Movie Analysis : Poster Tears Of The Sun

Race and Gender of Hollywood from the perspective of the Movie Poster Tears of the Sun

Movies seem to have a trend on having their main character roles being played by a white male character. In this poster we can see Bruce Willis in the front cover. It is clearly seen how his image overshadows all the other elements of the poster. Including other soldiers who some of them are not of the same race and a woman. The woman in this movie plays the role of a doctor which is treating wounded people in a remote African jungle, but she still seems to be a secondary character even though her role is something that people would consider to be very important. The way the titles are arranged on the poster show how the hierarchy is set, Bruce Willis on top and all the other characters are below with darker colors that do not make them stand out so much, this displays the preference that is seen in Hollywood movies for the typical white male character that comes in and has to save all the others, even if some of the other characters play big roles in the movie they will not be taken so seriously either because they are a minority race or because they are women. This shows how minorities are mistreated and not given enough credit in movies and also how women are not treated with the same amount of importance as men in most of the films. This demonstrates that Hollywood has a tendency of using white male characters for most of their leading roles in movies.

The woman in this poster seems to have a leading role among the soldiers since she is in front of them but she is still nothing compared to the leading character above all the others. This shows how Hollywood keeps a preference toward who the leading characters in their movies will be. The pos...

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...at each character plays, giving priority to one over the rest even though the movie is not just about that one character. So the poster can be seen as influenced by one character. All of this sums up to an unbalanced Hollywood that statistically shows how inclined it is toward having an extreme amount of white male leading characters vs a very reduced amount of women and minorities as leading characters making it hard for a change to occur. All Humans enjoy being among people who are similar to them so Hollywood is more likely to keep on choosing white males over other types of people because of the fact that they share similar traits. So even if in the future the minority population grows and say that more women apply for jobs in the movie industry, the trend is most likely going to survive and it will still be seen that they always prefer white males in Hollywood.