I think I& #39;ve seen enough of these movie plots for now:

A man will stop at nothing to save his...

After a man loses his job and his wife leaves him, he embarks on a new adventure of...

A man fights with deadly stakes to reach his goal of conquering...

I once did a rewrite of a script where I subtly changed the story from "a man will stop at nothing to save his wife" to
"a woman& #39;s life is ruined as her controlling, reckless husband stops at nothing to try to save her." The producers were not pleased.

In the original script, he WAS reckless and controlling, and he DID ruin her life, but he was still portrayed as a perfect hero because it was from his point of view. A slight shift to the wife& #39;s point of view made my rewrite seem almost like a prank.

That experience made me wonder how much the perceived box office success of a movie is determined by how much it massages the male ego.

I seriously was not trying to pull a feminist prank. I was only trying to flesh out the female character. But that& #39;s what happened when I gave her a point of view.