8 Female Movie Characters Who Were Defined By Their Relationships To Men In 2016

Half of human beings are girls, however far fewer than half of protagonists in top-grossing movies are feminine. However! A thought that has occurred to some Hollywood geniuses is, Women: Maybe we should always put them in our movies? And sometimes those films do well at the box office, if not better!

However, one humorous *impact* is that, usually, filmmakers and screenwriters will characteristic a lady of their film however then have all the pieces in her life nearly completely revolve round males. In 2016, we’ve seen girls who have been pushed to a weird diploma by bizarre relationships with their boyfriends, their dads, a male deity, or — for one unhappy mother — her superhero son and his terrible pals. It generally appears as if the creativeness is just sufficiently big to accommodate one central feminine character, and something extra (say, a relationship along with her mother or a friendly female teapot) could be distracting, even unbelievable.

Without additional ado, listed below are eight feminine characters from main movement footage and the male characters who had an outsize affect on their behaviors and fates! (Major spoilers for films and the logic of patriarchy.)

2. 1. Aurora, Passengers

Columbia Pictures

Release date: Dec. 21, 2016
Men who form her destiny: Her dad, her kidnapper-boyfriend
How they mess along with her: Aurora’s dad, who died when she was a young person, was a author, a struggle correspondent, a daring and generally reckless man of the world. Aurora, performed by Jennifer Lawrence, spends her complete life attempting to reside as much as his legacy, which is why she finally ends up on a spaceship headed to an area colony. It’s on the spaceship that one other man, Jim (Chris Pratt), sees her in hibernation and decides he needs to wake her up to allow them to have intercourse. Jim ruins all the pieces Aurora had deliberate for her life, however she is in the end okay with it.

three. 2. Jyn, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Lucasfilm Ltd

Release date: Dec. 16, 2016
Men who form her destiny: Her dad, her adoptive dad
How they mess along with her: Jyn (Felicity Jones) has a dad who has been constructing an extremely harmful weapon for the Galactic Empire, which — as everyone knows — is principally pure evil. Because of his work, he was kidnapped, Jyn’s mother Lyra was murdered, and little Jyn was raised by a bonus father determine, with whom she additionally has points! Jyn spends a lot of her vitality and time confronting her advanced relationship with every dad: First she will get into a giant argument along with her stand-in father, who raised her however then deserted her when she was nonetheless a youth; then she tries to reunite along with her organic father all of the whereas attempting to persuade a bunch of folks that he’s not pure evil. Eventually, she dies — as a result of she’s developed rules, but in addition to complete what her father began.

four. three. Carol, Office Christmas Party

Glen Wilson / Paramount Pictures

Release date: Dec. 9, 2016
Men who form her destiny: Her dad, her brother
How they mess along with her: Carol (Jennifer Aniston) is a hardworking, competent government who works at her late father’s agency, however he at all times gave extra consideration to her brother, though she’s extraordinarily sensible and completed. As a outcome, Carol is a textbook resentful bitch. For some purpose, her incompetent brother and his enabling co-worker are the heroes of this film, and she or he’s the antagonist for many of it. So the factor that makes her the antagonist is that she’s good at her job? What will filmmakers consider subsequent!

5. four. Moana, Moana

Disney

Release date: Nov. 23, 2016
Men who form her destiny: Her dad, a demigod
How they mess along with her: Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) needs to sail the open sea, however her dad gained’t let her! He thinks it’s too harmful as a result of he himself as soon as tried it and failed. Then, after her mother and grandmother assist her get out on the ocean, she spends the remainder of the film attempting to repair the errors of Maui (Dwayne Johnson), an boastful demigod who determined to steal the guts of a feminine deity, setting in movement a sequence of occasions that nearly prompted famine for Moana and her individuals. The secret ethical of this film is by no means let males make selections.

6. 5. Rachel, The Girl on the Train

Universal

Release date: Oct. 7, 2016
Man who shapes her destiny: Her despicable ex-husband
How he messes along with her: Rachel’s (Emily Blunt) life collapses due to her ex-husband. While they have been collectively, he drugged her and abused her after which satisfied her she was going insane and all the pieces was her fault. After they broke up, she turned obsessive about watching him in his new life along with his new child. During the occasions of the movie, he continues to behave cruelly towards her, though they’ve divorced. He is, in brief, a demon-man (and a assassin!). The film explores the loopy internalized misogyny of Rachel and several other different feminine characters — and the seemingly infinite capability of males to interrupt the ladies round them.

eight. 7. Louisa, Me Before You

Warner Bros.

Release date: June three, 2016
Man who shapes her destiny: Her imply consumer turned candy boyfriend
How he messes along with her: Louisa (Emilia Clarke) has zero ambition, after which she turns into a private care assistant to Will (Sam Claflin), who has quadriplegia. Louisa will not be well-educated, whereas Will has lived a lifetime of upper-class luxurious and class. Because of Will’s persistent condescension and financial sources, Louisa goes from working-class bumpkin to well-read world traveler. They fall in love. But in the long run, Will decides to undergo with assisted suicide, as a result of he decides that they’ll each be higher off if he’s lifeless. She insists she loves him and needs him to reside, however he insists she doesn’t know her personal thoughts. He leaves her some cash (however not an excessive amount of cash) in order that she will pursue the form of life he thinks she ought to need. Will is aware of finest!

9. eight. Superman’s mother, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Clay Enos / Warner Bros.

Release date: March 25, 2016
Men who form her destiny: Her goddamn fool son, her goddamn fool son’s nemesis, her goddamn fool son’s different nemesis who seems to be a buddy when he realizes they each have mothers
How they mess along with her: Martha (Diane Lane) is the long-suffering mom of Superman (Henry Cavill). She is on this film for under two causes: first, to get kidnapped and brutalized by Superman’s enemy who makes use of her as a bargaining chip; after which to have her first identify develop into the catalyst for Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman to group up, as a result of they each love their mothers. Batman and Superman spend quite a lot of time debating how superheroes needs to be regulated, however IF THEY LOVE MOMS SO MUCH, MAYBE THEY SHOULDN’T LOBBY FOR SUPERHERO RIGHTS AND SHOULD LOBBY, INSTEAD, FOR GENEROUS MATERNITY LEAVE AND FREE DAYCARE IN GOTHAM AND METROPOLIS. They’re actual hypocritical dummies.