When thinking about the stereotypes that movies create for guys, I can’t help but wonder how this affects the “real” boys. Does it put a lot of pressure on them to have the media portray them in a different light than what is possible? I would like two interview two normal “everyday” guys off the street; an athletic looking one and maybe a more intelligent looking one. I would want to ask them if they feel like movies put the idea in girls’ minds that they can be perfect. Do they ever feel like they are not getting a fair chance with a girl or her standards are too high. And even from themselves, do they watch these action movies and think to themselves, “wow I need to run to the gym to compete with that guy”. Another person I would like to interview would be Vin Diesel. He is always seen in action movies as the bad boy that can do anything. I would want to know if the characters he plays resembles his life out of the movies at all. Does he ever meet people that expect him to be like the guys he portrays in movies? And the last person I would like to interview would be someone who has a job that you might see in an action movie, like a sniper or even just an everyday cop. In movies the things that these people can do are exaggerated and even to an audience it is noticeable. Can a duet of hot married fighting assassins really take out a whole agency of assassins coming after them?! Hm… I would want to ask the person with this job about the pressures that they feel, if any, to complete this image that people have of the supernatural hero.
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I definitely think this is going to be a good paper. You have good ideas about who you want to interview and what you would like to ask them. And I think all of that you have in mind are good key ingredients in analyzing those stereotypes that are being portrayed in the media and proving how either they are correct or in fact misconceptions about those in real life.
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