Movie equality finds women in leading roles.

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The classical portrayal of women in movies used to feature them as minor characters, always causing trouble for the leading male actors.The women would always look in a closet for a killer instead of running away from him. That image of women is being used less and less in movies and it's nice to see that films are depicting women as stronger characters. There have been some new movies out that are giving women the respect that they deserve and which may lead toward the beginning of movie equality. Even though equality is a long ways away, these new movies might be able to jump-start people's vision that women should play better parts in a movie than giving blood curdling screams in horror flicks or being used purely as sex objects.Three fairly new movies that are depicting women in stronger and even lead roles are "Scream" and "Scream II," "Urban Legends" and "Wild Things." In each of these films there are the traditional male roles, but the women actresses stand out as the dominant characters.Whether it is a woman fighting a psychotic killer who likes to wear Halloween masks or masterminding a plot where she is the winner, the roles that these women are playing could never have been imagined years ago when the top roles where male-dominated. Women have proven to the movie elite that they can play lead characters in successful movies. It is now up to us that those in charge continue to give them the chance that they deserve in moviemaking. There are actresses out there that are making large sums of money for movies, but in a lot of cases, their roles in those films are small. Women have the ability to do much larger roles. The society that we are living in is male-dominated and has been in the past. If there is to be an equality of the sexes, it is going to take large jumps from different areas of society to help women's cause. Films and media are an extremely strong force in our society, and now that women are given the opportunity to play dominant roles in movies, these selected ladies might start to revolutionize people's ideas about women in films. Even though it may take more then just women being lead characters, it is a big jump from them being portrayed as the characters they were just years ago.