Alien series -

Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, the Warrant Officer onboard the Nostromo and protagonist of the film. The decision to make the lead character a woman was made by Giler and Hill, who felt that this would help Alien stand out in the otherwise male-dominated genre of science fiction. Weaver, who had Broadway experience but was relatively unknown in film, impressed Scott, Giler, and Hill with her audition. She was the last actor to be cast for the film, and performed most of her screen tests in-studio as the sets were being built. The role of Ripley was Weaver’s first leading role in a motion picture, and earned her nominations for a Saturn Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Role.

Ridley Scott -

Ridley Scott is a well known film director and has three well known films that casts women actors as the lead roles in all cases they are in place of stereotypical male role such as Sigourney Weaver as the lead in aliens as the ‘protector’  of the group and is the only female in the film and protects the men. Another film he casts women in main roles where Thelma and Louise where both women where lead roles and killed a man which is usually men killing women. Also G.I Jane the lead actor was a women (Demi Moore) who took on a typical male role as a solider and throughout the film proved women where good enough to join the army and takes on the male role and saves the males later on in the film. Overall all three films he casts women as lead roles showed how women could do a stereotypical male role and be the ‘hero’ while the males are shown as weaker then the females.