Rocky!
For my midterm paper I watched the first Rocky, and I analalyzed the Adian, the lead female character. I really saw how she had the traditional female role charcteristics, like being passive, shy and beautiful. I am very faminilar with the Rocky suequence of movies, and I just recently watched Rocky IV, which I think is everyone's favorite of the six films. I realized there was a trend in Adrian's character that parallels her role in the first Rocky...
She still is this passive, beautiful character who is there for Rocky to lean on and provide for. Rocky's character tends to be the opposite where he is this dominant male character who is portrayed as a tough, masculine man who uses his strength to describe himself as a man. Rocky's love for Adrian is an important key part in the film because if he does not have her support he can't win the fight against Ivan Drago. Even though he is looked at as being one of the strongest men in the world, it is her love he needs and relies on to over come his componant. This pattern is seen in all of the origincal sequence where if he doesn't have Adrian's support he can't win. Although Adrian is seen as this passive, weak female character it is her love that allows Rocky to win and become this strong, masculine man.