Female Heroes In Hollywood

In Hollywood films, the main protagonist of mostly all film are males showing how strong, smart, and how they are the perfect hero, yet woman are seen as the damsel in distress, soft, and weak. Women are seen as the girlfriend, the wife, or the mother. The value of the woman in films is determined by their male counterparts and their overall outer appearance. In movies women are seen as the same with all women are ditzy, dependent on someone, they need someone to hold their hand also that woman are too emotional, yet there are movies that show women as strong and dependent. Movies with female leads are growing and they show how woman are just as strong as male leads. Yeah, many women are strong in their own way; I know I sure am.

In response to lack of strong female representation in Hollywood films, Jemina Lewis wrote a persuasive article on women being overlooked in Hollywood and how it is impacting kids-particularly young girls. Appearing in the Age on July the 4th, 2015, Lewis argues in a critical and sarcastic manner that Hollywood should dismissing the wants – even needs – of half its audience, and create more powerful female role models – particularly superheros. Adopting a challenging and scornful tone Lewis positions parents and superhero fans alike to accept her case against the Hollywood industry.

I am pretty certain that many including me have questioned why there are few female leading roles and inclusion in TV series, and movies. Okay I’m not going to argue with anyone, and yes I’m a female, with that being said, I do not understand the logic behind making it almost all about the male characters. There are always little to non-female superheroes out there in a movie, this could be because we our community is too sensitive to the idea of female dominatrix or inflated ego. Farhi argued that “women are rarely presented as authorities in news programming. Males make up 66% of quoted material in newspapers and 75% of sources on major news shows (as cited in Wood, 2015, p. 234). It is not as common to see an action movie lead by a female but one would not need to look far to find so many of male leading action movies. Not to say that there isn’t but I don’t think it is well appreciated; some however are able to make it successfully, such

Many of these filmmakers, through the feminist movement, have taken Hollywood by storm. There are many individuals that believe the feminist movement is a woman’s movement — to further the female agenda — and while, it is true

The issue of female representation in Hollywood is one of the biggest issues in the film industry. Sexism, discrimination, and a lack of jobs for female filmmakers has been a problem in Hollywood since its early days, and recently this problem has been analyzed using many different genres. The Women of Hollywood Speak Out is an editorial written by Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. It is about difficulty for female filmmakers to break out and direct big budget films for Hollywood. Celluloid Ceilings: Women Directors Speak Out is a video created by Bloomberg about the issues with sexism and discrimination that female filmmakers have faced. These two pieces will be compared to discover how this topic can be discussed using different genres

For example, one admirable hero that can be looked up to is Lucy Stone. She is a hero because she spoke up for women's rights and slavery. Lucy helped create the first national Woman's Rights Convention. Not only did Lucy help pass the 1st Amendment, but she also was the first person to get the public to really think about how women were treated and what few rights they had.

As the male gaze has become shorthand for any piece of entertainment featuring objectification of the female form, like Game of Thrones‘ notorious ‘sexposition,’ it certainly plays a part elsewhere. For example, moviegoers (both male and female) have been conditioned since classical Hollywood to expect a (white) male protagonist. Even today, with this remaining relatively unchanged, we find it easier to identify with these characters, and efforts to challenge this are comparatively small in number. As Martha M. Lauzen found in her look at the top 100 grossing films of 2013, only 15% of protagonists were women. However, there are reasons to be optimistic.

The definition of a hero also often favors physical risk takers as a hero compared to social risk takers or heroes that did not physically risk themselves. The definition of a hero should not only be extended so that women fit the title of a hero equally to how men do but also so it fits both kinds of heroes. Male heroes are not always strong and brave physical risk taking type of heroes as

Moreover, few women have leading roles in films especially in ones that are comic based, because the majority of the audience consists of heterosexual males that want to see women in passive roles. Portraying attractive women that abide by cultural norms satisfy most men’s desire for dominance and masculinity. Solomon and Maasik imply in “Heroes and Villains: Encoding Our Conflicts” that economically movie industries consider female lead movies as losses because the safest way to make money is by appealing to adults and children who have already approved of successful cartoon series and books (444). Movie industries are more concerned about making money, so their agenda is to go with what already works and maintain the safest profile. However

Finding women film-makers and directors to give me the confidence that has helped me shape my identity in what I plan to make my future career in. Just like Starr, I experienced the Bias, another form of systematic inequality. Though the two can't be completely comparable, it’s not wrong to say that both

Hollywood not only shows little to none diverse to race but also gender on screen and behind the scenes. When watching a movie to the end credits most the names that are shown are males. The diverse for gender in Hollywood is low. Females are not given the same opportunity as the males. Article from NPR STAFF (2015) informed that women make up half of the U.S. population but only 6% of the females directed theatrical films in 2013(Hollywood’s Homogeneity section, para.1). Even though the study is old the data has not change. Population in females in Hollywood in front and behind the scenes cannot be compared to the nation. Hollywood is own by males which are keeping positions for women to a minimum. The heads of Hollywood are not willing to be diverse so they can stay in control. Among the ranks of top Hollywood film executives, the

Heroes considered to be people who wear a tight cape and go to save the world. And is a villain considered to be a person who plots evil schemes against the hero. Heroes and villains are tended to be seen through the different perspectives of people’s eyes, but not all of the heroes or villains are recognized for their actions. At many times there tend to be many different people throughout the world who could be able to be there at the right time and the right place to make good decisions for others. On the other hand, there are some type of people that just could make wrong decisions and make places become a complete nightmare for others. Joseph Campbell views womens as a figure of happiness of creating families and

Frequently, most superheroes in cinema are portrayed by male characters rather than women, creating a distinction between gender roles. Indeed, through the passage, “These results may suggest to viewers that women are less important, knowledgeable, and capable than men – and less likely to be a hero” (Miller et. al) women are much less likely to be featured as the hero within the film, and more likely to be featured as the “damsel in distress” of the story. Furthermore, women are much more likely to be depicted in a sexualized fashion, even when displayed in the role of hero. This feature of women with a lack of dominance defies feminism, as they lack roles in superhero films and they are portrayed with the sole purpose of boasting

In society we have a lot of women actresses. Some tend to play the motherly type, some play the manipulator type and some even play the victims of abusive relationships. No matter what women seem to be coming up in the industry of movies in more ways than before. The three movies I have chosen to analyze in my critique are Heartbreakers, Baby Boy and Stepmom. These three movies all have women in them that either play a major role or the main role. All their roles are very different in character and none of the women in these three movies play a similar role.

Many women are cast in a film but only a few land a leading protagonist role. Films like The Hunger Games, Lucy, Maleficent and Divergent are evident to be breaking stereotypical gender roles. Women are shown to be equally strong as men and less emotionally bounded to other characters. In the progressive Hollywood films of today, we visibly see the characters of women to be idealized as heroic, with brave instincts, intelligence, and in support of female empowerment, rather than idealizing their bodies only. Although still films are made that idealize the female bodies, such as female superhero characters, however, it could be safe to say that women will always be seen as a man’s desire or eye candy, so there will always be female roles available which would accommodate these characters for films: It is dependent on the genre of the