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Blue Steel The successful 1990 action thriller film Blue Steel tells the tale of female rookie cop Megan Turner who is portrayed by actress Jamie Lee Curtis . On her first few days on the job , Turner gets involved in a store robbery and ends up gunning down the perpetrator , killing him . The suspect 's gun though , falls in the hands of a psychopath named Eugene Hunt , played by Ron Silver , and proceeds to use the gun in the subsequent brutal murders of young

women . The gun not being found in the initial crime scene where Hunt picked it up , Turner was accused of gunning down and killing an unarmed suspect , which causes her a lot of problems , leading into her tracking down the gun 's current possessor Meanwhile , Hunt , out of his well-kept psychosis , befriends and courts Turner , who is already suspicious of Hunt with regards to the case of the missing gun The film as directed by Katheryn Bigelow is a story that seeks to empower women in the same level that man is particularly in the field of filmmaking more than in the story 's premise of a female rookie cop although it maintains a certain level of symbolism for women in general being able to perform the duties of men on the same level , if not better . It also ties directly with Laura Mulvey 's theory of Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (Mulvey 1975 ) as the depiction of a strong woman...