Women's Roles In The Hollywood Industry

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Colin Trevorrow one of the Hollywood director making a lot of money from the film, who have the support of other successful male director in the industry helps mentoring him that he successful make 1.6 billion dollars from direct and co-write the Jurassic world movie. Trevorrow discriminate women by saying that women do not have the desire to direct studio blockbusters and his film also featuring as a cold career woman. In fact, men were easily successful, whether to Hollywood studio, agents, financing and big paycheck and avoid women direct that will break the norm. Leslye Headland a writer and director who inspire by Trevorrow work and achievement, but want to make films that will featuring female character like the male character to inspire …show more content…
So how can a women are not able to make a film that man would like when it’s, in fact, they want something that will reflect to their muscularity self. Women also scared that they are going to flop and they do it is going to be annoying, embarrassing and incriminating, which this kind of thought could explain struggle the many women go through in her career path in Hollywood. The Hollywood industry are not willing to accept female director and with fear that they lose their power and discriminate women from many things to make them unqualified to be in the industry or categories them in such that make them feel ashamed for their own gender and ability. The problem that causes women to drop out of the industry is pregnancy or family, which many female directors would hide their pregnancies to continue their work with the fear that the news could be the end of their career. This kind of stigma attack women no matter what career or industry they end up, women are responsible for having a family, which have a family is bad news for women, but a man has a family is not a problem and even improved their connection and

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