Contemporary

Angelina Jolie in 'Mr and Mrs Smith' (2005)

Even in today’s society we are still able to identify successful and powerful femme fatale characters. Angelina Jolie is a great example as she is a contemporary femme fatale characters who successfully plays the very seductive yet dangerous character in ‘Mr And Mrs Smith’ or in recent films such as ‘Salt’ (2010).

In Mr and Mrs Smith She plays an undercover assassin that uses her feminine charms to kill her target in order to get her way, as she is portrayed as a sexual devil or a angles whore. In the scene above she is seducing her husband in her body tight leather outfit, which is a fantasy or a dream for every men to see a women wear it and it’s fetishized, she uses this as her tool to get what she wants as the male audience are all hooked onto characters and not realizing what her hidden purposes are.

The character of Ms Smith is represented as an undercover spy and this shows that she is challenging the stereotypes of the typical female role and she is now taken a role of a very male dominated job as stereotypical the female characters are associated with cooking and cleaning not being a undercover spy's, however her manipulative, seductive ways gets her what she wants at the end as she is able to defeat her enemoies.

Megan Fox is another example of a contemporary femme fatale as she is sexually objectified in films such as ‘Jennifers Body’.

The link to the trailer of 'Jennifers Body' is shown below: