The most common narrative of mainstream films is patriachal an disadvantageous to females over male.

Thanks for the challenge, Tommy! I love debating stuff like this, as I feel the feminist agenda is detrimental to the whole of North America, and this falls under that category. However I will stick to this topic instead of bringing up feminism as much as I can, lol. I don't want to really bring up a bunch of stuff right away, but I do have a couple points I wish to make. The first point is addressing your final statement. You said "I believe there is a strong message to men to be dominant, aggressive and generally to look for violent solutions to problems more predominantly that other solutions." - This is a bad thing. No matter how you look at it, heading straight for a violent solution is not a good thing, and this is how men are portrayed in movies. HOWEVER... I'm not complaining about this because this is what movies are for - entertainment. If Bruce Willis and the owners of the Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard (1988) simply negotiated with the terrorists, it wouldn't be that fun of a movie to watch. John Wick (2014) is a prime example of a "nothing movie" (a phrase I made up) - some mobsters kill a guy's dog and take his car, and he ends up killing dozens of people because of it. However there is one part in the movie that I want to point out - the female villain. John mercilessly executes and murders dozens of men, but as soon as a woman attacks him, he doesn't kill her. He fights with her, like any action movie, but he DOESN'T KILL HER. Now say this is part of the plot, to get her to come back for more later, but either way, this is a recurring theme in most action movies. Dozens if not hundreds of men are brutally murdered and/or tortured, but as soon as a woman is involved, nobody can kill her, they choose not to, or they kill her quickly, and usually feel bad about it. Most women in action movies are not killed like the men, and almost all women in action movies are amazingly strong and incredibly fighters, almost better than the men. And let's also point out the amount of women with lead roles in action movies [1] - dozens in the last decade. So women represent strong lead roles plenty, taking away from the idea of a patriarchal narrative of most mainstream films. Moving away from action films, box-office hits also have plenty of strong female leads. The Titanic, Silence of the Lambs, Fargo, the Alien series, and many more [2], some arguably the top films ever made, all have strong female leads, and the women are usually a lot more "put-together" than men, once again taking away from a patriarchal narrative. I'm not too sure what else I should bring up now, but women in general aren't looked at as inferior to men in most movies. Look at Dumb & Dumber for example - two idiotic guys and an intelligent woman. Most guys are laughed at if anything bad happens to them or if they're stupid. Not a lot of women are portrayed as stupid or inferior and not a lot at all are expendable in action movies. So on to you, so I can see what makes you think the most common narrative or mainstream films is patriarchal. Thanks! [1] http://www.imdb.com... [2] http://www.imdb.com...