The validity of my research so far . . .

The secondary research that I did on the two articles at the start of my blog (one written by a girl and one by a boy) was no where near as reliable as i would have liked it to have been...as it literally is just their own opinion on the roles of women in films, however, i found it interesting that the boy was agreeing with the girl in terms of that there is a place for women to play bigger roles on screen. I wanted to make this research become more accurate and reliable, so i decided to do a quick verbal servey on 20 women (aged 17-30) and 20 men (aged 17-30) on what their own opinion on the roles of women on the screen is, if they should change, and then see if their opinions were the same as those who wrote the 2 articles. From the women, 17 of them believed that women had gone on to take greater leading roles in films more recently, and when i asked for examples of films i got charles angels, scream, bend it like beckham, and tomb raider. However, the remaining 3 of them said that they feel that women are portrayed as sex symbols more than having leading powerful roles, in films such as American Pie and Van Wilder. This shows me that the article written by the woman is now more reliable, as the women I asked repeated what she had basically said, which is that women are still used sexually to promote films, but that more and more women are taking the lead in a lot of films out there today.The mens response was a lot more varied i think, and didnt support the male article as much as it could have done. Although 14 men agreed that women had taken greater roles over time, they also said that they were still being used as sex symbols. Three of them gave the example of charlies angels, and that even though women play the lead they are still being promoted as sex symbols. The other 6 men (which were between 17 and 22) said that women were just used purly in films as sex symbols, and that men remain the main characters, such as James Bond and Indiana Jones.I believe that i have chosen the right films for my case studies too... As i wanted to close in on the question "the roles of women in films" I decided to chose 4 films from the 80's and 4 films from now (2000's) and explore how the roles would have changed over a period of 20 years. From the 80's i decided to look at Beaches as the main characters are two women...who are not portrayed as sex symbols throughout, An officer and a gentlemen as its about male pilots, and the women in it could be seen stereotypically (factory working) and then the terminator, which is a massive 'action man' role at that time taken up by a male actor, and Alien, which has exactly the same concept as the terminator, but has a lead female role doing all the fighting. I am then going to compare these films to more recent ones. Charlies Angels, as they are three lead women who go on missions and fight, (som might say only men are capable of this role) Brigit jones, which portrays a women in a sterotypical light which is a good/bad thing, and the lead of it is a woman. The 40 year old virgin, as its not a typical role that a male would lead in, as its not to do with war or guns, and Agent Cody Banks, as its like a younger version of james bond, where the lead is a male secret agent.Propps theory is valid to my research, as i want to compare his theory on folk tales and try to adapt it to the films ive chosen and see if it still applies today. I also looked at two other websites which had the same information on propps theory, so i know my research is a bit more reliable now.I will now continue with more research.