Female Stereotypes In Divergent Movies

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Three reasons to stay away from the Divergent movie series If you are anything like me, you like a female heroine that reminds you of real women. Not the edited version that Hollywood likes to present as real women pretty, helpless, always in a love triangle, willing to be what men want. (Now I preface here that my statements of generality do not necessarily speak for all movies, just most.) I’m on a quest to find movies that mirror the strong females in the books. Today's book to movies is an almost obligatory next step in a series. Unfortunately, the moving from book to television does not always prove advantageous to the female characters or female fans desirous to see the characters they love brought to life. I enjoyed Hermione from the Harry Potter series, she was slightly annoying, awkward, and smart in the books and in the movie, but let us be honest Rowling’s didn’t push hard against female stereotypes when creating the character. Now …show more content…

Don’t cross her in a dark alley. Don’t get on her bad side. The only other time in recent memory I’ve thought a female lead was this awesome was Katniss Everdeen. Tris is smart and clever (Erudite), compassionate (Abnegation), and brave (Dauntless). In Divergent, the first book in the series, Tris makes a brave decision to leave her family, friends, and way of life in Abnegation to become one of the Dauntless. Initiation proves more difficult than imagined and Tris has to work very hard to rise in the trainee ranking during the physical portion learning to fight and in general getting into shape. The book provides vivid details on the pains of training and her eventual breaking point where she almost killed another trainee with her bare hands. However, the movie shows her getting her butt kicked over and over during training. If it weren’t for the final fight scene we might never know she learned to kick butt! Don’t get me wrong the fight scene between she and Four is awesome, but more would have been

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