movie and engages the evil dark lord Shang Tsung, played by Cary Hiroyuki, to avenge the death of his brother Chan, and faced with numerous obstacles in his bid to overcome the powerful sadistic dark lord. The movie pits mere mortals against supernatural, and the triumph of the male hero over the antagonist captures the shallow essence of the film.
The gain from the interactions of the mortal and supernatural becomes the earth; it is the prize of the fight. The movie, which was an adaptation from a then popular game, with the same name, Mortal Kombat represents a theme comparable to any hero movies, in which an individual fights off celestial beings for the well-being of the rest of the inhabitants of the earth. In this specific case, Lui Kang won over the dark Lord in a special tournament. This paper presents the case of the male gender as represented in the film, Mortal Kombat.
Fascism
This fictional representation guided by the Lui Kang against a more powerful adversary ideally represents the real world. In the real world, male personalities dominated the whole world and much like the powerful Shang Tsung, they have immense powerful backed by powerful armies and wealth, and can shape any event in the world with a snap of their fingers.

On the other hand, in every society, there must arise a male protagonist, who unlike the powerful dark lord, steps forth to oppose the lord, perhaps with only a belief (perhaps aided by Raiden, a powerful god) and a set of unique skills.
Shang Tsung is a fascists, a characteristic of using direct violence and action in crushing the ordinary people in given jurisdiction, although he belongs to the outer world, he seeks to make inroads into the earth realm to claim more territory and more people under his wings. Fascism extremely limits representation and extinguishes democracy at a time when the ordinary people have become more aggressive and is increasingly posing a threat to the continued continuation of other forms of interactions such as capitalism.
Hence, fascism as a concept is effective in preserving and defending the idea of capitalism, even though fascists’ proponents are fond of using populist rhetoric when attacking part of the people they believe carry the hope of the entire society. The concept of fascism is a nationalist philosophy that attempts to appeal and evade exploitation and domination of the people who are in the ruling cadre through making appeals to the adherents based on a commonality.
The Shang Tsu, a representation of fascists’ ideologies in the movie appeals to other fellow supernatural beings because of their magical prowess. The male gender in the film together with the ideology of fascism has a generous representation throughout the entire film (Boggs and Tom 337).
Masculinity
This action movie transcends racism and ethnicity, and this is because there is the general diverse representation of different male from different ethnic groups. However, the movie sustained the general belief of Asian male in martial arts tourney, a feature that was associated with the Chinese and Hong Kong movies. This feature highlights the genre’s development of unassailable and stable identities of the male heroes. Mortal Kombat much like other action movies frequently subjects masculinity, throughout the malapropism representation of the male intention, and which in itself an estimation of the dominance, which represents combat suffering and triumph.
The triumph of the male with the help of a sidekick female represented by Princess Kitana, born of a fascist world, but ended up helping the earth warriors’ triumph over the people of her outer world. The onscreen male typical exhibits a certain level of mastery over own body, and this can generate a certain level of conflicts that revolves around the idyllic area of the male body and to ward off feelings of deliberation of rigid and static body (Barker 171).
This means that Mortal Kombat just like other action flicks tend to do too much to punish threaten, test the protagonist, an exact feeling Liu Kang underwent when he went to the outer world to face his nemesis Shang Tsung for the battle of the earth. In the movie Liu Kang, is subjected to rituals and obstacles that once he overcame resonated with the wild idea of the omnipotence of an action hero, and, in this case, an oriental martial arts master.
The general notion of Asian male prowess in the martial arts is carried through the film, as they seem to occupy the central place in the movie, including the ninja warrior concept. However, the general idea that can be used when defining masculinity in the action hero, for instance, Lui Kang, does not lie in self-content, rather it is the humongous tasks that he faced. The audience can easily recognize the male protagonist in the film, and not ideally constructed by the Lui Kang’s good man image, but also by the contrasting villain, and he appears as a shaping shifting master of darkness.
Representation
Mortal Kombat seems to follow the general direction of Hollywood movies representation of men, although this movie was not the typical representation of action hero movies of the damsel being in distress platitude. Rather, it seems a typical Asian-themed movie of a male representing his family’s honor. Hollywood male must claim the spotlight, even if the story does not center on their quest (Sharrett 208). Mortal Kombat, an offshoot of a popular game, was about a tournament between the people of the earth and the celestial non-mortals.
Conclusion
The constant portrayal of men is not damaging at all; in fact, it may be a great thing, especially for younger boys and even men to develop a belief that the spotlight should always be claimed by the male gender. Men must be perceived as the protector, and this was evident in the film when Shang Tsung kidnaps Shonya from Earth into the outer world to challenge for a fight, one that he claims would bring the earth under his control.
Once again, the male hero does not disappoint the audience as he challenges Shang Tsung to a duel and later kills the great sorcerer by impaling him. The spotlight is forever the place of the young boys, even in movies that do not have a male dominated title; the male character must save the day, save the family’s name and resolve the underlying issues. This is an important issue, and it was specifically exemplified by the movie, Mortal Kombat. The male characters assume the center stage in the film in the film, including those of the celestial monsters.
Works Cited
Barker, Jennifer. “” A Hero Will Rise”: The Myth of the Fascist Man in Fight Club and
Gladiator.” Literature/Film Quarterly 36.3 (2008): 171.
Boggs, Carl, and Tom Pollard. “Hollywood and the Spectacle of Terrorism.”New Political
Science 28.3 (2006): 335-351.
Sharrett, Christopher. Mythologies of violence in postmodern media. Wayne State University
Press, 1999.