Stereotypes

Stereotypes are socially constructed beliefs, ideas or opinions about specific social groups or types of individuals. A stereotype is used to categorise a group of people. The majority of people don’t understand that type of person, so they put them into classification, thinking that everyone who is that or similar to that needs to be like that or anyone who acts like their classification is one of the stereotypes. 

In films and television programs they usually play to a stereotype, many thriller films include stereotypes such as Paranormal Activity, Source Code and Ghanjini have the stereotype that women are weaker than men; the men in these films are portrayed as strong, dominant males however they cannot help the women in their lives, in their situations they are just as helpless.