As shown in a recent USC Study*, women had leading roles in just 25% (5 of 19 films) of films with budgets over $ 100 million.
Women and girls made up just 30% of the leading film roles in the top-major 100 pictures of 2023...
representing a 14 percentage point drop from the year before;
only 11% of 2023’s top 100 movies were gender-balanced,
the lowest percentage since records first kept in 2007.*
One of the experts behind the study, Dr. Stacy L. Smith conducted a brief general analysis of female under-representation: "No matter how you examine the data, 2023 was not the ‘Year of the Woman.’ We continue to report the same trends for girls and women on screen, year in and year out. It is clear that there is either a dismissal of women as an audience for more than one or two films per year, a refusal to find ways to create meaningful change, or both.
If the industry wants to survive its current moment, it must examine its failure to employ half the population on screen".
* USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative: Survey of 1,700 motion pictures....
Why the Gender Gap between Supply and Demand ?
Perhaps the two above examples of films' success is not reflective simply of female characters appearing in lead roles, but rather by the enduring attraction of the archetypal familiarity of these stereotypes for audiences ?
Note-able is that both the female characters in these examples above, originated in a past era more than sixty years ago. Perhaps the attraction of female archetypes adapted from the past, merely reflects a lack of imaginative variation in the creation of female role types, and instead, reflects a continued reliance on older, more familiar stereotypes?
Lead roles based on female archetypes are easily recognized by viewers, and perhaps that creates the comfort zone viewing audiences want when being entertained.… On the other hand, lead female roles created around more radical departures from widely recognized female archetypes, as in the franchise sequel of a heroine adapted into a stereo-typical 'A-type male’ character, in 'Furiosa', appear to struggle for success, suggesting that audiences are not easily dissuaded from their long-standing, intuitive preferences.
Perhaps more inventive, creative exploration of the range and breadth of variations and complexities of female archetypes will result in more intriguing characters, and more captivating roles for female stars in future. The creative concept of the a-type male stereotype of ‘Super Woman’ may have sounded and looked ‘good’, but is it really a guiding example of how more impactful and far reaching characters types should be encouraged to emerge ?
In contrast, is a heroine having the most admired archetypal familiarity comforting humanity since birth, intriguingly spiced with tones and shades of deeply intuitive complexity, as she leads a rebellious struggle, weaving magic and charms that instinctively resonate within the comforting childhood memories of audiences everywhere, in the story of ‘Believe'.... .
.The Film ‘Believe…’ showcasing female archetypal instincts that resonate intuitively with audiences everywhere …
A Heroine based on the most adored and respected female archetype...
A struggle to overcome traditional societal prejudices …
The unspoken but ever-present truth about mothering's formative guidance of the male mind….
Audiences Watch Female Archetypal Heroines...
Data Points:
1- One of the two most successful films of the last year was created around a female lead character based on a stereo-typical female archetype: ‘Barbie', grossed over USD $ 1 billion within 17 days …
2- The most successful, highest grossing film of all time*, 'Gone with the Wind', centered around a female archetypal character, Scarlet O'Hara. * Inflation adjusted.
So there is some support for the simple conclusion that audiences watch easily recognized and relatable female archetypes...
...but few are offered
Welcome a unique heroine ...
Inviting Collaboration with Guardian Angels
for a Heroic Turkish
role model of feminine life-force
spotlighted worldwide ....
'1923: Believe...'
intuitive impulses ignite her indomitable virgin spirit,
fomenting the yin and yang of male-female relationships,
enflaming her primordial survival instincts ….
to captivate and illuminate the male mind
and nurture his reticent stubbornness
into victorious heroism….
A Naive Teenager's Love Saves the World:
From the protective and controlling world of her family’s tiny viilage bakery shop, a small but strong-willed teenager risks everything in an impulsive moment, and flees on a dangerous mission through the mountain forests of her ancestors, awakening self-discovery deep within her of an intuitive self-belief, to rescue the man she loves from certain death, in the final battle to save their civilization....
A more subtle, powerful, pervasive and primordial role empowering women everywhere throughout history…. the archetype of the Great Mother…. the most respected and adored archetypal role empowering women …? Well known, but not as nearly widely portrayed ! Are there really so few comparatively well known and universally celebrated heroines and stories portraying the Great Mother archetype, contributed by film into the collective consciousness of humanity ?
‘ Believe ‘ promises to add balance to remedy that gap ....
