Gender in media

             The Disney movie The Emperor's New Groove is about this Emperor named Kuzco. Kuzco is all about him self; he thinks he is the best, always right, never wrong, only cares about him self individual. He wants to turn a peasant ,named Pacha's village into his own personal summer house. The emperors advisor Yzma is an very old women that wants to take over the thrown. She tries to do so by poisoning Emperor Kuzco, but he right hand man, Kronk, some how grabs the wrong vile and turns Emperor Kuzco into a lama instead. Kronk is then advised to take the Kuzco the lama out of town and finish him off. He does not succeed in doing this but in turn accidently loses the lama on the cart of Pacha. Pacha brings Kuzco back to his village not knowing that he did so. Pacha says he will help the emperor back if he will not destroy his village. At the same time they are trying to get back Yzma and Kronk go looking for the emperor to kill him so she can take over the kingdom. Pacha and Kuzco make it back to the kingdom, with a few twist and turns. In the end Kuzco is turned back to a human and Yzma is turned into a kitten. The village is not destroyed and every one lives happily ever after.
             This film shows masculinity in a few different ways, first being the emperor. He is very self indulged and only cares about him self. In one scene he is picking threw a number of females that all look pretty close to the same, he tells them all in one way or another that they are not good enough for him. But he is also very week he could not handle him self in the jungle and did not liked to be touched. Another character was Pacha he was a very gentle yet very strong man. He was big with wide shoulders. He stopped to help and old man that was stuck and could not bring him self to tell the village of the destruction in the near future. Pacha was also a very loving dad, allowing his children to stay up after there mother told them to go to bed, he could no...

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