It appears that Hollywood is more concerned with the appearance of gender equality than actual equality, a new study shows.
Disappointed by the dashed promise of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” Amber Thomas set about mapping all the dialogue spoken by women in the highest grossing films of 2016. The results were discouraging, to say the least. Though Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is the main character in “Rogue One,” virtually every other character in the film is a man. She is often the only woman in a scene, just as Princess Leia was in the original films.
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Thomas found that only 27 percent of the lines in each of the ten films were spoken by women, or voiced by female actors in the case of animated films. Counting the number of characters, not one of the highest-grossing films had 50 percent female cast.
Disappointed by the dashed promise of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” Amber Thomas set about mapping all the dialogue spoken by women in the highest grossing films of 2016. The results were discouraging, to say the least. Though Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is the main character in “Rogue One,” virtually every other character in the film is a man. She is often the only woman in a scene, just as Princess Leia was in the original films.
Read More: Cléo Journal Addresses ‘Woeful Lack of Feminist Perspectives’ in Film Criticism
Thomas found that only 27 percent of the lines in each of the ten films were spoken by women, or voiced by female actors in the case of animated films. Counting the number of characters, not one of the highest-grossing films had 50 percent female cast.
- 1/18/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
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