Stereotyping is a negative thing - but tends to be conventional in genre and audiences respond to recognisable codes. We will aim to cancel out our negative stereotyping of female characters by including some stronger and more three-dimensional independent characters. This is something that lots of films aimed at teenage audiences tend to do.
In Scream we see a teenage girl home alone. This is a massive cliche. When we think of blonde girls the typical stereotype is dumb. This character in scream is a typical blonde. She is very naive as every single time the phone rings she picks it up, knowing that it is going to be that man calling back again. She then starts to have a conversation with him, she does not even know who it is. If you was home alone and you had one phone call and you didn't know who it was and it kept ringing and ringing you would not continue to answer it but obviously in a horror movie this is another cliche, things that you obviously do not do will appear i a horror movie. There is a part in the clip where we see her subvert the dumb blonde stereotype as she does something sensible. This is when she goes to all the doors and locks them after she realises that this phone call is not a normal person having a conversation. Women always tend to be the first victim in horror movies, this is because women are seen as less dominant and aggressive as men so cannot stick up for themselves that well.
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