{"id":164,"date":"2016-08-18T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2016\/08\/18\/movies-that-portray-men-as-stupid-by-clayton-pickard-kids-first-film-critic-age-16\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T19:16:52","slug":"movies-that-portray-men-as-stupid-by-clayton-pickard-kids-first-film-critic-age-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2016\/movies-that-portray-men-as-stupid-by-clayton-pickard-kids-first-film-critic-age-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies that Portray Men as Stupid, by Clayton Pickard, KIDS FIRST! Film Critic, age 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dumb.dumber.jpg\"<\/a>In today\u2019s society, men in movies, TV shows and ads are often depicted as bumbling, idiots. Since my family doesn\u2019t have cable, I see this trend happening in movies as well. Some recent movies that have done this include the Ted <\/em>franchise, the Jump Street<\/em> franchise, The Internship, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Central Intelligence<\/em> and The Interview<\/em>. All the men in Melissa McCarthy films are portrayed as dumb fools. In the new Ghostbusters, instead of having a \u201cdumb blonde\u201d as a receptionist, they show a dumb, young hunk, wonderfully portrayed by Chris Hemsworth.<\/p>\n

Most movies with Seth Rogen and Zac Efron typically portray men as ridiculous fools. Even James Franco, a very respected writer, director and actor, appears in some really inappropriate, dumb guy movies. For instance, Seth Rogen and James Franco are the stars of the movie, The Interview.<\/em> I have watched this movie three times and I actually really enjoy it. They implement a lot of funny, inappropriate jokes that teens like me love. Zac Efron stars in The Neighbors<\/em> franchise, which not surprisingly, also stars Seth Rogen. I haven\u2019t seen these films yet, but they are on my list. Zac Efron also stars in the recently released Mike and Dave<\/em> film which portrays two really dumb brothers that need dates to their sister’s wedding. The family thinks that if they get dates, they won’t be \"Mike.Dave.jpg\"<\/a>as rowdy and ruin the event, like they usually do.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know when this trend actually started, but it seems to have supplanted the \u201cdumb blonde\u201d trend in movies. Sometime in the 80s. the SNL cast started making movies and many of them followed this trend. I\u2019m thinking of films such as Caddyshack, Animal House,<\/em> the National Lampoon <\/em>franchise and The Jerk<\/em>. This was followed by all the Jim Carrey movies and his persona who, for the most part, was a bumbling idiot. Examples are Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Dumb and Dumber<\/em> and The Cable Guy. <\/em><\/p>\n

This trend coincides with a disturbing trend in college attendance by males in this country. Prior to the 1970s, more men than women went \"Clayton.jpg\"<\/a>to college. Sometime in the late 70s, the ratio switched and more women than men went to college. Now, approximately 60% of all college students are female. According to educators, this is an alarming trend in the U.S. As a teen soon headed to college, I am concerned about these statistics and wonder how I\u2019ll be perceived by my fellow students (most of whom will be female).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In today\u2019s society, men in movies, TV shows and ads are often depicted as bumbling, idiots. Since my family doesn\u2019t have cable, I see this trend happening in movies as well. Some recent movies that have done this include the Ted franchise, the Jump Street franchise, The Internship, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Central […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-critics-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}