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There is an ample amount of hesitation by production companies when it comes to hiring directors, especially female directors. Though, when it comes to male directors these companies seem to have no problem associating with those popular names. The article, "The 11 Most Commercially Successful Directors You've NEVER Heard Of" by "Pajiba's" Dustin Rowles, explains why the movies seen in recent times have the same reoccurring directors. Getting noticed in Hollywood is not just difficult for the women, but for those, male and female, who have not yet built a name for themselves.

First off, there have been a lot of movies churned out in the passed year. Most of these films feature the same well-known directors, also known as "commercial directors." Rowles mentions in his article how, "They are directors-for-hire. They show up. They organize the set. They don't get their sticky footprints on the film, and they go home." These are usually the guys that make films that are requested by production companies and fans of book series and comics, their minds on the money. It seems as if these directors only have the technical capabilities of being a director without the pride of a true movie-maker; this makes sense of all the crap movies that came out in the last year. These films aren't getting the attention they need to be masterpieces, films to remembered as a classic, instead the quality of the casting seems to be more emphasized than the emotion the film is supposed to transmit to its audience.

Indeed, these films may be enjoyable experience, an easy momentary escape, but far from being classics. Watching these movies for the first time, the viewer see the vivid pictures, but without an actual concept that the average person can relate to it's just something to do with the weekend. The article talks about films such as "Never Been Kissed" and "Ever After: A Cinderella Story," both of which should be considered classics, if not for the emotion that is pulled from the audience, but for the stories these movies tell. Those two movies have simple concepts that are easy to empathize with and pleasing to view, as compared to the multitudes of films made to satiate this current audiences' thirst for adrenaline. Personally, film needs a lighter touch, perhaps a woman's touch.

Sadly, companies have made this industry less of a pleasure sport than a shark tank, seeing how film-making has transitioned from "movie-making" to "money-making." In the article, Rowles explains that, "Profit is the top priority." The film industry hires men who know how to make a quick dollar, though even if a company wanted to hire a female director, that would result in a lot of deliberation. In this day in age, when the mindset is to gamble with an audience over profit, it's always smart to go with the safest bet. This study is shedding more light to why so many movies are made by many of the same male directors.

Moreover, the male gender has its influence in the government as well as in the director's chair. For example in the Presidential elections, how many women ran for office? One, that anyone may have considered? The only female to run for the presidency that had any chance, was Hillary Clinton. Though in a world that has always been run by men, women are going to have to keep trying. America, like a production company, is going to go with the safest bet, women can prove to be that safe bet. 

On the whole, production companies make the safest gamble to ensure that dollar, leaving men with more power and those with ambition to wait for their turn.