Out of the three angels, Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz provide us with the two classic white girl forms of sexuality. The cute ditzy blonde, and the rebel. Cameron Diaz portays the cute ditzy blonde when we first see her and dream of becoming a dancer. Then she wakes up and continues to dance around full of positive energy in just her girl next door T-shirt and underwear. Her ditziness is confirmed seconds later when there is a knock at the door and the UPS guy is standing there to deliever his *cough* *cough* I mean a package for her. She tells him that she signed the form, so next time he can just slip the package in her slot. Obviously the writer's room was full of giggles that morning.
Next Drew Barrymore's character is portrayed as the classic rebel tough girl. The movie shows this in the intro as she flicks off the school camera while smoking a cigarette in the bathroom. The movie continues to show her as a dominate female through her relationship with "The Chad". It's made quite clear that The Chad relies on Drew's opinions on him and is completely wrapped around her little pinky.
But now to where I notices the sublte racism. This could be nothing intentional, but I felt like it was noticable enough to point out. Lucy Lui's character is the only asian girl in the group. Being the only asian girl her sexuality and personality are portrayed through some asian character stereotypes. She's the smartest of the three. She's usually doing the technical parts of the missions. Like hacking into the satelite at the end, or installing the hidden camera on breifcase, or when she takes the bomb off of the Steve Bruschemi in the beginning. She's further portrayed through an asian stereotype when it comes time for her to use her sexuality to distract.
Instead of showing a little boob like the other angel's Lucy Lui's character goes dominatrix. Crazy fetishes and sex acts have over the years become an associated stereotype of asian bussinessmen and really nerdy white guys(i.e every guy who followed Lucy Lui's character when she walked through).
This could be nothing, or could be something. Just a few subties I noticed while watching.
