Die hard 4!

After watching and discussing the movie Die Hard 4 today in class my eyes opened up to a lot of different things. I never knew that so much goes into a movie about gender and the role that it plays in today's society.Women are usually looked at as the weaker individual and dependent of a man but in this movie the main two female characters were strong physical individuals and mentally as well. Because of past generations, society considers men as the alpha male. The three pictures below shows an alpha male, a women being in control of a man and a man being in control of a women. The way gender is shown in movies has come a long way and I hope that movies will continue to make movies a little similar to Die hard 4 that shows that there are and can be an Alpha female as well.

The Alpha male

Woman in control

Male in control

My first blog post

Last week in class we watched a film called the Electronic Storyteller: Television and the Cultivation of Values.I loved discussing what we watched in this film during class. There are so many things that myself and others do everyday that we don't even realize as an effect from watching television. People do things such as making sure they live in a gated community or living in a high rise apartment because they think that those things will protect them from being a victim of crime. My favorite thing that we talked about was the way that African American television shows were distorted from reality. Shows such as The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and The Cosby Show shows a wealthy rich African American family but in reality most are seen as criminals, drug dealers and middle class. I like there are shows such as the Cosby show and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air out there though because I feel like it gives hope and faith to people out there that they can be successful as an African American as well. Overall I loved the film and the things that i learned from it. However, how television is distorted was the main thing that I took from the film.