How are men & women portrayed in films?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoubleStandard

^Read that for common ways each gender is portrayed in media.

Also, look through the rest of the website, it basically talks about all forms of media in portrayal.
 
- Men are more likely to be protagonists than women are
- Women are more likely to be/have love interests than men are
- Men are more likely to be portrayed as stupid or bumbling
- Women are more likely to be blatantly sexualized
- Men are more likely to be portrayed as predatory
- Women are more likely to be portrayed as prey/in distress
- Men are expected to be muscular
- Women are expected to be thin
 
It depends on the genre of the film. There are many different types of films, so there are many different types of characters.
 
Men are the big heros, the studs, or the bumbling idiot sidekick. Women are bimbos, serious feminist businesswomen, or fat old mean women, or fat old nice salt of the earth women. Sometimes Lara Croft too...
 
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