Hollywood has always been pretty good at stereotyping. In some cases, this kind of works for them, because grand stories with overarching universal themes sometimes need characters who are kind of “general”, so that they can be easy to like or dislike, clear-cut heroes and villains who audiences can immediately relate to. Of course, while these kinds of generalizations work well in, say, a fairy tale or fable, they fall short of being satisfying when you’re supposedly depicting real life. Still, Hollywood does tend to do it often, and there are still many stereotypical characters and plot points that mainstream…
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