Acting Equally?

              The other day I saw the movie inherit vice during its' opening night. In its' opening weekend it earned roughly 3 million dollars. We had recerntly discussed equal representation in filmes, and it made me curios as to who the top paying actors are. Robert Downey Jr is the first, raking in a whoping 75 million. I then read on to find that of the top twenty most paid actors, ten were male and ten were female. Progrresive right? That its now an even ratio of men and women in the acting industry.Not quite, because there is only one women actress in the top ten highest paid actors, Sandra Bullock. After some further research, I found that of the top twenty box office hits for the past week, only two had a women as the lead role, with another having an ensemble cast. That means seventeen had a man as the lead, an even worse ratio. Not only that, but only 30% of 2013's top movies had women with speaking roles.
              But don't consumers dictate the product? So I guess that means that more men saw movies than women? Wrong, studies show that this past year 52% of theater audiences were women. Since the majority of movie audiences are women it also means they have the most influence among fans as they are the majority. Women and men who are unhappy with this decision should take some sort of action. Whether its boycotting certain movies, or writing letters to producers or directors to make them aware of your concern for the issue of non-equal representation.