Today's society will categorize women as a concept. As many of us know, many movies, TV shows, literature, along with others are designed to make women seem as this magical yet vulnerable creature that is supposed to fulfill a male’s wishes or somehow make them alive in some way or another.
We grow up with the idea of being the supportive actress in someone else's story, and ironically a man grows up expecting us to be there for them and make their life magically better while they're the main character. During the course of our lives, we have myriad examples that tell us – females– we’re supposed to be the same as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl even though it's unrealistic.
The film critic Nathan Rabin asserts that The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is every males writer’s definition of a fantasy girl. His goal when he created such term was to make people aware of the cliché female characters had become since lately all their purpose in every movie was to make the …show more content…
There are several examples in today's media. For instance, Dunst in Elizabethtown or Natalie Portman in Garden State epitomize the Manic Pixie Dream Girl of the time. Having considered that our culture was far too prosaic to get the correct understanding of such term, every lazy writer started using the term to create poorly written female characters. Even though the idea that female roles were solely intended to make the male role look better has been around for long, when Rabin gave an actual name to the definition, it change the way women reflected themselves, so they could all fit into the definition or standard of what they should be.Also, it made it easier for screenwriters to try even less and without taking the risk of making something different they realized their industry was based on marketing and creating a lazy character would make their job
We grow up with the idea of being the supportive actress in someone else's story, and ironically a man grows up expecting us to be there for them and make their life magically better while they're the main character. During the course of our lives, we have myriad examples that tell us – females– we’re supposed to be the same as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl even though it's unrealistic.
The film critic Nathan Rabin asserts that The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is every males writer’s definition of a fantasy girl. His goal when he created such term was to make people aware of the cliché female characters had become since lately all their purpose in every movie was to make the …show more content…
There are several examples in today's media. For instance, Dunst in Elizabethtown or Natalie Portman in Garden State epitomize the Manic Pixie Dream Girl of the time. Having considered that our culture was far too prosaic to get the correct understanding of such term, every lazy writer started using the term to create poorly written female characters. Even though the idea that female roles were solely intended to make the male role look better has been around for long, when Rabin gave an actual name to the definition, it change the way women reflected themselves, so they could all fit into the definition or standard of what they should be.Also, it made it easier for screenwriters to try even less and without taking the risk of making something different they realized their industry was based on marketing and creating a lazy character would make their job