The Quintessential Female Archetype:
Mothering the Man-Child into Heroism…
Corrupt village officials sacrifice an outcast woodcutter, condemning him to an impossible war-time mission. The teenage baker's daughter’s admiration for him, triggers her protective instincts. She rebels against the villagers’ plans to marry her to a rich, old merchant. Instead, with love’s burning light deep inside to guide her, she sparks the courage to save the woodcutter, thrusting the pair into a struggle through war-torn history. Her self-discovery of primordial impulses ignites her survival instincts with an ardent obsession for self-belief, which she nurtures inside the woodcutter, to believe in himself and their love for each other, mothering the man-child she admires and inflaming within him the fervor to meet his super-human challenge, and together they transform themselves and the world at war around them, with the power to believe.
A giant woodcutter’s orphaned childhood makes him vulnerable prey for the corrupt village headman, exploiting the woodcutter's great strength for cheap labour. In his simple mind the only solution the woodcutter can find, is to seek refuge high up in his mountain homeland; but instead, the headman banishes him on a mission of certain death to the battlefront. The only two people that love him, come to his rescue, and trusting in their ardent pleas despite his doubts and fears, he agrees skeptically to follow their plan to save himself. Ignited with the impassioned zeal of the bakery maid’s power of self-belief, he rises, inflamed with fervour, to meet the superhuman challenge to defeat an all powerful enemy, to redeem his place in the world….
The elderly postman's kind and fatherly concern for the simple folk he greets every morning in his village, is commandeered into action as two rebellious teenagers are doomed to a fatal destiny, and mustering all the guile and ingenuity of his life-long wisdom, he creates the keys to unlock the labyrinth of challenges they struggle to overcome, as he guide's them on a quest to save their world ....
'Once we begin believing in ourselves,
there is no end to what we can achieve…’
Global Audience Appeal...
'1923: Believe…'
Surprising revelations of hidden history
Endearing heart-felt portrayal of naieve love
Impossible challenge and superhuman feat
From doom's gloom & hopelessness to victory's jubilation
Catharsis of grief, determination, and self-belief
Timeless tribute to human endurance, hope, and self-empowerment
A story about a flawed and outcast hero, sacrificed on an impossible mission to save the world, transformed by naieve love’s powerful zeal, with a super-human feat… rising victorious at the dawn of a new age.
Resonating deeply with instinctive intuitive appeal....
High concepts...
Conveyed with traditional Turkish charm…
Connecting with global audiences' personal aspirations ...
Teenage rebels' self discovery, coming of age with first love’s zeal, obsession, and indomitable determination... An outcast and simple-minded giant woodcutter’s sacrifice on an impossible mission, triggers his innocent adolescent admirer’s surrender to the call of her latent intuition’s protective instincts. Her burning light of love summons the courage to save him, thrusting the pair into a struggle through war-torn history. Empowered by the discovery deep within her, of an intuitive emotional intelligence, sparks her survival instincts of self-belief. Helping him to find himself, she ignites within the giant woodcutter the fervor to meet his challenge, and together they transform themselves and the world at war around them, with the power to believe.
All of us aspire to better our lives and pursue our dreams, and so we can all relate and identify with this story and characters, to lift us up above our fears and self-doubt… because we all know once we begin believing in ourselves, there is no end to what we can achieve…
A New Project with…
Truly original story...
Unique voice...
High concepts...
Cathartic Climax
- instinctive & intuitive
Introduction to Creation, Project & Production
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View the video interview of author answering the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) in several ‘bite-sized' small viewing segments of 2-4 minutes each - please email Author@RYANOL.com:
Introduction Interview with Author (please request link) :
-Project & Links……
-Creative Concept & Themes
-Screenplay, Plot, Characters
-Production Elements & Breakdown
Based on a true story, in a feudal community of mountain village folk, two teenagers rebel against social taboos, obsessed by ‘first love’s’ zeal to believe in each other, catapulted by despair at war’s darkest hour into flames of fervor, they forge together a super-human feat to save themselves and birth a new era for their world… as the powers that be, meet the powers within.
The most frequently asked questions are answered in an interview with the author, in several ‘bite-sized' short video viewing segments of 2-4 minutes each, please reply to request link by email at ... RYANOL.1@yandex.com
or Esra.Ergenc173@gmail.com ….
The most frequently asked questions are answered in an interview with the author,
in several ‘bite-sized' short video viewing segments of 2-4 minutes each,
please reply to request link by email at ... RYANOL.1@yandex.com
or Esra.Ergenc173@gmail.com ….
Short Video Clips of Author answering FAQs...
1. Introduction to the Project
2. About the Author
3. Author’s Qualifications
4. Author’s First Associations with Turkiye
5. Origins and Relevance of the Story
6. Project Development & Production
7. Tribute & Purpose
8. Themes
9. Characters & Plot
10. Based on a True Story: Historical Facts
11. Success & Celebration
12. Sharing Worldwide
13. Comparisons & Legacy
14. Final Thoughts
