Movies are beautiful pieces of moving art that bring people together, regardless of gender, age, or skin color. The vast majority of these masterpieces just happen to be made by straight, white, rich, males over the age of forty. Hollywood’s diversity problem is allowing for an unbalanced ratio of women in the industry, as well as inaccurate minority representation, and the use of white actors for a racially ambiguous role.
The gender discrepancy in the film industry, to no one person's surprise, massively favors males over females. Which is why we have less female leads, according to the 2016 Hollywood Diversity Report, 74.2% of lead roles in the top 163 films released in 2014 were played by a man, leaving only 25.8% to be played by women …show more content…
That includes, directing, producing, writing, and being the creators of shows. In directing the gap is wider than the Grand Canyon it is at an astounding 12 to 1, in the top 163 films of 2014. About only 14 movies out of 163 had a female at the helm of it all, out of those films the return rate for oscars wins was 8.3% (2016 Hollywood Diversity Report 1). Another article by Time.com has women as 25% of writers, 23% of executive producers, and only 20% of show's creators. They even added this gut-punching statistic for the industry feminist everywhere “For the 250 most profitable films made in 2014, 83% of the directors, producers, writers, cinematographers and editors are guys”(Alter 4). Referring back to the 2016 Hollywood Diversity report which bring on some tiny consolation that most development teams have at least one woman participating, which is a start but it might as well be running a race with only one leg because by ‘most’ it means that 54.9% of the 2015-16 development teams have at least one woman on the …show more content…
In the case of Ghost in the Shell a recasting petition surfaced with an overwhelming 100,000 signatures, since that obviously did not occur the film has a tough time at the box office as many of the films with this do, the film had a $110 million budget and as of April 2,2017 has made $19 million (domestically). The anti-whitewashing movement is something only observed in the West given that, according to Gregg Kilday article, Guy Aoki the MANAA founding president, is quoted saying “Many in Japan have been so brainwashed by western culture that they have developed an inferiority complex about their own. They assume that in order for an American film to be successful it has to star a white actor” (Kilday 3). What
The gender discrepancy in the film industry, to no one person's surprise, massively favors males over females. Which is why we have less female leads, according to the 2016 Hollywood Diversity Report, 74.2% of lead roles in the top 163 films released in 2014 were played by a man, leaving only 25.8% to be played by women …show more content…
That includes, directing, producing, writing, and being the creators of shows. In directing the gap is wider than the Grand Canyon it is at an astounding 12 to 1, in the top 163 films of 2014. About only 14 movies out of 163 had a female at the helm of it all, out of those films the return rate for oscars wins was 8.3% (2016 Hollywood Diversity Report 1). Another article by Time.com has women as 25% of writers, 23% of executive producers, and only 20% of show's creators. They even added this gut-punching statistic for the industry feminist everywhere “For the 250 most profitable films made in 2014, 83% of the directors, producers, writers, cinematographers and editors are guys”(Alter 4). Referring back to the 2016 Hollywood Diversity report which bring on some tiny consolation that most development teams have at least one woman participating, which is a start but it might as well be running a race with only one leg because by ‘most’ it means that 54.9% of the 2015-16 development teams have at least one woman on the …show more content…
In the case of Ghost in the Shell a recasting petition surfaced with an overwhelming 100,000 signatures, since that obviously did not occur the film has a tough time at the box office as many of the films with this do, the film had a $110 million budget and as of April 2,2017 has made $19 million (domestically). The anti-whitewashing movement is something only observed in the West given that, according to Gregg Kilday article, Guy Aoki the MANAA founding president, is quoted saying “Many in Japan have been so brainwashed by western culture that they have developed an inferiority complex about their own. They assume that in order for an American film to be successful it has to star a white actor” (Kilday 3). What