Stereotypes in Movies & TV

[96583UP]

Stereotypes have long been a staple in movies

as time passes, the type of stereotypes that are introduced can change

it could be a person

or an idea / theme

what are your favorite, or least favorite film stereotypes?

[96583UP]

I'll go first

Most Favorite: Asian with spiced up car

Least Favorite: Low-Maintenance Baby

[LoathedVermin72]

There are few things I hate more in movies than the crying, screaming, nagging wife character. I can’t believe it’s still cropping up; First Man and Ford v Ferrari are two recent examples. It evinces such a weird, warped outlook from the filmmakers - men trying to do great things while their domestic ball-and-chains try to hold them back. It’s so fucking stupid.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

i really don't think RM is ready for this thread.

Are you saying this because you’re afraid to post your favorite racism

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[The Argonaut]

ok, current second-least favorite: overhead drone shots to establish the setting.

that's not a stereotype, trag, it's a cliche. stay on target

[BurtReynolds]

mystic spirit worshipping native Americans, Strong Female Characters that don't need no man, neurotic indecisive woody Allen clones, all reluctant heroes...

[The Argonaut]

The manic pixie dream girl isn't as prevalent as it was fifteen years ago, but it still crops up. Fifteen years ago, I fell in love with that character every time, now I'm just annoyed by how lazy and misogynistic it is for the writer

[knee tunes]

Favorite: nobody says "good-bye" when a phone call ends.

Favorite: every grocery bag has a long french bread sticking out of it

[Bammer]

I am consistently baffled at how often there are strip club scenes when they are completely unnecessary

Spoiler: show

and I love every second of it

[knee tunes]

I am consistently baffled at how often there are strip club scenes when they are completely unnecessary

Spoiler: show

and I love ever my second of it

Freudian slip

[Bammer]

I am consistently baffled at how often there are strip club scenes when they are completely unnecessary

Spoiler: show

and I love ever my second of it

Freudian slip

Weird typo. Thanx KT

[BurtReynolds]

name a movie with a realistic depiction of a strip club.

[BurtReynolds]

trick question there isn't one

[The Argonaut]

guys, these are cliches! not stereotypes! stay on target

[knee tunes]

My grocery bag is a stereotypical grocery bag. It is not a cliche'

[Bammer]

I’m pretty tired of the whole stereotype of the half-wit who goes on to do incredible things like run across the country, win a ping pong gold medal, start a shrimping company, etc.

[Simple Torture]

I’m pretty tired of the whole stereotype of the half-wit who goes on to do incredible things like run across the country, win a ping pong gold medal, start a shrimping company, etc.

In the book he is also an astronaut.