Feminism has been a major challenger to the film industry over the years. Feminism is a movement that advocates for women's equality within society. In relation to cinema, feminism is what promotes the equal representation of women in mainstream films. Laura Mulvey is a feminist theorist famous for touching on this particular question of how men and women are represented in film. Through her studies, she discovered that many films portrayed men and women very differently from reality. He came up with a theory that best describes why there is such a huge misrepresentation of the social status quo of male and female characters. She believed that mainstream film was used to maintain the status quo and prevent the realization of gender equality. This is why movies continually follow the age-old tradition that males are dominant and females are submissive. This is the ideology that is always present when we watch a film. This is evident in films from the past but also from today. It's as if the film industry still caters equally to male viewers of every generation. Laura Mulvey points out that women are constantly seen as sexual objects, whether for the clothes they wear or don't wear or the way they behave, or as secondary characters without any symbolic cause. She states that “in the traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote being looked at.” (Mulvey pg. 715). Therefore, women are still displayed as nothing more than passive objects for the viewing pleasure of the public. Mulvey also points out through his research that in every mainstream film, there is…half a paper…about how they overcame this demeaning concept, which is still present in many of the films created today. . Laura Mulvey, a Second Wave feminist, has observed the evolution of female representations in films. He concludes that films still show dominant ideologies that prevent social equality between men and women. Mulvey came up with three common themes that mainstream films continually promote in their films. These three common themes reinforce the fact that women will always be seen as nothing more than objects. They serve no symbolic purpose other than to help advance the story by motivating the male characters' goals. As evident, Happy Endings is a particular film that embodies all these traits and, as a result, female characters are perceived as sexual objects from both the male characters' and viewers' perspectives..