Discuss the ways in which people are represented in the extract.

In 'The Edge of Tomorrow' there is a key female, Rita, that acts as a supporting character to the main protagonist. In recent action adventure films female characters are beginning to play a bigger part in films and are showing strong , powerful and courageous traits e.g. Katniss Everdeen in 'The Hunger Games'. Although Rita isn't the main protagonist she shows a lot of the traits that the strong female characters do. These powerful traits break the stereotypical image of women, in a lot of films they are made to appear girly and set on finding love, however a lot of action adventure films are trying to break this image to prove that women can be strong characters too. The creators and writers have been transferring the traits that are commonly assosciated with men to female characters, creating a sense of equality. These changes have been made to reach out to a wider target audience that includes females of all ages so that they are shown that heroes and the protagonists can be women too.