In 2015, 17% of the top grossing films had a female lead. Women generally, in modern day films, play a particularly strong presence in the comedy, romantic comedies and action genres. Amy Schumer, Melissa McCarthy, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Anna Kendrick are prime example actress' who have starred in hit movies, demonstrating that funny women are bankable in Hollywood.
Amy Schumer has reacted to these statistics and so created her own production company, called the Pacific Standard Films, with the mission to tell stories about women.(https://www.glamour.com/story/reese-witherspoon-women-of-the-year-speech)
For this analysis, we compare films with male leads, female leads, and male-female co-leads. The co-lead category includes ensemble casts where both men and women are featured roughly equally. Films with multiple male leads or multiple female leads were folded into the male lead and female lead categories, respectively. The GD-IQ shows that male characters dominated both the screen time and speaking time in the top grossing films of 2015.
In films with a female lead, male characters appear about the same amount of time as female characters (24.0% compared to 22.6%). This means that even when women are featured in a leading role, male characters appear on screen just as often.
In 22% of our films, actresses had the most amount of dialogue (i.e., they were the lead). Women are more likely to be in the second place for most amount of dialogue, which occurs in 34% of films.
The most abysmal stat is when women occupy at least 2 of the top 3 roles in a film, which occurs in 18% of our films. That same scenario for men occurs in about 82% of films.
The amount of dialogue, by age-range, is completely opposite for women versus men. Dialogue available to women who are over 40 years old decrease substantially. For men, it’s the exact opposite: there are more roles available to older actors.
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