What makes a movie become a so called a chick flick? Well what usually comes to mind is some sort of trap or lure to get the girlfriend or wife to say these famous words "But babe it isn't a chick flick, it has military stuff in it" or something along those lines. Now don't get me wrong I have absolutely nothing against movies that women enjoy, because there are movies that are just like this for males. Such as any type of movie made by Michael Bay, which would seem stupid or silly to a majority of female viewers. Which is also true of males when they see a movie that is geared towards women.
Women deserve to have movies that relate to their everyday lives, which begs the question as to why aren't many made. The problem is, men and women are fundamentally different. Dan Goleman Ph.D. explains this fundamental difference
"Here's where women differ form men. If the other person is upset, or the emotions are disturbing, women's brains tend to stay with those feelings. But men's brains do something else: they sense the feelings for a moment, then tune out of the emotions and switch to other brain areas that try to solve the problem that's creating the disturbance.
Thus women's complaint that men are tuned out emotionally, and men's that women are too emotional - it's a brain difference." (1) Which makes the long scenes of emotions being portrayed is very hard for males to enjoy, because we are already over the gripping scene and ready for the next one. But since we have already checked out of the emotional state required to understand and enjoy the film we get bored, while the significant other is having the time of her life. As to where a girl understands what an explosion is she just doesn't find it stimulating. This is what creates a lack of not only quantity of emotional female movies, but also the quality. Leaving women to have to find enjoyment out of dreaded Hallmark and Lifetime t.v. movies (Oh the horror). Being that around half of consumers are males, and typically when they bring a female with them the male is more inclined to pay due to social pressure. This means that it is more likely that a more action heavy movie will be attended.
However, the counter part of the previous genre the action movie is in abundant supply, and tend to be fairly successful. Why may this be? It is fairly simple, action movies are simple themselves. They easily connect with anyone who has ever had the fantasy of flying, being admired, being the hero, saving the day, or what have you. While emotional movies are complex, with many different levels of understanding. Which makes the audience that can understand and enjoy the material much smaller than the audience watching superman throw heavy stuff. This in turn puts more funds towards the creation of faster, bigger, and crazier action films. As well as less attention for emotional movies because there is less money to be made. Making any films that show even a tiny bit of emotional complexity less frequent and of lower quality. Which is a shame, I haven't seen a film in quite a while that gave me the chills and thrills that the likes of "Shawshank Redemption", "Saving Private Ryan", "The Green Mile", and others of that caliber. Of course there have been a few films that showed great promise like "American Sniper" because I had a cousin in the marines and that was a very frightening time. So that movie was very relatable to myself, and many others with relatives in the service. The problem is that there appears to be a trend in having movies be more hollow, and have less substance.
I'll try to delve deeper into this subject after getting thoughts and views from the fairer sex (My girlfriend), and try to put a more feminine touch on this article since I feel as though I butchered this one.
1.)https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-brain-and-emotional-intelligence/201104/are-women-more-emotionally-intelligent-men
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