Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender: 2000 scripts, 25,000 actors 4 million lines
http://polygraph.cool/films/embed.html
Found this website/article that shows how dominant males are in movies. You can also see a longer article about it here. Does this show that males are dominant on the movie screen?
Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much shit for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles.
But it’s all rhetoric and no data, which gets us nowhere in terms of having an informed discussion. How many movies are actually about men? What changes by genre, era, or box-office revenue? What circumstances generate more diversity?
We didn’t set out trying to prove anything, but rather compile real data. We framed it as a census rather than a study. So we Googled our way to 8,000 screenplays and matched each character’s lines to an actor. From there, we compiled the number of words spoken by male and female characters across roughly 2,000 films, arguably the largest undertaking of script analysis, ever.
Let’s begin by examining dialogue, by gender, for just Disney films. Continue article below.
https://pudding.cool/2017/03/film-dialogue/
Think this topic was interesting.
Thanks for posting this interesting short article on Steemit, @chrisstigson.
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Thanks! Appreciate it, I thought it was an interesting topic... Some ladies will be furious, and some men would love to see more females on the screen I'm sure.