... is perhaps the hero in the film. His shirt is dirty, and he has the typical 'heroic' look about him - messy hair, dark eyes, shirt open. A woman in formal dress is standing behind the man, but we can see the front of her body and her facial expression. She is the only female in the whole image, and so attention is brought to her. She doesn't fit in with the other characters in the image; she looks out of place, like a 'fair maiden'. The woman looks well-dressed and is wearing jewellery, connoting that she is perhaps of a higher class, and the expression on her fair face makes her look innocent and meek. Although she looks very different to the man in the foreground, there is still a noticeable link between the two characters because they are 'overlapping' - the woman is slightly blocked by the man's torso. ...

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