1) During the opening scene, the female lead character is doing some engineering work. This can immediately be contrasted with your stereotypical female character, this is because this act that she is doing during the opening of Gravity is seen to be a 'males job', therefore she is beginning to break the mould of your typical female character in films. She works for NASA which is a very high class job knowing to bring in a lot of money. This generates a positive outlook on her character, messaging across that as a woman you can make money too and be whatever you aspire to be.
2) My second scene to support and give evidence of her strong female character would be the scene at 56 minutes. This scene is when she is completely on her own, all other astronaughts have died due to the debris. This shows her independence as a character and how she is surviving by herself without any help. The way in which the film maker has constructed her character is in a way of breaking that ideology that women can't survive on their own or have to have male help.
3) The third and final scene I am going to use is the final scene were we see her land herself and finally touches land being the only survivor of that mission. This can be applied to the Final Girl theory by Carol J. Clover.
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